Zornit (Marcello Trigo)

Title: Zornit (2016) (BRA)
Runtime: 26′
Based on the story: The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
Director(s): Marcello Trigo
(Script-)writer(s): Marcello Trigo
Producer(s): Marcello Trigo
Cast: Carlinhos Duarte, Surete Martins, Emília Marques
Additional Crew: Marcello Trigo

The main character is Henry, fiction editor for the struggling Logan’s magazine. Henry receives an unsolicited short story from up-and-coming novelist Reg Thorpe, and considers the story to be very dark, but also a masterpiece. Through his correspondence with Thorpe, Henry learns of—and, due to Henry’s own alcoholism, comes to believe in—Thorpe’s various paranoid fantasies.

“The Ballad of The Flexible Bullet” © Stephen King
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