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INTRODUCTION:

My graduation project for major is a thriller short film about a serial killer who kills young women. Sarah is a loving sister, daughter and friend who is always there to help anyone in need but Scarlett on the other hand, though she is loving as well, she doesn’t know how to show it to other people, in fear of being compared to her sister. Them being twins, was the reason they grew apart. Mostly because of Scarlett’s inferiority complex to her older twin sister. This story is about Scarlett’s journey in finding the killer of her older twin sister, Sarah.

The number of young women body found in a forest has been increasing and there are still no leads regarding this case. Sarah, a 22 year old criminal profiler was found dead at 6am when a passerby went hiking in this forest. It was said by the authorities  investigating the case that Sarah committed suicide as there was no physical trauma observed on the body and traces of antidepressants was found inside her body. The people on scene was also gossiping how Sarah ended her life when she is still so young. Scarlett, Sarah’s younger twin sister wanted to defend her sister but she feels like she doesn’t have the right to talk about her sister because she feels like it is her fault. She finds a footage hidden inside her sister’s bag that was not found by the investigators. In this footage, her sister suddenly went missing as she hears someone screaming. This footage became her fuel to find the killer of her sister with the help of someone who saw her and offered help in the crime scene. With the photos of each victim and research paper she found in Sarah’s room, she deduced that all victims are depressed as the man who offered to help her to record every minute they do as proof of their research.

After Scarlett finds a hand drawn map of the same location, she goes there to find out where the map will lead her. She follows it but this lead her to more danger as the cameraman disappears leaving her all alone in the forest. She panics and looks at the matching locket of her and Sarah. This is when she realises that Sarah doesn’t have a locket. She tries to find the locket but to no avail she couldn’t find it. She looks up and remembers something. With this clue, she finds the locket and inside the locket is an sd card with the clue,of who really the killer is.

PURPOSE:

There is no key message of this shortfilm.One message is based on the red and blue pill. If we don’t take the easy way out, (red pill, red lights was used for Scarlett’s room to represent her trying to find out the killer and not giving up) we will find the answer. Though in this case there was no happy ending since Scarlett died at the end but still she found out who killed her sister (Sarah). Another is when people talk bad about you or someone you love, you must prove them wrong. In this case, there was a scene where Scarlett didn’t defend Sarah and so end up everyone talking bad about her sister. However she did try to prove the people wrong by trying to find who the killer was. Another is also don’t trust other people easily. Scarlett just barely met Sarah’s co-worker (killer) and she trusts him also just because he works with Sarah (which was not really proven to be truth) which led her to a sad ending (though can be considered happy ending since she died while having extreme ecstasy)