High school senior Koa Cohen's battle with ritualistic OCD is replaced by a condition in which he cannot distinguish between his unsettling day dreams and reality.

Jesus Saved Me But I’m Still a Jew

11 reviews

Former member Penpusher · 20 pts

I like the concept after working with people with personality disorders I would like to see where you take this. As for the logline maybe take out ':replaced by a condition' and put in a goal. All the best.

Alan Smithee Penpusher · 20 pts

I like the concept after working with people with personality disorders I would like to see where you take this. As for the logline maybe take out ':replaced by a condition' and put in a goal. All the best.

dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

>>>to be able to distinguish what is reality and what is not

That's a valid goal, but it seems to me to be more of a subjective goal. In contrast, the obsession with rituals to save his mother is clearly an objective goal. That is, the conflict is mostly external, hence, easy to dramatically visually, easy for the audience to determine whether he succeeds or fails. (He fails: she dies)

The conventional purpose of a logline is describe the objective goal. Subjective goals are ancillary to objective goals; they are intangible psychological conflicts that have to resolved in order to achieve the objective goal. A simplistic example: a character must overcome his fear of heights (subjective goal) in order to climb a steep mountain (objective goal).