Inspired by an American documentary about the story of a killer and the last moment of death of his victim, MORIR deals with the feeling of inadequacy that sudden and unexpected death causes people.
This black comedy is a morbid meditation on the frailty of life, told in seven vignettes depicting the final and fatal moments of seven very different people: a filmmaker overcomes his writer’s block just as he has a heart attack; a junkie is confronted by his concerned sister and later overdoses; a young girl chokes to death on a chicken bone in front of her horrified mother; a hospital patient can’t reach the panic button during a fatal coughing fit; a youth on a motorbike is knocked over by a pair of cops; and finally, a deeply religious middle-aged businessman is executed by a hit man. All the causes of death are banal like the ordinary everyday situations of indifference, lack of communication, ruthlessness and simply bad luck.
But this is theatre and Belbel offers his characters a second chance by repeating the scenes implanting small changes; a gesture; a word and the fact of death transforms into a simple, absurd, tragicomic and non traumatic living: in the second part the scenes are now shown in a reverse order: life goes on.
