Planning: Opening scene narration

My scene
The scene starts with a girl who is locked in white room of a mental hospital, due to her past life experience and tormenting  memories. she is shown kneeled down with her hair covering her face and three flashbacks appearing of her getting raped by a man who she did not know, which left her scarred for life. the second flashback is of the unknown man saying "like nothing ever happened". this sentence became a stimulus which triggers a side of her that seeks for revenge. in last flashback we see her in a corner of the room, crouched down rocking back and forth while hiding in the shadow. at first we hear her crying and shouting the name of the man responsible for who she has become and this makes the audience feel sympathetic toward her; but then there is a sudden change in her character where she starts laughing strangely bringing out another hidden personality.


as the scene develops we see how she was brought to the mental hospital and who she was referred as because of how she acted and never seemed to have said a word to anyone in the facility. no one seemed to understand what was wrong meaning that there wasn't a specific way to help her, so therefore precautions were taken when she was given her peels and food. we also see that she was never brought out of her room and neither visited by anyone.

toward the end her carers started becoming comfortable around her as she never tried to hurt anyone and always listened to what she was told but never responded. she seemed to be getting better and looked more like a normal person, but what came next was unexpected.

At the end she is showed in her room sitting on her bed with a male nurse who was giving her meal, she accidently drops the tray of food and started panicking but she is reassured by the male nurse that every is alright and its "like nothing ever happened". those were the last words which the male nurse ever said as he was brutally murdered by being stabbed countless in the throat with a fork.


Applying theory:
My narrative will have a clear start, middle and end to Follow Todorov's theory of equilibrium. I will make sure that my disequilibrium will occur during the middle of my opening to ensure there is a build up of tension. At the end when there is a new equilibrium, I want my audience to feel more settled, but still very confused.