Treatment

Jens has a long lost lover who he is still madly in love with but hopeless as to whether he will ever see her again.

Jens goes to live out his every day life, walking around the city. He lives a fairly solemn, lonely life but still upbeat. As he encounters different characters, he is given, or is reminiscing over different aspects of his relationship with her. For example, he is sitting in a taxi and pulls out a photo of her in remembrance of her. In another moment, he is given a flower by a man with a parrot on his shoulder, with the initials of the girl's name on. As he progresses through, he becomes more hopeless until he notices the girl on the phone standing right next to him. It's her. Whilst he composes himself, she's left and he has to chase after her. He does so and runs after her, tripping over something, falling to his knees. As he looks up she is there in front of him, smiling.

My influences will come from directors like Wes Anderson and Taiki Waititi. I want to also use a Brechtian technique of direct address so that the audience feel as though the characters are talking directly to them. I want to convey an unrealistic love story, in the sense that the story line I follow is fairly down to coincidence and fate, which can be seen to be supernatural. Therefore I want to create an obscure world where the actors and viewers are connected and where we feel the upbeat ecstasy of the song, whilst seeing the quite sad and isolated man's life in a more light-hearted comedic way.