After much debate about which of the three films, mentioned in my last post, we would pick we came to a decision. Albeit not a very decisive decision, but rather one based on the outcome of a coin toss (and not even a real coin toss, but rather one stimulated by an iPhone app!). Well without further ado, the result was Treatment by Luke Phillips.Treatment is about a schizophrenic man who forgets to take his medicine one morning. Although the first draft needed lots of work, we liked the theme of schizophrenia and thought it would be an interesting issue to explore within our film. We are going to start a re-write over the next couple of days. In the meantime, however, I am going to rewatch a few films from my collection that deal with schizophrenia (all in very different ways!) and see if I can gain some inspiration. My to watch list tonight is:
- Fight Club (1999) - dir. David Fincher
- Me, Myself & Irene (2000) - dir. Bobby & Peter Farrelly
- Julien Donkey Boy (1999) - dir. Harmony Korine
Obviously some of these are going to be more useful than others, by which I mean Julien Donkey Boy will probably be the only useful one! But it will be fun nonetheless.
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