MemoriesOfRain | Looking too closely [CYE] @MemoriesOfRain | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 1 day ago
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This is my entry for round 3 of CYE. The theme for this round was "a drop of ink" and we had to pick one of the quotes provided and in some way, represent the quote in our video.

My quote:
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

I wanted to go for a literal, and yet abstract, approach to this quote. I wanted Josh and Jodie to literally be the same person but for there to be a reason that wasn't supernatural. Which is why you get a long story to explain this video.

Story:
Josh hasn't been doing well for a long time, but when he was taking his medication it was at least manageable. After he stopped taking his meds he started noticing things that didn't seem quite right, little things like wearing nail polish or he starts seeing a random girl every once in a while. He starts getting scared to look at himself, afraid of what he'll see, and covers up the mirror.

Flash to Jodie, who's visiting her family after a long absence. Everything seems to be fine until she feels odd, like she's not exactly herself. After experiencing a nosebleed, she passes out (or Josh does at least).

Jodie wakes up in the hospital, unsure what's going on and why everything is going wrong, why everything is changing. In her room, she finds a folder and assuming it's her's, she opens it to read the contents. But it isn't her's, it's Josh's. She looks around her room again, unable to grasp what is going on around her when she finds a family photograph of the Washington family. But there's someone there she's doesn't remember: Josh. Why does it say Hannah and Beth are his sisters? They're her's, she's been going to visiting their graves for months.

It's then that the reality of the situation truly sinks in. Why she's been finding odd things in her room. Why Josh has found his room looking more and more like Hannah's used to.

Jodie doesn't really exist, she's Josh. Unable to accept the revelation, Josh breaks the mirror, unsure how to make everything go back to how it was.


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