Full Term

Full Term (or "First Diemester")

Short Film

A guy gets trapped in a relationship with his possessive girlfriend when she gets pregnant just before he finally breaks up with her. With his best friend who has always had a distaste for his girlfriend, he schemes to force a miscarriage.

Scenes: 

- He is about to break up with her and she reveals to him that she's pregnant, he instead asks her to         marry him.
- At the hospital, he asks the doctor about how a miscarriage might accidentally happen.
- He talks to his best friend and they come to the same conclusion of forcing a miscarriage.
- He has a horrifying nightmare where he wakes up inside her pregnant belly.
- Them looking up how to induce an abortion, finding a very creepy how-to video.
- He finds out the truth about how she induced pregnancy, he goes to friend and says they gotta make     it happen
- She starts taking extra precautions and planning the wedding, being an unbearable bitch about it.
- In a heist-like planning sequence, they set about putting the abortion into action.
- The moment of truth where things go tits up in a Tarantino-like blood bath.

Bianca is the girlfriend's name.

1) The first scene sees the main character (Walker) drinking a lot at a party, he is with his friends who show concern, he tells them very sure that he is going to break up with Bianca now.

The opening scene could be made more interesting if he practices the break up lines with his mates, starting with a subversion where he's not talking to a girl. Then when things go wrong during the actual break up we'd know what he wants to say and it'll be made more difficult by the fact that be can't get it out and that devolves into him proposing instead.

Beats for scene 1:

- Telling his friends, them supporting and helping him find his words

- Asking to talk to Bianca privately amidst party and her being a total fucking bitch

- Him trying to tell her and her revealing that she is preggo

Match cut from his face as everyone congratulates their decision to him being in the doctor's office, still equally shocked and scared. 

2) Bianca and Walker go to the doctor's for an inspection, the doctor tells them that everything is fine and that there are just some substances and foods that they might want to avoid as preventative measures against miscarriages. Walker asks a lot of questions in this direction until it becomes awkward and Bianca shuts him down.

-No where to run to baby-

3) Transition into a back and forth cut between a baby shower thing for Bianca and Walker going out to get shit faced with his friend. The back and forth shows the contrast between how they feel about the situation, this leads into a heart to heart that Walker has with his best friend (Frank). Frank asks him why he proposed and he gets a chance to explain the confusion, they discuss the shitty situation and come to the conclusion that having a miscarriage would be the best thing to happen (it's a very premature baby shower they mention as well). They present the idea of maybe inducing one. During the baby shower she can also reveal that she induced the pregnancy as well.

During the beginning montage there needs to be a couple of scenes showing how tight the situation is for Walker, being cornered in at work and having her parents and his own mother pressuring him into staying with her and taking responsibility for what he started. This is very important in explaining why he can't just leave.

4) He is sleeping with Bianca, and falls asleep, when he wakes up he's inside of her womb. It's a horrible and beautifully disgusting dream sequence. He wakes up sweating and makes sure her tummy isn't that big, when he touches her belly she wakes up and looks at him in a very awake way of fear and primal danger.

(she snores really loudly as well adding to the horror of the scene by forming a distorted soundscape)

5) Walker and Frank look up methods to induce an abortion, they find a particularly creepy video that attracts the attention of people in the library (they chose to do it somewhere anonymously and not home where it can potentially be monitored, this of course results in some comedy with a librarian).

6) He is talking with one of her friends that he finds unbearable, she touches on sensitive topics like how he grew up without a father, but during this torture she accidentally reveals to him that the pregnancy was induced. Furious he goes to Frank and they decide they have to do something about this.

7) A montage in which they start planning the abortion, this is inter-cut with every new complication as Bianca starts taking highly preventative measures to ensure her baby is born healthy, unfortunately more responsibility than she has ever displayed before. She starts planning wedding as they adapt to each new change and slowly form a larger and larger team made up of individuals who can't stand Bianca or who have had past unresolved beef with her.

8) The plan unfolds but everything goes very wrong as it should. Falling apart the place turns into some kind of blood bath, the specifics I am unsure of yet.


The ending just has to wrap up his arc in a way so whatever blood bath unfolds has to be thematically significant. 

- Maybe he goes to jail and they say that he'll never see her again and he is actually really happy with the outcome.
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- One of the group involved with the abortion can be like a lizard, where he needs to lie in the sun completely useless for a certain amount of time every day in order to be able to function, on the day of the abortion it's overcast. This can start as a funny peculiarity meant for comedy but then actually feed into the progression of the plot.

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Walker grew up without a father and spent his childhood with a single mother who was very possessive and manipulative of her son, he ended up getting with a girl who is exactly like her, she's trapped him in a relationship where he feels completely neutered. It's one that at the beginning of the movie he has finally come to realize is something he doesn't have to live with, a place he's been in many times and which always leads to a guilt-trip or manipulation by Bianca that keeps him with her.

The movie sees him finally break and take the necessary actions to rid himself of the bitch. It's about escaping the chains that has held him down so far in his life, his mother is also present in the final scene and there needs to be a moment of emotional explosion where he says how he really feels about both of them, a cathartic experience where he finally puts his foot down and right in their mouths.

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He uses reason that ring is more like a best friend necklace

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