Corporal Brandon Goldstein returns home from Vietnam after a 22 – month deployment, seeking answers why his home and family are gone and nobody recognizes him.

Possession of my Soul

5 reviews

steveylang Samurai · 1,145 pts

I like the promise of this idea. Debbie's feedback is all very good. I would just say "returns home from the Vietnam War" to make it explicit, or you can change him to a veteran from Iraq, etc. to make it contemporary. If you strip out the name and the 'seeking answers' part, you have "A weary veteran returns home from a lengthy deployment in the Vietnam War, only to find his home and family are gone and nobody recognizes him."

The second part is still a bit long. I would make it more concise, and then add some sort of clue or whiff as to what has happened. You don't need to state it outright, but if you can sort of describe the trail the veteran starts on, that will give us a better idea of the entire movie. At this point we don't know if it is a drama, suspense, action, or horror movie.