Thursday, September 20, 2007

trapped pregnant woman

There is a pregnant woman in a squalid flat, all dark as if the windows are boarded up.

I understand that she is captive, has been held there by her captor for some time. She gets up off the bed quietly and starts to move around the flat. She moves as if she believes she is tethered at the ankle by a chain, only when I look at the place I expect the chain to be trailing along behind her, there is nothing.

There are I believe camera's the 'he' has set up on the ceiling - but are they working though?

She moves around the flat looking for things - a knife? A weapon? An exit...?

She heads towards a room and in typical horror movie fashion she is moving towards a room where we (the audience) know that something terrible happened before: we are all screaming "No, don't go that way...!" but of course she does not hear.


She enters the room and I hold my breath. It is even darker, even more squalid in here and the space reeks of a crime. She looks to the end of the room and there are thick floral curtains full length curtains, a patio window maybe...?

She moves quickly towards them, with a dramatic gesture pushes them open. We (the audience) are now ahead of her and see her face close up looking down in horror for several seconds: 'what has she seen' we wonder!? Is it perhaps the 'last victim' - a corpse all mangled and rotting?

Next the camera pans back and pregnant lady is standing...

on the edge of a cliff. It is a dramatic and beautiful scene, maybe Cornish - high cliffs, blue sky.

Silently she topples forward off the edge of the cliff to her freedom.

(strangely I do not get the impression that she crashes on the beach or the cliff face, in fact I suspect there may have been a big wooden double bed with white cotton sheets suspended in mid air and that after her fall, she in fact found herself waking up, as if from a bad dream, in this beautiful bed?)

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