Treatment 2: Facing The Shadow (ROUGH)
Synopsis & Outline
The film follows a middle-aged man (the protagonist) & the family as their lives completely changes when the father develops cancer. Will he face up to himself? You see a struggle in regards to wanting to be there for his family/scared of chemo-therapy/ - fear of facing himself.
Story
- Happy rich family - mother & son as other main characters.
- Protagonist quits his run-down job (that actually supplied the family's main source of income) - doesn't tell his wife.
- Gets into the wrong crowd - gang? - who steal, mug/deal drugs (TBD)
- Realises this is morally wrong and leaves the gang (Gang gets angry & threatens him)
- Gets the news that he has cancer, 'collapses' at home.
- Wife & Son want him to have chemo - he doesn't want it and cannot afford - emotional tension within the family builds - the choice needs to be made.
- Decides that he doesn't want to leave his wife & tells her he'll do it - get treatment.
- Wife believes he can pay for it (with the job he's quit) however he chose not to apologise to his boss and go back to the gang and get the money.
- Steal (some big raid of some kind) - TBC occurs.
- End - man sat in a wheelchair with IV drip needed for chemo (Maybe voiceover about his thoughts?) he looks at the camera (emotionless) - was it all worth it?
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