Sunday, 30 September 2012

Life swap - Updated treatment 30/09/12

The film opens with the main character a girl of about 14 named Sarah stumbling through her front door and up the stairs and into her room drunk, with the sound of her mother shouting her dissaproval at her daughter's behaviour still echoing up the stairs. Sarah falls onto her bed and immediately passes out. As she comes back around, she sees another version of herself, sat at the end of her bed, staring at her. Sarah A, as expected, first begins to question the girl (e.g. 'Who are you? How did you get in here?'), to which she is answered with silence. The girl then explains that she is Sarah's other self, the side that she never expresses anymore, the real her. Sarah B then explains that Sarah A is in fact still unconscious but is about to die of alcohol poisoning, and that what she is experiencing is limbo, where she can no longer hide from her true self. The girl then offers Sarah A a trade, she would not die of alcohol poisoning, but someone, somewhere would have never been born. Sarah deliberates for a while about the decision, but being a selfish person, eventually agrees to the deal, because she believes that she herself has great potential and would probably achieve more than this person anyway. Sarah B accepts and gets up to leave. Sarah A asks her who the person would be, to which Sarah B replies 'You, of course.' Sarah A then passes out again, leaving the audience to interpret her fate in for themselves

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