Post-Production - New script.

Individuality

Written by Samantha Bean

Draft 3

FADE IN.

1.  Int – Bare room – Night.

(P.O.V) PAUL wakes up and blinks as light starts to hit his pupils. He starts to look around himself. There’s not a lot he can see right now as there is not a lot of light and his eyes are adjusting. He can tell he is alone.

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

Choices in life can lead to many things. There like forks in a continuing road. Take the left you end up in one destination, take the right you end up in a completely different destination. Your choices you make define you, they make us who we are.

(P.O.V) Paul looks around himself and see’s a window with a small amount of light coming through. There is not a lot out of the window and he can see that he appears to be in the middle of nowhere. 

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

You build your life on the decisions that you make every day. Weather to have take away or to cook a balanced meal. Weather to smoke that first cigarette or to say no. to walk away from the offer of drugs and the bet or to shake their hand and make the deal.

(P.O.V) PAUL tries to get up but can’t move. He looks down at his body and realises that his hands are tied behind him and that his feet are tied to the chair. He begins to move his arms and legs but cannot get free.

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

There all forks in our existence road we call our lives. As an individual I have made choices that have been the wrong ones. Ones that have not only damaged me but also the ones that I held close to my heart. I end up in situations. Places that I shouldn’t be in… Felt emotions that I should not have felt… emotions I should never have placed on others.

(Mid-shot) Looking through the window at the man we can see that he is completely alone in a small shed in what appears to be the middle of nowhere. He is tied up and there is blood falling down the side of his head.  

(P.O.V) PAUL looks at the window as if he has seen something move but only see’s a few tree branches moving against the window. He turns to look over his shoulder to see a dead body behind him. He blinks hard and hangs his head. Then turns back to face away.

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

I was the one that made you give up. I made you make that choice. I made you choose between life and death. I made you choose that fork. I was the one that killed you. (A tear falls from PAUL’S eye)

(Long-shot) We see PAUL tied up in his chair, tears falling down his face while a women lays behind him unmoving. She is in a pool of blood around her head. He bows his head, deep in his remorse and crying. Then he slowly looks back up at the camera and remains still and staring ahead. 

PAUL BARNES (V.O)

And what do I have to now? Nothing. Nothing but looking back at my road to see regret and death and forward to see no more forks. Just a dark bare room where I am tied up with my choices in life.

FADE TO BLACK.