Linear, fiction, narrative.
Drama
Length: 10-15 min
Target audience: 25 and older
Tagline: Never too late...or When you reach the point of no return
Treatment:
Russia, 2008. Small town in Bashkortostan. The film documents struggles of a middle aged woman. Camera follows her usual day. The exposition is that she was born into a drinking family and is destined to relive the mistakes of her mother. Although she does not drink alcohol herself, her husband does. She follows the flow of life without fighting for it and suppresses her feeling of hatred for her family and her lack of will to change. One night she has a usual quarrel with her husband and leaves the house under the pretense of walking the dog. She is full of frustration. They are passing a bus stop. The dog gets agitated and barks. The woman notices a very drunk man moving in the snow under the bench. It is winter, -15F, windy. His jacket is not buttoned, his gloves and hat lay next to him in the snow. In his intoxication he speaks rubbish.Other people are passing by without stopping. She feels hatred for the man as he represents all the wrong things in her life. She starts walking again. After a while she stops and looks back. Something changes in her. She goes back to help him. The man does not want to accept her help. He struggles to get up himself and fails again. She sits him on the bench and he pushes her away. Curses at her. But she is obsessed with the man now. She needs to help him as if her life depended on it. With shaking hands she tries to dress him and she cries. He obviously has frostbite on his body. Someone has called an ambulance and she can hear the sirens. The paramedics come. She asks if he is going to be ok. They answer that he has severe frostbite that needs to be dealt with but he will likely survive. She cries again. She almost left him there. She almost gave up. She runs back home and hugs her intoxicated husband. It is suggested that maybe she found hope and the will to fight for life.
Comment: I based this story partially on real events. I have spoken to my family in Russia and was told the shocking story of the drunk man that had happened recently. Although I do not want to contribute to the stereotype of all Russians being drunks I must say that I encountered many while I lived there. Maybe that is why I do not consume alcohol.
Visual: Although I have pulled this image from the internet this is a typical Russian sight. In fact my grandma lives in the exact same building. We used to get pretty snowed in.
Drama
Length: 10-15 min
Target audience: 25 and older
Tagline: Never too late...or When you reach the point of no return
Treatment:
Russia, 2008. Small town in Bashkortostan. The film documents struggles of a middle aged woman. Camera follows her usual day. The exposition is that she was born into a drinking family and is destined to relive the mistakes of her mother. Although she does not drink alcohol herself, her husband does. She follows the flow of life without fighting for it and suppresses her feeling of hatred for her family and her lack of will to change. One night she has a usual quarrel with her husband and leaves the house under the pretense of walking the dog. She is full of frustration. They are passing a bus stop. The dog gets agitated and barks. The woman notices a very drunk man moving in the snow under the bench. It is winter, -15F, windy. His jacket is not buttoned, his gloves and hat lay next to him in the snow. In his intoxication he speaks rubbish.Other people are passing by without stopping. She feels hatred for the man as he represents all the wrong things in her life. She starts walking again. After a while she stops and looks back. Something changes in her. She goes back to help him. The man does not want to accept her help. He struggles to get up himself and fails again. She sits him on the bench and he pushes her away. Curses at her. But she is obsessed with the man now. She needs to help him as if her life depended on it. With shaking hands she tries to dress him and she cries. He obviously has frostbite on his body. Someone has called an ambulance and she can hear the sirens. The paramedics come. She asks if he is going to be ok. They answer that he has severe frostbite that needs to be dealt with but he will likely survive. She cries again. She almost left him there. She almost gave up. She runs back home and hugs her intoxicated husband. It is suggested that maybe she found hope and the will to fight for life.
Comment: I based this story partially on real events. I have spoken to my family in Russia and was told the shocking story of the drunk man that had happened recently. Although I do not want to contribute to the stereotype of all Russians being drunks I must say that I encountered many while I lived there. Maybe that is why I do not consume alcohol.
Visual: Although I have pulled this image from the internet this is a typical Russian sight. In fact my grandma lives in the exact same building. We used to get pretty snowed in.
