Seconds is a 1966 American film starring Rock Hudson. Characterized sometimes as a science fiction thriller, but with elements of horror, neo-noir, psychedelia, and drama, it was directed by John Frankenheimer with a screenplay by Lewis John Carlino. The script was based on a novel by David Ely. The film was released by Paramount Pictures and was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.
Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is a middle-aged man whose life has lost purpose. He has achieved success in his career, but finds it unfulfilling. His love for his wife of many years has dwindled. His only child is married and he seldom sees her. Through a friend, a man he thought was dead, Hamilton is approached by a secret organization, known simply as the "Company." The Company's business is helping wealthy people who are unhappy with their lives to disappear and create new lives.
When Hamilton agrees to talk to the Company, he is spirited away to a secret location. While waiting for his interview he is offered a cup of tea and then falls asleep. When he wakes, Hamilton is interviewed by Mr. Ruby (Jeff Corey), who shows him a film in which he appears to have raped a girl. The film, made while he was unconscious, is intended to persuade Hamilton that it is now too late for him to return to his old life. Hamilton feels compelled to accept the Company's services—but fears that this coercive scheme foreshadows the unfortunate consequences of doing business with the Company.
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
Plot
Dark Summer is a simple, urban love story set in Liverpool. It is a tale of the lossed innocence of the two young protagonists Jes and Abe. The film follows them on the voyage that is their relationship, through one long summer full of struggle and achievement, love and death and ultimately failure and reevaluation. Which is dictated not so much by their own conscious decision but by the intervention of fate. Shot entirely in Liverpool, the city is as much part of the film as the two main characters, personifying the juxtaposition of harshness and warmth with its beautiful yet raw surroundings. The ebb and flow of the River Mersey echoing the certainty that time will pass.
Keywords: independent-film
A story of lost innocents
All day
Hiding from the sun
Waiting for the golden one
Waiting for your fame
After the parade has gone
Outside was a happy place
Every face had a smile like the golden face
For a second
Your knuckles white as your fingers curl
The shot that was heard around the world
For a second
Refrain :
It took seconds of your time to take his life
It took seconds
(Refrain)
It took seconds of your time to take his life
It took seconds of your time to take his life
Seconds
Seconds
(Refrain twice)
For a second
(Refrain twice)
For a second
It took seconds of your time to take his life
Seconds of your time to take his life
For a second
For a second
I need a second just to catch my breath
I need a second wind to blow my wad
I'll play the second fiddle second best, oh
Shang lang lang lang
That second coming is a second guess
Won't need a second hand there on my watch
My second nature takes a second to kick in oh
Shang lang lang lang
Shang lang lang lang
(Soon very soon)
It's a common sensation
(Soon very soon)
I need some second sight to see this through
You know that second rate it just won't do
I'll make a second strike a looking out a second story room
And then at second thought I might get bored
Of playing soldier in the Second World War
Second generation from the secondhand store
Shang lang lang lang
Shang lang lang lang
Shang lang lang lang
(Soon very soon)
It's a common sensation
(Soon very soon)
A like the fate a the nation
(Soon very soon)
Well such a common sensation
I need a second just to catch my breath
I need a second wind to blow my wad
I'll play the second fiddle second best, oh
Shang lang lang lang
Shang lang lang lang
Shang lang lang lang
(Soon very soon)
It's a common sensation
(Soon very soon)
A like the fate a the nation
(Soon very soon)
Well such a common sensation
(Soon very soon)
Well like the fate a the nation
(Soon very soon)
Such a common sensation
(Soon very soon)
Well like the fate a the nation
I watch you turn your back on me
So what the fuck can I say
If you never ever comprehend me?
ANYWAY...
Ridiculous the way you act
Deforming everything I said
If someone's got a problem
Babe, I DO NOT
I AIN'T GOT NOWHERE TO GO
I AIN'T GOT NOWHERE TO HIDE
You know that I'm sick of fights
Just stay out with your fucking issues
I wish I could forget your face now
Rid up, I...
I AIN'T GOT NOWHERE TO GO
I AIN'T GOT NOWHERE TO HIDE
I STAND EVERY SECOND THINKING HARDLY
BUT I CANNOT COMPREHEND HOW YOU DID IT
JUST PLEASE LET ME GO
STOP PRETENDING
This time you wont forgive. somethings coming out of your eyes. dwelling on
The fear that i hide, as i turn away, punished. somethings coming out of
Your eyes, it's all lies. your love and hate, you killed the best of what's
What's in me. im thinking of a way, to end all the pain. a fraction of what
Will be coming. a light descends on what will be coming. you honor the lies
That which you speak, but it's not for long. in other words, breaking all
Ties. to cut to death. to cut to death. to cut, to bleed and die before me.
The seconds fall from the sky. it is coming, it's your time to die. and i see
In my mind you'll sell your soul, then you'll die. when the fallen become the
Past, i lie awake, thinking of you. i wished we could be, like it used to
Takes a second to say goodbye
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh
It takes a second to say goodbye
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh, say bye bye...
Where you going to now...
Lightning flashes across the sky
East to west, do or die
Like a thief in the night
See the world by candlelight.
Fall, rise and...Fall, rise and...
In an apartment on Time Square
You can assemble them anywhere
Held to ransom, hell to pay
A revolution everyday
USSR, GDR, London, New York, Peking
It's the puppets, It's the puppets
Who pull the strings
Fall, rise and...Fall, rise and...
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Say goodbye
It takes a second to say goodbye
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh
Push the button and pull the plug
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh
Fall, rise and...Fall, rise and...
And they're doing the atomic bomb
Do they know where the dance comes from
Yes they're doing the atomic bomb
They want you to sing along
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Say goodbye
She / she used to live with his brother
Now she's an unmarried mother / with another / on the way
He's seond rate / twisted out of shape
and he looks a state, it costs so much to look this rough
They go to town / they like to shop around / and look at all those things
All those things they never wnated anyway / She hates his hair
that stupid coat he wears / but sometimes second best
is the best that you can get
Oh yes / oh somebody told me / 'cos seconds turn to hours
and the hours turn into days / but still it feels like morning
The first time leaves its trace / and then slides into second place
and still it feels like morning / At night they try to fly
hold on tight and close their eyes / and they hit the ground in the morning
But in the morning it's raining / Oh Christ you're always complaining
can't you think of something else / It's nearly-nu
a bargain basement made for two / and if you blur your eyes
you could be anywhere / you want yourself to be
Oh yeah, it's bad / I know you want to laugh, so laugh
But sometimes second best / Is all that you can get
Oh yeah / oh somebody told me / the seconds turn to hours
and the hours turn into days / but still it feels like morning
The first time leaves its trace / and then slides into second place
and still it feels like morning / At night they try to fly
hold on tight and close their eyes / and they hit the ground in the morning
But you're so perfect you don't interest me at all
You're golden boy fell down / Don't you know / he hasn't got a personality?
And I know / he said he'd last all night then gave you seconds / yeah
The seconds turn to hours / and the hours turn into days
but still it feels like morning / The first time leaves its trace
and then slides into second place / and still it feels like morning
At night they try to fly / hold on tight and close their eyes
and they hit the ground in the morning / My God they're still alive
Young boy hiding in a locker room
A pencil in his hand
Grinding circles into the wall
He doesn't understand
Why the others treat him as invisible
Or they punch him with their smiles
He dreams of a place where there is no shade
A platform to be seen for miles
Close your eyes
Let the moments pass
Like sand grain seconds
Through an hourglass
Young boy climbing to a desert high
A message in his hand
Tracing circles around the clouds
His destiny is planned
Would the airwaves choke when it made the news?
Would the television sigh?
Ghost reporters in a bitter sun
Taking lessons in the way to die
Better to forget than to comprehend
Imagination colliding with real
Gone without a trace from an empty place
Leaving nothing sacred, nothing to reveal
Damon dancing into the light
A microphone in his hand
Turning circles across the stage
They move to his command
And the audience doesn't know about that day
When he gambled with the sacred breath
But his blood runs sober as the curtains fall
Like the sand upon the face of death
Better to remember and memorize
Every motion that carried you here
Couldn't change the time only your state of mind
As the scars upon your spirit disappear
When your world begins to fray
When the rules refuse to play
Somewhere there is promise for another serving
When the soul begins to bleed
A moment is all you need
Long enough to feel the weight of your decision
Hesitate and regain your vision
Seconds separate you from the fall
Pipe down baby, why so fake loud?
You've lied now ten thousand times...it's show business anyhow.
You make me sick, sick, sick, sick.
Where'd you get all the attention?
Your dad's money too base to mention?
His coattails are looking word. You've had a nice ride, that's for sure.
Better thank your brain-dead clientele for all the money that you'll spend in hell.
Wanma percent of every nation, your'e the type to rise to that occasion.
Stole the race, no surprise there. The elevator always beats the stairs.
On a golf cart...wearing some uniform...bombing in the night-time...lying on tv...you make me
Your life is ending seconds at a time
You pay no mind to what's behind
What did you think would happen now
This angry moment
Cry, cry, cry
Your life is ending seconds at a time
Can't wait to see what seconds will define
And now you're stuck, you stupid FUCK!
Don't even try to find escape
This constant grieving
Die, die, die
Your life is ending seconds at a time
Can't wait to see what seconds will define
Your life is ending
Great blinding pain
Coursing through my veins
I'm broken down inside
Your battered cage, you need to vent frustration
Your numbered days, your life is your destruction
I'm destroying all you've got
We'll take you down like it or not
Your life is ending seconds at a time
seconds
once ignored - now cherished
as they begin to tick away
panting, like a dog in the wind
throat constricted
swelling as a tumor - i can scarcely breathe
my eyes stand in the way
to the world i need to see
hazy melting images coated in glue
begin sliding from my view
and i trample on top of them
now a blind fool
now a blind fool
oh my heavy, heavy aching legs
cannot do the work of ten men
to lift my feet of stone
clumsy, my arms
long and leaden - they drag behind me
carving deep trenches in the rotting earth
oh so tightened
stretched beyond belief
my skin cracks
with the weight of my dying body
and the rage in my head
blood trickles down from my burning eyes
and stings my charred lips
oh dear god - if you would but save me
so much as a finger on my hand
surely i could find the strength to climb
atop a cloud in your sky
and echo your praises
into the light of a new day
but my words are lost
as my bones
snap suddenly
and i am left to lie upon the burning remnants of my life
seconds
eternity
the clock ceases inside of me
oh this silence, this emptiness inside
for the grinding of my teeth at the searing pain
of my flesh and the stench which infiltrates my every pore
silence
eternity
might as well relax
it's much too late
to cancel
Make your move if you dare,
Be sure to stay aware.
Seconds count in this game,
and you've got no one to blame but you.
And if it comes face to face, stand true,
and if it comes face to face, stand true.
There's too much to take in so don't think about the win,
State of mind will decide your fate ([show deception]).
Let the good times roll again, my friend ([always hold on]).
You could be my long lost friend,
Say what you want about me like a friend would do ([yeah yeah]).
I'll even let you choose my name, but only one that suits my personality ([yeah yeah]).
I feel as though we've met before,
It doesn't really matter to me either way.
I'm starting out again brand new,
I can't remember anything past yesterday.
[All alone.All alone.]
All alone, your broken bottled highway, up and down your street,
Remnants of a dream collect like fallen leaves ([Twisting in the wind]).
And if it gets hard to stand, sometimes
Just remember,
[some get lost, off the track],
You move on and never look back.
You could be my long lost friend,
Say what you want about me like a friend would do ([yeah yeah]).
I'll even let you choose my name, but only one that suits my personality ([yeah yeah]).
I feel as though we've met before,
It doesn't really matter to me either way.
I'm starting out again brand new,
I can't remember anything past yesterday.
Move, if you dare ([it's hard to get get, it's hard to get get])
Move, if you dare ([in this game, in this game])
Move, if you dare ([it's hard to get get, it's hard to get get, it's hard])
Move, if you dare ([in this game, in this game])
Move, if you dare ([it's hard to get get, it's hard to get get])
Move, if you dare ([in this game, in this game])
Move, if you dare ([it's hard to get get, it's hard to get get, it's hard])