Back to CREATION

I came back an hour ago from watching Lars von Trier's last film, The 5 obstructions. It's basically 5 variations of the same short film, each of them with a different "obstruction". But the film is not important now. More important is that i went with -j and his sweet girlfriend, that we had a lovely time as usual (including a gorgeous pizza that -j's girlfriend couldn't digest very well, unfortunately) and that somehow i recovered my creative soul. Maybe it was Lars movie, don't know certainly. But the fact is that I came back and sat in front of the computer with a shot of russian vodka by my side, and that i started writing the script for that short film screenplay's competition i told you some days ago, the prize being two weeks at new york city's film school to shoot the short film, all expenses included (except pocket money for cigarretes and alcohol, i assume)
I started writing a bizarre script. The screen is divided into two halfs. On the left half you see a man sitting on an armchair, on the right half you see a woman sitting on an armchair. The setting, the "mise en scène" is exactly the same at each half, including the armchair, a side table, and on it a bottle of vodka, a glass, an ash tray and a pack of cigarettes. In fact, the men is in front of the woman, they are having a conversation face to face, but i decided to place them on two separate halfs on the screen, so that we see each of them independently, as they were not related in the physical space (though soon we will understand they are related, indeed.)