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'THE SOILED EYE' - SCRIPT (ACT I, 5 PGS)
'THE SOILED EYE' - SCRIPT (ACT I, 5 PGS)
MOTION PICTURE
Script
(5 first pages)
MOMMY
please, the
TV!!!
FRN-
BEACH/
A
pre-Minoan
CHILD
operating
a
wooden
and
glass
apparatus, watching the seabed while he wades along the
shore in silence with the water up to his thighs. It is
very early in the morning, no ones around, only a
seagull which lands on a buried pre-doric column in the
shore.
INT/ KITCHEN/ DAY
FRANCIS has grown, he's now over four years old, with the
same intense, big black eyes. He is sat at the kitchen
table, loosely copying a photo of a green chameleon from
a
magazine.
An
exultant
drawing, brilliant, Picassian. MUMMY, an attractive blond
2
Silent
EVENTS
HALL/
the car leaving from the kitchen, and cuts himself trying
to slicing a tomato, blindly. Two porcelain plates crash
against the wall. A kitten appears in the rear walking
with a sock over its head, unable to get rid of it,
desperately
backwards,
straight
to
the
shards
of
porcelain.
FRANCIS ADULT (v.o)
Darkness
can
be
terrible
and
Sublime in an association common to
man, since in complete darkness is
impossible to know if we are safe,
we ignore the objects surrounding
us, we would found a dangerous
item, we could stamble the first
step we take, and if an enemy
approaches, we wont know how to
defend ourselves.