Plot
When LLOYD, a photographer slowly dying of a brain tumor, realises the growth killing him is breathing life into the recently dead, he uses his camera lens as the conduit to reanimation. After discovering a disturbing snuff film of a beautiful naked woman being tortured and murdered, he is compelled to bring her back to life. Enchanted by her grace and charm he resurrects her night after night and gradually falls in love. However, each night Lloyd also unwittingly resurrects her killer... SHAPE.
Is there life after death...? Afraid so.
A lonely woman seeks romance over the Internet. She soon realizes just how dangerous playing with strangers can be.
It's a killer connection!
Plot
A young man, Michael, wakes up in an old decrepit room. He doesn't remember how he got there, or more importantly why he is there. Also in the room, is the mysterious 'unnamed' character, the shape. Through the use of non-linear narrative and flashbacks, it is gradually revealed why Michael is where he is and who exactly the shape really is.
The shape (Old English: gesceap, created thing) of an object located in some space is a geometrical description of the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary – abstracting from location and orientation in space, size, and other properties such as colour, content, and material composition.
Mathematician and statistician David George Kendall writes:
In this paper ‘shape’ is used in the vulgar sense, and means what one would normally expect it to mean. [...] We here define ‘shape’ informally as ‘all the geometrical information that remains when location, scale and rotational effects are filtered out from an object.’
Simple shapes can be described by basic geometry objects such as a set of two or more points, a line, a curve, a plane, a plane figure (e.g. square or circle), or a solid figure (e.g. cube or sphere). Most shapes occurring in the physical world are complex. Some, such as plant structures and coastlines, may be so arbitrary as to defy traditional mathematical description – in which case they may be analyzed by differential geometry, or as fractals.
I'm startin' to feel
A bit like Frankenstein
'Cause I know how it feels to wake up
And be some other guy
Every little movement
I'm forced to modify
I know everyone does it
So I won't apologize
I'm not just the one you think you see
Today I'm gonna look one way
The one they should know
Can't you see the other side of me?
Tonight you're gonna see me change
And not just my clothes
[Chorus]
Oh... the shape I'm in
Would you know at a glance
If it's me or him?
Every little action
Is somehow magnified
I know everyone does it
Is it any wonder why?
I'm not just the one you think you see
Today I'm gonna look one way
The one they should know
Can't you see the other side of me?
Tonight you're gonna see me change
And not just my clothes
[Chorus]
Oh... the shape I'm in
Would you know at a glance
If it's me or him?
I wear this disguise like a
second skin
Oh... the shape I'm in
Oh... the shape I'm in
[Repeat 1st Chorus]
I live my life in chains
Got my hands in chains
And I can't stick with the cards
That I got with a deal
Like this I must insist
That a girl's got more to do
Then be the way you think a woman should
I'm taking it into my own hands
In this man's land I can understand
Why I'm taking command
Had enough of stuff
And now it's time to think about me, me yeah
And you can easily gamble your life away
Second after second
And day by day
You play the game or you walk away
It's a new turn on a blue day
And a cool deal of life for me
And it's all good
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
I've always played it safe nothing's ever safe
Give me the courage to back my own convictions
Every decision I make I pay it back and more
Now turn the cards and let them fall to me
I don't need to play on with the hand that they have given me
I'll give it back cos it's not the way it has to be
And you can easily gamble your life away
Second after second
And day by day
You play the game or you walk away
It's a new turn on a blue day
And a cool deal of life for me
And it's all good
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape
The shape of my heart
My heart
That's not the shape of my heart
And you can easily gamble your life away
Second after second
And day by day
You play the game or you walk away
It's a new turn on a blue day
And a cool deal of life for me
And it's all good
And you can easily gamble your life away
Second after second
And day by day
You play the game or you walk away
It's a new turn on a blue day
And a cool deal of life for me
And I'm feeling good
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape
They said:
"Lady or gentleman
You're either or
It's morning, it's evening
It's once or it's more"
What's the name? what's the name? What's the name again?
When I held up the roof the floor would cave in
Shadowboxing, monologue and we talk and we talk and we talk
Shadowboxing, monologue and we walk and we walk and we walk
Scribbling and coughing a line in the winds
Busy with oiling your sandcastle's hinges
What's the name? what's the name? What's the name again?
Stamp on the ground and the ceiling falls in
Shadowboxing, monologue and we talk and we talk and we talk
Shadowboxing, monologue and we walk and we walk and we walk
Shadowboxing, monologue and we clean and we clean and we clean
Shadowboxing, monologue and we dream and we dream and we dream
And we go down to the beggar, to fight for a queen
And It's now and forever, and we are and we seem
And we sculptured a statue to worship and bear
The chaos that's behind the glass of
who and what and who and what we are
Shadowboxing, monologue and we talk and we talk and we talk
Shadowboxing, monologue and we walk and we walk and we walk