Sip: "Bad Luck Chuck"

Sep 17, 2014
2 min read

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This week, Writer's Block hopes to have you stumbling drunk with confusion as we bring you the loose idea of a psychological thriller, with a not so surprising twist (if you're reading this).

Synopsis:

To those passing through on the highway or stopping for a bite to eat, the town of Pasadena seems very much in the norm, but for Charlie, something is amiss. Charlie lives in an unusually hostile town, so much in fact that Charlie has spent much of his life just learning to defend himself. Leaving has never occurred to him, for where else would there be to go? This accounting of Chuck’s life will test everyone’s perception of the world around them, and the fate’s we all perceive.

Inspiration:

I tried writing a synopsis for this but it’s just an idea thus far, no formal plot has formed for me. The basic premise is that Chuck’s life has been one confrontation after the next, each seemingly more harsh. Chuck is basically a normal guy, but the final premise of the movie when Chuck spontaneously combusts at the end is that all along Chuck never existed in a true physical form, we see that Chuck was just a brain in a jar that was being fed by a mad scientist via external stimuli.

As confusing as all that is, the idea comes from Rene Descartes, the philosopher, who postulated that reality is not in fact real, but that it is possible that we are all brains in a jar being controlled and fed everything we see, taste, and touch. It is a similar premise to that of the Matrix and movies like Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but a much different take on it, as it is meant to bring to life the specific premise that Descartes was exploring. (His conclusion was, “I think therefore I am” but the idea is cool.) Also, being that it is still just an idea, the synopsis is very loose.

Progress:

It's just an idea I got while think about violence at a gas station.... And yes, it started with a violent situation in a gas station and ended with Rene Descartes.... Don't ask me how, you're crazy for reading it! :D