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
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Jesus Saved Me But I’m Still a Jew
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.
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.
>>>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).
to be able to distinguish what is reality and what is not, and eventually improve his perspective on life so that his internal thoughts and external actions are more in sync
So what is his objective goal after his obsessive observance of rituals fails to save his mother (his previous objective goal)?
I have it so that his OCD controls him by a voice in his head that threatens him, says his mom will die if he doesn't do his rituals, and when he forgets one small ritual, she dies, so he stops listening to it and thus OCD is gone, but develops a schizofrenic/hallucinating condition as you guys said from the trauma of the event