To Die For

“All she wanted was a little attention.”

Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) talks straight into the camera about her husband Larry (Matt Dillon), her town in New Hampshire, and the television career she is sure she was born for. Gus Van Sant cuts her monologues against interviews with the people around her, some of them clearly grieving. Behind her pleasant, determined smile sits a plain belief that being seen on a screen is what makes a person real.