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scratch pad "whys?" - Coggle Diagram

- - - - A reclusive young woman struggles with her grip on reality as loneliness becomes a point of anxiety
      - A reclusive young woman struggles with her grip on reality as she becomes fixated on her own loneliness
      - A reclusive young woman struggles with her grip on reality as her own loneliness becomes too much to bear
      - A reclusive young woman struggles with her grip on reality as she comes to terms with her own loneliness
        
        A lonely young woman loses her grip on reality as she struggles to reconnect with society
        
        A young woman struggling with loneliness tries to maintain her grip on reality.
        
        ALICE IN WONDERLAND PIVOT - going for empathy with the character's despair. Not too madhouse, not too wallowy. A sadness and yearning we can all connect to. The insanity is the tragic reveal.
        
        A young woman struggling with loneliness discovers a world where she feels at home
        
        A young woman struggling with loneliness stumbles into a place she connects to
        
        A young woman struggling with loneliness stumbles into a diner that's oddly comforting in an otherwise distressful world.
        
        A lonely young woman trying to reconnect with society struggles to maintain her grip on reality
- - - - is she Asian-American?
        
        is that a core identity problem?
        
        I understand from talking with Joy that that from an early age creates distress from labelling, bullying, ostracization, etc.
      - yes, i think so. someone who's always felt a little weird, a little set aside
  - - - she currently doesn't have much in the way of motivation. she's the kind of sad that doesn't find much value in anything right now
        
        someone cynical, but quietly hoping she's wrong
  - - - a sister?
      - a friend that's like a sister?
        
        maybe they're estranged?
- - - - thinking "hope"
      - she begins the film thinking that someone may want to connectw tih her or that she may be capable of connection
      - the disillusion at the end tears down those last shreds of hope, corrupting the character's goodness
  - - - as a result she is quite desperate to rekindle the connection
- - - - We have to WANT the character's DESIRES to be filled and react to the fulfillment (or lack thereof) of their NEEDS
        
        How do Drive and Blade Runner get us to care about the needs and desires of characters so detached from their own world and even from us? Do we empathize with that detachment as an obstacle in our own lives?
        
        What does Chloe NEED? What does she desire?
        
        DESIRE (the easy part): Chloe desires to reconnect with the world. She fears rejection and conversely seeks out fulfilling relationships with other people. Specifically, she seeks the recognition of her lost lover, Anna. But she would settle for even positive interactions with the people of everyday life.
        
        NEED (the difficult part, what does she lack that cannot be overtly communicated with the audience?): The confidence to love herself? The strength to accept herself for whoever she is? To believe in her own worth outside of other opinions?