Joy of Life and Death

EXT. WIDE SHOT OF MOUNTAIN- DUSK

Opening monologue, giving information on the innocence of the child

 

 

"I like the red sun even though it is cold.  It helps me find things on the ground.  When I was little they said it was bigger than one thousand Earths, and it keeps me alive, because I am life, just like the plants and the bugs, and I figured I am human because I make art and plants and bugs don't do that.  So I am life, and I am human, even if lots of things are dead."

 

 

1. EXT. JUNK PILE- DUSK

Cuts to kid's face

Shows kid looking down at junk pile

Kid reaches down and digs

 

2. EXT. JUNK PILE- DUSK

Kid digging in foreground as figure holding pistol sneaks up in background

Warning shot is fired by figure, startling the kid

Figure calls to kid, and the kid sees that he is a man in his forties

 

3. EXT. JUNK PILE LANDING- DUSK

Kid walks down to the man, ignoring danger

Man warns kid he'll shoot him if he doesn't scram

Kid says nothing

Man says his monologue about how he's killed kids before and one more won't bother him

 

4. EXT. JUNK PILE LANDING- DUSK

Kid kicks upwards, kicking the pistol out of the man's hand

They both scramble for the pistol, but the kid gets it and aims it at the man

The kid's knapsack full of trinkets and art pieces falls next to the junk pile, spilling

Man says his second monologue about how the kid doesn't have it in him to kill

Kid shoots man in the heart, man falls onto junk pile, bleeding onto the trinkets

 

5. EXT. JUNK PILE LANDING- LATER DUSK

The kid shoots the man in the head, bleeding further onto the trinkets

The kid pilfers the corpse, taking anything of use

Kid goes back to rummaging through the pile

 

6. EXT. WIDE SHOT OF MOUNTAIN- NIGHT

Exiting monologue on how the kid was forced to end another life, and how as a human, is death

However, while he is death, he also gives life through art, being in the grey between good and bad