SCREENPLAY——Karma(second draft)
1 INT. HOME
Fade in:
We can see a man is doing something strange. The light is very dark. He is writing some Taoist magic figures, to burn incense, praying on his lips...
2 INT. DRAWING ROOM
The man walks into the drawing room. He dresses a suit, looks very tired. Woman sits in the sofa and looks ahead. She looks lifeless.
Man: It’s too busy today. Ah, I’m so tired!
Man walks to the sofa and crouch down.
Man: Sophie(slowly, lightly), cooking, please.
Woman nods, and stands up walks to the kitchen. This time, we can see a special radio on the desk in front of the sofa.
After a while, dinner is finished. The man already sits behind table and eats. Woman put the last dish on the table, then stand behind the table.
Man: It’s delicious! (look at the woman) Sit.
Woman nods, sit down.
Man:(while he is eating) Sophie, are you OK?
Woman looks at the man, doesn’t say anything.
Man: Say: Yes. Please.
Woman: Yes, please.
Man:(continue eating) Don’t forget clean the room later.
3 INT. BEDROOM
Woman is cleaning the kitchen.
Man sleeps in the bedroom, he looks very unpeaceful, just like he has a nightmare.
This time, we can see woman’s feet walk into the bedroom slowly.
Suddenly, the man opens his eyes, looks very scared. He notices the woman is standing behind the bed. She holds a knife and looks at him. Woman still very lifeless, but she raises the knife in her hand and stab it to him!
Man screeches. Suddenly, he sits up on the bed. He finds this is just a nightmare. He gasps and recalls something...
4 INT. KITCHEN (MEMORY)
Woman is tidying the kitchen. She looks very angry, she says a lot of swear words to man. Man is standing behind the desk.
Man: Why you always talking, talking, talking! I don’t love you anymore! You will be my sweet doll, shut up! Shut up!
He already can’t bear woman’s talk endlessly, so he takes a knife and walk beside the woman. Unexpectedly, the man stabbed a knife in her back. We can see the knife penetrate her body, shed blood like water. N stops talking this time, she looks very suffering, but she can’t sound any voices. After her death, he moves her body to the sofa.
He walks to the table and becomes to do Chinese traditional sorcery. He is writing some taoist magic figures, to burn incense, praying on his lips...
Man: You will listen to me now. You will follow my order forever!
Then, he walks to N’s body, and put the taoist magic figure on her wound. He starts to pray for something, the taoist magic figure slowly disappearing.
5 INT. BEDROOM & DRAWING ROOM
Man stops to recall, he still sits on the bed. He looks up this time, suddenly, he watches the woman is standing outside! He is very scared and angry! He stands up and walks out, slaps on her face.
Man: Never stand here again! Now, go to sit on the sofa!
Woman nods. Man goes back to the room, and the woman walks to the sofa. When she sits down, she knocks the radio heedless. The radio starts broadcast...
6 INT. KITCHEN (FLASHBACK)
Man and woman sit behind the table together. They looks very sweet.
Woman: I’m so scared. I’m scared if you don’t love me.
Man: Don’t worry, baby. If I don’t love you, you can just cut off my head!
Woman: Wait! I need to record this. Say again!
7 INT. DRAWING ROOM
Radio: If I don’t love you, you can just cut off my head!
Woman sits on the sofa, when she hears this sentence, she nods.
Then, she stands up and walks to the kitchen. She takes a knife, walks into the bedroom...
THE END
