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LOCATION: California, US
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JOINED: August 23, 2009
LOCATION: California, US
RECORDS: 50
LATEST RECORD: 11 months ago
JOINED: August 23, 2009
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FADE IN: 1. EXT. CHEMIST - DAY 1. A small chemist somewhere in London. No one is about; only the dancing of plastic bags in the wind. 2. INT. CHEMIST - DAY 2. Full to the brim with an assortment of pharmaceuticals and medicines. Nobody about. MAN (V.O.) Between each breath (beat) is a pause… Emerging behind the counter is DAVID, 29; a man in a state of stasis - his mind beset by chit-chat. He is here but he is not aware he is here. A man under a self-imposed mental tyranny who has weakened his sense of self with external fallacy. DAVID (V.O.) People talk to me like I’m an alchemist. They talk about their medication as if it’s the elixir of life; I’m all too happy to sell them their synthetic elixirs with a synthetic smile. He flashes a quick phoney smile then slowly turns his head towards the abundant shelves. 3. INT. CHEMIST - LATER IN THE DAY 3. David hands over a prescription of Amyl Nitrate inhalant to an elderly man. DAVID (V.O.) This is Amyl Nitrate; a clear, yellowish liquid having a peculiar ethereal, fruity odour. David hands over a prescription of Marinol to a woman in her fifties. DAVID (V.O.) Marinol; a light yellow resinous oil that is sticky at room temperature and hardens upon refrigeration. 4. INT. BEDROOM - DAY 4. David is sitting up on his bed watching TV; dead-eyed. His dead beat eyes slowly close. DAVID (V.O.) In the visions of half-sleep lies an answer just out of grasp… He enters a reverie. 5. INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT 5. DAVID opens a cupboard in his bathroom that looks like a mini version of his chemist. He scans each bottle with his faraway eyes. 6. INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT 6. DAVID pops a few capsules into his mouth and swallows them with a glass of water. 7. INT. CHEMIST - DAY 7. DAVID is pretending to read a magazine but is more interested in the pretty brunette woman who has just walked into the store. She is looking at a dietary supplement. He can see what it is from here. DAVID (V.O.) She’s got out the Herbal Testosterone. Multiples your testosterone by five-hundred per-cent. Increases sex drive in men and women. 8. INT. PUB - NIGHT 8. DAVID sits alone in a quiet pub downing a pint of bitter. When he finishes he drunkenly looks over at a young couple laughing, sipping wine. He looks jealous. 9. EXT. STREET - NIGHT 9. DAVID is staggering along a street inebriated and mumbling to himself. He stops and notices a black cat staring at him in a driveway. He stares back. DAVID What yuuuu looking at? He walks across the road towards it and it continues to stare at him, undaunted. Car lights flash in front of him and the horn is beeped. DAVID just manages to get out of the way of the speeding boy racer. MALE (O.S.) You Muppet!! DAVID, exasperated, searches out the cat. DAVID (fuming) Where are you?! He darts his head about the street searching for the cat. DAVID (fuming) You tried to get me killed!! You prick! 10. INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT 10. DAVID staggers down the hallway drunk. 11. INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT 11. DAVID crashes onto his bed and starts to weep. 12. INT. HALLWAY - DAY 12. DAVID, baggy-eyed and unkempt, opens his apartment door and locks it. Walking past him with one bag full of shopping is a WOMAN, 24; a woman with “imminence”. When you watch her, life is the dancer and she is the dance. DAVID Hi. She looks over her shoulder and gives him a glint of recognition; a fleeting yet powerful smile. She stops about three doors down from him, takes out a set of keys and puts them in the key hole. DAVID (hesitant) You must be here… you must be new here? She opens the door, enters and closes it behind her. DAVID looks dejected at THE WOMAN’S apparently impolite ignorance. 13. INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT 13. DAVID lays on his bed smoking a cigarette, watching the TV, dead-eyed and hypnotized, flicking through channels with one hand as he takes drags of his cigarette with the other. A tear falls down his cheek. DAVID (V.O.) In the visions of half-sleep… 14. INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT 14. DAVID faces himself in the mirror, eyes glazed over. He has a glass of water in one hand and one pill in the other. DAVID (V.O.) Lies an answer… He stares at the pill in his hand then swallows it with the water. 15. INT. CHEMIST - DAY 15. DAVID is staring into space standing behind the counter in the chemist with no customers. 16. INT. HALLWAY - DAY 16. DAVID re-imagines the fleeting moment between him and THE WOMAN. As she turns to smile at him his right eye flashes like a camera and takes a photograph of her mid-smile. 17. INT. BEDROOM - DAY 17. He sits on his bed and takes out a capsule from his mouth. He takes apart the capsule and inside it is a rolled up photograph of THE WOMAN and her smile. He unrolls it and analyses it. He then places it next to a tin of hand-made cigarettes on the bedside table. 18. INT. CHEMIST - DAY 18. DAVID looks down on the counter and sees the same photograph looking up at him. Until a customer snaps him out of his daydream and the photograph turns into what is really there; somebody’s written prescription. FEMALE CUSTOMER Do you have any plasters? 19. INT. HALLWAY - DAY 19. DAVID stands outside THE WOMAN’S door and knocks on it. He looks as stiff as the door he‘s knocking on. The door opens and THE WOMAN pokes her head around the door; her clear, peaceful eyes put him under an instant spell for a few seconds. DAVID Hi. She blinks. DAVID Hi, we haven’t introduced ourselves yet, my name is David. She opens the door fully. She shakes his hand. DAVID What is your name? She gestures “hold on” with her hands and disappears into her apartment. DAVID Ok… DAVID loosens up a little bit as she disappears, flexes his hands and plays with his stubble. She returns with a plant pot, with dirt in it, but no plant, and hands it to him. DAVID Ok… She smiles then closes the door. DAVID stands there baffled facing the door. 20. INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT 20. DAVID sits up on his bed smoking a cigarette watching the TV, dead-eyed. He moves his nose about as if something is up it. He blows a transparent capsule out through his right nostril. He stares at the capsule in the palm of his hand, stunned. He takes the capsule apart and loosens a photograph of THE WOMAN from earlier; standing at the door. 21. INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT 21. A little later on in the night and he’s still sitting up on the bed. This time he has a small tray on his lap with two photographs of THE WOMAN on the tray, a lighter, and some laid-out tobacco. He analyses them with his eyes. The plant pot sits on the bedside table. 22. INT. APARTMENT - DAY 22. DAVID is smoking a cigarette out of his small window. He hears the sound of keys and somebody walking down the hallway. He darts towards his door and puts his ear next to it. When the sound of walking moves past his door he gently opens it and peeks down the hallway, seeing the back of THE WOMAN walking. 23. INT. HALLWAY - DAY 23. DAVID is standing outside of THE WOMAN’S apartment with the plant pot in his hand and a note attached to the side of it. He places it on her doormat. 24. INT. CHEMIST - DAY 24. DAVID is standing at the counter staring into space. Nobody is about. A knock on the glass pane of the door alerts him. He moves towards the door. 25. EXT. CHEMIST - DAY 25. DAVID opens the door and notices the plant pot sitting there. He looks left, right and up and nobody is about but the dancing of plastic bags. 26. INT. APARTMENT - EVENING 26. DAVID is smoking a cigarette out of his small window. He moves his hands about to signify an inner monologue taking place; deeply indulged in inner chit-chat. He then stops and stiffens and drops the cigarette from his window. He holds his left eye. 27. INT. BATHROOM - EVENING 27. He stares at himself in the mirror, confused and scared. DAVID (panicked) There’s something in my eye… there’s something in my eye. His left eye starts to twitch. Something then appears to be poking through the inner corner of his left eye; as it gradually pokes out more he realises it is a capsule. DAVID (blaring) Oh fuck!! He uses his fingers to carefully take out the capsule. He holds the capsule in the palm of his hand. Almost the size of his little finger. 28. INT. BEDROOM - EVENING 28. DAVID takes apart the capsule, takes out and unrolls a photograph of the plant, showing the first signs of plant growth. He takes a good look at it. 29. INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT 29. DAVID is laying on his back surrounded by a thousand different capsules and pills that he has emptied from every bottle from his cabinet. He sits up and picks up a capsule and takes it apart, tipping the powder onto the palm of his right hand. 30. EXT. FLORISTS - DAY 30. DAVID stands outside a florists analysing the flowers on display outside. He fixes his sight on some African Violets. 31. INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT 31. DAVID is analysing seeds in the palm of his right hand and picks up one seed with his fingers and looks at it. Then he holds his left ear as if something is inside his ear. His eyes twitch. He gradually pulls out a capsule from his left ear. He takes apart the capsule. A knock on the door is heard. 32. INT. HALLWAY - DAY 32. DAVID opens his door and sees at his feet an eggshell with a tiny plant growing from the dirt inside the top of the cracked open shell, on a small terracotta tray. The tray of which has a few small bags of seeds placed next to the eggshell. He picks it up and analyses it. 33. INT. BEDROOM - DAY 33. He sits back on the bed and gets back to seeing what is in the capsule. What he unrolls is a white glossy photo. He stares at it. 34. INT. APARTMENT - DAY 34. DAVID stands looking at something. We realise he is looking at a board on his wall full of photographs. The first photograph on the top left is the photo of the first time he laid eyes on THE WOMAN, followed by the second photo to it’s right of THE WOMAN at the door. The third is the photo of the plant pot with slight plant growth. The fourth is a photo of him crying at himself in the mirror. The fifth is of him laying in copious amounts of pills and capsules on his bathroom floor. The sixth is a photo of the plant pot with more plant growth than before. The seventh: DAVID in a fight with a drunken lad on the street. From here we see fifty or so more photos in quick succession; photos of DAVID as a child, with his mother. Happier times; photos of childish joy and Beingness. More sad photos; his mother on her death bed and a picture of her funeral. The last photo on the board is the white glossy photograph. 35. INT. APARTMENT - DAY 35. DAVID now looks like a man at peace with himself; a still mind, colour in his cheeks and a cleaner apartment. He is looking at a white African Violet in his little plant pot on his window sill. He breathes in deeply, closes his eyes. 36. EXT. CHEMIST - DAY 36. Plastic bags dance in the wind. 37. EXT. STREET - DAY 37. More plastic bags dancing in the wind. 38. EXT. PARK - DAY 38. A dog chews on a stick and a young father swings his child on a swing. 39. INT. A KITCHEN - DAY 39. A tap drips. 40. INT. BEDROOM - DAY 40. A little girl watches a confused moth bouncing off her wall. She giggles. 41. INT. BUS - DAY 41. THE WOMAN sits on a bus and watches the world go by out of her window. 42. INT. APARTMENT - DAY 42. DAVID breaths out. DAVID (V.O.) Between each breath (beat) is a pause… and in the visions of half-sleep, lies an answer (beat) just within grasp… FADE OUT: |
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