Motion picture • Drama
Dietrich von Oppeln (49) 06761-9678680
dvo@magic-script.com
Via a secret forbidden website the owner of a big meat company and a young aerial silk acrobat agree to commit suicide together but end up falling in love - confronting the conflict that he wants to live again, she insists on the commitment to jump from a high rock in the Rocky Mountains.
JANINE DOHERTY (23), a college student from Denver and acrobat at Cirque du Soleil and LEON MILLER (55), owner of a meat producing company, get to know each other via the secret website »www.promiseme13.com« where people agree to commit suicide together. Thirteen is the card of death in the Tarot and among the users is a code word for their suicide.
The very lonely Janine lost her best friend, a white German Shepard, who was shot by a hunter. Afterwards she crashed in the performance of an aerial silk show and broke two cervical vertebras so badly she would never be able to perform again. Her mother is in a psychiatric institution, which makes Janine's life even harder.
LEON lost his beloved wife THERESA, who died of leukemia. After her death he cannot bear the smell of meat anymore. More and more he is in touch with the animals that are killed by his company. After he saves a cow from being slaughtered one night, he gets thrown out of his own company and sinks even deeper into depression.
After some online-communication Janine and Leon agree to jump from a high rock in the Rocky Mountains. They meet in a Hotel below the rock. Leon does not recognize Janine. He expects her to be an elderly woman, because Janine had pretended to be her own mother. He is shocked she that young and has a guilty conscience about her dying. She tries to talk him out of his considerations and reminds him of their mutual agreement. She draws him into her magical world of death.
Because the Motel is overbooked, they need to take a room together as niece and uncle. They make love. She sees it as her first and last experience of sex, but he starts to have feelings for her and, even more, he does not want her to die. But she insists reminding him of his promise.
They decide to visit the place where they wanted to jump. When he tries to convince her again to choose life, they end up in a furious fight. They fall over the rim and end up crashing on a protrusion of the rock. He is unconscious unable to move. She is unharmed suddenly realizing what she has done. Pulling all her strength together she carries him along a brittle path to a safe place.
The next day a business friend of Leon finds out about Leon's plan and unavailingly wants to get him back to his former life. On a walk in the forest Leon and Janine nearly drown in a lake hardly escaping a huge whirlpool.
Back in the Hotel they experience a magical night together. The next evening they climb again to the top of the rock. This time they really jump far out into the void. It is a jump of freedom into a new life and reality.
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7 minute Video-Inspiration
Video created by Dietrich von Oppeln
Aerial Silks clips from Cirque Du Soleil »Quidam«
Vue backgrounds, Poser 3 D Images, animations by Dietrich von Oppeln.
Photos licensed by Fotolia.
Musik
1 - CdS Quidam
2 - Nocturne C-Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin
3 - MY DOG MILAN by Dietrich von Oppeln
4 - ON THE ROCK by Dietrich von Oppeln
5 - BRUEDERLEIN by Dietrich von Oppeln (adapted German Folk song »Brüderlein, Brüderlein ...«)
6 - CdS Quidam
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