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Dec. 27th, 2003 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerSo, writing for me isn't always an end to a means. Sometimes - probably most of the time, actually - it's the means to an end. Usually in the form of scribbles about short film ideas and the like.
Something I've been tossing around for a little while is the seed of a short film. I have images and general impressions of what I want it to be about, rather than a real specific plot.
To try to sum it up, though... on my mind a lot lately has been the idea of the effects of extreme and loud self pity, self doubt, 'nothing ever goes right for me', just general negativity in a personal sense, as inflicted by one person in a relationship (in whatever sense) upon the other. Namely - someone who is constantly wailing about the injustices of the universe, for whom everything is always either neutral or bad, bad, bad. Someone who finds someone else who sympathises with them and who they can latch onto, to listen to and empathise with these horrible injustices. And this second person who so often will suddenly become the enemy if they so much as burn out on the negativity, or try to look at things in a way that suggests that there may be any lacking on the part of the other.
I want to explore this kind of relationship through the eyes of the second person, the one who is latched onto. The kind of guilt they feel whenever the relationship, in whatever way and by whatever means, ends. The kind of journey it can be to realize not only that you aren't solely at fault or a failure, but that so much of the fault you do have is simply in enabling the wrong things in the wrong way at the wrong time. Not knowing when it was necessary to say no, or disagree, no matter how much it would hurt both of you.
So I think there's lots of meaty stuff there that would work well in short film. I should sit down one of these days and kind of get into character and just write as it comes to my head, and start working with that. I'm thinking that this kind of idea, in order to be as introspective as I want it to be, will have to involve a lot of voice over monologue-in-the-head. I've largely fleshed out how I want to come at the concept, but I don't feel like typing it out right now. Maybe later.
Something I've been tossing around for a little while is the seed of a short film. I have images and general impressions of what I want it to be about, rather than a real specific plot.
To try to sum it up, though... on my mind a lot lately has been the idea of the effects of extreme and loud self pity, self doubt, 'nothing ever goes right for me', just general negativity in a personal sense, as inflicted by one person in a relationship (in whatever sense) upon the other. Namely - someone who is constantly wailing about the injustices of the universe, for whom everything is always either neutral or bad, bad, bad. Someone who finds someone else who sympathises with them and who they can latch onto, to listen to and empathise with these horrible injustices. And this second person who so often will suddenly become the enemy if they so much as burn out on the negativity, or try to look at things in a way that suggests that there may be any lacking on the part of the other.
I want to explore this kind of relationship through the eyes of the second person, the one who is latched onto. The kind of guilt they feel whenever the relationship, in whatever way and by whatever means, ends. The kind of journey it can be to realize not only that you aren't solely at fault or a failure, but that so much of the fault you do have is simply in enabling the wrong things in the wrong way at the wrong time. Not knowing when it was necessary to say no, or disagree, no matter how much it would hurt both of you.
So I think there's lots of meaty stuff there that would work well in short film. I should sit down one of these days and kind of get into character and just write as it comes to my head, and start working with that. I'm thinking that this kind of idea, in order to be as introspective as I want it to be, will have to involve a lot of voice over monologue-in-the-head. I've largely fleshed out how I want to come at the concept, but I don't feel like typing it out right now. Maybe later.
