Section 5: TREATMENT

Treatment

Tony is a forty three year old unemployed, superstitious individual with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). His obsessions started since he can remember. After hitting an all time low his superstitions became serious and his mind became extraordinary. Love is also in the air.

The first scene is a close up of Tony’s face looking dull and weak. Then the first credit is shown. Next is an over the shoulder shot of Tony looking in the mirror with the same emotion on his face. Then the second credit is shown. Then a high angle shot of Tony’s expressions of lifelessness and weakness. Then it shoots at a close up of a cup of tea with a tea bag in it, water then gets poured and you see the water changing colour as the tea in the tea bag expands. Then there is a close up of blue beads that are in his pocket which are good luck to him. Then a medium long shot of Tony walking to get his post he picks it up and walks back into his house and into the kitchen. Then an over the shoulder shot with the camera tilted a little while Tony is cleaning his mirror. Then a close up of a newspaper and Tony’s hand taking it. Then a shot of the kitchen floor (tiled) and shows Tony trying not to step on the cracks as he thinks it will bring him bad luck. Then a close up of the table with toast in the toaster on it and Tony reaching for the butter. He then reaches for the salt and bits fall on the floor, then a close up of the salt falling. This brings you to an extreme close up of Tony’s eyes which will show fear. Which then moves to a long shot of Tony grabbing the salt and throwing it over his shoulder. Then an eye-level shot of Tony sighing. Close up of Tony reaching into his draw for a tea towel. Then a medium long shot of Tony wrapping the tea towel tightly around his hands as he grabs the knife because he is scared and wants to be aware of certain superstitions. He then grabs the butter and an over the shoulder shot comes in of Tony buttering his toast. Then a close up of the knife in the sink. Then a close up of Tony straightening out things around him very strangely. Then a long shot of Tony awkwardly stood in the middle of the kitchen tapping his fingers and feet. Then Tony pulls out a white chalk pastel from his pocket and walks into the living room. He then starts to draw a circle on the floor as he thinks that this will keep him safe from evil. Tony then steps into the circle once he has made it. He then crosses his legs and sits down reading and eating like this is normal for him.  Then there is a close up shot of his ex girlfriend’s picture. Then a glass smashes it was a mirror. Then “OBSESSION” comes up on the pocket mirror. This is the opening to our film.

The scene then cuts to Tony ringing a psychiatrist to help solve his problems. The psychiatrist tells Tony to come to his office to talk in person. When tony is walking to the centre his superstitions kick in and he starts to walk funny as he is avoiding every crack that is on the pavements. People start to look and stare at him and he gets embarrassed, so he decides to run to the centre.

When he gets there, the psychiatrist asks Tony about his childhood. Tony says he use to have a girlfriend named Tess she is forty years old now, back then she was the love of his life, they would do everything together. When Tess realised that Tony had an OCD problem she started to act like him in that manner more and more and had to get away. She ended it with tony by text which said “Tony we cannot be together your obsessions are rubbing off on me I just can’t be around you when you are like that I’m sorry”.

This broke Tony’s heart and made his obsessions worse which the psychiatrist realised. The psychiatrist sent Tony to a rehabilitation centre for 4months. Half way through he bumps into his old girlfriend Tess and starts to take it slow with her again now that he is becoming ordinary.

What he realises is that she has OCD a lot worse than he did but he feels that if he says something she will leave him, so he just doesn’t say anything. He completes 3months and 29days because on the last day something awfully intense happened.

He starts to see demons and hear quiet voices in his mind. He tries to tell people but everybody thinks he is just going crazy. Tess believes him and tells him that his old superstitious ways were there to help him block out the demons, so he tries to go back to his old obsessive ways but people get in the way and stop him.

He gets extremely scared and tired of trying to escape this crazy mental world, so he runs to Tess and tells her not to talk, he says that he loves her and hopes to see her soon. He runs away and he sits at the top of a bridge rocking back and forth like he was doing at the start of the film. He then jumps.

The scene then cuts to Tess in Tony’s home in the kitchen making sure the cutlery is all perfectly in order, washing every window and every mirror in the house, making sure no white cloths are on the table and no new shoes are left on an arm chair.

Tess ends up exactly how Tony was at the start of the film. This film has a moral… “The worst superstition is to make our own tolerable“– Doris Lessing.