Just Dont Get It

This is pretty much what the film is about. I haven't included the hospital janitor as nobody seems to really know who/what he was....

Here are the main characters...

Emilia - an art student who lives in London
Milo - a heartbroken young man who was recently left standing at the alter
Esser - a father searching for his ex-military son whom we learn was committed to a hospital (mental institution?) following a traumatic tour of Basra
Preest - a vigilante searching for a high ranking man known as 'The Individual' in a futuristic city following the disappearance or murder of a young girl.


Here is why they are in the film....

Emilia is undertaking a college art project. She films herself attempting suicide but always calls the emergency services beforehand and secretly films the outcome. Her college tutor dismisses the project as sick and briefly mentions she concentrate on an earlier project where she simply follows and films strangers around London.

One 'stranger' she was filming is a young man called Milo. However after a period of time he became aware of Emilia's secret filming. No confrontation between the two is hinted at in the film. Milo we learn was recently left standing at the alter when his fiancé backed out of their wedding. However since that episode Milo has noticed that his childhood sweetheart, Sally is in town and he wants to rekindle their romance. Sally is the spitting image of Emilia, the art student. He tracks Sally down to a school where she is working as a teacher and arranges a date at a nearby Cafe. He casually tells his mother of this and after a conversation between the two we learn, according to Milo's mother, Sally doesn't actually exist. She was an imaginary friend Milo conjured after a traumatic childhood experience, the death of his father. As Milo was recently left standing at the alter of his proposed wedding, Sally re-enters his freshly traumatised mind. As for her physical similarity to Emilia, this is because Milo randomly noticed her around London during her 'stranger' art project. Milo argues with his mother and refuses to accept Sally doesn't exist.

Esser is a man in his late fifties/early sixties. He is searching throughout London following the escape from a hospital/institution of his mentally unstable son, David, who was traumatised during a tour of Basra. David attacks two and kills one nurse in the hospital he escaped from. We learn that Esser is separated from his wife and had a daughter who died due to an "accident" in her early youth. David was particularly traumatised by this and according to a hospital psychiatric doctor mistakenly blames his father for her death owing to his mental illness.

Preest is a masked vigilante living in a futuristic city governed by various religions. He is seeking the leader of a particular faith, a man known as 'The Individual' for his part in the disappearance or death of a young pre-adolescent girl.

And this is how they are all linked together....

David is hiding out in an abandoned apartment. The apartment is situated one floor above Emilia's. David's father, Esser, tracks his son down to this address, given to him by a former soldier, Bill, who served with his son in the army. The address was given to Bill by David knowing his father would be looking for him, so he could lure him into a trap where he will get revenge for the death of his Sister. When Esser arrives at the apartment building he attempts to speak to David through the intercom but due to poor wiring, he gets through to Emilia's apartment by mistake and tells Emilia, whom he mistakenly assumes may know David, that he will be waiting in a cafe across the street. David from upstairs hears the buzzer ring in Emilia's apartment and knocks on her door telling her he was expecting a call at the specific time she received one and wondered if his caller may have gotten through to Emilia by mistake. She mentions that a man called looking for a David and is waiting across the street in a cafe. David forces his way in knocking Emilia to the ground and sits by the window pointing a sniper rifle at his father, Esser who is across the street sitting in the cafe by the window.

Also in the same cafe is Milo who previously arranged a date with his childhood sweetheart, Sally. Milo has been agonising over the revelation that Sally does not exist and gradually comes to realise this following their conversation in the cafe when she shows up. (Of course, she doesn't really turn up - Milo is sitting at a table talking to himself much to the puzzlement of the other diners). As Milo stands up to leave David takes a shot from the apartment window across the street hitting Milo in the arm. Esser rushes to Milo to see if he is alright and notices his son in the window across the street. David has him in his sight but doesn't pull the trigger. He is interrupted by Emilia who is holding a lighter to a leaking gas pipe. She threatens to kill herself and David and tells him he wouldn't have broken in if he knew who she really was (an art student who happens to have suicidal tendencies).

David, like Milo suddenly has a moment of clarity. We the viewers learn that the masked vigilante seen throughout the film, Preest, is actually David. But Preest is a wild figment of David's mentally unstable imagination. And in this imagination, David's father Esser, is the person Preest is tracking (The Individual) in relation to the disappearance/murder of a young girl. The young girl doesn't exist either of course. She is, in reality the sister David lost whom he blames his father for.

In the immediate aftermath of David's realisation he takes the lighter from Emilia and tells her to get out of the building. She runs out the door and the building suddenly explodes. David has killed himself knowing that his life is not worth living. He has lost his sister, murdered a hospital employee and will probably spend the rest of his life in jail or a secure psychiatric unit. Emilia emerges onto the street and is met my Milo. Milo recognises her as being virtually identical to his imaginary sweetheart, Sally. Emilia is concerned for him as he has just been shot. Fate it seems has taken its course in bringing her to him.