section 5: Treatment

Treatment for Antipsychotics


“Antipsychotics” will be a thriller that shows the extent the human mind is capable of trick its self and convincing it it’s doing something else.

Concept

A man runs out of his prescription drugs and his split personality starts to come out and begin to kill people.

Synopsis

Beginning: The film begins in the middle of the night. The main character is woken by the sound of a piano playing, so he goes downstairs to investigate. Bathed in moonlight, a mysterious man is sat playing the Grand Piano in the living room (or a different room, this hasn't really been established yet), and as the man turns, the light reveals it is the main character himself! Almost immediately after this, the main character wakes up in his bed, believing it to be some crazy dream.

Middle: As the story goes on, more about the main character is learnt, he's a fairly famous musician with major mental health issues that he keeps in check with hefty doses of prescription drugs. As the 'dreams' begin to reoccur, large amounts of the drugs the main character depends on to keep himself in check begin to go missing. Then, the murderous alter-ego forms. As the main character doesn't take his medicine, the alter-ego appears more often, killing purely for fun, even though the main character seems unaware of this. Enter the genius detective, whose only objective is to find the killer behind all the murders.

Ending: he main characters dreams become more like flashbacks of the terrible deeds he has committed, and suddenly it all becomes clear, it is him killing all these people! Around about the same time, the detective figures this out aswell. The final scene is personal confrontation, the main character wants to hand himself in, but the alter-ego won't allow it. Cue suicide, with the police appearing a minute too late. It's a kind of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/ Fight Club story.

Opening scene

The film opens with an establishing shot of a house in a quite neighbour which hints that this is a normal quite house but soon something is going to happen to change all this later in the film. There is an enigma established right away as we see a man playing a piano and only see his hands and eyes we have no way of telling who he is. Then we are put in suspense as we see someone is asleep up stairs so we start to ask questions who’s the man playing the piano and what is he doing in this persons house? The scene ends with the man playing the piano being revealed to be the same man as who was a sleep then a black screen with the film name appears on screen.

Other Details

Character will be a young adult to match to fit the musician image this is to show that mental issues and other things can affect anyone in any social status also the house will be ordinary too thrill the viewer as they see that events can occur in ordinary location.