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A rigid and rational psychiatrist finds herself questioning her beliefs when a potentially dangerous man is brought into a mental institution claiming he was abducted by extraterrestrials. Under the guidance of her unconventional supervisor, the young, inexperienced psychiatrist must decide if the patient will be involuntarily hospitalized or if he is telling the truth.
Her objective goal, basically, is deciding what to do with the patient. But that doesn't necessarily involve her wavering for 90 minutes. Under the guidance of the attending doctor, the evaluation includes hypnosis sessions, looking into similar abduction cases, visiting UFOlogists, UFO enthusiast gRead more
Her objective goal, basically, is deciding what to do with the patient. But that doesn’t necessarily involve her wavering for 90 minutes. Under the guidance of the attending doctor, the evaluation includes hypnosis sessions, looking into similar abduction cases, visiting UFOlogists, UFO enthusiast groups and listening to their theories and visiting crop circles as well as the site of the abduction. They visit the patient’s apartment, where he shows them something he has been developing to communicate with UFOs. She contacts famous psychiatrists in this field, like John E. Mack and Susan Clancy. Despite her better judgment, the doctor starts to become convinced that alien life forms are visiting Earth and have been for a very long time. She wonders if her judgment has been clouded by the development of feelings for the patient. She then discovers something from the patient’s past which makes her question everything she has learned about the patient so far. I think all of this falls under deciding what to do, but maybe I need to make that sound more interesting? And shorter. And reword the potentially dangerous part.
See lessA rigid and rational psychiatrist finds herself questioning her beliefs when a potentially dangerous man is brought into a mental institution claiming he was abducted by extraterrestrials. Under the guidance of her unconventional supervisor, the young, inexperienced psychiatrist must decide if the patient will be involuntarily hospitalized or if he is telling the truth.
I don't understand why you don't think this is a log line. Can you please clarify. It includes the hero's function: a psychiatrist. The hero's weakness: young, inexperienced and rigid. The inciting incident: a dangerous patient brought into the hospital. The goal: deciding if the patient is mentallyRead more
I don’t understand why you don’t think this is a log line. Can you please clarify. It includes the hero’s function: a psychiatrist. The hero’s weakness: young, inexperienced and rigid. The inciting incident: a dangerous patient brought into the hospital. The goal: deciding if the patient is mentally unstable or telling the truth about an alien abduction. And the stakes: the patient will be involuntarily hospitalized.
Also, I have researched the law regarding mental health, which is why the patient is described as dangerous. The log line doesn’t say he is potentially dangerous because he claims he was abducted, it says a potentially dangerous man claims he was abducted.
To clarify, in the story, the patient breaks into a house in the country, in the middle of the night, naked and raving about aliens. The scared homeowners attempt to defend themselves and their property and end up being threatened by their own kitchen knives. The patient then steals their clothes and vehicle, which he crashes into a police vehicle while attempting to evade arrest.
Since the patient is raving about aliens when he is arrested, the arresting officers take him to the hospital, believing him to be mentally unstable. When this happens, patients are evaluated over a 72 hour period. If the psychiatrists decide that the abductions the patient has been experiencing are delusions and he is mentally unstable, he would be involuntarily committed since he has engaged in dangerous behaviour.
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I also like this idea and agree with what Screenwriters Anonymous said above, but do you have to include the part about Friday night? Can't you just ditch that and begin the log line with "Five friends... "? That way you would cut down on the word count and get to the interesting stuff faster.
I also like this idea and agree with what Screenwriters Anonymous said above, but do you have to include the part about Friday night? Can’t you just ditch that and begin the log line with “Five friends… “? That way you would cut down on the word count and get to the interesting stuff faster.
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