Synopsis

Intro:

21 year old boy, James, gets woken up by a voice. He needs to get ready for a job interview. As he opens his eyes he sees a figure dressed in smartly at the end of his room. He rubs his eyes and the figure disappears. He realises he is hallucinating and so reaches for his antidepressant medication to dilute his symptoms. However as he begins to open his medication the voice who woke him up resounds and tells him not to take it, so he puts the medication down and proceeds to get up. He turns on the radio where ‘Johnny Cash, Hurt’ is playing, he walks to the bathroom and washes his face. He finds some smart clothes he is going to wear to his interview. The music continues and becomes more prominent as he buttons up his shirt.  The voice tells him to get a knife and to leave his house. The scene ends as James is at the front door about to leave the house.

James is walking down the street on his way to the job interview; he keeps seeing people walk past, the person is Joe. Each figure he sees tells him how unimportant he is and how he is going to fail at the job interview. At the job interview the employer looks at James’ CV and sees that he has schizophrenia. He asks how the symptoms are, and James replies’ with fine, he then shows some symptoms and is unable to get the job. He then gets angry, Joe tells him to use the knife and kill the employer.

3 months later…

James is shown in a mental asylum. They are forcing him drugs to suppress his symptoms, after a while they allow him to take them by himself. The drugs cause James to remember his past; it shows that James’ mother left him because she couldn’t handle his symptoms. He soon starts to get fed up with the drugs and pretends to take them. The people who work there realise and that his symptoms are getting worse and prepare him for psychosurgery. Just before the operation James escapes from the mental asylum.

He runs and runs, looking around. Finds a quiet place to contemplate, no one is around. Remembers what has happened throughout his life (flashbacks). Then he sees Joe, has a conversation. Joe convinces that he has no other options because there is no way out! He convinces James that he should die, and kills him (but in reality James kills himself).