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The Cycle Draft 10
The Cycle Draft 10
The Cycle Draft 10
JANE
Arughh.. What's this? Can't believe
mom kept so many useless things.
2b:Jane throws the old rabbit doll into the trash bag she's
holding.
SECURITY GUARD
They're gonna close this building
down pretty soon. You should leave
now if you are done packing.
JANE
Yea I am just digging through my
mom's stuff to see if there's
anything to keep.
JANE nods.
SECURITY GUARD
By the way...I am sorry to hear
about her. If there's anything I
can do-
JANE
No, I'm fine. We weren't that close
anyway.
BEAT.
JANE
Oh.. just some of our old pictures,
they are all messed up anyway.
SECURITY GUARD
Alright then..I am gonna check on
the other units, Just don't take
too long. I gotta lock this place
down.
JANE
Okay. I gotta go back to work too.
JANE
Hi, Department of Community
Development. This is Jane.
MR. TOM
Janie...Janie, it's Mr. Tom. You
have to save our building...
JANE
Calm down, Mr. Tom...we already
came to an agreement in the last
town hall meeting.You will get
enough compensation for a new
apartment.
Beat.
MR. TOM
I have been living there my whole
life...You lived there with your
mother when you were young...Now
she's passed away and left the
apartment to you. Is that how
you're gonna take care of it? How
could you be so indifferent?
JANE
Oh! Hel..hello?
28d: JANE hangs up the phone. She looks at the letter on her
left.
34b: She tries to push the letters into the overloaded trash
can, even more annoyed.
JANE
ARUGHHH!!!
35: JANE approaches trash can and take out trash.
37: JANE pulls the door open. She tries to fit the trash bag
in, but can't. The trash bag is twice her size.
42: She pushes harder, trash bag and her hands go through
the door.
46: FADE IN
JANE
Where am I ?
JANE
Hello? Anybody hear me? (Echoing)
51: JANE reaches to to side of the pit. When she looks up,
she sees MRFs (trash bag form, hunch back, transparent, sees
trash inside).
52: ALIVED TRASH BAGS ignore JANE's presence, they continue
to find trash that is suitable for them. If it isn't
suitable, they throw them out. They consume them and become
less hunch back. Projection of a blurred image suddenly
appear behind the ALIVED TRASH BAGS' heads.
54: She quickly climbs to the edge of the pit, tries to see
what's outside.
55: JANE can only see a long ladder down. But fog is
covering what is down there.
57: JANE walks down the ladder. Confused. She moves forward.
58: Sees the entire underground city and the trash pit in
the middle. Underground city is filled with old buildings.
Some buildings have bamboo fences covering the exterior wall
(construction). Trash pit is in the middle of the
surrounding old buildings.
62a: DOLL (same old rabbit doll from the apartment), torn,
saggy body, sitting on the right side of the street, turns
to look at JANE who's walking down the street. He gets up.
DOLL
Quick!
65: DOLL grabs JANE's hand, though JANE resists bit and want
to step back.
JANE
(Gasp) Who are you? Where are we
going?
DOLL
Run! I will explain later!
68: More and more ALIVED TRASH BAGS are filling up the
street. All chasing after JANE and DOLL.
71: DOLL tears down trash bag (trash revealing out), and
throw behind them.
72: ALIVED TRASH BAGS that are chasing them, now are
distracted by the trash that DOLL threw. They stop chasing
and dig through the trash.
74: DOLL and JANE exits the other end of the alley. They
come to the cross street, finally stop. DOLL turns around to
JANE.
75:
DOLL
We are safer here...as long as they
have trash to dig through, they
won't bother us.
76:
JANE
WHAT IS THIS PLACE? I was throwing
trash out, and the next thing I
knew, I was... HERE.
77: DOLL and JANE walk along the street (toward the trash
bag pit direction), sees along street there are many ALIVED
TRASH BAGS on the side.
DOLL
You are in the in-between... below
the earth and above..what I heard
to be the gloomiest place. No
living thing can survive.
JANE
And...and what are those...trash
bags?
DOLL
They were actually bags of trash
you humans threw away. They come to
look like that after some years
down here.
79: ALIVED TRASH BAG (on the street where JANE and DOLL are
standing) is eating a milk carton, an image is projected
behind its head.
81:
JANE
Wait...WHAT?
DOLL
They suck in memories that they
found in human trash, and recycle
them to form their own.
83: Shows the projected image behind the ALIVED TRASH BAG
shows two blurred figures (one figure opens a ring case, the
other figure hugs the first figure).
84:
DOLL
But now, we have to go to the
"Memorium" to get you out of here.
DOLL (CONT'D)
Listen to me carefully, the only
way for you to go back is to get
your memory box that is stored in
the "Memorium". Everyone has their
own way of coming to this
place...and their own way of going
back out.
DOLL (CONT'D)
Once you open the box, it will tell
you how to get out of here.
EXT. EMPTY CITY STREET - DAY
JANE
But.. WHY AM I here in the first
place?
DOLL
It might be... a last calling of
something you threw away...
whatever it is, it must have a
really strong connection to your
past.
90: JANE and DOLL turn around to see ALIVED TRASH BAG. JANE
nervously shakes off ALIVED TRASH BAG, but not working.
JANE
GET OFF ME! GET OFF ME!
91: DOLL and JANE turn around to see the trash bag pit.
92: Sees Trash bags falling down quickly, and a huge force
sucking trash bags down. ALIVED TRASH BAGS on the side of
pit is torn apart (exploding into pieces of trash).
93:
DOLL(TO JANE)
Oh No No No!...The trash pit is
overloaded ...run...we have to get
to the "Memorium" now!.. Once the
gate underneath the pit opens,
it'll suck everything in.
Sees JANE and DOLL running among ALIVED TRASH BAGS to the
opposite direction of the street. The force of suction
rapidly picks up many ALIVED TRASH BAGS, trash bags behind
JANE and DOLL. Both of them are then also picked up by the
force.
95: SLOW MOTION: JANE and DOLL falling among other trash.
Inside the deep hole are many layers occupied by ALIVED
TRASH BAGS. They have nests to catch the trash that is
falling through.
96: JANE and DOLL gets up from the ground of landfill. Shows
mounts of undefinable trash in the foreground. Landfill is
an island, with an municipal incinerator (playing a mellow
lalluby song) in the middle of the land. Black smoke coming
out from the chimney of the incinerator. Dusty air. Hear
people speaking, arguing, crying,and laughing in the air.
But no one is around. Trash and pictures still falling down
from the hole.
97:
JANE
Geez... That hurts..
BEAT.
JANE (CONT'D)
Don't tell me this is..
DOLL nods.
DOLL
..the last layer, the gloomiest
place...
JANE
Great...Now I am really stuck.
DOLL
Look... I think I found a way to
get you out.
DOLL
I guess this is goodbye now.
110:
JANE
Wait!What are you doing?
JANE
Don't go in there!
112: She trips over and falls on the ground. She gets back
up and runs toward to the incinerator.
115: Sees she looks to the left, right, and up, worried.
Sees WHITE SMOKE, shape of DOLL, comes out from chimney of
incinerator.
117: WHITE SMOKE DOLL wraps around JANE's hand. He lifts her
up to the air.
DOLL
Jane, everything has its expiration
date. I know I'm long expired and
that's why you forgot about
me...When things expire, they're
forgotten and left behind in the
landfill for eternity, like me..
But it doesn't have to be that way,
they can get a second chance! After
all it's a cycle.
119: FADE IN
127: JANE looks down at the photo that she is now holding.
130: JANE remembers that her box of photos that are left
behind in the apartment. She whispers.
JANE
The photos....
131: JANE turns around, pushes her way out of the crowd, and
runs out.
CUT.
FADE IN
148: JANE holding old rabbit doll (DOLL) by one ear again,
standing in front of the box of decayed photos.
149: Jane back in the apartment again. She looks down to the
DOLL.
CUT TO BLACK.
FADE OUT