An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
To be clear, this is the Udo Kier hairdresser movie Swan Song (2021) directed by Todd Stephens, not the Mahershala Ali clone movie Swan Song (2021) directed by Benjamin Cleary. That movie is on DTDD at doesthedogdie.com/media/848139
The main character wakes in hospital with an IV drip, which he yanks out (though the shot is not in focus, and you don't see the needle enter or exit).
The main character Pat's partner, David, died some years before, and you see his gravestone. When Pat visits the rich lady's home, you see the bed where she dies, and it flashes to an image of David in bed looking ill.
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At the end of the movie, Pat dies.
The main character lives in a nursing home, and shares his cigarettes with another resident. The second time she appears, the scene ends with her wetting herself. The main character gets help cleaning her up, and the scene is not played for laughs.
At one stage the main character goes to perform a service, but he cannot follow through and runs away in a cab. He is shown breathing heavily and sweating.
The main character lives in a nursing home. Near the end of the movie, he has an accident and wakes up in hospital. He has a bloody bandage on his head and an IV drip, which he yanks out.