FIRST DRAFT
The film opens with a young couple who are unnamed, with them they have a
picnic basket with a copy of Romeo and Juliet in. There is only diegetic sound
and there is no dialogue. The film is set in outside on the coast. The couple
are walking you see them hold hands and look into each other’s eyes. They are
walking up a slope slowly towards a cliff face throughout the film holding
hands. The young woman turns to go back for some reason we assume she has
forgotten something. The young man pulls her back in a 'tender' but she trips
and knocks her head, her hair then has small red flowers in where she hit her
head. She looks up and smiles at the young man and they carry on their way, but
he gives her a piggy back. they reach the top and admire the view. He then puts
her down on the grass, and they both lie down watching the clouds. The man
pulls her in and she has his head on her chest and she now has more flowers in
her head and the number keeps growing and spreading as he strokes her hair. He
kisses her forehead and then proceeds to walk towards the cliff edge. He stands
on the edge facing her, they wave goodbye and lets himself fall off the edge as
a single tear falls down her cheek. The camera does a 180 degree pan during
which it recaps the journey. However it shows the reality of what happened her
trying to run away when they are at the base of the cliff but he is violent in
pulling her back and he throws her to the floor. She hits her head and appears
unconscious we assume she's dead. Instead of flowers her head is bleeding. He
then picks her up and starts to walk. He lies her down at the top of the cliff
and she bleeding profusely covered in red. He pulls her into him and grips her to
tight you can see marks / bruising. He gets up and walks to the edge again to
jump but this time when he looks back it’s not a tear it’s a drop of blood from
her mouth. He falls and it zooms in on the copy of Romeo and Juliet which has
fallen out of the basket and is lying on an open page. You see one of the
following quotes.
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume”
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
The film ends zooming out into an ariel shot of the dead woman lying atop the cliff, in a pool of blood with red flowers.
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