It tells a story of marrying a hypothetical man, only to have him cheat on her. The opening of the film surrounding the suicide scene is a voiceover about futility and hopelessness. I want people to know that I’m killing myself rather than participate in the collective madness of this world that you’re all living in. “Green is not the new black,” she writes, “hasn’t anyone else noticed that everyone has gone completely insane? Why are we all so afraid to look at things as they really are? Slogans like this have succeeded in distracting us all from the things that really matter. She’s angry at the world, and her suicide note is her final middle-finger. She sends it to the Village Voice after finding herself disgusted by one of their magazine cover stories. Veronika’s (Sarah Michelle Gellar) suicide note in Veronika Decides to Die (2009) is a tirade against ad campaigns, modern marketing and consumer culture.
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