FLOWER
A coming of age story about the unlikely bond that forms between a sexually adventurous teenage girl and her obese, mentally unstable step-brother.
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The promise for this movie is that there will be a bond forming… Nothing visual, nothing cinematic.
It seems to me that the only – for some perhaps dubious – appeal from this logline is in what the sexually adventurous teenage girl is going to do (and look like).
My question is: what sort of journey will they go through, that binds them? This should ideally be a tangible goal that either character needs to achieve and whereby the other will be a help or a hindrance.
It is a terribly low concept, so it depends entirely on the execution. Because the script made it onto the Blacklist, I suspect this execution to be excellent and an opportunity for a talented cast to shine. It is the type of film that smells like Academy Award material. Think RAIN MAN.
If directed well, it is also the type of material that proves you don’t need a big budget to make great movies and compete effectively with Hollywood.
The motif of two young people forming a romantic bond as they grow into adulthood is well and truly overdone in Australian features already (take the the recent cases of 48 Shades (2006) and Beautiful Kate (2009)). Even the description of a “sexually adventurous” girl is no major interest nor originality hook (Beautiful Kate, again, and Sommersault had this). There’s nothing in this logline that strikes the reader as being particularly different or particularly deep when compared to all the (so many) others of this kind before it.
The concept lacks distinction and lacks any compelling quality. I don’t think it can be truly salvaged. Try something else entirely.
Steven Fernandez (Judge)