Pitch for Broken Soul

When a troubled young boy is adopted by a suburban couple, he struggles to adapt to his new life and finds that his past still haunts. In order to cope with his past he takes his anger out on them but becomes more and more violent. Will they be able to escape from him or will he continue to torture them?

The film will be set outside London where he kidnaps and tortures his adoptive parents. the film will appeal to viewers aged between 18 and 30. It is a psychological thriller based on the film We Need To Talk About Kevin and has aspects of the film Juno. The setup will begin with a brief backstory of the boy and the adoptive parents then the confrontation would be when the now older boy has a flashback of his past that haunts him and causes him to kidnap and torture his adoptive parents in their basement. The resolution is not clear as we do not know whether he kills them or leaves them in the basement.

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Both of the films that I am analysing play on the idea of relationship between a mother and child, however, the film Juno plays on the struggles during pregnancy, and the film We Need To Talk About Kevin talks about the struggles after pregnancy. The two mothers in the films Juno and Evie both show that their bond with their child is unexplainable because it is unique between them and their child. For my short clip based on these two films I will show  the bond of not just the mother but the father too. However the love between the parents and son will be unexplainable too because even though the son is no their biological son, they still try to love him unconditionally. My short film would play with the idea of a troubled relationship between a parent and a child.

My film idea is about a troubled boy who is adopted by a couple in a suburban neighbourhood. The boy struggles to bond with his adoptive parents which results in releasing his anger by bullying his adoptive parents when he's older. This results in him kidnapping and torturing his parents. The film ends in a cliffhanger because we dont know whether he's killed his parents or not.

We Need To Talk About Kevin sequel

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This scene from We Need To talk About Kevin could be an iconic moment in which I could carry on to my sequel because it shows his disregards for anybody else. This scene is remembered because the structure of We Need To Talk About Kevin isn't structured and is often a mix of the past and present. This scene is shown in detail and doesn't include flashbacks, and isn't confusing, therefore it is quite memorable.

Sequel: I could include Kevin in prison eating porridge/bread in a malicious way infront of a guard which shows that he still has no regards for others.

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