Film Suggestion

Title :

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Plot :

A relatively average mid-20’s man who works in an office and sees very little merit in communicating with the outside world other than when he has to. He spends his free time reviewing movies on DVD and writing down his thoughts, opinions and his ratings in a notebook he always keeps on his person.

One day after reaching his 100th review Derek treats himself by buying a HD digital camera with the delusion that he “may” want to create his own film one day. A work colleague (Ben Arnold) notices and starts conversation with Derek at work where they go into a discussion about Derek and his list to which the man makes a comment about what he’ll do when he’s seen all the films out there.

Derek is left pondering this all day and when leaving for work Ben notices Derek dropped his DVD and after the words “hey boyo you dropped you film!” hands it back, Derek can’t remember dropping a DVD but takes it anyway assuming it’s all the excitement of the new camera.

On returning home Derek continues to ponder Ben’s words and after setting up the camera decides to look through his book to reminisce of all the films he’s seen to see if he feels any different about his decisions.

However upon reading through his notebook Derek comes upon an entry marked 0 / 10, this is unusual since Derek only even went to 1 / 10 once before and that was a particular bad film, but never 0. Curiosity piqued Derek searches for the film which was titled Chinese Blank which means little to Derek but actually finds a blank case for a DVD with a Chinese symbol inserted between the front sleeves. Derek remembers it as the film Ben returned at work and decides to watch it again.

After watching it for a few minutes it’s clearly a poorly made home movie, shot in black in white in a dark room with what appears to be a chair and a noose in the centre, a hooded man enters the scene and goes through the process of hanging himself making it a snuff movie, but what scared Derek more was the fact Derek recognises this man, infact it looks almost like him and when the man stands to take his last breath on the chair he takes off the hood to reveal it to be him and as he jumps Derek’s screams are cut off as his own neck is snapped by the noose wrapped tightly around his neck with his newly purchased digital camera on a tripod in the corner, the record button flashing.

After a few seconds of the camera recording Derek’s final breath a hand reaches over and clicks the camera off and a man walks over the retrieve the DVD from Derek’s player and after fading to black we (the audience) here a thud and a familiar voice saying “hey boyo you dropped you film”. Cut !