Script

“FACELESS” By YEHUDA NAHMIAS & LIBBY SORSKY

INT. car boot – NIGHT WE HEAR faint muffled sound of vehicle engine moving CLOSE-UP of Female eye We make out a young girl’s panicked eye (17), as light continuously passes across it, from side to side. TITLE AND CREDITS flicker on screen as light beam passes by. INT. PSYCH WARD PRISON CELL - DUSK CUT TO CLOSE-UP of girl’s bare feet being dragged down corridor.  CUT TO CLOSE-UP of eye, now on its side.  FAINTLY WE HEAR water drops close by.  Love SUDDENLY opens her eye, catching her breath in shock. WIDE SHOT of her propped up on elbow wondering where she is and how she got there. Her head is a muddle. She is visibly disturbed by her surroundings.  PANNING WIDE SHOT across the other half of room, isolated, eerie and tense, too quiet.  WIDE SHOT of girl siting up turning to her left, finding that the sound of dripping is coming from a beautiful arrangement of roses in a vase, cracked having fallen on to its side. Low angle CLOSE-UP of dripping roses. CLOSE-UP of drops falling into a puddle. WIDE SHOT, Light-headed, she tries to get up, putting her weight on her left hand for support. She accidentally presses her hand into the stray shards of glass from the broken vase.  SIDE CLOSE-UP of her hand pressing into glass shards. She displays no signs of pain. MEDIUM SHOT of girl using wall for support as she gets up and moves out of frame, leaving a smear of blood on said wall. WIDE TRACKING SHOT the back of her head appears from below frame and enters the other side of the room. (EERIE MUSIC builds up) PANNING LOCATION SHOT of prison surroundings, ends with a MEDIUM SHOT down the corridor and a counter zoom into a menacing black male silhouette peeping through door window. CUTS TO WIDE SHOT from behind the silhouette peeping through door window, giggling, pressing his hands firmly against the steel door.  CROPPED WIDE SHOT of her hesitantly walking towards door. AUTEM  “I would suggest you stay where you are love” Love Flinches back CUT TO his eyes through the glass of the door window in a MEDIUM CLOSE-UP. AUTEM Walks into room CUTS TO MEDIUM SHOT of Girl creeping backwards, he is casting a shadow over the room as he walks in. Shouts “I said stay where you are!” Love KEEPS WALKING slowly backwards, audibly cutting her foot on broken glass, she displays no signs of pain. AUTEM “you think I’m joking; you think this a game; you think I won’t dismantle you; all this thinking and you still won’t stop...STOP!” AUTEM 2 “STOP!” AUTEM  “What!” AUTEM 2 “That’s not the way to talk to her” AUTEM “What do you mean? who’s side are you on?” AUTEM 2  “It’s not her fault, I’ve realized” says in a panicked tone.  AUTEM  CUTS TO low angle shot of his shoe, with her in the background sliding towards door. “It is only her, it has always has been her” “Move out my way” shadow flinches back AUTEM 2 “You never listen, this isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last” AUTEM “alright, alright, ok, excuse me my lady, I have to go deal with this” Shadow declines in size, eventually disappearing  Slams door behind him Love  MEDIUM SHOT of her against wall confused and trying to catch her breath  Looks at vase of roses CUTS To low angle CLOSE-UP shot of roses A petal fall, heading for the puddle below, then suddenly moves to the side and lands on ground creating an amplified water drop noise. She is visibly disturbed. CUTS TO CLOSE-UP of her eye, heavy breathing. Strengthening her resolve, under her breath, she says. “I’m always right” MEDIUM SHOT of her catching her breath and hesitantly walking towards door to confront him. TRACKING SHOT shows her walking to door and banging on it. MEDIUM CLOSE-UP of fist slamming on door. MEDIUM CLOSE-UP of the door creaking open, letting in a whistle of air into the room. Low angle MEDIUM SHOT of her looking down at door, opening it and looking through into corridor. INT. PSYCH WARD CORRIDOR – DUSK WE HEAR a faint buildup of the intro music. Love  MEDIUM SIDE SHOT as she edges into corridor through doorway, looking to the right. WIDE SHOT shows corridor is very dark and blocked off. MEDIUM SIDE SHOT as she edges into corridor through doorway, looking to the left. WIDE SHOT shows corridor is dimly lit and has a colourful bright room at the end of it.  MEDIUM SIDE SHOT of her walking out of the door way to the left. Low angle CLOSE-UP SHOT of her foot walking by, bleeding. OFF CENTERED TRACKING SHOT of her walking down corridor towards room (Music builds up louder as she gets closer) WIDE SHOT of room door entrance, she walks into frame and stands in front of the room entrance, staring. SIDE MEDIUM SHOT of her face staring into the room, half of her face is glowing from the light of the room, the other half is dark. Low angle DEFOCUSED EYELINE MATCH SHOT of Gramophone playing in room. CLOSE-UP SHOT of Vinyl spinning. WIDE PANNING SHOT of the rest of the room. PANNING SHOT of faces on the wall, showing missing a series of dummy heads on wall, wearing generic identical masks on each; Happiness, Confusion, Frustrations, Loneliness, we come across a mask less head, Anger, we continue to pan down through the emotions, crossing another mask less head, Kindness, we continue to pan across the wall until we hit an empty frame with the emotion of love written underneath. CUTS TO black screen  THE END