Nouvelle-Zélande / 2024 / Fiction / 15’0”I2502458
[EN] Night Waves is about a man, Nero, who in his last desperate moments decides to call the girl on the radio. It’s 3am and Regina is hosting the graveyard shift on the local student radio station. When Nero calls in she is surprised, as people never call this late, but she has no idea the emotional limits this total stranger is about to push her to. We discover that Nero is bleeding out and is becoming increasingly delirious. Regina’s resilience is tested when Nero suddenly yells out in agony, obviously hurt, his pain causing him to make aggressive and abusive remarks. He won’t accept Regina’s offers to help. In the end Nero confesses he had no else to call. The one person in his life he respects, his daughter Stacey, no longer talks to him. With his last words he apologises to Stacey on air, gaining some kind of absolution before breathing his last breath. Regina takes this lesson, and in the finishing shots of the film we see her knocking on her father’s door, with whom she too happens to be estranged.
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