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A MAN WHO CAN’T FEEL PAIN HAS HIS CHARACTER ASSESSED BY AN EXAMINER WHO HOPES TO DETERMINE HIS NATURE.
SYNOPSIS
Emrys & Elodie is an abstract film set in a period of time that doesn’t exist. The film revolves around an “official” interview (or, more accurately, an interrogation) between two characters: Emrys (the interviewee) and Elodie (the interviewer). Throughout the course of the film, Elodie asks Emrys a succession of seemingly random questions concerning his life. As he answers, we regularly see flashbacks as he mentally recalls moments from his past. Many of his flashbacks start to feature Elodie, and it quickly becomes obvious that they are far from strangers. The purpose of the interview is never clear. Nothing is ever explicitly stated, but as the story unfolds, there is a glimmer of her motive: Emrys can feel no pain. As the flashbacks start to show images of Emrys being taken against his will, there is the suggestion of Elodie, undercover, luring him in. A man who can feel no pain can be a powerful weapon as long as the risk of his volatile nature doesn’t outweigh the usefulness of his “gift”.
INFLUENCES
CHARACTERS
ELODIE
She would describe herself as eternally composed because she’s been trained to be that way. She wants to be the best at what she does and noticed for her tenacity, but there are cracks. Other people’s emotions aren’t supposed to get to her, but they do. She can feel it under the surface, creating tiny fractures in places that were once weak. At the same time, intense training, even possible brainwashing, has sharpened her focus into a weapon. She’s found herself in a situation where she can no longer see herself as separate from her position. Her mission was to make Emrys trust her, reveal himself to her, and, if her suspicions were correct, bring him in. Outwardly, she is cut-throat but never cold. In conversation, she is genial, and calm, with a gentle warmth. Inwardly, denial runs deep, and one day, she’ll find herself again.
EMRYS
Quick to feel, born to love, calm but troubled. Living in a world that wants to use and abuse him. He searches for solace in love, in nature, and tries to escape the darkness that seems determined to find him. Handsome and charismatic. Kind and gentle under it all. Easy to love but slow to forgive. Cards to his chest, yet repeatedly betrayed. He fell fast for Elodie, though undercover, the connection was real and intense. She made him trust her quickly. Thinking almost nothing of her penchant to play with pain, or letting the denial blind him. And this is where we find him. Angry, vengeful, hurt. Craving freedom in a way that only people who can never be free feel it. Wounded in a way that can’t heal. He’ll listen as you speak now, but he’ll never let you in.
CAST
EMILY BUTCHER
HARVEY QUINN
