VonGuard's Journal: Next Movie Project Musings

OK, this is more for me than for anyone else. So don't comment meanly!

Next movie project will be about mercy killings. At what point does it become ok to kill a person out of kindness. when does their life become so worthless and useless and full of pain that killing them is more humane than extending their life?

Science is wonderful at keeping people alive for incredible lengths of time. But should it?

We open on our leads, a young girl and boy who are sitting around bored, with nothing to do. They surf the net, watch TV, sit around indefinitely, incdecisively, absolutely bored.

One of them discovered Erowid and begins digging up information on various locally available drugs. They find out about Belladonna and Angel's Trumpet. There's a tree in the town around them. They go and make some tea from the flowers.

Along the way, they encounter an animal, half dead from being run over. The girl wants to whack it to death, put it out of its misery. The boy wants to take it home and bandage it, keep it alive. more on this later.

As they injest the tea, the rabbit begins to scream. They sit for a half hour. Nothing happens. They take some more. They finish the pot.

Everything goes to hell from here.

One leaves to go home, not sure which. Probably the female. She gets lost on the way, lost in a deep forest, she encounters people from her life, and the boy. Conversations on life, philosophy, everything. Deep spiritual stuff, but the people keep vanishing. She is the explorer, the one we view nature and spirituality through. Observe the natural courses of death, life, and such through.

She encounters animals, sees them vanish, sees them kill each other. Sees them doing all manner of normal actions. People arrive, vanish, talk, vanish.

While this is going on, the boy becomes absolutely incoherent and insane. He is picked up by the police, ends up in the hospital strapped to a table. No one can figure out what to do. They begin administering drugs, but this makes things worse. He becomes lucid at strange moments. He finds himself in odd situations. he's never sure if the encounters he has with people are real or false.

As time passes, the girl wanders home and finds herself in a newly redefined world. Her sesibilities are changed, her personality is more cemented and firm.

The boy is destroyed. His mind is gone, coming and going in slow waves of paranoia, halucinations, and psychosis. He becomes obcessed with the Belladonna tree outside his house. Talks to it. Dances with it, Crys on its roots. The sick animal they found is only getting worse, nothing helps. The veet offers to put it down. The boy only gets worse too.

In the end, the girl takes the animal and leaves it alone in the forest, still barely alive, screaming in pain. She walks off, leaving it alone. Shot from the shoebox, her feet in the background walking off into the sunset of the forest.

Interspersed with the boy, wandering alone, weaving in and out of traffic, suddenly terrified, running, screaming into trees and walls. Knocking himself out, not knowing where he is. Seeing devils, death, rot. He runs into the forest, rams himself into a tree, and lies bleeding and dying beside the dead animal.

As he falls to the ground in slow motion, blood spouting from his head, things go silent. Breathing is heard, his breathing. Deep, slow, labored, heavy with throaty intonations.

Just as he is about to die, he rolls sideways and sees the animal alive, happy, dancing. He smiles, happy, himself once more, finding his initial desire satiated. Breathing is still heard, heavier, slower. Lights fade, blackness comes. The breathing stops. The movie ends.