Thursday, 28 April 2016

Major Production Unit: Post-Production - One Last Synopsis: The Abridged Version

The Abridged Version:

- In the real world Archie kills Sean, Zoe and Perry due to drug and alcohol-fueled paranoia.
- His guilt and the emotional trauma suffered, causes a bout of psychosis: leading to Real Archie developing a form of delusional disorder where he thinks he's in a world where it never happened and everyone is still alive.
- Real Archie, now inside his false world, assumes the identity of Sean. Archie does not exist in this false world.
- Real Archie is split into two persons: Delusional Archie (who is pretending to be Sean) and Guilty Archie.
- Guilty Archie infiltrates Delusional Archie's false world in an attempt to snap him out of this and to confront what they have done by making Perry go 'missing'. This causes disequilibrium within the false world.
- A battle happens within the false world as Guilty Archie tries to repeatedly remind Delusional Archie of the murders, whilst Delusional Archie does the opposite and tries to ignore these attempts by deviating the scenarios or changing them completely (e.g. the ransom note location changes name)
- Ultimately Guilty Archie wins by making Delusional Archie so suspicious of him, that Delusional Archie follows Guilty Archie to the location where the murders happened. Thus forcing Delusional Archie to confront the crime scene (which has been projected into the false world).
- Delusional Archie, however, fights right up to the end, still convinced that Guilty Archie is behind the murders and that he is the reason Perry went missing. Delusional Archie Stabs Guilty Archie.
- We snap back into the real world, the first and only time we see it. Real Archie is dead: a knife stuck in his chest. A self-inflicted wound caused by himself thinking he was stabbing someone else, this is not the case though as Sean and Archie in the false world were always the same person. Whatever happened to one would also happen to the other.

Ultimately the film is about two-halves of a troubled man's mind, battling against one another to confront and at the same time escape from the horrific crime he committed.

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