Change
savinh0Samurai
After a German student, who is afraid of changes, is getting his dream scholarship for a US film school, he is confronted with the death of his grandfather and the meeting with his biological father and has to choose between his familiar surroundings and the study before the acceptance period expires.
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Is his father in the US ? and if he is affraid of changes, what promted him to apply to a film school in the US ? Does he have a friend in the US ?
The grandfather and father issues are unfortunate, but I fail to see how they are obstacles to his objective goal of going to film school in the US of A. They seem extraneous to the logline.
The only serious obstacle, the only worthy foe in the logline is the student himself, his own internal inhibitions and anxieties. The story is about an internal struggle. He is his own antagonist, his own worst enemy.
And there’s a ticking clock. He has a deadline to accept the scholarship or lose it. That’s good.
But internal conflicts are difficult to dramatize — to wit, to visualize — on film. And I don’t see anything in particular — a compelling hook, a unique twist — that makes this story stand out from all the other stories about struggling young artists.