For film/tv we had to come up with short film ideas, here’s an idea I’m planning to make with Ella…

Jeremy is a 23 year old male who lives with his grandmother. He used to attend University but dropped out. His grandmother urges him to take up a course again that he is more passionate about but he is unmotivated. He spends his days working in a run down video shop with not a lot of business. He doesn’t have a lot of friends and doesn’t speak to the rest of his family since his father passed away. His grandmother is all he has. One day she passes away in her sleep and Jeremy doesn’t know how to react. His days are lifeless and grey. The video shop he worked in shut down. Jeremy finds a cactus on his grandmothers bed stand and, unable to cope with her death, believes his grandmother has taken the form of a cactus. Using the small fortune she left behind, Jeremy does all the things he did with his grandmother with the cactus; knitting? Watching a comedic film? Sitting in the park near a lake? During one of these activities the cactus falls over and the soil comes out. The cactus dies. Jeremy finally lets out his emotion and deals with the death of his grandmother.

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