This is the catalyst that turns david totally over the edge, he meets a very cute girl in a record store and makes small talk about the jeff buckley or van morrison record shes looking at, he walks her home and there appears to be a genuine connection, david is shown laying on his bed with a grin on his face, he feels like hes in love.
some time in the movie passes and it almost becomes a love story. every menial task david fulfilled earlier is now done with a invigorating feeling, rich with life. Theyve been on a date, david has really put his best self on dissplay. and he almost thinks its fate. they have a lot in common and the night ends with her briefly kissing david.
at some point before work david texts her. and goes about his day, he feels great and is shining with a radiant happiness. He buys her flowers. he checks his phone afterwards and has had no reply. he gets a text later than night saying 'sorry my grandma was over, she has cancer' she is shown typing this then throwing her phone somewhere, aabout 3 or 4 other hipster artsy girls are all around listening to some obscure hipster psychedelic crap and all smoking joints; the girl who ***** her in the next seen is shown trying to crush pills into powder so she can sniff them.
In the morning he tries to call her and walks to her house with the flowers. the scenes now are grim and lifeless in comparison to before. he texts her whilst outside her house asking if he should come over or if she wanted to do anything, the scene then jumps to her under the covers with another pretty girl and they are tribbing hard and almost violently, she is on top and she notices her phone vibrate on the side of the bed. she checks it and sees the message and quickly responds 'sorry i have a cold. cant come out' while her lover kisses her stomach passionately; then the scene cuts to david standing outside her house and hes walking home. hes unaware of what is happening but senses something is wrong. later that night, or later in the week, david asks her if she is feeing better and she again lies, davids face is shown and at first he is semi happy when he sees her replying, but his face turns to one of brokenness when he reads what she has said. He then asks her if anything else was wrong/hsnt heard from her in a while, to which she responds that 'no' and she is not too well and would appreciate it if he gave her some space and that he didnt have to worry so mucch. He looks at this and is a bit taken back and says 'ok sorry'
in the same night, or it is assumed, david is alone in his room and looks extremely weary, reminded of how what he has can so easily go, he then puts his coat on and leaves to got the pub. At the pub he goes to a stool when his eye is caught by what looks like the girl dancing drunk and being stupid with a couple other girls and ahandsome effeminate looking guy, who appears to be very into her, and david just watches in awe, the bartender notices him staring while washing a glass and asks him if he can be helped, david just looks on gobsmacked, the effeminate guy looks like he isnt drunk but just acting drunk and stoops down to her and they kiss passionately and drunkly. at this point david starts to step in. he is both shocked and incredibly angry, she jumps around is scared a little at first by david wtinessing it, but then drunkly laughs in his face. David has this forsaken and tortured look in his eyes and begins to step back then she rushes in saying 'oh, its not like that' finding the whole thing funny but trying to be serious, david looks at her in disgust and says 'its not?" then looks at the effeminate guy for a second who appears to be intimidated by david, 'hes gay' she says. at this point the bartender had caught on and awkwardly tries to ignore the situation. david simply starts walking out, in utter disbelief of what hes just seen, she tries to grab his arm but he aggressively shoves it away and walks out of the bar, head slumped.
this marks the final straw in the coffin for a happy life for david. he dies at this point and for the rest of the story appears to be a different person
