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- 1. Malcolm Jake Beareand Ben Bullock
- 2. EXT. PLAYGROUND .DAY It feels cold in the air, it is winter. Everything is quiet, all you can hear is the wind. Two young men are sitting on the swings, the playground is deserted. ANDY Oi, how you coping? MALCOLM Yeah, I'm good ANDY Malcolm. c'mon you know what I mean. MALCOLM Yeah, I'm doing fine. ANDY have you been leaving the house much? MALCOLM yeah. ANDY Besides seeing me? MALCOLM Yeah course I have, obviously. I went out just the other day. ANDY Oh really? MALCOLM Yes really. ANDY Okay, you're always welcome to stay at my yard. MALCOLM Thanks man, but I'm doing fine. ANDY Okay man, well you are always welcome. Just know that you always got someone to call.
- 3. 2 (CONTINUED) MALCOLM I'm not lonely, I'm coping ANDY Have you spoken to your parents. MALCOLM No, I don't really see them, they're always out, and when they are home they just pretend like I'm not there ANDY Well, you can talk to me. MALCOLM Okay man (gets up) ANDY Wait, where you going? MALCOLM I'm going home. ANDY Well I'll see you next week, okay? MALCOLM yeah, I'll call you. INT. BEDROOM. DAY Malcolm arrives to an empty house, he slowly but surely walks upstairs, each step is a struggle, he opens the door to his bedroom and stops and stares at his bed, almost mesmerised by the room he has been living in for a long time. He looks at the bed again and he is then staring at his past self and his dead sister talking. INT. BEDROOM. DAY This is a flashback of his sister giving him a framed picture of the two of them. ABI Can I come in?
- 4. 3 (CONTINUED) CONTINUED:(2) MALCOLM Come on in. Abi is looking awkward, having a small cheeky smile on her face. MALCOLM What? ABI You know that picture that we took in the park a few months ago. Well, I loved it so much, I got it framed. Abi hands the framed picture to him, Malcolm's face immediately beams. MALCOLM Ahh, you're right, it is a nice photo. ABI Well,you look nice, it just looks like theres something in my eye! (laughs) INT. BEDROOM. DAY Malcolm looks in the mirror and takes off his glasses. He stares hard at the thing he calls hi face. He takes a big breath, puts on a fake smile and goes down stairs. He hears a the door open and two people laughing. MALCOLM Mum?! Dad?! Malcolm shakes his head. He sees the picture of him and his sister n the table near the mirror and carries it down the stairs with him INT. KITCHEN. DAY After the flashback, Malcolm goes downstairs, before he gets down the last step the phone starts to ring. he goes towards the phone, looking suspicious at the house phone. He puts down the frames picture and picks up the phone.
- 5. 4 (CONTINUED) CONTINUED:(2) MALCOLM Hello? SECRETARY (V/O) Hi, am I speaking to Malcolm Thompson. MALCOLM Yep SECRETARY (V/O) Well, I'm calling from the Capio Nightingale hospital and it says here that you haven't turned up for sessions in over three weeks. MALCOLM Yes, I've just had a lot of things on my plate. SECRETARY (V/O) Your mental health is not a laughing matter Mr Thompson. MALCOLM I can assure you that my mental health is at the top of my agenda, its just I've had my hands full. SECRETARY (V/O) Okay, so we will see you next week? (long pause) Hello? Mr Thompson? Hello? Malcolm puts down the phone as he is fed up and tired with the secretary but does't hang up. He grabs the picture again and goes to sit down on his chair, buries his head in his hands, trying to block out all demons. Picks up the newspaper and sees a depressing headline, he throws it away. Malcolm goes to make himself a cup of tea, this becomes obvious after he gets his mug out on the table, he reaches to get the mug but in the process accidentally knocks something over. It becomes apparent that it is the picture frame that his sister gave him in the previous flashback, but only this time it is all smashed up and there is glass all over the floor, the picture is lying lifeless, it is symbolic that such a happy memory just shatters like that. After the sight of the framed
- 6. 5 (CONTINUED) CONTINUED:(2) picture broken on the ground, Malcolm's head goes into overdrive and he begins to have a nervous breakdown. This will be portrayed through montage. SERIES OF SHOTS A. GRAVE YARD A very depressing clip of his just staring in anger and disgust at the grave stone. B. PICTURE SMASHING this is the sight of the framed picture falling in the air it shows that this framed picture meant a lot to Malcolm as it was his last sentimental object of his sister that he had. C. ABI GIVING HIM THE PICTURE Same footage as the flash back, showing to the audience that the particular moment was incredibly meaningful to him. E. ANDY CONCERNED Same footage from earlier scene. F. MALCOLM CRYING (PRESENT) This would be a highly emotional moment, this would be longer than the other clips, it would show Malcolm pacing up and down his stairs and banging his head on the wall. MALCOLM Its not my fault (repeats) G. PICTURE SMASHING H. THE GRAVEYARD I. CAR CRASH J. MALCOLM CRYING (PRESENT) Malcolm is just banging his fists into the floor to show his frustration. K. PICTURE SMASHING L. CAR CRASH
- 7. 6 (CONTINUED) CONTINUED:(3) M. THE GRAVEYARD N. ABI SMILING O. ABI'S FACE SMASHED IN THE PICTURE P. MALCOLM CRYING (PRESENT) INT. KITCHEN. DAY The breakdown is over, Malcolm is on the floor, curled up in a ball. Malcolm is helped up by a familiar hand, he looks up and is startled. he can't believe it at first, but then he looks angry. ABI You never used to clean anything when I was here. MALCOLM What? how? You are dead, how are you here? Are you here to taunt me? Or am I just crazy? ABI You're not crazy, you're just severely depressed. MALCOLM Why does it have to be so hard, why did you have to die, how come I didn't die? ABI Don't torture yourself with this. MALCOLM Torture myself? I love you, you were the only person in the world that i truly cared about, and you were taken away from me. You helped me, you clothed me, you cared for me. without you, I'm nothing. Its not fair! And its all my fault, oh God, its all my fault. ABI Malcolm, your mistakes can control you, or you can control your mistakes. You have to forget
- 8. 7 (CONTINUED) CONTINUED:(2) the things that you can do nothing about. You have to get over me. MALCOLM (MORE) But how? ABI (only you can know how to fix yourself) Abi is gone, Malcolm is alone, but this experience has finally given him closure. He goes towards the couch that he sat on before the smashing of the picture, he looks at the newspaper that he threw, he looks at the smashed photo across the room, and he smiles as he is a different person to how he was before. Then there is a sound bridge of the next scenes dialogue to make it look like that this whole film was a counselling session this whole time. -- INT. OFFICE. DAY COUNSELLOR So what did she say? when you saw her? MALCOLM She said that it wasn't my fault and that I had to get better. COUNSELLOR This is very common in people who have lost someone, I feel that you have made a break through. MALCOLM I hope so. (smiles)COUNSELLOR So I'll see you next week?MALCOLM Yeah, see you The counsellor believes he has got better and believes that he has made a break through EXT. OPEN SPACE. EVENING This will be the final scene of the film, this will make the audience have closure on if Malcolm has gotten over his sisters death.
- 9. 8 (CONTINUED) CONTINUED:(3) ABI (cont'd) MALCOLM I realise now after all of this, after all my pain. That life isn’t for the good times, or even the bad times. Its for those times when you truly feel alive. When you get to a place when you know you are significant and you know that you aren’t alone. You could say that everything you go through gives you something to cherish. And when you get to a good place and you feel like you can take on the world, thats when you remember that pain, that pain that made you realise “I am alive, Malcolm, you are alive”.