It's Hard to Be Human
2016, 105 minutes
God kicks his delinquent 18-year-old daughter Agnes out of heaven and won’t let her back in until she learns empathy.
It’s Hard to be Human is a surreal drama inspired by Strindberg’s 'A Dream Play’. It's a visceral experience of Agnes, God's daughter, in the liminal place before death. Agnes is an 18-year-old delinquent who just can’t figure out the point of it all – life on earth. Her brother, Oscar, is a cop. Her Father (God) is a sexed-up, torn husband and a video director. Her Mother self-medicates and lives to die. Peter, her best friend, is an addict and a poet. Larry, her lover, strives for duty, marriage and the norm, because that’s where his happiness is. And then there’s Victoria, a stunning Botticelli spirit who emanates heaven but once she is seduced by Agnes’ dark spirit, Victoria walks the streets with a damaged halo. The film begins with Agnes in the emergency room. She is in that space between life and death. We interweave her true-life story with this dreaming, almost-dead world. The pulse of the film is strummed out by the songs Agnes and her friends sing with their messed-up, longing hearts. Agnes was a pious girl turned sour. And in this journey we find out why she has abandoned God and why he's forsaken her.
