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TITLE: When is it all over?
GENRE: Film Noir
LOG LINE: A suicidal man attempts to end it all one morning but it does not all work out as planned.
GENERAL FLOW-Driving along side the coast, views of the sunset. An empty road, a car appears and stops in the frame on the side of the road. Moments pass, different views of the car with an emotionally bruised man still holding the steering wheel of the car. Close up on his eyes as a tear is she and he wipes it with his hand.
Audience still hasn’t seen his full face yet.
A shot from the back seat of the car captures his head and the sun setting. A picture on the dashboard of the character and his girlfriend, the picture ripped between each other’s face where his face is revealed for the first time. A sign of hopelessness fills his eyes.
He steps out of the car and looks out into the distance. Shot of the sunset. “Is he going to kill himself?”
He goes into the trunk if his car where he finds a hose and a rag pauses for a second, rethinking his decisions. He stuffs the exhaust with the hose and the rag and puts the other end of the hose through a small opening in his window. Before starting his car, he attempts to write a suicide note but the only pen he has doesn’t work. A moment of frustration.
He starts the car. A few seconds later, it suddenly stops. Gas meter reads no more gas.
Last shot, he walks along the road with an empty tank.