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A long-distance couple on opposite sides of the globe trying to keep their failing relationship alive through the use of a brand-new virtual reality technology encounter problems? when they begin to lose sight of what’s real and what’s not.
Interesting. Will definitely want to see it
Interesting. Will definitely want to see it
See lessIn the future where people can change gender in an instant thanks to a revolutionary new pill, a young woman uses this method to evade capture by the authorities in pursuit of the real person who murdered her daughter.
One would assume that in a world where gender changes can happen in an instant, a fugitive's changing gender would not be enough to fool the authorities. The police would have caught up with the technology needed to identify DNA in an instant. It's an interesting idea, this pill, but I'm wondering iRead more
One would assume that in a world where gender changes can happen in an instant, a fugitive’s changing gender would not be enough to fool the authorities. The police would have caught up with the technology needed to identify DNA in an instant.
It’s an interesting idea, this pill, but I’m wondering if a crime story does it justice and helps it pay off to the outmost?compared for example to a rom com (bisexual woman wants to win the heart of both a straight and a gay man). Or a scifi political allegory about transgender rights.
But a crime film?
OK, so she changes gender once. Pursue, pursue, pursue. It’s Harrison Ford all over again. What’s new?
Or does she swap between genders lots of times? Perhaps between A- and B-story scenes? She turns back to a woman so her hospitalised father recognise her? Just like Spiderman takes off the mask before aunt Mae? And how many times can we see this magic before it becomes banal?
Also, in such a story, transgenderism will play a serious part. Politically. people go through lots of work, hormones etc., to achieve a gender change, today. What do you think changing gender in an instant means for them and for society?
First of all, it means that society has accepted transgenderism to such a degree that whole sectors of scientific research have been dedicated to people who want to change gender. It means that society is much more liberal than Trump’s America, for example. (And this is definitely an understatement.)
It also means that there will be a great wave of experimentation with this pill. Men will switch to women for one night, just to feel multiple orgasms, then switch back to their male selves in order to be powerful at their work place the next morning.
Unless patriarchy has been crushed?
(I’m scratching my head but?patriarchy taken away?I can’t find any reason for any woman to change into a man?for purposes of experimentation I mean.)
See what I mean? We are talking about huge social differences that go with the pill. Have you considered any of them?
See lessIn a futuristic world in which aging is prevented through the extraction of other people?s cells, a woman goes on a reluctant murder spree to maintain her youth and her marriage for her daughter ? only to find out her husband has a fetish toward older women.
(i) The fetish kicks me out?it's like a pointless "oopsy daisy" that undermines the story. (ii) Adding the word "reluctant" does not justify the protagonist's moral choices. If you want us to feel for her, you need to give us more background. (iii) How would her staying young help her daughter? Do yRead more
(i) The fetish kicks me out?it’s like a pointless “oopsy daisy” that undermines the story.
(ii) Adding the word “reluctant” does not justify the protagonist’s moral choices. If you want us to feel for her, you need to give us more background.
(iii) How would her staying young help her daughter? Do you mean that if she stays young, her husband will not divorce her and her daughter will not grow up without a father? Is this strong enough a reason for someone to turn into a killer?
(iv) I agree with the other comments: why does she have to kill people with her own hands? Do you visit the rejuvenation clinic bringing in your own victims’ blood cells? Does her husband not pay for the operation and must she find her own way to do it?
Arbitrary attempt to re-write the log line ensues. Let’s study the formula:
(0) WORLD SETTING:
“In a society where science helps privileged conservatives stay young by sacrificing homeless children,” (or teenagers)
(which explains the social structure and the sci-fi premise)
(1) BIG EVENT:
“when her husband files for divorce on the grounds of her old looks,”
(which hints the society’s patriarchy)
(2) FLAWED PROTAGONIST:
“an neglected housewife”
(3) MAIN ACTION:
“becomes a serial killer to finance her rejuvenation and save her marriage.”
(OK, how killing people finances the rejuvenation is not clear, but I don’t know what your intentions are down that road.)
Now, this would only work if the “centre of good” is on the homeless victims and not the protagonist killer with her absurd privileged problems. I very much see this woman being punished in the end.
The question is: is there any character that embodies the good? Perhaps a homeless vigilante? A Hobo With a Shotgun type?
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