The Scripts

These scripts that we said were.. interesting, to say the least. I had to abandon my traditional view in order to even somewhat understand them. The best I can figure, both scripts are purposely asynchronous with traditionally understood themes and motives. I was reminded of the farcical acting styles of "Moulin Rouge" and Phil Goodwin's "Bread to Kill".

Smith's "Mr. Bellpond's Masterpiece" seemed to me to be a look at insanity. At least, I would hope that the events of the script are only occuring internally in this Bellpond character's decent into madness over his wife's death. If I were to choose a gospel principle explored by this script, it would be hope and faith. The overarching sense of the story is that this man has lost his purpose in life, and it is found again in his renewed search to receive his wife's letter. I thought that the best artistic choice made in the screenplay is to show the man going off in search of his wife, having not even read the letter he received. There is some meaning attributed to this that I'm sure will show up in the production, like faith or the need to continually seek hope.

I don't have any idea how to analyze the Huber script. I can't figure out what possessed hair has to do with anything, let alone something gospel related. It seems that Grace finds some sort of redemption in cutting away the possessed hair and dying (I think she died..). There really isn't much else I can say on a subject that I really don't understand.

To be totally honest, I did not like these screenplays. They were too obscure for me to relate to them on any level, so I found no meaning in them. Obscurity can be good in allowing the audience to find ambiguous truths for themselves, but I just found these stories to be ridiculous. I hope no one is offended by this, but I just can't pretend to find meaning in something which I did not connect to at all. I hope that someone else found more to these than I did.