Section 5 - Treatment

Treatment – Who am I?

From our recent questionnaire results we decided to use the movie idea called Who am I? as this was best suited from what the public wanted. It was suited better as our target audience were near the classification of the movie of 15. The most popular sub genre the public voted for was psychological thriller and it was a match to the type of sub genre the film was going to be

Synopsis

For small town, hard working student Steven Smith, everyday is a formality of itself. The plan everyday life of a teenager…… But this night changes his life forever. In this deep, dark psychological thriller, Steven awakens into his reality and shocks not only his town but himself.

Beginning (Opening sequence)

An alarm rings and Steven Smith gets ready for school, he is dressed in casual wear: plain t-shirt, jeans and trainers. He leaves the house after saying his goodbyes to his mother Janet Smith. After his hard days work as usual he arrives back at his home and goes straight upstairs

(Cuts to scene outside)

A weird sound meets Steven’s ears, it wasn’t his alarm from his mobile as he was used to that sound in the morning, and he was cold and could hear the birds. He realises he is outside once he sits up, immediately he realises he is covered in blood. As he panics he jumps up to look for the source of the bleeding but it is nowhere to be found. He soon realises it was not him bleeding, he was covered in someone else’s blood. He is immediately shocked at what he sees and he jumps up and runs as fast as he can into the first direction he sees

(Opening credits, dark ominous music)

Middle

Steven arrives home terrified and locks himself in his bathroom, he desperately tries to remove the blood out of his clothes by using the shower and the bleach by the sink but nothing seems to work. The rest of that night he stays in the corner wondering how he ended up outside last night.

(Cuts to police station, in the detective’s office)

Derek Thompson, Detective inspector begins to walk around his office talking to his fellow officers who are on alert at all times, he goes on to tell them out a report about a missing 17 year old girl at about 7:!5 earlier that night, he goes on to tell them about the other case of a call that there was a body found in the woods just outside of town, he has a feeling that these two reports could be linked. He decides he has no choice but to break the possibly soul-crushing news to the missing girls’ parents.

(Cuts to Thompson outside the parents’ home)

The detective arrives at the home at precisely 11:45 pm at the missing girls’ parents’ house, he knocks on the door, apologising for the disturbance at this time of night but he has some news that can only be told in private and it could devastate them. He sits down in their home and tells them about the case about the body they found in the woods and asked them if it was ok for them to come and identify the body. When they arrive at the forensic lab, they a heartbroken to find out that it was their little girl. Derek Thompson calls a full scale investigation into this murder and tells the school that she went to. The next day, Steven arrives at school and is told about the girl who has gone missing and it was it was the girl he liked his entire life of school, but it was where she was found that linked with his place of awakening the morning previously, he started to doubt his own involvement with the issue. He also thinks about a weird event that happened this morning when a car followed him driven by a strange bearded man, but he manages to shrug it off.

(Cuts to week later)

Derek Thompson sits alone in his office with papers in front of him, viewing recently taken photos over the last few days that have turned his once quiet, calm town into a downward spiral to hell. He goes to the first crime scene so tries to look for clues that many forensics teams have tried before him. , He arrive to see a tall man in about his late 40s standing at the scene, shouting what he is doing, the man turns and begins to run. Detective Thompson gives chase on the unknown character and calls for back up while doing so under suspicion that this is the man he is after, he turns round the corner he realises that all has gone quiet, he turns to leave and is suddenly hit with a thick branch by this unknown man. The last thing the detective remembers before the blackout was the man stood over him.

(Cuts to hospital)

Detective Thompson wakes up in a hospital bed surrounded by all his family, he is stuck there for two weeks recovering from what is a serious head injury. When he gets back to work he launches a joint operation to the one already in place and now he had a lead, an image to look for, a possible suspect.

Ending

Stephen is on the run, suffering from crushing guilt, he didn’t know why he was doing this and could not remember doing it. Rain is pouring down and he’s tired and hungry. He walks across the motorway, overwhelmed by the feeling he cannot escape that he was being followed, the exact feeling had been with him all month and he continued to think of the man who followed him a weeks back, tall and possibly mid 40s. A few hours pass by and a car pulls up in front of him in front of him, and an arm appears out of the window giving the signal to come forward, Stephen approaches slowly wondering if this could be the end, if someone will finally tell him what is going on. He wasn’t scared, he had a gun in his pocket, and he fingers the trigger not trusting his hidden ‘friend’.

Stephen gets in the car and he suddenly realises that it is the man who followed him at school that day. He pulls the gun at the unknown man and asks him why he was following him. The man tells Stephen that he is his father, Paul Smith, and he knows what has been happening to Stephen. (Music changes to emotional through the use of a violin). Shocked and sickened, Stephen exits the car .

In complete and utter shock, he starts to walk down the road crying, consumed by his overwhelming guilt and his new told 'truth'. Paul gets out of the car screaming for his son to come back so he can explain things but Stephen persists on walking down the road wishing that the voices in his head would stop, he couldn't make sense of any of it, but they continued to scream the same phrase (music turns deep toned, ominous music begins to heighten sense of danger) 'kill him, he never cared about you'. His father catches with him and pulls him to attention but Stephen turns the gun and points at his fathers face. He starts to cry, asking him why he left, asks him what he had done, Paul explains and pleads his son to calm down. Stephen wants to know why, why he was following him. Paul tells him about the family history and that every generation of male in the family has suffered from schizophrenia and they all started to do things at the age of 18 when the brain is meant to mature properly. Stephen can't believe it, all this time he was so perfect at everything he did and now he knew that he was nothing but a murderer. He points the gun at his temple and shouts at his father to leave because he want anyone to find him, his father pleads to him not to do it, that there is a way out, he tells Stephen of his own illness being cured.

Stephen shouts and says that there is no way out, only death is the only possible solution. The voices in his head get louder, they were blocking out all noise of the heavy rain. His head hurt and he wished that the pain would just stop, the voice was telling him 'death will become our medication'.

(Music stops, only to hear the sound of the rain, voices still remain) Stephen pulls back the pin with his thumb.

He looks his father in the eye 'I’m sorry'

(Cuts to woods next to the motorway)

Detective Thompson is at the scene of the crime of the first murder. He hears a loud banging crack echo through the trees, he runs in the direction of the noise, when he arrives at the edge of the motorway, he looks left and then right and in front of him is a body in the road and a tall man is stood over it screaming, crying and holding a gun.

The detective pulls out his weapon and screams at the man to put his weapon down and raise his hand behind his head, the man obliges. He kicks the gun into the road and tells the man to get on knees.

Thompson recognises the man as the one who put him in the hospital a few weeks ago, he asks who he is, Paul replies 'I’m the man your looking for, the killer, the boy is my son'

Paul looks at Thompson in the eye 'I killed him'

(Music comes back on, credits of the film)