Yeah so this is what I wanna do for my FMP...
I found BBC's drama series True Love very inspiring. However, it was not an exceptional program, which followed with many negative reviews, I have yet to actually find a positive one. Yes it was improvised, so many scenes seemed lack something, lots of reviewers have said that it was unbelievable that for instance Nick's wife (David Tenant) seemed to forgive her adulterous husband easily without too much emotion and that the show itself lacked romance or a typical happy ending. But that is why I loved it. I felt that it was so honest and so real. Whether I agree that Nick's wife seemingly ignored his adultery is not the question because I don't. But I do agree that this is much more common, it is sad but true. Most real people in real life situations with their real mortgage, real children and real responsibilities do swallow these things and brush them under the carpet. It's a very British notion after all. True Love was not a Hollywood cliche, it was the truth, whether we like it or not. (However, I am pretending the lesbian/teacher/pupil story one didnt exist - I couldn't bring even myself to believe that one)
Whether the series was good or bad is irrelevant to me, I just loved the bare truth behind it. This is what inspired me to want to write a drama script for my FMP. I want to write something real, something that has happened and does happen but people dont talk about it. I am not talking about teen pregnancy and drugs etc because quite frankly that is old news. You only have to turn Jeremy Kyle on in the morning and you will see.
I am basing my script on a true story.
It is the story of a woman, with her two up two down in Herne Bay, and her two children and her Fireman husband. It is the story of a woman who comes from a Catholic background who seemingly carries, to put it stereotypically, 'Catholic guilt'. A woman who one day walked out in front of a moving train. And survived. And now continues living in her two up two down, with her two children and her fireman husband. As if nothing ever happened. As if she never tried to commit suicide, leaving her family behind. Swept under the carpet. Just like the stories of True Love.
I want take the honesty of True Love and apply it, I want to put across that people do these unthinkable things but yet they are swept away, as if nothing ever happened. For an easier life? Who knows!
NOTES/QUOTES
"Whenever I read in the newspaper about a mother who's abandoned her children and run off to Spain, or a wife who popped out to the shops and never came back, I never think 'God, that's awful. How could she? I think, 'I wish I had the guts to do that." -
"its awful for those left behind, of course; only one step down from suicide in terms of selfishness, I suppose"
"Not, in fact, a decision at all, it seems to me suddenly, but an imperative: an impulse as violent and impossible to ignore as vomiting or giving birth"
The Wife that Run away - Jess Stimson
True Love notes
oddly implausible little miniature tragedies about the life not lived, the ball and chain of responsibility - have tested and finally shored up the rickety institution that is matrimony. http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/true-love-bbc-one
But, this being a modern look at real life and not an Aesop fable, there was no sting-in-the-tail, no comeuppance, no lesson learned, so I’m hoping tonight’s episode will restore the balance.http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/18/true-love-review-david-tennant-lacey-turner_n_1605195.html
