Ethan King A2

The Trade By Ethan King EXT. SMALL STREAM IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE - DAY A single drop of water hits the stream turning the water into alcohol (or blood). FADE IN: INT. DIMLY LIT KITCHEN ROOM - NIGHT Flash back. A man reaches for his drink, then discovers he has a blood covered knife in his hand. FLASH: EXT. FOREST COVERED BY TREES, WITH A DRIED UP POND SEPARATING THE FOREST FROM A CLIFF - DAY Sam appears, He wakes up and sits upright, resting his head on his hand. SAM? (O.S.) (Laugh repetitively) Finally your up! I was wondering... Sam gets up and turns around to see another copy of himself. SAM What... where am I? Wh, wh, who? SAM? Am I? Where are WE? You tell me. Me on the other hand, i'm clearly a better version of you Sam recalls a vision and looks down to see his wrists cut. The cuts fade away. SAM Di, di, Did I... SAM? What kill yourself? A better question is why? Was because you were lonely; nobody loved you, it that it? No ...

In the second scene of my production the main character tackles his own DID in order to discover more about himself and what has happened. DID is a complex psychological condition which can be caused by server trauma. A person with DID is described by having two or more personalities/identities. These identities are often completely different from each other, with completely different traits, including: different age, race, speech, posture etc... But what I found most interesting about DID is that the identities often have distinct memory variation and different interpretations of the same memories.  The main character fits this 'specification' for DID. As he has witness a server trauma; his own murder, both identities in this scene have completely different traits and personality. Furthermore the wholes scene is based on the two identities having completely different memory variation on how they died, one believing suicide and the other knowing it was murder. However, the...