There’s a Norwegian film called Reprise that I watched last night. Well, I watched half of it last night and half of it this morning when I woke up an hour too early to be productive. It’s about these two guys, best friends, who are both trying to be published authors. It’s not the best film I’ve ever seen but the director did some creative things with voice-over, depicting situations between characters while overlaying conversations the same characters had at a different time. It’s an interesting method for expressing the way things change between people over time—their communication topics, their feelings for one another, the personal growth or devolution of the individuals.
About forty minutes into the movie I started to relate to both of the main characters in different ways. It made me depressed, because they’re both enduring different forms of psychosis and I don’t necessarily want to admit to my own mental issues; but it inspired me to begin writing a new screenplay of my own. It’s not so much an autobiography as it is a fictional story drawn lightly from what I’m experiencing in my own life right now.
The main character in my story is going to deal (poorly) with a sense of self-inflicted loneliness. I want to share more of this, but I haven’t gotten too far yet. Once I do, I’ll probably reconsider divulging any of it until I either finish, or give up.
I hope I don’t have to shelve this one.
2 years ago