Dear wendy

An unnamed provincial town somewhere in the USA .

The young guy Dick, whose mother has died long ago, and his father spends all the time at the mine, on the advice of his father, also gets a job there. His nanny, Clarabell, meets him every day after a hard day and takes him home, buying his favorite chocolate carriages along the way. But Dick does not like working in the mine and he gets a job as a consultant in the store. There he meets Stevie, a strange, uncommunicative guy.

Clarabell persuades Dick to go to her grandson Sebastian's birthday. Dick does not like him, but still agrees. As a gift, he buys a toy pistol, which somehow plunges Dick into the soul. In the end, he gives Sebastian a shortened version of " Portrait of Dorian Gray " by Oscar Wilde , and leaves the gun to himself.

Time passes, Dick's father dies, Clarabell goes on a well-deserved rest, and Dick is still working as a store consultant. One day he finds an old toy gun and brings it to work. Stevie notes that this is not a toy at all, but a 6.35 mm revolver. After that, Stevie explains to Dick the basics of weapons and shows his pistol - "the old piece of iron." Then they go to an abandoned mine to try pistols in action. Dick likes a new fascination with weapons, on the advice of Stevie, he gives his revolver a name - "Wendy".

Dick and Stevie gather a group of guys around them and establish the secret club of gun lovers "Dandies" ( Eng. The Dandies ). The key principle of the club is the idea of pacifism - weapons should never be used against people. This hobby attracts children so that they stop thinking about the possible danger of firearms ...

• In the script of Lars von Trier, the heroes of the film were about twenty years old, but Winterberg decided to make changes by making the heroes teenagers. Trier later stated that it was a brilliant idea.
• The screenwriter and director of Dear Wendy argues that the film does not contain covert agitation against weapons and the story told is not a political allegory on the theme of “weapons in the United States.”
• The film used many songs of the popular in the 1960s British pop-rock band The Zombies ( She's Not There , Time of the Season and others).

• Official movie website
• Dear Wendy, on the Internet Movie Database