Giraffey
Your Orange Crush
- Mar 7, 2020
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Back when I first got into the film industry (at the tender age of 18) I teamed up with a friend at the time and we wrote a short screenplay set in a dystopian future where suicide was really $uicide. The script centred on a lowly employee working at a company that wrote suicide notes for people before they killed themselves. I'd actually completely forgotten about it but something on here jogged my memory this evening and I went looking and actually found the script (not as bad as I remember actually), along with a bundle of research we did.
Funny, even when I wasn't suicidal I as subtly still thinking about suicide... I have some money budgeted for next year for my own personal projects (once this virus crisis has blown over) so I'm thinking of finally putting that little film together.
Anyway, rediscovering all of that got me thinking about what a future in which $uicide is big business would actually look like, would it be a force for good or a terrible evil? Would there be suicide booths or suicide bars with menus for you to order your chosen death, would it cost extra for certain methods to the extent that it became a kind of class divide? As much as I would love suicide to be more accessible in the future (a move that I think would paradoxically decrease the suicide rate actually), whenever I picture such a future I can't help but imagine it as some capitalist-industrialist dystopia - ala Blade Runner...
Anyone got a different take?
Funny, even when I wasn't suicidal I as subtly still thinking about suicide... I have some money budgeted for next year for my own personal projects (once this virus crisis has blown over) so I'm thinking of finally putting that little film together.
Anyway, rediscovering all of that got me thinking about what a future in which $uicide is big business would actually look like, would it be a force for good or a terrible evil? Would there be suicide booths or suicide bars with menus for you to order your chosen death, would it cost extra for certain methods to the extent that it became a kind of class divide? As much as I would love suicide to be more accessible in the future (a move that I think would paradoxically decrease the suicide rate actually), whenever I picture such a future I can't help but imagine it as some capitalist-industrialist dystopia - ala Blade Runner...
Anyone got a different take?