This week my epiphany came when I was walking home one night and inspiration struck, indescribable, and came on like a flash of lightning.
A little bit of backstory to this inspiration is that I have had the ambition/ idea to make a feature film which would combine the glib nature of trainspotting, the building events of the big lewbowski and the feature of time in the narrative like Memento.
My source of this idea was from a title for a film “Violent Young Man” where a young male searching for redemption ends up in a courtroom shootout after events pile on top of each other, leading him to this unlikely ending. Now! I was never happy with this direction and decided to take the film in a different direction, less of a hard drama and more of a skipping through time narrative which keeps the events light and entertaining.
The result was thinking of a young man, who after seeing a movie with his friend, gets into a fight with a man in the cinema car park. He is sent to group anger management therapy and after realizing that he has to tell a story to escape the therapy, tells a story of love, loss, redemption and debauchery. Involving accidental involvement in crime, the search for work and the finding of a girl through peculiar circumstances. His story ends with being in a courtroom shootout, which sounds familiar to the movie that recently came out (and that the hero saw at the beginning) The members of the group call him up on this, but when the girl arrives at the group therapy session and reveals that the hero really did have a friend that died, it begs the question, how much was real and how much was a lie?
I have written the treatment for this feature idea, which I have had a few people read over and I have edited and straightened out in the last week. I am always keen for readers and input….Robin? Would you ever be keen to give it a read?
Cheers,
Karl.