My thoughts behind what makes me feel the need to tell a story.
Rick E. Cutts, filmmaker and documentarian, We, The Chosen Ones. Written by him, published exactly as he wrote it.
I never sit and say “ok I’m about to write an amazing story”. I get inspired by something I see or hear then it compels me to write.
For my latest film “The letter of the law” I was sitting at the kitchen table working on another project and the tv was on in the background. It was a show about how criminals almost got away with a crime.
My ears perked up when I heard a story of a man that killed his wife confessed to doing it. However he asked for a lawyer before confessing. So the confession was not admissible in court because according to the letter of the law he requested a lawyer first and everything should have stopped at that time.
So then they couldn’t prove how he supposedly killed his wife. So he was let go!!!!
I said that’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. So later the guy ends up killing I think one or two more women before finally getting caught.
I was so frustrated with hearing that. At that point that I wanted to write something about the letter of the law that would make a person think “yeah the letter of the law is fine but what if it’s your child that something potentially bad could happen to”
would you follow the letter of the law or try and save your child or a loved one?
I wanted to do something to make people think how they would react in a situation. I didn’t want to give the answer. I wanted to put it out so that all the people that see it could give a reaction on what they would do in the situation.
Anytime I write it’s always about getting people’s reactions. I’m moved by seeing others interpretations of things.
I don’t like to give the answers because there are so many people with so many different ways of thinking that I love posing questions that let us all see that the vast majority of people no matter where they come from, if they are rich, poor, old, young or what color they are the majority of us would do a lot of the same things in a similar situation.
My motivation to write is based on what I see around me. A thought process to make people say “I wonder what I’d do if it was me”?
I’m always asking questions and the movies and writings I do are extensions of my curiosity and the “what if” part of my mind.
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