Recap of DFL: Pirate Day
Short Recap (Full Recap below with pictures)
Whilst on a break from his 14 hour shift in the family restaurant, local boy Noah bumps into his ex, Lydia, in full Pirate Day costume down Bottle Alley. Having not seen each other since a painful break up he is shocked to learn she’s moved down from London with her best friend, Maddy.
As shots are fired around displacement and Lydia’s travels; rising prices and Noah’s new love interest, Chloe; entitlement and race; and gentrification and dressing up, it is abundantly clear that the two still have strong feelings and an unresolved story.
10 point recap with pictures:
01
It is Pirate Day and Lydia, dressed in full Pirate outfit, dances to The Musician’s tunes in Bottle Alley. She suddenly notices her ex, Noah, and despite her outfit, and telling us she shouldn’t, she decides to greet him.
02
Local Hastings lad, Noah, is shocked to see his ex, someone he tells us he thought was well and truly a thing of the past. Noah tells Lydia he is on a brief break from a 14 hour shift in the family restaurant. He has a Tupperware of food in his hand.
03
Noah tries to work out exactly why Lydia is in Hastings. Lydia skirts the questions but eventually reveals she has moved to Hastings with her best friend Maddy (someone Noah has strong feelings about), that she is a DFL, and isn’t St Leonards “so bougie”?
04
Noah can’t believe she’s decided to move to his hometown when she never wanted to visit when they were together, said she didn’t want to settle down and she wanted to go travelling. Lydia counters that he never wanted to live in Hastings either, he always said it was boring “you hated it here when you were younger”. She then reveals she plans to live in Hastings for a year. Noah tells us how much that is going to affect him.
05
Changing the conversation she asks him to hold her hand whilst she walks along the wall. She slips and he is momentarily worried she has hurt herself. We see how much he still cares for her.
06
Noah tells Lydia that he is seeing someone, a friend of his sisters, Chloe. Lydia shares with us that Chloe must be better than her. Noah describes Chloe as “nice” and “a good egg”, which provokes Lydia: “She probably won’t mind having to move next to your parents and pump out three kids before she’s 40.”
07
Noah passionately explains why DFL’s are ruining Hastings, and Lydia counters that she’s just trying to live somewhere affordable.
“People care about what’s on your CV not your birth certificate.” They argue about gentrification (“Displacement isn’t cute”) and race (“Hey, I dated a black girl once.”) As their debate gets heated we can see how much chemistry is still present.
08
Lydia asks him if he thinks about them, if he will ever forgive her, if he is happy. He cannot answer the final question and they almost go separate ways.
09
Lydia goes to light a cigarette and Noah stops her, he then says “I think about you too”. A swell in music from The Musician prompts a joyful reel as they twirl around, this becomes a slow dance, they look like they will kiss but Noah breaks it. He gives Lydia the Tupperware of food – a kind of peace offering.
10
They are interrupted by a phone call to Noah. Lydia asks if it is Chloe, he tells us it isn’t but tells her that it is.
They part ways:
“See you around.”
“Go back to London, Lydia.”
The Musician sings us out.
