The meeting, the synopsis version 3.
This short film features a young woman called “Emma” a fairly plain looking woman who is 25 years old. Emma is currently in a mental health institution due to severe depression and suicidal tendencies, the most recent failed attempt to take her own life resulted in being her being committed, her mental health problems are due to a traumatised childhood where she was regularly beaten and sexually abused. She has only been in the institution one week so far and has just received news from her social worker that her father has committed suicide. Emma is furious that she never got the chance to confront her him.
After furiously praying to be re united with her father, later that night a weary Emma falls asleep only to find she “awakes” in limbo, with her father standing before her, shocked but unafraid she stares him in the face; her father still looking the same in death as he did in life, with his grey hair, stocky build and piercing blue eyes that look straight through you.
Anxious and shocked she finds the courage to start her inquisition of her father with the intention of some resolution, possibly even closure, Emma is determined to use this opportunity to face her demons and find out why her father wrecked her life and killed himself. This is a film about relationships, love and resolution, and looking at the human psyche. Will Emma be able to forgive her father, can he give her the answers she is searching for? Far from ending her story with the death of her father, Emma has just begun it; will she have what it takes to finish the story and take it to its final conclusion? Her sanity and her own fate will depend entirely on how she chooses to conclude her tale.
304 words
No comments:
Post a Comment