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by heather wallace-brown

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When a friend comes to visit he has more to offer than life itself.

Type: Short

Genre: Drama, Character, Edgy,

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Christine's childhood friend, Max Fernandez, turns up out of the blue after seven years of not hearing from him. She is engaged and living with her fiancé, Ray, who throughout Christine and Max's friendly catch-up in the garden grows ever more concerned about their relationship as he watches them through the window. The laughter, the joking and finally one of Christine's playful antics in the garden sends Ray's pressure boiling and so he calls his friend, Ralph, to get some advice on what to do. As we watch Christine's interaction with Max she reveals to us the woman she is now, the woman she once was and the woman she needs to be. With Max's help she finally manages this…but not in time for Ray to save her.

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    • heather wallace-brown

    • 2010-05-14 16:48:24
    • ParisJ: "how could C disappear if she was alive?" Good question to provoke similar questions resulting in a debate that would incorporate Man and his continuing scientific research into what the average person would view as a molecular impossibility. As well as of course the Christian's view of what they believe would happen during the Great Rapture. Wayne Polls re. the neighbour's sex. The first page reads "Christine glances up and catches her neighbour, an elderly *woman*, watching from her upstairs window". Your comment re. said neighbour merely shrugging her response. A good point. I debated this over and over and decided not to follow the filmmakers angle where characters always run from the room screaming their knickers off and instead resorted to the reactions of others' ghostly encounters. Which is often times relayed with (an almost sublime) calmness or in my mother's case..a stoic shrug. Thanks guys for your comments. Feedback always proves helpful. Heather :-)

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