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Show 126 else got bored. Some people said they were ready to call it a night and left. By the end of the movie, it was Blake, Jen, Scott, and Ariel who remained sitting on his couch and floor with half-eaten bowls of pasta at their feet. Maybe it feels like waking up in an irrigation ditch in a panic not knowing where you are. After the drownings, the cave was sealed over with reinforced concrete. People used it as a grave for a while, especially for Blake who was cremated and had no marker in a cemetery. The cement was covered in goodbye messages and emblems and flowers for two weeks until it was cemented over again for reasons unspecified by the city. Maybe they wanted erasure. Maybe they just wanted to be certain. I am haunted by the water and I want it back in my body. A lot of reporting on the drowning focused on how the kids were where they shouldn't have been. I hate that, but since I miss them I agree, to some extent-I'm not sure what was motivating Ariel to go back to the place that made her so sick almost three months before, or what told Mormon Scott he should be out with a bunch of tattooed kids after midnight. But for Blake, at least, I think it was just the gravity of his body and movements that pulled him toward trains and water and abandoned buildings. |