Important Themes

One important part of my film will be the theme of Clocks. The clocks represent a countdown. In this case the countdown to Abdul pullign the trigger.
The ticking clock will appear twice in the film. The beginning when he's in the bathroom and during his comedown from the drugs. The ticking clock is inside his head. The only way he can get rid of the ticking noise is to shoot himself.
Also clocks will appear several times during the film. All the three shots of the hallway will feature a clock on the wall. The part where Abdul is sitting in the front room after taking the drugs will show a clock on the wall and another clock will be in the background before Abdul pulls the trigger after trying to get rid of teh ticking nosie in his head.

The scenes in the hallway represents emptiness. As the camera will be placed on the ground, the hallway will seem long and the walls tall. As the hallway appears at the beginning, middle and end, this shows the three different stages of the film; Abdul before taking drugs, Abdul after his fit and the empty kitchen after the events.

An important part of the film is the music. The Clair De Lune music contrasts against the images on screen. The music inspires a sense of beauty however the images on screen are far from beautiful. I want the music to tell the story and to fit with Abdul's emotions. I want the music to be part of the emotions and feeling so much that the audience forget that the music is actually there. I want it to become a neccessity to the story. The bit where the music fades out when Abdul has the come down, will be slowly substituted with the ticking clock. The audience will not realise that the music is gone. I believe that it is important as noticing the music stopping will take the audience out of the scene. By stopping the music, this will break the illusion of the story.
I want to evoke a sense of silence aswell but without it being silent on film. Silents plays an important part after the events of the day and the empty scenes in the house emphasise this point. Silence accompanies emptiness.

There are two interpretations of the film:

1) The beginning scene of Abdul in the bathroom represents him wanting to be part of a youth culture that his friends have adopted. He takes the drugs due to his friends influence as he believes it brings a sense of freedom. Once he takes the drugs he realises it is a wrong decision. He has become imprisoned by the drugs and eventually turns the trigger on himself. However as we know this isn't real and merely just a fantasy, the outcome is inevitable. He has become imprisoned by his attempt to be free.




2) An alternative view of the film may be that majority of what is seen and heard only takes place in Abdul's mind. The opening scene in the bathroom may be interpreted as a fantasy that only took place in Abduls mind and it represents the way he feels about his life; unmeaningful, pointless. If this interpretation is taken then Abdul takes the drugs as a device not to fit in with his friends but to take away his pain (a form of suicide) He takes the drugs to become free and to break out from his imprisonment of depression. When Abdul experiances the ticking noise towards the end of the film, he acts out his fantasy from the beginning of the film. Although this isnt real his smile as the end before pulling the trigger shows that he had succeeded.

Clair De Lune music can also be interpretted as being in his mind as his feelings and emotions are in time with the music. It is as if his feelings have been translated into a musical peice.

I want to leave the ending open, as I don't want to show whether Abdul dies or not.

The film I believe is about imprisonment and freedom. Whether or not drugs leads to imprisonment or liberation.

The film can be interpretted in different ways. I believe that there is no right or wrong interpretation of it.