Bullet Points (Long)

Every  scene divided into individual actions for the sake of clarity in story boarding.


INT.AN EMPTY OLD HOUSE – EVENING

● We see the well furnished interior of an old house.
● Slowly our view of the interior is inverted.
● Upon the upside down ceiling we see a young woman lying unconscious.
● Alice slowly opens her eyes. She gets to her feet and looks around at her surroundings.
● ALICE (calls out)“Hello?”“Is anybody here? “.
● ALICE (To herself) “Where am I?”




● Her voice echoes through the room.
● She takes of the oversize shirt that she is wearing.
● The light from the upside down windows cast strange shadows in the room.
● The ceiling fan blades swing noisily nearby.
● The upside down curtains moves slightly in the breeze.
● There are small pieces of paper with pictures drawn and painted hung about all over the room.
● Alice looks at objects above her.
● There is an old bed, a wooden chair next to a wooden dressing table and mirror, an old almirah and a wooden bookshelf with thick glass paneling that had many books in it.
● Near the bed there was a small round side table which held the photo of a man, woman and a small girl.
● Alice tries to reach up toward the bed side table above to have a better look at the photo, but it is just out of her reach.
● To her right there stood an upside down wooden door. Alice makes her way to it.
● She struggles a bit but finally heaves it open.
● There is a sudden flood of light as the door swings open.

INT.CORRIDOR OF A HOSPITAL WARD

● A short bulky old man of around sixty walks slowly through the well lit corridor of a hospital ward.
● He has a slight limp on one leg and relies heavily on his cane.
● He looks clearly uneasy being there.
● He passes by the open doors of the ward room and seems determined not to look into them.
● Occasionally he halts to check the room number. He finally reaches the room he was looking for and reaches for the door.



EXT.OF THE OLD HOUSE - EVENING

● Alice is now standing at the door way of the house taking in the spectacular view of the upside down world outside.
● She peers over the façade of the house and down into the sky below.
● ALICE (To herself) “This must be a dream.”
● Carefully standing at the edge, she extends her arm and tries to touch the grass that grew on the porch above.
● Suddenly a bird flies Startled, she quickly pulls herself back inside and shuts the door behind her.

INT.OF THE HOUSE - DARK

● Alice catches her breath and then looks around.
● It’s someplace dark. She has to squint to see properly.
● She slowly takes a few tentative steps ahead when suddenly light shines in from a window high above, as if some powerful stage light was switched on.

STAIRWELL – SMOKY LIGHTING

● Alice walks into a stair well where a bizarre number of intertwining stairways seem to begin, end and intersect.
● Bewildered Alice peers down the stairwell. There are scribbled pieces of paper floating about the stairs.
● Just then she sees a glimmer of light dancing upon the steps.
● As she tries to investigate it Alice suddenly hears voices from the floor below.
● ALICE (Calls out)“Hello!? Is anybody down there?”
● Alice quickly scrambles down the topsy-turvy staircase.
● She can constantly hear two voices arguing with each other.
● The voices keep coming from just a flight of steps beneath.
● The stairs get colder and darker as she goes down.
● They finally lead her into another inverted room.
● She hesitates before entering.



INT.THE LONG ROOM

● The room is long and somber looking.
● Grey curtains and dark wooden floor boards.
● In the middle of the floor of the inverted room, above her, was placed a half open funeral casket with lit candles on both sides.
● Alice stands there at the entrances of the room for a few seconds.
● Her gaze is fixed on the oak casket above her.
● She sees the body of an older woman inside the casket, dressed in dark attire.
● A drop of tear rolls down the side of Alice’s cheek.
● She reaches up toward the casket and tries to touch the woman’s face.
● Her eyes begin to fill up and a sob escapes her lips.
● She takes her eyes off the casket and runs away crying.
● As Alice runs out of the room the tears that fall from her eyes sparkle in the low candle light as they float up to floor above.



INT.HOSPITAL - EVENING

● The old man stands at the door of the hospital room, hesitating to enter.
● Inside the room there is a nurse tending to the patient on the bed. The patient is Alice.
● Her face is pale and her eyes are fast shut. Her eyelids quiver occasionally.
● There are numerous tubes and wires that run through her body connecting her to the many types of medical equipment surrounding her.
● THE DOCTOR “Good evening Mr.Narona.” “Please have a seat.”
● Daniel Narona walks in slowly and quietly sits by Alice’s bedside.
● THE DOCTOR “She is in a coma.”
● Narona doesn’t answer. He quietly holds her hand in his.
● His hands are slightly trembling. He begins to sob faintly.
● NARONA “I shouldn’t have let her go...” ”..I shouldn’t have…”
● He breaks down and cries into his daughters’ hand.
● There is a bandage wrapped around her left wrist. His tears moisten the dried red stains.
● NARONA “I brought this on you...”



INT.EMPTY ROOM – MOONLIT NIGHT

● Alice sits alone crying.
● She picks up a floating paint brush and tries to paint something on a piece of paper.
● But she soon gets frustrated and scribbles off whatever she’d painted and throws away the paper.
● The crumpled paper floats away.
● She curls up and continues to cry.
● Alice’s shadow slowly sits up beside her and tenderly places a hand on her shoulder.
● Her tears slowly stop.
● She wipes her cheeks and raises her head and looks at the shadow through the curls of her hair.
● The shadow has taken the silhouette form of a tall slim man and is knelt beside her.
● He helps her to her feet and hugs her.
● She gazes into his face for a while then leans over and kisses him. The embrace slowly tightens and they kiss passionately in the dim moonlight that cascades in through the inverted window.

INT.EMPTY ROOM – NIGHT – LATER

● Alice wakes up and finds herself lying alone on the floor.
● The moonlight falling through the window grill casts shadows on her naked body.
● She gets up and looks around. The room is empty.
● Her eyes well up.
● Just then she sees the tiny dancing light on the floor a few feet from her.

INT.HALL – DIMLY LIT

● Following the light Alice opens yet another wooden door.
● The door creaks open and Alice enters a Hall of Mirrors.
● Hundreds of glass mirrors of varying sizes are arranged in a maze. Only reflections. ambiguous perspective.
● Alice walks inside.
● As she passes by the mirrors, something on the ground touches her feet .
● She looks down to find many masks lying on the floor.
● Curious, Alice picks one up and wears it over her face and watches herself in the mirror as her reflection bends and distort in them.
● She tries another one.
● As she removes the last mask, her reflection removes its face with it.
● Horrified Alice stumbles back.
● The mask in her hand now has her face on it and begins to laugh.
● The laughter becomes louder and more maniacal as one by one the mirrors begin to crack and soon the whole gallery begins to collapse.
● Alice turns around and tries to run but her feet sink into the glass floor.
● Shards of broken glass are showered onto her, cutting her in many places.
● The floor starts to ripple and turn into water and her body plunges down into the cold dark water.

INT.HOSPITAL ROOM - EVENING

● The cardiogram rings an offbeat.
● Narona who was sleeping in the chair next to Alice’s bed lifts his head up.
● Narona“Alice!” (Quietly)“ALICE!”(Louder this time)
● He sees her pupils moving fast beneath her eyelids and her eyebrows furrow in spasm.
● We see panic in his eyes.
● The cardiogram begins to flat line.



UNDERWATER - DARK

● Alice bleeds and sinks deeper into the dark abyss.
● Her eyes begin to close slowly.
● Suddenly there is a small glint of light just above her.
● It catches her eye just as they are about to shut.
● The light rejuvenates her. With renewed will she opens her eyes.
● With all her might she paddles upward against the current toward the gleaming light.
● Straining hard she reaches out for it with her arm. With one final thrust of her legs she finally breaks the water surface.
● Exhausted she loses consciousness and just then a hand grabs hers. There is light everywhere.



INT.HOSPITAL ROOM - EVENING

● Alice opens her eyes.
● She sees her father beside her bed.
● Her eyes well up as she smiles weakly at him.
● ALICE “Daddy!” “You came back.”
● The sunlight reflected from the man’s watch dances on her face. The same light that she had followed.




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