Rabbit Trap (2025) Movie Script

I'm not going to get you.
Your shadow has been gifted many names.
Coblin, Demon, Prairie.
It is your forgotten child.
But nature will not abandon her children.
She gifts the music you'd only dream.
You can hear this music if you wish,
but you must listen to the music.
You can hear this music if you wish, but you must listen beyond fear, beyond understanding,
beyond shame.
Listen to the soil.
Go down into the dark and listen.
For the Earth is a body, and the body is where your secrets live.
We've got to sort this power out. It is a fucking nightmare.
These old houses weren't built with electricity in mind.
Maybe I can set up a back-up generator.
Er...
Yeah, but how noisy will that be?
The point.
I feel like every time I'm getting somewhere that's when the power decides to shit itself.
How about yesterday?
You were pulling for hours.
Yeah, but it was all rubbish.
Oh.
I'm a hack.
You...
I'm not a hack.
Maybe I should go back to London for a few weeks and finish the record there.
Hey, how's it going?
Mmm...
How well?
Have you been here?
No, no, I just...
Look!
I know something that might change you up.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
Yeah, let me come in.
Open up your mind.
And see you now.
Ha!
Ah!
Good one.
Mmm.
Oh!
Not young.
He can't!
I know something.
Eyes and hands.
With your eyes, you enter the world.
And when you ask.
The world enters you.
Eyes still, but you.
Eyes still, but you.
Eyes still, but you.
Eyes still, but you.
Eyes still, but you.
You only nine minutes again.
Sorry.
Is it bad?
Yeah.
I think you should listen, Daz. It's...
It's awful.
You recorded me.
Yeah.
Maybe if you heard yourself you might remember something.
Why would I want to do that?
You want to use this on a track? Is that what's going on?
No.
Because you can't if you want.
Right.
It's like the moment.
You're okay?
Can you stop asking me if that's okay? It's really boring.
Sorry.
Don't you ever just want it to solve.
It doesn't melt into the earth.
That's what he said.
It's mine.
No.
Who is this?
Who is speaking?
Buried in the garden beneath the blanket of sleep.
Listen.
Listen.
Listen.
No, please.
The oldest of the gods,
the whole language,
before flesh,
before name.
She was here.
You are his ideas.
You will have his ideas.
Your sex is his ears.
Who is this?
Who is speaking?
Hey!
Hey!
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
I'm sorry.
Are you okay?
Oh.
Did I hurt you?
I'm sorry.
Um...
Why were you watching my house?
What's your name?
Dossie.
How about you?
You said our house.
Who else lives there?
My wife.
She's called Daphne.
But you have no children.
No, not yet.
I followed the music.
You could hear that.
Oh, yes.
I was having a problem with you.
Sorry about that.
We only moved in a few months ago
and didn't think there was anyone from ours.
That's what times you've apologized already.
Um...
Well, uh...
I best be off.
I'm really sorry about, you know, I've done all the times.
Perhaps you thought I was a bit over like I mean, to burden you.
Uh...
Maybe I did.
You're not, are you?
I'm going to.
Yeah.
No.
Never.
Amanda.
Is that so?
Do you want to see?
Uh...
What do you mean?
I'll show you.
You like it.
You're not scared, Obny, are you?
No, it's just, um...
I should be getting back, you know.
It's a...
Strange apologetic man appears in the valley.
I'd be tackling innocent children at will.
If anything, I should be afraid of you.
What do you think?
What do you think?
I should actually catch roads for this.
Yeah, I'm lucky.
Or if they're all lucky.
After you've caught them, then what?
I eat them, of course.
Don't you catch your own food?
Show me how this trap appeals, Rose.
If you want to trap a rabbit or any creature,
you need to know what it's hungry for.
And that's what you offer.
There's a gift.
And you have to mean it.
Then you just wait for the rabbit to be hungry and he traps himself.
See?
The rabbit bounces along.
Did lead, did lead, did.
Smells the bait.
It's tummy rumbles, creeps onto here,
but when he trips this neither.
They're special because they move between moves.
But they live underground.
And burrows and moorings in the dark places.
They come up and they go down with the sun.
There's some messages between here and the underworld.
And if you catch your rabbit, you catch the message it's carrying.
What are they saying?
I'm sure I should tell you.
Are I telling you one?
What the truth is most rapid, say the same thing.
There's a lot of property going green, me.
Sorry. Sorry to wake you.
I'm going back.
This is one of our neighbours.
In by with flowers and eggs this morning isn't it, lovely.
Actually me and Darcy are already friends.
Are you?
Oh, yes.
We met yesterday.
We bumped into each other.
Didn't we?
Great.
Me and Tanya.
I best be off.
Do you want to be in the way?
Not since.
Thank you.
I'm touched, you know.
Thank you.
You touched, you know.
Erm, no.
Damn.
I didn't want that happened.
Just want to see what you look like.
In 50 years.
Mm-hmm.
Fine.
Yeah.
Happy now.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
You want me to take a field recording and kind of kid one to do that?
Yeah, he thinks so cool.
He does.
That's all he wants you to teach him.
So he can be around you.
He can be a school.
Or a friend or a fun uncle.
Mm-hmm.
He's a fun uncle.
Yeah.
Maybe good for you.
Mm-hmm.
Maybe.
Why then?
What did I do?
I'm sorry, but I really need to F##k.
Oh, no.
Suppressive?
Yeah.
Be careful.
Yeah.
It's slippery.
Are you hurt?
Just my bride.
If that's me, pay me.
What was that?
That's me.
Does she pay me?
Can't really be famous with her kind of music.
She's more influential, I guess.
I like that.
It's fitting through, yeah.
Recording that playback head.
Yeah.
Like that.
I don't know.
You pull that very tight.
Make sure it's secure.
Ah!
What happens when it's sound days?
Where does it go?
I think it's sound as though for a life to begin with.
It's the vibration of the vent.
The invisible shadow of an energy exchange.
Sound is a memory.
Carved into the air.
It's a ghost.
It's time.
Scared.
Lost.
Creature.
Desperate for someone to hide.
You're funny for a moment.
Fruit fades away.
Come on, you hear a sound.
You become its home.
Your body is the house you want.
Come here.
That sound was wrong, sir.
Very impressive.
That was great.
Hey!
Fucking hell!
I caught it for you, I did.
Best rabbit in the hall woods.
It's yours now.
Oh!
I almost forgot.
Yeah.
I picked Gorse Blossen.
Stuff from out front.
Yes.
You can make tea with it.
You like it.
That is delicious.
I knew you'd like it.
And it's good for you.
It keeps away the tunnel of tag.
You want?
The tunnel of tag?
They can't stand this stuff.
That's probably why there's so much of it around your house.
We've lived here before, Mr. Fudd troubles with them.
There's too much, though.
You should burn it back.
They can help if you'd like.
Is that a kind of animal?
No, they're not animals.
They're the old ones.
There aren't many left, but they're still around if you know where to look.
If you know where to listen.
But not to worry.
If you stay out of there where they'll stay out of yours, probably.
Did you know a lot about local superstition?
I know about nature.
That's all.
Sorry, yeah, that's what I meant.
You show us.
Why not?
There is a veil.
Between this world.
And fairy.
There are ways to cross this veil.
To find the truth that lives there.
Music.
Music.
Those dogs.
Love.
Come on.
Yeah.
Sorry.
If you let the fairies in, they will guide you.
To the place you fear.
To the family you need.
Home.
Before.
You know what I have.
Stop.
Stop.
This is a fairy soup.
You mustn't enter.
I had a brother.
A long time ago.
When he was a baby,
he crawled into a fairy circle.
After that he grew faster than he should have.
He planted up like a toad.
He did.
A few days later he was gone.
Taking with the tall stick.
We never saw him again.
No.
He took him from the...
To Alan.
What's unknown?
The deep.
You know woman?
Very little.
It's...
Hard to understand.
Difficult things that happen to us so long.
Our brains create stories to make sense of them.
But they're just stories.
And we have to learn to...
To let go of them.
What?
What?
It's great.
I can say no.
That's you.
Yeah.
Reversion of me.
No.
That's the reunion.
You're beautiful.
What I used to dress like that during live shows.
Helps with the stage for it.
Not that we really do live shows anymore.
So it was time to stop touring for a while,
put down some roots, get boring.
You're one of the wild gods.
It must never be caught.
Never domesticated.
You drew precious for that.
You think so?
You're the most wonderful person I have ever met.
In my next life I want to be you.
Why don't you have children?
Are we supposed to?
Yes.
You go on to...
Hold still.
Dorssie is...
tainted.
What do you say now?
That's what he believes.
Do you tell you that?
Do you tell you that?
Just a feeling.
You make a wonderful mother.
I know you would.
It's a really nice thing to say.
It's true, girl.
Sorry.
You can pretend to be my mum if you think.
You can use grit.
Well, when your mum gets jealous if I saw you away,
she died a long time ago so she won't mind.
She'd be happy.
Sorry.
It's been so long that I don't remember her face anymore.
I still remember her voice.
It was in a little place she sang when I was young.
You are young.
I'm a children on the inside.
Yeah, I...
I suspect you won't be.
Would you like to hear it?
In a little place.
It sounds like a spell.
So what is it?
You said I was welcome any time.
We did, but it was a figurist speech.
So it doesn't mean anything?
I am not a singing.
It will definitely end you if you want to see me.
I know she would.
It definitely means what she says.
Definitely would love to see you if she would.
It's hope that I just...
Not right now, okay?
You wasted it.
Oh no.
You can figure out how to skin the damn thing and then time went away from me.
So you left, it's a rod.
I killed that rabbit.
I took away his life and gave it to you.
You've got no respect.
You met.
The flies have it.
Okay.
Good luck in that.
Can you see your upside?
Hey.
I wanted to show you something.
For your music.
A special place with a special sound I wanted to take you in.
You've both been so kind to me.
Please don't send me away.
I'm not sending you away. Why would we do that?
Because I don't belong here.
Let me get changed real quick and then you can take me to that special place.
Okay.
How's that sound?
The rabbit.
When the rabbit.
Hello?
What is that??
It'll be there now in a minute.
This way. Come on.
How did we...
Where are we? Very close now.
They're waiting for us. Who? Who's waiting for us?
The time of the tag.
This is fair garden.
Come along.
The widows of the wood.
A beautiful...
I knew you'd think so.
I can ask them to sing for us if you'd like.
What do you mean by that?
Just say please in our last place.
Please.
Hasika Kasia.
Hasika Kasia.
Hasika Kasia.
Dothi.
Listen.
Has left inside him.
And what did they...
What was it there all along?
You're rotting.
And she's rotting with you.
It'll want it to spread to you.
Stay with me.
Here beneath the blankets of shadow and soil and secret.
You've fallen out.
Is it right?
You're already falling.
Just fall and move.
Dorssie!!!
MAM, MAM what's wrong?
Don't call me then.
Why not?
Um...
i'm sorry
Oh!
Oh, fuck!
I knew you'd lose your way without me.
You scared me?
I'm not scary, am I?
Do you have something you'd like to ask me?
Can you show me the way home?
What's the magic word?
Please.
of course.
That's what family's full.
The water is still warm if you want the bath too.
You should go before it gets too dark.
I can't believe until the last he gets home.
Dad's a dad, I don't need you to.
Can I have something to eat before I go?
Please, please, please, can you go home?
I'm hungry.
Why won't you look at me?
Are you mad at me? Are you scared of me?
No.
So feed me.
I'm going to get a kiss good night.
Good night, ma'am.
We don't know how you...
We just need you to come.
Okay?
This is my home.
No, no, no, it's not.
Come on.
You need to leave.
My family, see you ghost me, you fate me, you fate me.
We don't even know you're doing.
You bet me, I mean anything you want.
You bet I'd be yours.
Just name me.
Name me.
And I want to keep them in the name in case that made them real.
I did everything I could to forget but my...
My body remembered.
You know, I asked if I ever wanted to.
Now I'm into the earth.
Every fucking day.
He's burning the course.
He's letting them in.
Are you?
Mam!
Mam!
I had a bad dream.
You did not mean.
You sent me away.
Don't !!!.
I want you.
When you're freezing, sorry.
I can go.
Don't better!!!.
If you want to crack a rabbit or any creature, you need to know what it's hungry for.
And that's what you offer.
It's a gift.
And you have to mean it.
I'm afraid.
To the moment of our own.
To the moment of our own.
I'm afraid.
That you may say.
What do you like best about me?
I like everything about you.
I wish I could be free.
Now the sea gains you say.
But my heart tells me.
Don't give.
I'm afraid.
And you may say goodbye.
I'll stand here.
Being, being, burning blue.
Can't you see.
I want to crack you.
I'm afraid.
Don't you like to hear a story?
Tell me, sleep.
Yes.
I was once a rabbit.
And I was afraid of the dog.
And that's a very inconvenient thing for a rabbit to be frightened of.
Because as we all know,
rabbits are supposed to live underground.
Why was the rabbit afraid of the dog?
Why do you think you're afraid?
Maybe because he looked empty.
And he was scared to be alone.
I didn't know what to get me to.
But luckily, this rabbit had a wise old friend.
The bat.
And you know what she told him?
She said, my dear rabbit,
you need not be afraid of the dog because there is no such thing.
Not for those who learn to see.
When they're in.
And so,
she led him to be a this.
And they close their eyes.
And they listen.
He had his mother's voice coming from the deep.
From within the earth.
But only where it was taught the wet light had never been.
A place before light.
A wild place of pure sound.
And this is what she said to my son.
The rabbit that was afraid of the dog.
Listen, my love.
Listen to my voice and know that it is mine.
It is time to return home.
And then the language of silence.
If it would bring you peace.
Come down and rest with me.
We'll let our bodies sleep.
And return to the silence.
Our flesh will crumble into the soil.
And our secrets will melt together.
And then if we wish.
Over time,
we will be reborn as one creature.
A mushroom.
An econ or hawk.
Or human.
Very human.
It won't matter because we'll be together.
One creature.
Knowing it's all fully.
Hearing through the darkness.
Rabbit.
He's still afraid of the dog.
Yes.
Will you join me anyway?
I don't have the strength to say these things in person.
Not yet.
So, I recorded them.
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