Scenes from a Marin County Video store

Interior, day. A standard video store in an affluent California suburb. CUSTOMERS mill about perusing videos. A mindless pop-culture bubblegum action movie is playing in the background on the TV mounted near the ceiling in the corner, which the CLERKS are absentmindedly watching. Two early teenage girls, perhaps 13 are walking through the aisles, considering movies.

GIRL 1

OmiGod. Atonement. That movie is SO boring!


GIRL2

Why is it boring?

GIRL 1

Well my parents thought it was AMAZING. They were like, "This is so good!"

GIRL2

Well why didn't you like it?

GIRL 1

OmiGod. Okay. So in part of the movie, she's like 9, and then she's like 13, and then she's like 18, and then like 25 and then old, like 34.

GIRL2

Yeah...

GIRL 1

And she had, like, the SAME haircut through the whole movie.

GIRL2

Wow.

GIRL 1

As if you'd have the same hair at 34 that you had when you were 9. So unbelievable.