It's about a teenager who's depressed over his ex-girlfriend who he still loves. He's planning on killing himself but he can't get the nerve to. His home life is bad, his father is an alcoholic and his mother works at a fast food restaurant. About 30 minutes into the film, a new venue opens up that creates a lucid dream reality in which you control the world, and the main character tries it out. He creates a world in which his ex is still dating him and he is popular. As the fake world gets better, the real world gets worse. He skips school to go to the venue, and despises the whole idea of reality. In the end, his mother gets into a car crash, deforming her face and sending her into depression. His father can't stand his wife looking like that, and he leaves in the middle of the night. When the main character wakes up in the morning, his mother has hung herself. The main character decides then that he's going to spend the rest of his life in the lucid reality, so he buys a portable version of the machine that he takes into the middle of a forest and enters. Inside of the lucid reality, he realizes that he is slowly starving to death and that the lucid world is bad and a temptation. He escapes and runs back to his town to live his life again. When he arrives, there are no longer any people, because they are all living in their own lucid realities. The only person left is his ex, who tells the main character that she still loves him, and that everyone was always trying to keep them apart. They hold hands and walk out into the sunset, beginning a life together.
It is then revealed that the main character never left the lucid reality, and that he is slowly starving to death. He falls out of the machine and into the snow, dead.
Yes, it is extremely depressing. I got this idea after my girlfriend broke up with me. I want to know if this is a good idea, because I may start writing a screenplay for it if people like the idea.
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Thank you very much, Jay and Film Guy. I've seen all of those films mentioned, and The Science of Sleep and Vanilla Sky are definitely inspirations for this idea, although I saw them after I thought of this idea. I find that when I am sad, watching depressing movies is very calming. My goal is to make a film that guys watch after their girlfriends break up with them.
It is then revealed that the main character never left the lucid reality, and that he is slowly starving to death. He falls out of the machine and into the snow, dead.
Yes, it is extremely depressing. I got this idea after my girlfriend broke up with me. I want to know if this is a good idea, because I may start writing a screenplay for it if people like the idea.
OPINIONS PLEAASE
Thank you very much, Jay and Film Guy. I've seen all of those films mentioned, and The Science of Sleep and Vanilla Sky are definitely inspirations for this idea, although I saw them after I thought of this idea. I find that when I am sad, watching depressing movies is very calming. My goal is to make a film that guys watch after their girlfriends break up with them.