Greetings @studiomorell !
Welcome back!
Firstly, allow me to compliment you on such an astounding set! The courtyard is breathtaking in day and night, with a vista that looks more like luxurious apartments than a cruise ship.
The beauty of your film being more visual than dialog leaves it open for the interpretation of the viewer. From the onset, it is apparent that the captain doesn’t seem too happy. He is very alone, despondent, reflective, and pensive. We see flashbacks of the captain in a time where he appears less stressed and more satiated with life. He has a full mane of hair. Is he having a mid-life crisis? Did something horrible happen to him? Does he have PTSD?
He cannot believe this is where his life is. He cannot fathom that his life experience has culminated into “this”. He is in mental turmoil. He sinks dismally and abysmally down into a hole resembling a throat where a silent scream emits, and he lies down at the bottom like a fetus.
The turmoil is too much to bear and he longs for freedom. If his life were only better, if he never experienced this trauma, he could go back to the man he dreamed he would be. He wants it all to go away. He drowns his sorrow in a substance not design for the human body, and in this morbid mental fantasy, he allows himself to submerge into his own sorrows.
He lives with this burden of shattered dreams, slowly trying to find his way out of the bowels of grief, until he finally rests in accepting the fate that his actions or inaction has caused.
What an amazing film highlighting the 5 general stages of grief! This, of course, is just my interpretation. I would also like to commend you on your use of atmospheric sounds! I thank you for sharing your project with us and for giving us something thought-provoking!
When creating A Precarious Night at Plumb Point, what were your first initial thoughts? What audience did you have in mind? What emotions did you want to convey?
