Pop Goes the Weasel

Here's the crammed up summary of my "supposed" script for our Film Writing Class under Sir Jonah Lim. I really didn't think it through so revisions may follow, just did this so that I would be able to pass something that day @_@

For some weird reason, it was accepted as one of the Top 5 scripts to be written as a full length screen play for our class.

Genre: Drama
Title: No tentative title yet

The story is about a ”kanto guy” in his 20s, who spends his usual day drinking beer with tambays at the street. He lives in a squatter’s area somewhere in Manila, after leaving home at the age of 16, triggered by witnessing years of abuse and emotional scarring from his father.

His father, who treated him and his other siblings like slaves to fend off for his vices. He didn’t want to go at first because he was afraid to leave his mother, who only tried to make the best out of their situation even if she has to suffer every night being treated like a sex object and a worthless trash by her husband.

This was what he had always seen and it formed a habit out of him. No matter how much he hated his father, he had grown accustomed of forcing women to submit to him in order to feel satisfaction. He never felt pleasure just by having willing sex with women, so he sought for the thrill. He had developed a fetish of stalking women for a week or so, some time at night and raping them afterwards. He always chose those he thought he would be safe to harass, like prostitutes or vagrants.

He then eyes his next victim in a form of a club girl. He had stalked her for a week and one night, he prowled at her and raped her on her way home. When he’s done, he would always steal whatever money that’s left in the purse of his victim.

Upon scanning through her bag, he found lots of medicines. After the incident, he felt sick. He traced back to his last victim and thought that he had been infected. He decided to visit the nearest health center, only to find out he has HIV.

After much pondering, he thought it best to go back home to confront his father, who ruined his life even when he left their home because it was he who imposed anger in him. He wanted to talk to his mother and his siblings, whom he left to be better, only to turn out worse. He didn’t want this kind of life but he was forced to, in some way, it was the only thing that made him feel alive. And soon it would be over, and he didn’t want to hurt anyone anymore.

When he got home, he found out that his dad died a year ago, due to complications with his heart. His mom was still there, with his brothers and sisters. He wanted to release all of his repressed feelings but his dad’s gone, there was no one to blame but himself. He decided to visit his grave, located beside their house and said everything he had ever wanted to tell him. He cursed him and called him the worst father there could ever be, but in the end, he forgave him. For the first time in his life, he felt peaceful. He then decided to spend a normal day with his family before submitting himself to prison. He decided that he wanted to die there, to save his mom from the problems of his death and to make amends for the girls he had abused.

- M