Hey everyone, I'm new to the forums and I'm just looking for a little help with a new short screenplay I'm beginning to write. I'm just getting a basic outline of the plot right now and I'm having a little trouble with the ending. I thought I would post my idea on here to get some opinions and maybe see if anyone had some ideas on how to end it.
It starts out with a guy that loses his wife in childbirth and his newborn son dies of complications. His world is completely destroyed and he doesn't know how to deal with it. So he takes everything that his wife owned and everything that they bought for their new child and he burns it all. He feels like he will be able to erase the horrible memories if he just acts like he was never married and he never had a child. So he erases the two of them from his life and acts like they never existed. Everyone sees that his mind has become messed up and they don't know what to do. They try to get him to the funeral and everything, but he just keeps asking what funeral they are talking about and denying that he was every married or had a child.
I want it to end with his loved ones tricking him to get him to the funeral since he won't go on his own. When they get to the church and he realizes where he is and what is going on, he snaps and becomes violent and continues to resist seeing the caskets of his family. This is where my ideas run dry. I want there to be a happy ending since the whole story is sad, like he sees the picture of his wife and son and begins to cry and snaps back to reality. Then maybe it shows him accepting this fate and moving on with his life. If anyone has any ideas along those lines, I would love to hear them. I would also love to hear anyone's opinions on my story so far. Thanks in advance.
It starts out with a guy that loses his wife in childbirth and his newborn son dies of complications. His world is completely destroyed and he doesn't know how to deal with it. So he takes everything that his wife owned and everything that they bought for their new child and he burns it all. He feels like he will be able to erase the horrible memories if he just acts like he was never married and he never had a child. So he erases the two of them from his life and acts like they never existed. Everyone sees that his mind has become messed up and they don't know what to do. They try to get him to the funeral and everything, but he just keeps asking what funeral they are talking about and denying that he was every married or had a child.
I want it to end with his loved ones tricking him to get him to the funeral since he won't go on his own. When they get to the church and he realizes where he is and what is going on, he snaps and becomes violent and continues to resist seeing the caskets of his family. This is where my ideas run dry. I want there to be a happy ending since the whole story is sad, like he sees the picture of his wife and son and begins to cry and snaps back to reality. Then maybe it shows him accepting this fate and moving on with his life. If anyone has any ideas along those lines, I would love to hear them. I would also love to hear anyone's opinions on my story so far. Thanks in advance.