Film Idea

Okay so I had a film idea today, stemming from a concept we learn in Landmark.

So in the class we learn that our three strongest "personality traits" originate from three moments in our lives (most of them when we're children). Our three strongest personality traits are called "Strong Suites" and can be anything from "shyness" and "kindness" to "organized" and "perfectionist".

These traits form from three moments in our lives, when we're young:

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The First Moment (usually before 10yrs): We experience the feeling that "Something's wrong here".

It maybe a traumatizing moment with our parents or friends, or something entirely different than that. The point is, we get the idea in our head that "something's wrong here". And we create a strong suite for ourself, so we never have to feel that feeling again.

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The Second Moment (usually around puberty): We experience the feeling that "I don't belong".

Again, a variety of experiences can happen, between friends/family/other people in our lives, where we experience the feeling that "I don't belong". From this moment forward you create a personality trait in yourself to get rid of this feeling, wanting to never feel it again.

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The Third Moment (sometime after puberty): We experience the feeling that "I'm on my own".

Similiar to the past two, some interaction or moment in our lives, we experience the horrid feeling that we're on our own. So in that moment, we create a personality trait for ourselves to rid ourselves of this feeling.

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Now these three moments, will repeat themselves in the person's life, and the person will continually use their created "strong suites" to deal with these repeated situations.

While these three moments are of monumental importance to the individual, they can be unnoticeable to others. Parents can create these moments for their children unknowingly, it can be the result of a bad day at work, a miscommunication, or a number of other things...

NOW to the film idea.

I think it'd be neat to make a short film highlighting these three moments of a persons life. Going from a cheery, fully expressed child... to a numb, reserved, adult (maybe not numb and reserved, but some sort of apparent strong suite). It'd be neat to capture these seemingly small (but important) moments in an individuals life. Maybe it could teach a lesson to people....

Anyhow yeah.