Open on a man grocery shopping. He is pushing a trolley fast with a hat covering most of his face and his body hunched. Somebody comes up to ask him directions and he jumps and then shakes him off. He leaves his groceries, visibly shaken at the encounter and goes home.
When he’s at home, the doorbell rings and again, we see him jump.
It is the postman who greets him with a smile. He grabs his mail and shuts the door on him as fast as he can. He then locks the multiple locks on his door and sighs in contentment on being alone.
“Alone at last” He turns on the tv and laughs at the screen heartily while stirring some stew.
“Bathroom” he says, holding his stomach and shuffling off to the bathroom. When he returns, the food is on a plate on the table, half eaten and the stove is off. He starts trembling.
“Is anybody here???” he voices out in fear. Nobody responses. The same thing happens the next day. He decides to record himself the following day and upon playing back the tape, he sees his own self eating the food and screams in disbelief at the discovery of his schizophrenia.
This is the synopsis for my short film idea.
I've replayed this to myself and I reckon it would work.
The beginning was supposed to make the idea of a man who's afraid of people come across to the audience.
He is only truly happy and shows happiness when he is by himself, think Scrooge.
So he becomes really fearful when he finds out someone's eating his dinner every night. So after the second night, he takes matters in his own hands only to realise that he is bipolar and has been doing this without realising it.
It was supposed to be a nice twist at the end and hopefully it'll come across as such.
Open on a man grocery shopping. He is pushing a trolley fast with a hat covering most of his face and his body hunched. Somebody comes up to ask him directions and he jumps and then shakes him off.
He leaves his groceries, visibly shaken at the encounter and goes home.
When he’s at home, the doorbell rings and again, we see him jump.
It is the postman who greets him with a smile. He grabs his mail and shuts the door on him as fast as he can. He then locks the multiple locks on his door and sighs in contentment on being alone.
“Alone at last”
He turns on the tv and laughs at the screen heartily while stirring some stew.
“Bathroom” he says, holding his stomach and shuffling off to the bathroom.
When he returns, the food is on a plate on the table, half eaten and the stove is off.
He starts trembling.
“Is anybody here???” he voices out in fear.
Nobody responses.
The same thing happens the next day.
He decides to record himself the following day and upon playing back the tape, he sees his own self eating the food and screams in disbelief at the discovery of his schizophrenia.
This is the synopsis for my short film idea.
I've replayed this to myself and I reckon it would work.
The beginning was supposed to make the idea of a man who's afraid of people come across to the audience.
He is only truly happy and shows happiness when he is by himself, think Scrooge.
So he becomes really fearful when he finds out someone's eating his dinner every night. So after the second night, he takes matters in his own hands only to realise that he is bipolar and has been doing this without realising it.
It was supposed to be a nice twist at the end and hopefully it'll come across as such.