Themes of 'Touching the Void'- how can we interpret them into our devising?
Perspective
Conflict
Decision making and responsibility
The decision to bomb hiroshima and nagasaki
The decision to have a child or to have an abortion
Case studies or ideas
Paparazzi and Celebrities: Someone's job or personal lives should remain disclosed.
Truman, the choice whether or not to use the atomic bomb was the most difficult decision of his life.
Diana and her death?
Laws?
Marijuana legalisation
Abortion?
Doctor and patient- Life threatening disease of life support system.
perhaps there could be a story of a celebrity who is facing the pressures of keeping a calm face in the public eye, but in his family life, he is facing the decision of what to do with his debilitated Father- take him off treatment and short term happiness, or keep him on treatment for life longevity. Being mortal book.
pressurised environment as like touching the void and the idea of a losing time. Themes paralleled with Touching the Void.
Ben Stokes?
Euthanasia
The idea that a woman with a terminal illness is wanting to have her feeding tube taken away, because of the pain and immobility that it causes her. Perspective of the woman and the doctors, who face a catch 22.
crucial decision making
conflict between patient and doctor as well as law involved.
national law preventing euthanasia, despite the conscious want of the person
Doctors would have sense of betrayal
Perspective of duty to keep her alive, compared to the personal pain and foreseeable deterioration of her case, undignified, burdening on her family.
betrayal
military
friendship
Kurd fighters in Afghanistan https://news.sky.com/story/us-betrayal-of-kurds-destroys-the-wests-credibility-for-years-to-come-11835611
British soldier being betrayed by mod lawyers bit more
tame https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6685071/Hero-won-Military-Cross-bravery-Iraq-years-later-smeared-war-criminal.html
using it for own pleasure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger
Instantly, 70,000 Japanese citizens were vaporised. In the months and years that followed, an additional 100,000 perished from burns and radiation sickness.
Critics have charged that Truman's decision was a barbaric act that brought negative long-term consequences to the United States.
After the bombing Truman felt guilty and responsible for many deaths as he wrote privately He said the thought of wiping out another 100,000 people was too horrible. He didn't like the idea of killing, as he said, 'all those kids.'
Lachlan approves of bunning bare zoots
This also comes hand in hand with the feeling and theme of guilt
This is a very difficult decision many women need to make
Many women experience huge amount of guilt after having an abortion as they feel the have taken a innocent life
Despite the abortion often being the correct option women often cant stop themselves feeling bad
MENTAL HEALTH IMPACT
potentially statistics in hospitals?
instinct
split second decision?
Flight BA038
Heading for heathrow from beijing- 17 jan 2008
It’s concluded that a build-up of ice had restricted the flow of fuel to both engines, causing the Boeing 777 aircraft to lose power and begin to fall towards the ground, it was -2 outside
As it was on the approach to landing, over hounslow, when the engine failures happened they had approximately 40 seconds to a fatal crash for the 152 people on board.
Panic: a sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.#
Instinct: an innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour in animals in response to certain stimuli.
'30 seconds till impact' book
it was done in silence
parent who is addicted to drugs but has to look after a child
decision making to put child in foster care or to stop addiction
stylised scene of the child sat alone in middle of stage shouted at?
repurcussions of addiction
theme of responsibility of adults behalf
helplessness from child's behalf ?
large link from piece to stimulus
lifts
social services end scene could be the child being taken away from the father.
child flashback
Beat then delete