Alone by Javier Torregrosa (jayrex) - Short, Drama - Phil's past brings him warmth amongst the cold clear night. 2 pages - pdf, format 8)

Some of you wirters are getting a bit to clever for me. He kiss a girl who disapear and was never there in the first place? I had to read this twice to break through the enigma of it.

Spoon, needle, lighter. That's used for taking herion, right? So he is on a high? Obviously misses his girl. pretneds she is there. So he miss his girl and use drugs to curb the pain? Yes?

Didn't enjoy this one. I found it elusive and thin. but it's great to see you are playing around with writing styles and experimenting.

Look forward to when you return to attacking contriversal issues with your brand of humor. Those are my favourite scripts from you.  

Hey Javier. I, like Tonka was a bit confused.

From what I can pick up, he keeps the newspaper clipping as a memory of her, and to try and get over her he takes herion.

What's with the time change? Was the time at night the last time they were together? And the actual time is 4, but the main character doesn't know this because he is on drugs?

Overall I think this was a cool story. I think you could make it a bit longer. Why did she die? How? And more on how the guy copes with it.

I thought that this was a good script.  For a two-pager, I thought it was set up nicely and theing was a nice surprise.

My only complaint is the newspaper clipping.  You kept it at one line for brevity's sake and that ruined it for me.  It seemed very phony and actually annoyed me.


Phil

What's up Jay,

Really enjoyed this one. For such a little short, you packed quite a bit into it. The other people who have read, and commented above me have all made very valid points, so I will try not to repeat what has already been said...

Some of the stuff you wrote in descriptions/ actions would be hard to film... How do you show us that a pain "shoots down his arm"? Also, everything that Travis said was valid; I was wondering how a bloodied nose can break the silence?

I also agree with Dogglebe; get rid of the newspaper cutting. I think this would work much better if he just cried, then injected himself again. He could then smile, look happy, and the camera could pan out to reveal him sitting on a bench, in a cemetary or something. That would get the messaged across better IMO.

Also, why does his nose bleed? Bleeding nose isn't (as far as I'm aware) a sympton of heroin-abuse; it's a sympton of heavy cocain abuse.

But yeah, I enjoyed this one man. Keep this up,

Toby.

good script. it was short enjoyable and interesting. Hope to read more of your stuff.

Hey everybody,

Thanks for the read Travis, Glenn, Tommy, Phil, Toby & Xavier.

I've had mixed reviews on this one.  I entered this one into MP and I kinda got the idea from Nik.  I didn't have a clue.

The first half of the story Phil has taken herion and has gone into a world of his own.  Marie comes to life from his imagination.  He doesn't realise what's going on until hours later he snaps out of his imaginary dream.  He just has nose bleeds and is not a suppose to be connected with cocaine.  The newspaper clipping was to bring him down to planet earth.

If I do a rewrite I'll take the newspaper clipping out and take up Toby's idea.

A little about me.

Back in my student days.  A nose bleed or a sound was enough for me to snap out of my own drug induced world.

Kind regards,


Javier