Project Title
Perkins is Perfect: A Short Film Script
Academic department under which the project should be listed
RCHSS - English
Research Mentor Name
Anna Weinstein
Abstract (300 words maximum)
This short film script follows Christine Perkins, an upper-middle-class mother and PTA president, on the day of her 10th wedding anniversary. Everything's perfect on the surface, but violent intrusive thought threatens her marriage and family--Christine has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), in such a way that is not about the cleanliness and physical perfection most people think it to be. The script intends to represent her experience, one that many people share, with exacted tension and raw honesty and resolve with both realism and compassion--not an absence of the condition, but a way to live with it.
Disciplines
Screenwriting
Perkins is Perfect: A Short Film Script
This short film script follows Christine Perkins, an upper-middle-class mother and PTA president, on the day of her 10th wedding anniversary. Everything's perfect on the surface, but violent intrusive thought threatens her marriage and family--Christine has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), in such a way that is not about the cleanliness and physical perfection most people think it to be. The script intends to represent her experience, one that many people share, with exacted tension and raw honesty and resolve with both realism and compassion--not an absence of the condition, but a way to live with it.