How Deep Is the Ocean (2023) Movie Script
(projector whirring)
(waves crashing)
(waves continue crashing)
(gentle music)
- [Matt] Thank you.
- [Roy] No, you, you're right, mate.
- Appreciate it.
- No, it's good, cool.
All right, thanks mate.
- No worries.
Are you here to see the place?
- Yeah.
- Enjoy.
- Thank you.
- Roy.
- Eleanor.
- Eleanor, come in please.
- Thank you.
- Awesome.
So here's the room.
Have a look.
What do you think?
- Yeah, it's perfect.
- Heaps of space, built-in robe.
- Yep.
- Queen-sized bed.
- That's all I need.
- Dresser and this, I mean, seriously.
World's most livable city.
Right out front of your door.
- Yep.
Cool.
- What do you think?
- Yeah, it's good.
How much are you looking for rent?
- Oh, we can discuss this,
but I don't know, what,
do you have a job?
- I do.
Local cafe.
- Okay.
Which one?
- I think it's called The Vault.
- Okay.
Do you know the owner
as well, or like you-
- No, I literally got
the job not long ago.
I called them up.
- Oh, okay.
So you're not from like around here?
- No, I've come from Adelaide.
Yeah, yep.
- Don't wanna say too much.
- No, you don't need to.
- Oh, I've had some
problems with Adelaide.
- Right.
- So.
- Okay.
- What, you're not gonna
bring any problems with you?
- No, you won't get any trouble from me.
- I like a quiet house where
just we do our own thing.
- That's me, I'm very quiet.
- Okay, we respect each other.
- Yep.
- What'd you say, how much?
- Oh, honestly, highest
I can go is probably 270.
- 270 doesn't quite cover the cost.
- Ooh.
- Needs to be around about, well,
actually needs to be 280 plus expenses.
- Yeah, yeah.
It's only 10 bucks more, I can do that.
- You can do that?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Sure.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Okay, 280.
- 280.
- Done.
- Awesome.
- Easy.
- Cool, well, you know, set yourself in.
- Yep.
- When do you wanna move in?
- Right now.
This is all my stuff.
- Oh, okay.
- If that's all right with you.
- I make no judgements.
- Okay.
- So yeah, go for it.
- Great.
- Welcome to Melbourne.
- Thank you.
- Cool.
Cheers?
- Ah, no, I'm good.
- Okay, cool.
Well, world's most livable city.
Enjoy.
- Thank you.
- Cool.
(fan buzzing)
(phone ringing)
- [Rachel] Hey, it's Rachel.
Sorry I missed you.
Leave a message when you hear the beep
and I'll get back to you soon.
(tone beeping)
(water trickling)
(rhythmic music)
- [Eleanor] What the hell, get out.
Get the fuck out!
Get out!
(rhythmic music)
(knocking on door)
- Oh, hello.
- Hey.
- Hey.
I just, I was coming around
to see if I got the room, but.
- Oh, um-
- Guess you've answered
my question.
- Yes, sorry.
- Do you need help?
- Maybe.
I might try and get him in his room.
- [Matt] Yeah, let's give him a lift.
- [Eleanor] Yeah.
- [Matt] Ooh, lucky it's close.
- Yeah, sorry.
- Should we just like
drag him, or?
- [Eleanor] I might try to flip him.
I'll grab his arm and
you grab his other arm.
- Oh!
- Oh, come on mate.
Time for bed.
- Oh my God.
- [Matt] There you go.
- Okay.
He'll be fine.
- Yeah.
- I'll just.
Okay.
Yeah, he'll be fine.
Right, um, sorry, I
actually have to get going.
- Of course.
- Yeah.
- Sorry, sorry.
- Okay.
- Congrats on the place.
- Oh, thanks.
Thanks.
- That's all right.
Where you off to?
- I'm off to free slave labour in a cafe.
- It's better than slave labour,
selling clothes for a living.
- Oh, you work at a clothing store?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- [Matt] At least you get fed.
- That's very true.
You don't have a cigarette, do you?
- I don't smoke.
- Oh, dammit.
That's okay.
- This way.
- I'm going this way.
- Oh, well it was nice to meet you again.
- Yeah, you too.
Sorry, what was your name?
- Oh, I'm Matt.
- Oh, Eleanor.
- Eleanor.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I was gonna say,
if you need any more help
moving any bodies or anything,
just give me a call.
- Right, yeah.
- Thank you.
Two, that should be it.
- Right.
- Eleanor.
- Okay.
Well, I'll give you a call.
- Good luck with work.
- Thank you.
- See ya.
- See ya.
- Bye.
(upbeat music)
- Buffalo wings.
Big juicy buffalo wings.
- We don't have buffalo wings.
- What do you mean you
don't have buffalo wings?
What do you have?
- We have a range of vegan muffins.
- Vegan.
Do I look like a fucking vegan?
- No.
- Tell you what, love.
I'll have a turmeric latte.
How about that?
- Sure.
- Yeah.
Be a good girl, will you?
- No problem.
- Yeah, thanks love.
Fucking backpackers.
Fucking backpackers.
You for real?
- Hey, how you going?
- Yeah, all right, how are you?
- Oh, a little bit ordinary,
but, you know, getting by.
- [Eleanor] You don't say.
- [Roy] What does that mean?
- Don't remember last night?
- I remember bits of last night.
So are you upset with me?
- Oh, it's just, it's all right.
Just don't let it happen again.
- [Roy] Let what happen?
- You seriously don't remember.
You came barging into
my room almost naked.
- Sorry.
I didn't mean anything by it.
I'm not, I'm not used to
having you living here.
Okay?
- Yeah, all right,
I get that, fine.
- That's, that's all it was.
- Yeah, it's all good.
- So anyway.
Oh, can I have one of those?
- No.
- You all right there?
- Yep, I'm good.
- How long you been drinking for?
- Oh, you'd think not long, wouldn't you?
- It doesn't look like it.
- No.
- So, can I have one?
- No.
- Why not?
- Because they're mine.
- They're yours.
- Yes, I paid for them,
therefore they are mine.
- It's okay, sure, I'll pay you back.
- No, I'm gonna drink all these.
- I'll buy some more later.
- No.
- Okay, whatever.
Why are you on the
squirt this early anyway?
- Oh, I had a little bit
of a rough day at work.
- I was gonna ask you about that.
- Yeah.
Don't freak out, but I got fired.
I'll find another job.
Don't worry about that, I'll
get the money for the rent.
It's fine.
- Okay.
Why'd you get fired?
- Because I spat in my customer's drink.
- Fuck, what?
You spat in a customer's drink?
What were you thinking?
- Honestly, I don't know
right now, but he was just,
he was a dick, you know?
He was really rude, called
me a fucking backpacker.
And I was like-
- You are a backpacker,
but anyway-
- Sometimes I can be
a little hotheaded, all right.
- A little.
- Just a little.
- People in my job are dicks as well.
Like when I, when I used to
be stand up, before this,
we had hecklers.
- Oh yeah-
- People, they were just
straight up hecklers.
Just, they were there
to give you a hard time.
There was this time,
well I had this heckler,
like a professional heckler.
He was just going at it all the time.
I couldn't even do my setup lines.
And he was just, you know,
ripping shit into my
setup lines, you know?
And, and I was like, well, give
me half a chance here, mate.
Anyway, he kept going, he kept going,
he was driving me nuts.
And so got the better of me.
- Mm.
- What can I do?
I can't jump down there
and fight him, can I?
- Nothing.
- No, nothing.
Same as being in hospitality.
- Yeah.
- Effectively, you can't do anything.
- Yeah.
- You can't.
And so I thought, fuck him,
I'm gonna embarrass him in
front of his girlfriend.
I'm just gonna spit all over him.
Same thing.
Same thing, okay.
- Well, I mean, like,
it's a little different.
You're on a stage.
- Yeah, and he's not letting me do my job.
Same as you.
You couldn't do your job.
So anyway, I made up this story that like,
I looked into the stage lights,
it sort of made my eyes
squint, tickle my nose,
blah, blah, blah.
- Yeah.
- Felt like I needed
to sneeze.
Told everybody I'm okay.
- Right.
- And I was like, yeah, and
the whole time I'm doing it,
I'm filling my mouth full of spit.
And I was, (sneezes), I
sneezed on him, all over him.
Absolutely covered the prick.
- What about the people next to him?
- Yeah, there was a little
bit of collateral damage.
But anyway, I was apologetic to them.
- Yeah.
- He's got up, he's shaped up.
Security got him, dragged him off.
Job done.
Job done.
People actually clapped me.
- Right?
Well, it's not like I had
security to drag him out.
- No, but I was smart about it.
Not like-
- Anyway, whatever.
It's stupid.
- Yeah, it is stupid.
Stupid, how you're
gonna pay for your rent?
- I will find another job.
- That's what I mean.
- I'm going out, I will
literally, first thing tomorrow.
- So you come home, you get on the squirt
instead of getting another job,
and you won't even share-
- It's too late now, everything's closed.
- Not everything, the bottle is still open
so how about swinging one my way?
(knocking at door)
- Are you expecting someone?
- No.
- I'll get it.
- Thanks.
- Hey, is Roy around?
- Yeah.
Roy.
Roy!
- What?
- There's someone at the door.
- Hey, there he is.
- Sweet.
- How are you mate?
- Yeah, I'm good.
What about you?
- Yeah, good mate, good.
How are those demons fairing?
- Absolutely shithouse.
- Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that.
- Oh, you are, of course you are.
Oh dear.
Yeah, right.
Have you, you got my DVD?
- No, because it's still in the machine.
I am halfway through it.
- You're halfway through it.
- Yes.
- What's your favourite joke?
- Well, no, mate.
They're all good.
- You're fucking useless, aren't you?
You haven't bothered watching it.
- All right, you got me.
- So you're laughing at me now?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- But you're not laughing at my humour.
- No.
- What the hell's wrong with you?
- Mate, I'll watch it.
I promise.
- That's like my performance at Montreal.
- Yeah, yeah.
- That's a big deal.
Montreal is a big deal.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
You do keep saying that.
- Yeah, I do 'cause it's Montreal.
- All right, all right.
I'll watch it, I promise.
- You promise?
- I promise.
- Yeah, right.
I've got dinner cooking, so.
- Oh, what is that?
Smells delicious.
- Shut the fuck up.
- I'm Eleanor, by the way.
- Oh, hi, I'm Charlie.
- Nice to meet you.
- So you've just moved in, have you?
- Yeah recently.
- Oh, well, good luck.
- Thank you, I think I'm gonna need it.
Would you like to go and get a drink?
- But you've already got one.
- Let's get another.
- All right.
- Okay.
(waves crashing)
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
- One I prepared earlier.
- Thanks.
- No stress.
Tuck in.
Do you want a beer?
- Yeah, sure.
Thank you.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Right, I hope you like pizza.
- Oh, I'm actually a vegan.
- Fuck, I'm sorry, I'll go grab some more.
- No, I'm just, I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
Sorry.
- Good, 'cause I was gonna
grab you some more grass.
- Oh that would've been lovely too.
- Yeah, nice and organic.
- Okay.
- Tuck in.
So where are you from, Eleanor?
- Nowhere in particular.
- Where's nowhere in particular?
- Serial killer city.
Adelaide.
- Right, okay.
So a little like our Broadmeadows.
- Is that bad?
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah.
- Stay away from there.
- Okay, Broadmeadows, I'll remember that.
- You got a job?
- I did this morning.
- Yeah?
- I don't now.
- Oh, what happened?
- It's a, it's a long story.
I won't get into it now,
but I did something that I shouldn't have.
- Oh, that old chestnut, eh?
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
- What about family?
You got anyone around?
- Not here.
Back in Adelaide, yeah, but not here.
- Very cool, I've got (mobile phone rings)
Oh shit, sorry.
- Oh, it's all right.
- Sorry, I've just gotta take this call.
- That's fine.
- Hello.
All right, well whoa, calm down.
I'm in the middle of, yes, all right.
I went and spoke to him and he,
and he said come back tomorrow.
All right?
All right, no, calm down,
I'll see you later, all right?
Fuck.
Sorry about that.
- You've got pizza on your head.
- Pizza on my head?
(mobile phone ringing)
This isn't gonna stop.
Count on all night, so
I'm gonna have to go.
- That's okay.
- Can I give you a lift home?
- No, I'm good.
I think I'll just sit here.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- All right, well I'll leave
you the rest of the pizza.
- Okay.
- Well, um, I had a
really nice time, Eleanor.
- [Eleanor] Yeah, me too.
- Maybe I'll see you around?
- Yeah, I'd like that.
- See you soon.
- See you.
(gentle music)
(waves crashing)
(rhythmic music)
(punches thumping)
Ah!
(breathing heavily)
(sobbing)
(gentle music)
(phone ringing)
Matt.
Hi, sorry, I can't talk right now.
Yeah, I'll call you back.
Okay.
- Is that advice or is that nerves?
- Nerves.
It's not actually mine,
it's my housemate's.
This is his jacket.
- Of course.
- Do you want some?
- What's your poison?
- Usually I just drink
beer, but I don't mind this.
I think it's whiskey.
(laughs)
- Thanks, I get really
nervous too.
- You're welcome.
Yeah, I just, I hate this feeling.
Just anxiety, ugh.
- Have you done much work before this?
- Not like this.
Not any kind of office jobs.
I had a job at a cafe not long ago,
but that didn't even last a day.
I won't get into that, but
yeah, nothing like this before.
That's why I'm so nervous.
'Cause I don't really know how
these sort of interviews go.
- Oh, it kind of depends.
- Yeah.
- I mean, it depends on
what the interview process is.
They ask, well, in the email,
they let us know what they
were really looking for, so.
- Yeah.
I should have brought a resume.
- Oh, these are always optional.
They didn't actually ask us
to bring it.
- Oh really, okay.
- It's just, depending
on what your pitch is.
- Everyone has one.
I'm not gonna get this job.
- I just bring it for a safety blanket.
- Right, I get that, yeah.
- And somebody has a hip flask.
Can I have another hit?
- Yes.
- Eleanor Grey.
- Yeah.
- Zoe Nelson.
- All righty.
All right-a-ru, ladies.
So if you've done your
homework, my name's Neil.
I'm sitting in a daddy chair
'cause I worked for it.
I'm the head honcho.
I'm the man here.
But enough about me,
let's hear a little bit about yourselves.
So where do you come from?
You must be Eleanor.
- No, I'm Zoe.
- Oh, right.
- Eleanor.
- [Neil] Nice, so, okay,
we'll start with you, Eleanor.
Where'd you come from?
- So, I moved here from
Adelaide recently, actually.
- Oh.
Did you say Adelaide?
- Yeah.
- Oh, what a shithole, you poor thing.
That's brutal.
- Yeah.
- Only recently?
- Yeah.
- Oh dang, girl.
Nice.
Okay, what about you?
- North Caulfield.
I'm a local.
- [Neil] Ah, born and raised.
- Yes.
- Brilliant, that's nice.
Okay, so if I were to ask
you, give me one word,
give me one word about yourself,
that best describes you,
what would you say?
- Passionate.
- [Neil] Ooh, I like that.
Nice.
- Empowered.
- Strong, empowered.
Nice.
I like that too.
And passionate.
Good, girls, good.
Let's get to brass tacks here.
As you know, this is,
this is my company now,
but let's say for a second,
this is your company.
You're sitting in this chair.
Profits are down, you
know, people are pissed.
You know, your shares are dropping,
everything's going down the shit,
and you gotta turn things around.
What are you gonna do?
- I'd suggest market research
into other companies.
See what works best for them.
Run an audit of all essential personnel
and begin offering plans specific
to customer requirements.
- That's not bad.
- I don't wanna sound like a
copycat, but funnily enough,
that is exactly what I was going to say.
- But you didn't.
- And continue, continuing on,
if I was going to say
what I was going to say,
I would also look at voluntary redundancy.
- I also kind of said that.
- So your plan is to
fire the entire company.
Is that right?
(mobile phone ringing)
- That's not what I said.
- Bill.
- Do you understand
- No, you're not
interrupting anything.
- what I'm actually saying?
- Yeah, you're saying
what I was saying.
- Well, nothing important
anyway.
- It's all-
- That's not what
I was saying.
(talking over each other)
- Five star resorts.
Yeah, you want one?
Oh, you sick bastard.
Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
Yes, yeah, we're getting a massage.
Happy endings, yeah.
- I'm gonna be honest with you.
In this job, it is actually okay
to have a little bit of a
drink, little bit of a drink.
- It's okay to have a drink.
- Yeah.
- Do you drink?
- I do, brutally honest.
- Do you drink a lot?
- But on your breath-
- Did you drink before this interview?
- I had a drink with you, but
to be honest with you, okay,
you have a strong odour
on your breath, honey.
- Oh, that's not true though.
That's just a blatant lie.
- Man, is water wet?
Speaking of endings, okay ladies,
thanks so much for coming on in.
It's a pleasure meeting you.
We'll be in touch.
Emily, my secretary will
kindly show you ladies out.
- Zoe, Eleanor, was it?
Thanks for your time.
- Thank you, sweetheart.
- We'll show you out.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, of course they bought it.
- Do you want a cigarette?
- Sorry for being such a bitch in there.
- Don't worry about it.
It's like, fuck him and his holiday.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
It's.
I just really needed this job.
- I don't think there's much left.
- It's empty.
- Thanks.
- Fucking hell.
- You all right?
- No.
I really needed this job.
- I'm sure something else will come along.
- Thanks anyway.
(dramatic music)
- I'm good.
- You're a vegan, are you?
You look like you just walked out of
a Brighton pageant show.
Seriously, what are you doing here?
- I just really need a job.
You know, saw this
advertised, so I just took it.
- Nice choice.
- Thanks.
(machine whirring)
- Yeah, 10 years in the job,
I'm still not used to that sound.
- So if you've got no here,
you're between these two,
see what you think.
Yeah, this ones.
- Yeah this one's much.
- Hi.
- Hey, how you doing?
- Yeah, good thanks, I'll just grab this.
- [Assistant] How's your day been?
- Not too bad.
- That's 26.
Just when you're ready.
(machine beeping)
Declined.
You wanna try again?
- Yes, please.
- Yeah.
(machine beeping)
Sorry babe, declined again.
Do you have another card or cash?
- I'm just gonna see what's going on.
Okay.
- Yeah.
- [Manager] What's going on here?
- Declined twice.
- Okay, what kind of card are you using?
Interesting.
Is the wifi connected to this?
- Yes.
- Yes?
Where, where's the signal?
- There.
- Is that it?
(machine beeping)
Sorry.
- Sorry-
- I'm sure we'll work it out.
Technology.
- I don't know what it's
doing, can you come,
you're good with technology.
- Hey Eleanor.
- Hi.
- [Matt] Is there a problem?
- Yeah.
- Is it just this?
- Yeah.
You don't have to do that.
- It's fine.
Yeah, should be good.
Do you want a receipt?
- No.
Thank you.
- No worries.
You were gonna call me back.
- Yeah, sorry, I just,
I've had a bit of a rough time lately.
Yeah.
- If you wanna talk about it,
I'm just gonna finish soon.
Could go across to the pub and, yeah.
- Um, yeah, that'd be great.
- [Matt] Sure?
- Yeah, no I'd like that, yeah.
- Yeah, I'll be, be about 10 minutes.
- Okay.
All right, I'll just.
- See you.
(driving rock music)
This band sucks.
They've got nothing to say.
They're all just fake
and it looks like
they're trying to rip off
the '70s or something.
- This is actually my favourite band.
- You're kidding?
Oh, it's just my opinion, but
I know, probably change that.
- I'm just fucking with you, I'm sorry.
These guys are actually really shit, so.
Cheers.
- Cheers!
I'll drink to that.
Oh.
I was gonna ask, is that guy Roy?
- Yeah.
- Is he still alive?
- Yeah, he actually is.
Surprisingly, yeah.
Yeah, I'm literally as
surprised as you are.
- Yeah.
No way.
- Yeah, there's been a few
times where I've been like, oh!
- Yeah, I thought you
would've had the place
to yourself by now.
- Yeah, oh, that'd be nice.
I'm thinking-
- Beautiful.
- Did you ever find a place?
- Oh yeah, I checked a couple more after
- Yeah.
- Roy's place,
but it was even worse.
- Really?
- I mean, Roy's,
I'm with my parents still
basically, just easier.
- I haven't seen my parents in so long.
- [Matt] Really, why's that?
- Oh, Mom was kind of out
of the picture a while ago.
And then Dad, long story
short, he's in jail.
- Jail?
- Yeah.
He kind of kicked the shit out
of this guy in a parking lot
outside a pub.
And the guy ended up
passing away in hospital.
But, yeah.
(driving rock music continues)
- I'm sorry.
You still looking for work?
- I am actually.
- True.
- Yeah.
- Any luck, or?
- Not yet.
I really just honestly
need something, anything.
- Anything?
- Well, okay, not anything.
- I was gonna say I
could see down my place.
The boss is probably looking.
- Oh really?
- Yeah, there's always
new faces.
Could put a word in, and.
- [Eleanor] I would
really appreciate that.
That would help a lot.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- If you can put up with that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, cool
- Yeah.
- It's not the greatest, but, you know.
- Sorry, I just.
Hi.
Yeah.
Now?
Okay.
Yeah.
All right, I'll see you soon.
Bye.
I'm so sorry, I forgot,
I have to be somewhere.
Feel free to finish the beer.
- Come on, scull.
- No, no, I don't do that.
Yeah, you can.
Let me know about the job thing.
- Yeah.
- You've got my number,
so I'll see you around.
- It was good to see you.
- Yes, yes.
Bye.
(driving rock music continues)
These are cool.
All done.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
- Have a great day.
- Thank you.
- [Man] Is he paying you
to use your equipment?
- It was literally my
first night in Melbourne,
'cause I just, I'd just gotten the place
and I went to have a shower,
went to turn the knob,
nothing fucking came out.
And I was like, oh, well, great.
You know what, that's a really good start.
Just went back into the room,
just sat on the bed in my
towel, had my headphones on,
and then Roy fucking
barges through the door
in the most disgusting
pair of undies I've seen
in my entire life.
They had stains on them, it was gross.
- [Woman] Was he smashed or something?
- Yeah, oh he was
- Always.
- fucked off his face.
And he just, he wouldn't get the fuck out.
I was like, "Get the fuck
out, get the fuck out."
Threw a fucking pillow at him.
And he was, oh no, he
was just really drunk.
Maybe he didn't realise, like I was-
- Come on.
- There, I-
- He didn't realise?
- I don't know,
he was so drunk.
- Really drunk.
- He's always really drunk,
but you don't just forget
someone's in your house.
- Yeah, I suppose.
Anyway, I mean, we're good now.
- Yeah.
- I know how to handle him.
So it was just a really
weird welcome to Melbourne.
Kind of made me think twice
about it, but I dunno,
it's all good now.
Oh, and then you were there the next day
and you helped me pick
him up off the floor.
- I thought he was dead.
- Yeah, he looked dead.
He really looked dead.
- Literally.
- He always looks dead.
- Do you live there too?
- I nearly did.
I was inspecting the room and
that's where we met, and then.
- Yeah, he wanted, he wanted
the place, but I got it.
- Oh.
- Yeah, he showed up
seeing if he got the place,
but I answered the door
and I was like, oh, sorry.
Little bit awkward.
- So sweet.
- [Woman] So does that
mean you're still looking
for a place?
- I guess I am.
- 'Cause I have a spare room.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I'm with my parents, but
yeah, it'd be good to.
- It's only 10 minutes down the road.
- Close.
- Yeah.
- Shots.
- No!
- Tequila?
- Tequila.
- Tequila, yes.
- Find something else.
Don't wanna do shots.
- I am, I need a room too.
- You already have a room.
- Sorry man.
- Real subtle.
- Take your time, or a water.
- You don't look great.
I think you need something to eat.
- [Woman] Okay, you need a shot.
- Oh, I don't know if he does.
- Oh, he does not need a shot.
- Thank you.
- And for you-
- Thanks, babe.
Okay.
A toast to.
- To Roy!
- To Roy.
And his underwear.
- Of course.
- Cheers.
- I hate shots, I don't know why I do it.
Why do you pressure me into doing it?
- Another round?
- No.
- Another round.
- No, no, no, fuck, no.
(talking over each other)
I'm just going to get
some beer, all right.
- So is she seeing anyone?
Has she met anyone?
- Well, she's met someone, but, you know,
she's sometimes a bit
blind and naive to things.
- [Woman] Oh, things.
- How many rooms is it?
- There's three.
- Okay, that sounds good.
- You can have your choice of room.
- Yeah, I'll come check it for sure.
- Are you moving in together now?
- No.
- Just offering a room.
- Cool.
- What would you, do you
wanna go and explore the,
this new one?
Get some fresh air.
- Yeah.
Yeah, okay, yeah, I
could use some fresh air.
Actually, I know a really good place.
Okay.
We're just going to pop out for a bit.
- You're leaving.
- I'll be back.
- We'll be back.
- Just keep my shots.
- Gonna get another round.
- Later.
- Give her the goods, Matty!
- Ew!
Why?
- Oh, I really should
not have had that shot.
I don't do tequila well.
- I don't mind it.
It wakes me up.
- I dare you to climb that pole.
- That one?
- All the way to the top.
Yeah.
(gentle music)
No, too hard for you.
I don't think I can do
it, so I don't know why
I asked you to.
- That was terrible.
- I don't think I.
- It's hard!
- It is.
Okay, fine, whatever, it's hard.
No, no, no, no, no.
(gentle music continues)
That's high.
- Tell me about it.
- I think I should probably go.
- Sure you don't wanna stay?
Stay with me.
(gentle music continues)
- Not tonight.
I'll see you around.
(techno music)
(knocking at door)
Hey.
- What the fuck are you doing here?
- I thought we were gonna hang out today.
- [Woman] Who is it?
- Who's that?
- My wife, okay.
Now get lost.
- [Roy] Come on, Eleanor.
- I'm trying.
- What you doing?
- I don't know how to turn it on.
- Turn on.
Just, it's, that button there.
Just there.
- Which one?
- That.
- Which one?
- Those wires there.
Put that one into that, that slot thing.
- My God, which wire.
- Whatever.
I don't know, like.
- Where did you even get this?
- Off a nature strip.
- Well, that's why it's
not fucking working.
- No, people don't throw away
perfectly good electronic equipment, okay.
It's just, it's
old-fashioned, it's outdated.
- It's not working.
I don't know how to, I
don't know how it works.
- That, just.
- What?
- Oh, this one here.
- You fucking do it.
- Yeah, there you go.
Problem solved.
Take a seat.
Check this out.
I've been hanging to see this show.
- Get this shit
out of my way.
- Wasn't hard, was it?
- Oh, look at you.
- Can you not?
- Halfway.
- Give me a bit of space.
- Halfway is halfway.
- Yeah, you're on the line.
- Yeah, that's what the line's for.
- Whatever.
- Okay, cool.
(laughing)
(gentle music)
I know, right?
- This is what you wanted me to see?
- Yeah.
I've heard of the show.
It's, well, I won't say
brutal, but it's educational.
- Why?
- Did you know that you could do that?
- Not until now.
- Right.
Okay.
- I, I, I don't even know
what to make of this.
- Well, some people like it.
That, that's, that's a thing, I know.
- I don't, I don't wanna watch this.
This is a bit, a bit weird.
- No, just watch it anyway, 'cause-
- Why?
- 'Cause.
- What the hell do I
have to learn from this?
- I don't know, it's
different, it's peculiar.
- It's different, that's for sure.
- It's odd, it's, um.
- Well, what the fuck is that?
- Yeah.
Dunno about that bit.
That's big.
It's pretty big, actually.
That's, whoa.
- Oh.
- I didn't even know they came that big.
- Oh, I can't, okay.
- No, no, no, no, no,
it's good.
- I cannot look at that.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
What?
- How do you even know about this?
- I, I went to a show where this was like,
well this, or similar.
Same sort of thing.
That was part of the act.
- What, what do you mean
a show, like a live show?
- Yeah, I didn't go to the show.
Like, not something I would go to.
- Okay.
- I was in, I don't
even know where it was.
It was, it was like Eastern
Europe or something.
Who knows?
Ukraine, Czech, I can't even remember.
But it was, it was, it
was like a cabaret show.
Like, like you book, you know
how you, you get, you know,
dinner and a dance type thing.
I know, right?
Yeah, seriously, trust me.
No, seriously, trust me.
- I don't believe that.
- It's true, it's true.
So how they used to do it was, well,
they probably still do do it,
is that you'd book, buy it,
get your ticket, you go
there, you get a meal.
Normally not bad tucker
and then-
- Right.
- Yeah, yeah.
And they'd have a band playing
and then people would get
up and dance and, yeah.
So normal sort of stuff, yeah.
What, you've never been
to a show where like,
like cabaret where?
Yeah.
- Not like this.
- No, I know.
And so then they'd get the-
- I don't wanna see that
live, are you kidding?
- Yeah, it was later in the night.
And so they'd get the, like
the blue comedian to come on,
and that was my job.
And I'd come on and I'd
tell a few raunchy jokes
and stuff like that, yeah.
And then after me, and
seriously, people are still,
the tables are full,
people are still there,
and stuff like that would go on.
- They are weird people.
- I didn't get it myself.
Like I've gotta be honest.
- Good.
- Like, like, like
I'm looking at it going,
oh, and then I went,
oh.
- Oh God.
- Whoa!
- How could you
watch this live?
- It's like a restaurant-
- And eat at the same time.
- Oh, well, it's after dinner.
It's like, like an aperitif.
- Well, they can still come back up.
- Well, when they did
that bit there, that bit,
see how there's like two-
- That bit?
- Yeah, with the two of them in there.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
That probably rattled a few people.
It, that was too much for me.
I was done at that point, so.
Yeah, I know.
I know, right?
- That's really fucked up.
- Yeah.
(knocking at door)
- Who's that?
- I dunno.
- Okay, well.
- Just leave it on because after this-
- Well, you don't even
know who's at the door.
- Don't worry about it.
It's cool.
After this, what, what happens
next, if it's the same act,
is absolutely-
- More, more of this?
- It's mental.
The bit, see what they're doing there?
- Yeah.
- They do it the other way around.
- What?
- Yeah, I know!
Hang on, stay there.
- Okay.
Oh no.
- I need some gear.
- Yeah okay, we can do that.
Come in.
Wait in the living room.
Yeah, just wait in the living room.
- Want some?
- I'm good thanks.
(Charlie sighs)
(groaning from TV)
- [Roy] Still here?
- Yeah mate, I was-
- Thank you.
- Just, uh, just leaving.
Yeah.
All right, thanks for the smoke.
- That's good, off you go.
- Yeah, I'll see you around.
- See yourself out.
What?
- He's fine, he's fine.
He's just really clumsy.
(screaming)
- Eleanor!
Yeah!
- Happy birthday.
- Hi Roy.
- Hello Leanne.
How are you, my dear?
- Let's get a drink!
Shots!
- Bring shots ahoy, let's go!
Woo!
What are you doing?
- Tequila.
- Tequila,
obviously tequila, let's go.
Bartend, let's give us some tequila.
To you.
Let's go.
- Woo!
- Again.
- No no.
- You did that last one
when we're here.
What's going on?
Let's go, come on.
Oh, I think you need a handicap.
- Come on, mate.
- Okay, all right.
Good.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Dead heat.
Dead heat.
That was fair, oh look at you.
- Come on.
- Going down
to your stomach.
- Come on!
- More.
Hey-
- Guys!
- Hey, pace yourself.
Come on, let's get through this.
One more, one more,
she's right, she's right.
Who am I to say, birthday?
- Damn straight.
- I know, right.
- Like you're even here.
No, I'm kidding.
- Sure, no worries.
Barkeep, come on, let's go.
- Another round, come on!
- Let's go, come on.
- It's my birthday!
- What you doing?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- Cheers.
- To you.
- To me.
- Happy birthday young lady.
- I just wanna thank you all so much
for coming to my birthday, and, you know,
let's just get fucked up!
Woo!
(cheering)
- What do you mean?
Hey, hey.
- Roy.
- Just, Lauren.
Eh, Leanne.
I just want to say, here's
the thing, everybody.
- You.
- No, no.
I just wanna say to everybody here.
(retching)
- Get the fuck out!
Get him out of here.
(shouting over each other)
What the fuck?
- How you feeling, brother?
- It's not fucking funny.
- Oh my God!
- Just go back to the party.
Just leave me alone, okay.
Get it in your fucking head
this is never going to happen.
(knocking at door)
- Eleanor Grey?
- Yes.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
- We've got Roy here.
He couldn't pay his tab last night.
- Okay.
- So we picked him up.
Now you can pay the tab and
we can leave him here with you
or we can take him with us.
- No, that's fine, I'll take over.
- Go on, mate.
- Thank you.
- You have a good day.
- Thanks, you too.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Is that just alcohol,
that's two fucking grand.
Do you fucking expect me
to actually pay for this?
Oi, open the fucking door!
I'm not here to look after you.
Fuck!
(waves crashing)
(knocking at door)
Is she here?
- No, but you can't come in, Eleanor.
I don't know what's going
on here, but you can't,
whoa, whoa, whoa, no.
Okay, no.
Let's just talk about this.
(gentle music)
I'm glad you're here.
- Me too.
- I hope you know how I feel now.
(gentle music continues)
Whoa.
What are you doing?
- Hey.
What?
- What are you doing?
- I work here.
- Yeah, right, okay.
You must have me confused for someone
'cause I don't know you.
Okay, so.
Sorry, shall we go?
(gentle music)
(Eleanor sobs)
- Roy?
Look, I'm sorry for pressuring
you to come the other night.
I really, I shouldn't have done it.
Hey look.
I've actually decided that
I need to leave Melbourne.
So if I could come in and
just talk to you about it.
Roy?
Oi.
You were my only friend.
(birds chirping)
- This is for you.
There was one for his
wife and his kids as well.
- Do you have a light?
- No, sorry.
- It's okay.
- Shouldn't, shouldn't really smoke.
- You ever seen a dead body?
- No.
I mean, not until now.
To tell you the truth,
this is actually my third day on the job.
- That's rough.
- Yeah, it's pretty rough.
I doubt it gets any easier.
Anyway, you shouldn't really stay here.
It's not, it's not safe.
Hopefully there's
somewhere safe you can go.
I mean, the neighbours are pretty nice.
Maybe you can stay with them.
- No, I can't stay with the neighbours.
- Why's that?
It's all right, it's okay.
Still, you should find somewhere safe.
- Yeah.
- And you know how to
contact us if you need to.
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, there's not much
else more we can really say.
(waves crashing)
(waves continue crashing)
(gentle music)
(rhythmic music)
(rhythmic music continues)
(rhythmic music continues)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(waves crashing)
(waves continue crashing)
(gentle music)
- [Matt] Thank you.
- [Roy] No, you, you're right, mate.
- Appreciate it.
- No, it's good, cool.
All right, thanks mate.
- No worries.
Are you here to see the place?
- Yeah.
- Enjoy.
- Thank you.
- Roy.
- Eleanor.
- Eleanor, come in please.
- Thank you.
- Awesome.
So here's the room.
Have a look.
What do you think?
- Yeah, it's perfect.
- Heaps of space, built-in robe.
- Yep.
- Queen-sized bed.
- That's all I need.
- Dresser and this, I mean, seriously.
World's most livable city.
Right out front of your door.
- Yep.
Cool.
- What do you think?
- Yeah, it's good.
How much are you looking for rent?
- Oh, we can discuss this,
but I don't know, what,
do you have a job?
- I do.
Local cafe.
- Okay.
Which one?
- I think it's called The Vault.
- Okay.
Do you know the owner
as well, or like you-
- No, I literally got
the job not long ago.
I called them up.
- Oh, okay.
So you're not from like around here?
- No, I've come from Adelaide.
Yeah, yep.
- Don't wanna say too much.
- No, you don't need to.
- Oh, I've had some
problems with Adelaide.
- Right.
- So.
- Okay.
- What, you're not gonna
bring any problems with you?
- No, you won't get any trouble from me.
- I like a quiet house where
just we do our own thing.
- That's me, I'm very quiet.
- Okay, we respect each other.
- Yep.
- What'd you say, how much?
- Oh, honestly, highest
I can go is probably 270.
- 270 doesn't quite cover the cost.
- Ooh.
- Needs to be around about, well,
actually needs to be 280 plus expenses.
- Yeah, yeah.
It's only 10 bucks more, I can do that.
- You can do that?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Sure.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Okay, 280.
- 280.
- Done.
- Awesome.
- Easy.
- Cool, well, you know, set yourself in.
- Yep.
- When do you wanna move in?
- Right now.
This is all my stuff.
- Oh, okay.
- If that's all right with you.
- I make no judgements.
- Okay.
- So yeah, go for it.
- Great.
- Welcome to Melbourne.
- Thank you.
- Cool.
Cheers?
- Ah, no, I'm good.
- Okay, cool.
Well, world's most livable city.
Enjoy.
- Thank you.
- Cool.
(fan buzzing)
(phone ringing)
- [Rachel] Hey, it's Rachel.
Sorry I missed you.
Leave a message when you hear the beep
and I'll get back to you soon.
(tone beeping)
(water trickling)
(rhythmic music)
- [Eleanor] What the hell, get out.
Get the fuck out!
Get out!
(rhythmic music)
(knocking on door)
- Oh, hello.
- Hey.
- Hey.
I just, I was coming around
to see if I got the room, but.
- Oh, um-
- Guess you've answered
my question.
- Yes, sorry.
- Do you need help?
- Maybe.
I might try and get him in his room.
- [Matt] Yeah, let's give him a lift.
- [Eleanor] Yeah.
- [Matt] Ooh, lucky it's close.
- Yeah, sorry.
- Should we just like
drag him, or?
- [Eleanor] I might try to flip him.
I'll grab his arm and
you grab his other arm.
- Oh!
- Oh, come on mate.
Time for bed.
- Oh my God.
- [Matt] There you go.
- Okay.
He'll be fine.
- Yeah.
- I'll just.
Okay.
Yeah, he'll be fine.
Right, um, sorry, I
actually have to get going.
- Of course.
- Yeah.
- Sorry, sorry.
- Okay.
- Congrats on the place.
- Oh, thanks.
Thanks.
- That's all right.
Where you off to?
- I'm off to free slave labour in a cafe.
- It's better than slave labour,
selling clothes for a living.
- Oh, you work at a clothing store?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- [Matt] At least you get fed.
- That's very true.
You don't have a cigarette, do you?
- I don't smoke.
- Oh, dammit.
That's okay.
- This way.
- I'm going this way.
- Oh, well it was nice to meet you again.
- Yeah, you too.
Sorry, what was your name?
- Oh, I'm Matt.
- Oh, Eleanor.
- Eleanor.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I was gonna say,
if you need any more help
moving any bodies or anything,
just give me a call.
- Right, yeah.
- Thank you.
Two, that should be it.
- Right.
- Eleanor.
- Okay.
Well, I'll give you a call.
- Good luck with work.
- Thank you.
- See ya.
- See ya.
- Bye.
(upbeat music)
- Buffalo wings.
Big juicy buffalo wings.
- We don't have buffalo wings.
- What do you mean you
don't have buffalo wings?
What do you have?
- We have a range of vegan muffins.
- Vegan.
Do I look like a fucking vegan?
- No.
- Tell you what, love.
I'll have a turmeric latte.
How about that?
- Sure.
- Yeah.
Be a good girl, will you?
- No problem.
- Yeah, thanks love.
Fucking backpackers.
Fucking backpackers.
You for real?
- Hey, how you going?
- Yeah, all right, how are you?
- Oh, a little bit ordinary,
but, you know, getting by.
- [Eleanor] You don't say.
- [Roy] What does that mean?
- Don't remember last night?
- I remember bits of last night.
So are you upset with me?
- Oh, it's just, it's all right.
Just don't let it happen again.
- [Roy] Let what happen?
- You seriously don't remember.
You came barging into
my room almost naked.
- Sorry.
I didn't mean anything by it.
I'm not, I'm not used to
having you living here.
Okay?
- Yeah, all right,
I get that, fine.
- That's, that's all it was.
- Yeah, it's all good.
- So anyway.
Oh, can I have one of those?
- No.
- You all right there?
- Yep, I'm good.
- How long you been drinking for?
- Oh, you'd think not long, wouldn't you?
- It doesn't look like it.
- No.
- So, can I have one?
- No.
- Why not?
- Because they're mine.
- They're yours.
- Yes, I paid for them,
therefore they are mine.
- It's okay, sure, I'll pay you back.
- No, I'm gonna drink all these.
- I'll buy some more later.
- No.
- Okay, whatever.
Why are you on the
squirt this early anyway?
- Oh, I had a little bit
of a rough day at work.
- I was gonna ask you about that.
- Yeah.
Don't freak out, but I got fired.
I'll find another job.
Don't worry about that, I'll
get the money for the rent.
It's fine.
- Okay.
Why'd you get fired?
- Because I spat in my customer's drink.
- Fuck, what?
You spat in a customer's drink?
What were you thinking?
- Honestly, I don't know
right now, but he was just,
he was a dick, you know?
He was really rude, called
me a fucking backpacker.
And I was like-
- You are a backpacker,
but anyway-
- Sometimes I can be
a little hotheaded, all right.
- A little.
- Just a little.
- People in my job are dicks as well.
Like when I, when I used to
be stand up, before this,
we had hecklers.
- Oh yeah-
- People, they were just
straight up hecklers.
Just, they were there
to give you a hard time.
There was this time,
well I had this heckler,
like a professional heckler.
He was just going at it all the time.
I couldn't even do my setup lines.
And he was just, you know,
ripping shit into my
setup lines, you know?
And, and I was like, well, give
me half a chance here, mate.
Anyway, he kept going, he kept going,
he was driving me nuts.
And so got the better of me.
- Mm.
- What can I do?
I can't jump down there
and fight him, can I?
- Nothing.
- No, nothing.
Same as being in hospitality.
- Yeah.
- Effectively, you can't do anything.
- Yeah.
- You can't.
And so I thought, fuck him,
I'm gonna embarrass him in
front of his girlfriend.
I'm just gonna spit all over him.
Same thing.
Same thing, okay.
- Well, I mean, like,
it's a little different.
You're on a stage.
- Yeah, and he's not letting me do my job.
Same as you.
You couldn't do your job.
So anyway, I made up this story that like,
I looked into the stage lights,
it sort of made my eyes
squint, tickle my nose,
blah, blah, blah.
- Yeah.
- Felt like I needed
to sneeze.
Told everybody I'm okay.
- Right.
- And I was like, yeah, and
the whole time I'm doing it,
I'm filling my mouth full of spit.
And I was, (sneezes), I
sneezed on him, all over him.
Absolutely covered the prick.
- What about the people next to him?
- Yeah, there was a little
bit of collateral damage.
But anyway, I was apologetic to them.
- Yeah.
- He's got up, he's shaped up.
Security got him, dragged him off.
Job done.
Job done.
People actually clapped me.
- Right?
Well, it's not like I had
security to drag him out.
- No, but I was smart about it.
Not like-
- Anyway, whatever.
It's stupid.
- Yeah, it is stupid.
Stupid, how you're
gonna pay for your rent?
- I will find another job.
- That's what I mean.
- I'm going out, I will
literally, first thing tomorrow.
- So you come home, you get on the squirt
instead of getting another job,
and you won't even share-
- It's too late now, everything's closed.
- Not everything, the bottle is still open
so how about swinging one my way?
(knocking at door)
- Are you expecting someone?
- No.
- I'll get it.
- Thanks.
- Hey, is Roy around?
- Yeah.
Roy.
Roy!
- What?
- There's someone at the door.
- Hey, there he is.
- Sweet.
- How are you mate?
- Yeah, I'm good.
What about you?
- Yeah, good mate, good.
How are those demons fairing?
- Absolutely shithouse.
- Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that.
- Oh, you are, of course you are.
Oh dear.
Yeah, right.
Have you, you got my DVD?
- No, because it's still in the machine.
I am halfway through it.
- You're halfway through it.
- Yes.
- What's your favourite joke?
- Well, no, mate.
They're all good.
- You're fucking useless, aren't you?
You haven't bothered watching it.
- All right, you got me.
- So you're laughing at me now?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- But you're not laughing at my humour.
- No.
- What the hell's wrong with you?
- Mate, I'll watch it.
I promise.
- That's like my performance at Montreal.
- Yeah, yeah.
- That's a big deal.
Montreal is a big deal.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
You do keep saying that.
- Yeah, I do 'cause it's Montreal.
- All right, all right.
I'll watch it, I promise.
- You promise?
- I promise.
- Yeah, right.
I've got dinner cooking, so.
- Oh, what is that?
Smells delicious.
- Shut the fuck up.
- I'm Eleanor, by the way.
- Oh, hi, I'm Charlie.
- Nice to meet you.
- So you've just moved in, have you?
- Yeah recently.
- Oh, well, good luck.
- Thank you, I think I'm gonna need it.
Would you like to go and get a drink?
- But you've already got one.
- Let's get another.
- All right.
- Okay.
(waves crashing)
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
- One I prepared earlier.
- Thanks.
- No stress.
Tuck in.
Do you want a beer?
- Yeah, sure.
Thank you.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Right, I hope you like pizza.
- Oh, I'm actually a vegan.
- Fuck, I'm sorry, I'll go grab some more.
- No, I'm just, I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
Sorry.
- Good, 'cause I was gonna
grab you some more grass.
- Oh that would've been lovely too.
- Yeah, nice and organic.
- Okay.
- Tuck in.
So where are you from, Eleanor?
- Nowhere in particular.
- Where's nowhere in particular?
- Serial killer city.
Adelaide.
- Right, okay.
So a little like our Broadmeadows.
- Is that bad?
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah.
- Stay away from there.
- Okay, Broadmeadows, I'll remember that.
- You got a job?
- I did this morning.
- Yeah?
- I don't now.
- Oh, what happened?
- It's a, it's a long story.
I won't get into it now,
but I did something that I shouldn't have.
- Oh, that old chestnut, eh?
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
- What about family?
You got anyone around?
- Not here.
Back in Adelaide, yeah, but not here.
- Very cool, I've got (mobile phone rings)
Oh shit, sorry.
- Oh, it's all right.
- Sorry, I've just gotta take this call.
- That's fine.
- Hello.
All right, well whoa, calm down.
I'm in the middle of, yes, all right.
I went and spoke to him and he,
and he said come back tomorrow.
All right?
All right, no, calm down,
I'll see you later, all right?
Fuck.
Sorry about that.
- You've got pizza on your head.
- Pizza on my head?
(mobile phone ringing)
This isn't gonna stop.
Count on all night, so
I'm gonna have to go.
- That's okay.
- Can I give you a lift home?
- No, I'm good.
I think I'll just sit here.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- All right, well I'll leave
you the rest of the pizza.
- Okay.
- Well, um, I had a
really nice time, Eleanor.
- [Eleanor] Yeah, me too.
- Maybe I'll see you around?
- Yeah, I'd like that.
- See you soon.
- See you.
(gentle music)
(waves crashing)
(rhythmic music)
(punches thumping)
Ah!
(breathing heavily)
(sobbing)
(gentle music)
(phone ringing)
Matt.
Hi, sorry, I can't talk right now.
Yeah, I'll call you back.
Okay.
- Is that advice or is that nerves?
- Nerves.
It's not actually mine,
it's my housemate's.
This is his jacket.
- Of course.
- Do you want some?
- What's your poison?
- Usually I just drink
beer, but I don't mind this.
I think it's whiskey.
(laughs)
- Thanks, I get really
nervous too.
- You're welcome.
Yeah, I just, I hate this feeling.
Just anxiety, ugh.
- Have you done much work before this?
- Not like this.
Not any kind of office jobs.
I had a job at a cafe not long ago,
but that didn't even last a day.
I won't get into that, but
yeah, nothing like this before.
That's why I'm so nervous.
'Cause I don't really know how
these sort of interviews go.
- Oh, it kind of depends.
- Yeah.
- I mean, it depends on
what the interview process is.
They ask, well, in the email,
they let us know what they
were really looking for, so.
- Yeah.
I should have brought a resume.
- Oh, these are always optional.
They didn't actually ask us
to bring it.
- Oh really, okay.
- It's just, depending
on what your pitch is.
- Everyone has one.
I'm not gonna get this job.
- I just bring it for a safety blanket.
- Right, I get that, yeah.
- And somebody has a hip flask.
Can I have another hit?
- Yes.
- Eleanor Grey.
- Yeah.
- Zoe Nelson.
- All righty.
All right-a-ru, ladies.
So if you've done your
homework, my name's Neil.
I'm sitting in a daddy chair
'cause I worked for it.
I'm the head honcho.
I'm the man here.
But enough about me,
let's hear a little bit about yourselves.
So where do you come from?
You must be Eleanor.
- No, I'm Zoe.
- Oh, right.
- Eleanor.
- [Neil] Nice, so, okay,
we'll start with you, Eleanor.
Where'd you come from?
- So, I moved here from
Adelaide recently, actually.
- Oh.
Did you say Adelaide?
- Yeah.
- Oh, what a shithole, you poor thing.
That's brutal.
- Yeah.
- Only recently?
- Yeah.
- Oh dang, girl.
Nice.
Okay, what about you?
- North Caulfield.
I'm a local.
- [Neil] Ah, born and raised.
- Yes.
- Brilliant, that's nice.
Okay, so if I were to ask
you, give me one word,
give me one word about yourself,
that best describes you,
what would you say?
- Passionate.
- [Neil] Ooh, I like that.
Nice.
- Empowered.
- Strong, empowered.
Nice.
I like that too.
And passionate.
Good, girls, good.
Let's get to brass tacks here.
As you know, this is,
this is my company now,
but let's say for a second,
this is your company.
You're sitting in this chair.
Profits are down, you
know, people are pissed.
You know, your shares are dropping,
everything's going down the shit,
and you gotta turn things around.
What are you gonna do?
- I'd suggest market research
into other companies.
See what works best for them.
Run an audit of all essential personnel
and begin offering plans specific
to customer requirements.
- That's not bad.
- I don't wanna sound like a
copycat, but funnily enough,
that is exactly what I was going to say.
- But you didn't.
- And continue, continuing on,
if I was going to say
what I was going to say,
I would also look at voluntary redundancy.
- I also kind of said that.
- So your plan is to
fire the entire company.
Is that right?
(mobile phone ringing)
- That's not what I said.
- Bill.
- Do you understand
- No, you're not
interrupting anything.
- what I'm actually saying?
- Yeah, you're saying
what I was saying.
- Well, nothing important
anyway.
- It's all-
- That's not what
I was saying.
(talking over each other)
- Five star resorts.
Yeah, you want one?
Oh, you sick bastard.
Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
Yes, yeah, we're getting a massage.
Happy endings, yeah.
- I'm gonna be honest with you.
In this job, it is actually okay
to have a little bit of a
drink, little bit of a drink.
- It's okay to have a drink.
- Yeah.
- Do you drink?
- I do, brutally honest.
- Do you drink a lot?
- But on your breath-
- Did you drink before this interview?
- I had a drink with you, but
to be honest with you, okay,
you have a strong odour
on your breath, honey.
- Oh, that's not true though.
That's just a blatant lie.
- Man, is water wet?
Speaking of endings, okay ladies,
thanks so much for coming on in.
It's a pleasure meeting you.
We'll be in touch.
Emily, my secretary will
kindly show you ladies out.
- Zoe, Eleanor, was it?
Thanks for your time.
- Thank you, sweetheart.
- We'll show you out.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, of course they bought it.
- Do you want a cigarette?
- Sorry for being such a bitch in there.
- Don't worry about it.
It's like, fuck him and his holiday.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
It's.
I just really needed this job.
- I don't think there's much left.
- It's empty.
- Thanks.
- Fucking hell.
- You all right?
- No.
I really needed this job.
- I'm sure something else will come along.
- Thanks anyway.
(dramatic music)
- I'm good.
- You're a vegan, are you?
You look like you just walked out of
a Brighton pageant show.
Seriously, what are you doing here?
- I just really need a job.
You know, saw this
advertised, so I just took it.
- Nice choice.
- Thanks.
(machine whirring)
- Yeah, 10 years in the job,
I'm still not used to that sound.
- So if you've got no here,
you're between these two,
see what you think.
Yeah, this ones.
- Yeah this one's much.
- Hi.
- Hey, how you doing?
- Yeah, good thanks, I'll just grab this.
- [Assistant] How's your day been?
- Not too bad.
- That's 26.
Just when you're ready.
(machine beeping)
Declined.
You wanna try again?
- Yes, please.
- Yeah.
(machine beeping)
Sorry babe, declined again.
Do you have another card or cash?
- I'm just gonna see what's going on.
Okay.
- Yeah.
- [Manager] What's going on here?
- Declined twice.
- Okay, what kind of card are you using?
Interesting.
Is the wifi connected to this?
- Yes.
- Yes?
Where, where's the signal?
- There.
- Is that it?
(machine beeping)
Sorry.
- Sorry-
- I'm sure we'll work it out.
Technology.
- I don't know what it's
doing, can you come,
you're good with technology.
- Hey Eleanor.
- Hi.
- [Matt] Is there a problem?
- Yeah.
- Is it just this?
- Yeah.
You don't have to do that.
- It's fine.
Yeah, should be good.
Do you want a receipt?
- No.
Thank you.
- No worries.
You were gonna call me back.
- Yeah, sorry, I just,
I've had a bit of a rough time lately.
Yeah.
- If you wanna talk about it,
I'm just gonna finish soon.
Could go across to the pub and, yeah.
- Um, yeah, that'd be great.
- [Matt] Sure?
- Yeah, no I'd like that, yeah.
- Yeah, I'll be, be about 10 minutes.
- Okay.
All right, I'll just.
- See you.
(driving rock music)
This band sucks.
They've got nothing to say.
They're all just fake
and it looks like
they're trying to rip off
the '70s or something.
- This is actually my favourite band.
- You're kidding?
Oh, it's just my opinion, but
I know, probably change that.
- I'm just fucking with you, I'm sorry.
These guys are actually really shit, so.
Cheers.
- Cheers!
I'll drink to that.
Oh.
I was gonna ask, is that guy Roy?
- Yeah.
- Is he still alive?
- Yeah, he actually is.
Surprisingly, yeah.
Yeah, I'm literally as
surprised as you are.
- Yeah.
No way.
- Yeah, there's been a few
times where I've been like, oh!
- Yeah, I thought you
would've had the place
to yourself by now.
- Yeah, oh, that'd be nice.
I'm thinking-
- Beautiful.
- Did you ever find a place?
- Oh yeah, I checked a couple more after
- Yeah.
- Roy's place,
but it was even worse.
- Really?
- I mean, Roy's,
I'm with my parents still
basically, just easier.
- I haven't seen my parents in so long.
- [Matt] Really, why's that?
- Oh, Mom was kind of out
of the picture a while ago.
And then Dad, long story
short, he's in jail.
- Jail?
- Yeah.
He kind of kicked the shit out
of this guy in a parking lot
outside a pub.
And the guy ended up
passing away in hospital.
But, yeah.
(driving rock music continues)
- I'm sorry.
You still looking for work?
- I am actually.
- True.
- Yeah.
- Any luck, or?
- Not yet.
I really just honestly
need something, anything.
- Anything?
- Well, okay, not anything.
- I was gonna say I
could see down my place.
The boss is probably looking.
- Oh really?
- Yeah, there's always
new faces.
Could put a word in, and.
- [Eleanor] I would
really appreciate that.
That would help a lot.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- If you can put up with that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, cool
- Yeah.
- It's not the greatest, but, you know.
- Sorry, I just.
Hi.
Yeah.
Now?
Okay.
Yeah.
All right, I'll see you soon.
Bye.
I'm so sorry, I forgot,
I have to be somewhere.
Feel free to finish the beer.
- Come on, scull.
- No, no, I don't do that.
Yeah, you can.
Let me know about the job thing.
- Yeah.
- You've got my number,
so I'll see you around.
- It was good to see you.
- Yes, yes.
Bye.
(driving rock music continues)
These are cool.
All done.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
- Have a great day.
- Thank you.
- [Man] Is he paying you
to use your equipment?
- It was literally my
first night in Melbourne,
'cause I just, I'd just gotten the place
and I went to have a shower,
went to turn the knob,
nothing fucking came out.
And I was like, oh, well, great.
You know what, that's a really good start.
Just went back into the room,
just sat on the bed in my
towel, had my headphones on,
and then Roy fucking
barges through the door
in the most disgusting
pair of undies I've seen
in my entire life.
They had stains on them, it was gross.
- [Woman] Was he smashed or something?
- Yeah, oh he was
- Always.
- fucked off his face.
And he just, he wouldn't get the fuck out.
I was like, "Get the fuck
out, get the fuck out."
Threw a fucking pillow at him.
And he was, oh no, he
was just really drunk.
Maybe he didn't realise, like I was-
- Come on.
- There, I-
- He didn't realise?
- I don't know,
he was so drunk.
- Really drunk.
- He's always really drunk,
but you don't just forget
someone's in your house.
- Yeah, I suppose.
Anyway, I mean, we're good now.
- Yeah.
- I know how to handle him.
So it was just a really
weird welcome to Melbourne.
Kind of made me think twice
about it, but I dunno,
it's all good now.
Oh, and then you were there the next day
and you helped me pick
him up off the floor.
- I thought he was dead.
- Yeah, he looked dead.
He really looked dead.
- Literally.
- He always looks dead.
- Do you live there too?
- I nearly did.
I was inspecting the room and
that's where we met, and then.
- Yeah, he wanted, he wanted
the place, but I got it.
- Oh.
- Yeah, he showed up
seeing if he got the place,
but I answered the door
and I was like, oh, sorry.
Little bit awkward.
- So sweet.
- [Woman] So does that
mean you're still looking
for a place?
- I guess I am.
- 'Cause I have a spare room.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I'm with my parents, but
yeah, it'd be good to.
- It's only 10 minutes down the road.
- Close.
- Yeah.
- Shots.
- No!
- Tequila?
- Tequila.
- Tequila, yes.
- Find something else.
Don't wanna do shots.
- I am, I need a room too.
- You already have a room.
- Sorry man.
- Real subtle.
- Take your time, or a water.
- You don't look great.
I think you need something to eat.
- [Woman] Okay, you need a shot.
- Oh, I don't know if he does.
- Oh, he does not need a shot.
- Thank you.
- And for you-
- Thanks, babe.
Okay.
A toast to.
- To Roy!
- To Roy.
And his underwear.
- Of course.
- Cheers.
- I hate shots, I don't know why I do it.
Why do you pressure me into doing it?
- Another round?
- No.
- Another round.
- No, no, no, fuck, no.
(talking over each other)
I'm just going to get
some beer, all right.
- So is she seeing anyone?
Has she met anyone?
- Well, she's met someone, but, you know,
she's sometimes a bit
blind and naive to things.
- [Woman] Oh, things.
- How many rooms is it?
- There's three.
- Okay, that sounds good.
- You can have your choice of room.
- Yeah, I'll come check it for sure.
- Are you moving in together now?
- No.
- Just offering a room.
- Cool.
- What would you, do you
wanna go and explore the,
this new one?
Get some fresh air.
- Yeah.
Yeah, okay, yeah, I
could use some fresh air.
Actually, I know a really good place.
Okay.
We're just going to pop out for a bit.
- You're leaving.
- I'll be back.
- We'll be back.
- Just keep my shots.
- Gonna get another round.
- Later.
- Give her the goods, Matty!
- Ew!
Why?
- Oh, I really should
not have had that shot.
I don't do tequila well.
- I don't mind it.
It wakes me up.
- I dare you to climb that pole.
- That one?
- All the way to the top.
Yeah.
(gentle music)
No, too hard for you.
I don't think I can do
it, so I don't know why
I asked you to.
- That was terrible.
- I don't think I.
- It's hard!
- It is.
Okay, fine, whatever, it's hard.
No, no, no, no, no.
(gentle music continues)
That's high.
- Tell me about it.
- I think I should probably go.
- Sure you don't wanna stay?
Stay with me.
(gentle music continues)
- Not tonight.
I'll see you around.
(techno music)
(knocking at door)
Hey.
- What the fuck are you doing here?
- I thought we were gonna hang out today.
- [Woman] Who is it?
- Who's that?
- My wife, okay.
Now get lost.
- [Roy] Come on, Eleanor.
- I'm trying.
- What you doing?
- I don't know how to turn it on.
- Turn on.
Just, it's, that button there.
Just there.
- Which one?
- That.
- Which one?
- Those wires there.
Put that one into that, that slot thing.
- My God, which wire.
- Whatever.
I don't know, like.
- Where did you even get this?
- Off a nature strip.
- Well, that's why it's
not fucking working.
- No, people don't throw away
perfectly good electronic equipment, okay.
It's just, it's
old-fashioned, it's outdated.
- It's not working.
I don't know how to, I
don't know how it works.
- That, just.
- What?
- Oh, this one here.
- You fucking do it.
- Yeah, there you go.
Problem solved.
Take a seat.
Check this out.
I've been hanging to see this show.
- Get this shit
out of my way.
- Wasn't hard, was it?
- Oh, look at you.
- Can you not?
- Halfway.
- Give me a bit of space.
- Halfway is halfway.
- Yeah, you're on the line.
- Yeah, that's what the line's for.
- Whatever.
- Okay, cool.
(laughing)
(gentle music)
I know, right?
- This is what you wanted me to see?
- Yeah.
I've heard of the show.
It's, well, I won't say
brutal, but it's educational.
- Why?
- Did you know that you could do that?
- Not until now.
- Right.
Okay.
- I, I, I don't even know
what to make of this.
- Well, some people like it.
That, that's, that's a thing, I know.
- I don't, I don't wanna watch this.
This is a bit, a bit weird.
- No, just watch it anyway, 'cause-
- Why?
- 'Cause.
- What the hell do I
have to learn from this?
- I don't know, it's
different, it's peculiar.
- It's different, that's for sure.
- It's odd, it's, um.
- Well, what the fuck is that?
- Yeah.
Dunno about that bit.
That's big.
It's pretty big, actually.
That's, whoa.
- Oh.
- I didn't even know they came that big.
- Oh, I can't, okay.
- No, no, no, no, no,
it's good.
- I cannot look at that.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
What?
- How do you even know about this?
- I, I went to a show where this was like,
well this, or similar.
Same sort of thing.
That was part of the act.
- What, what do you mean
a show, like a live show?
- Yeah, I didn't go to the show.
Like, not something I would go to.
- Okay.
- I was in, I don't
even know where it was.
It was, it was like Eastern
Europe or something.
Who knows?
Ukraine, Czech, I can't even remember.
But it was, it was, it
was like a cabaret show.
Like, like you book, you know
how you, you get, you know,
dinner and a dance type thing.
I know, right?
Yeah, seriously, trust me.
No, seriously, trust me.
- I don't believe that.
- It's true, it's true.
So how they used to do it was, well,
they probably still do do it,
is that you'd book, buy it,
get your ticket, you go
there, you get a meal.
Normally not bad tucker
and then-
- Right.
- Yeah, yeah.
And they'd have a band playing
and then people would get
up and dance and, yeah.
So normal sort of stuff, yeah.
What, you've never been
to a show where like,
like cabaret where?
Yeah.
- Not like this.
- No, I know.
And so then they'd get the-
- I don't wanna see that
live, are you kidding?
- Yeah, it was later in the night.
And so they'd get the, like
the blue comedian to come on,
and that was my job.
And I'd come on and I'd
tell a few raunchy jokes
and stuff like that, yeah.
And then after me, and
seriously, people are still,
the tables are full,
people are still there,
and stuff like that would go on.
- They are weird people.
- I didn't get it myself.
Like I've gotta be honest.
- Good.
- Like, like, like
I'm looking at it going,
oh, and then I went,
oh.
- Oh God.
- Whoa!
- How could you
watch this live?
- It's like a restaurant-
- And eat at the same time.
- Oh, well, it's after dinner.
It's like, like an aperitif.
- Well, they can still come back up.
- Well, when they did
that bit there, that bit,
see how there's like two-
- That bit?
- Yeah, with the two of them in there.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
That probably rattled a few people.
It, that was too much for me.
I was done at that point, so.
Yeah, I know.
I know, right?
- That's really fucked up.
- Yeah.
(knocking at door)
- Who's that?
- I dunno.
- Okay, well.
- Just leave it on because after this-
- Well, you don't even
know who's at the door.
- Don't worry about it.
It's cool.
After this, what, what happens
next, if it's the same act,
is absolutely-
- More, more of this?
- It's mental.
The bit, see what they're doing there?
- Yeah.
- They do it the other way around.
- What?
- Yeah, I know!
Hang on, stay there.
- Okay.
Oh no.
- I need some gear.
- Yeah okay, we can do that.
Come in.
Wait in the living room.
Yeah, just wait in the living room.
- Want some?
- I'm good thanks.
(Charlie sighs)
(groaning from TV)
- [Roy] Still here?
- Yeah mate, I was-
- Thank you.
- Just, uh, just leaving.
Yeah.
All right, thanks for the smoke.
- That's good, off you go.
- Yeah, I'll see you around.
- See yourself out.
What?
- He's fine, he's fine.
He's just really clumsy.
(screaming)
- Eleanor!
Yeah!
- Happy birthday.
- Hi Roy.
- Hello Leanne.
How are you, my dear?
- Let's get a drink!
Shots!
- Bring shots ahoy, let's go!
Woo!
What are you doing?
- Tequila.
- Tequila,
obviously tequila, let's go.
Bartend, let's give us some tequila.
To you.
Let's go.
- Woo!
- Again.
- No no.
- You did that last one
when we're here.
What's going on?
Let's go, come on.
Oh, I think you need a handicap.
- Come on, mate.
- Okay, all right.
Good.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
Dead heat.
Dead heat.
That was fair, oh look at you.
- Come on.
- Going down
to your stomach.
- Come on!
- More.
Hey-
- Guys!
- Hey, pace yourself.
Come on, let's get through this.
One more, one more,
she's right, she's right.
Who am I to say, birthday?
- Damn straight.
- I know, right.
- Like you're even here.
No, I'm kidding.
- Sure, no worries.
Barkeep, come on, let's go.
- Another round, come on!
- Let's go, come on.
- It's my birthday!
- What you doing?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- Cheers.
- To you.
- To me.
- Happy birthday young lady.
- I just wanna thank you all so much
for coming to my birthday, and, you know,
let's just get fucked up!
Woo!
(cheering)
- What do you mean?
Hey, hey.
- Roy.
- Just, Lauren.
Eh, Leanne.
I just want to say, here's
the thing, everybody.
- You.
- No, no.
I just wanna say to everybody here.
(retching)
- Get the fuck out!
Get him out of here.
(shouting over each other)
What the fuck?
- How you feeling, brother?
- It's not fucking funny.
- Oh my God!
- Just go back to the party.
Just leave me alone, okay.
Get it in your fucking head
this is never going to happen.
(knocking at door)
- Eleanor Grey?
- Yes.
- Good morning.
- Morning.
- We've got Roy here.
He couldn't pay his tab last night.
- Okay.
- So we picked him up.
Now you can pay the tab and
we can leave him here with you
or we can take him with us.
- No, that's fine, I'll take over.
- Go on, mate.
- Thank you.
- You have a good day.
- Thanks, you too.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Is that just alcohol,
that's two fucking grand.
Do you fucking expect me
to actually pay for this?
Oi, open the fucking door!
I'm not here to look after you.
Fuck!
(waves crashing)
(knocking at door)
Is she here?
- No, but you can't come in, Eleanor.
I don't know what's going
on here, but you can't,
whoa, whoa, whoa, no.
Okay, no.
Let's just talk about this.
(gentle music)
I'm glad you're here.
- Me too.
- I hope you know how I feel now.
(gentle music continues)
Whoa.
What are you doing?
- Hey.
What?
- What are you doing?
- I work here.
- Yeah, right, okay.
You must have me confused for someone
'cause I don't know you.
Okay, so.
Sorry, shall we go?
(gentle music)
(Eleanor sobs)
- Roy?
Look, I'm sorry for pressuring
you to come the other night.
I really, I shouldn't have done it.
Hey look.
I've actually decided that
I need to leave Melbourne.
So if I could come in and
just talk to you about it.
Roy?
Oi.
You were my only friend.
(birds chirping)
- This is for you.
There was one for his
wife and his kids as well.
- Do you have a light?
- No, sorry.
- It's okay.
- Shouldn't, shouldn't really smoke.
- You ever seen a dead body?
- No.
I mean, not until now.
To tell you the truth,
this is actually my third day on the job.
- That's rough.
- Yeah, it's pretty rough.
I doubt it gets any easier.
Anyway, you shouldn't really stay here.
It's not, it's not safe.
Hopefully there's
somewhere safe you can go.
I mean, the neighbours are pretty nice.
Maybe you can stay with them.
- No, I can't stay with the neighbours.
- Why's that?
It's all right, it's okay.
Still, you should find somewhere safe.
- Yeah.
- And you know how to
contact us if you need to.
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, there's not much
else more we can really say.
(waves crashing)
(waves continue crashing)
(gentle music)
(rhythmic music)
(rhythmic music continues)
(rhythmic music continues)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)