A review of " Stealing the white umbrella from a shop which is selling happiness" script by Soroush Meydanaki
"Stealing the white umbrella from a shop which is selling happiness" is a short script in the fantasy genre, and it has a social subject, and by using the elements of this style, he expands his subject differently.
This screenplay has used several techniques in screenwriting, and before starting, it is necessary to explain each of the techniques.
Back-story: The back-story in the screenplay is usually a bitter and important event that happened to the character in the past and in the present life has affected him. We call this a special event (pre-story injury). Pre-story injury is an accident that the character cannot escape from it and is a part of him to achieve his dreams and having a normal life, the character has to deal with it.
Fantasy: Theoretician Siegfried Krakouer defines the fantasy genre as storytelling or a visual experience that is beyond the physical experience. This word is used to describe a work that takes place in an unreal world. It can be in a dream, travel in time, and...
This genre is combined with different themes in screenwriting and a fantasy-love story, fantasy-crime, and fantasy-social are some of them.
Self-revelation: the recognition that the character or hero of the screenplay has towards himself at the climax (in a long screenplay) It is the revelation of the soul. One of the branches of self-revelation is psychological self-revelation. In this type of character revelation he faces himself for the first time and this work is not done easily, but with the most difficult and brave actions of the hero.
In the screenplay (Stealing the white umbrella from a shop which is selling happiness), Sepideh, a lonely girl, suffers from a deep pre-story injury that this suffering Seeing a puppet show group, and at the same time her unjust dismissal from work, it escalates again. Now Sepideh decides that she must face her relentless suffering to recover her lost rights. she shapes herself into his fears. She realizes that she must once and for good face the deep fear that is the result of her childhood trauma.
She entered her self-consciousness and while facing this fear, she claimed her right from her irrational employer.
In this way and at the time when she disguised herself as Haji Firouz (his fear), in a fantasy space, with a bitter childhood memory.
She meets herself (the character of the mentor) and has a conversation with him. In this conversation, the veil is removed from the secret of Sepideh and her sufferings and fears.
Finally, in the world that she thinks is the world after death, she asks the mentor to take her with him. A mentor does not do this and he leaves her alone.
As we have seen, the author has been able to use several screenwriting techniques correctly in his short screenplay and the narration of the story and create a fantasy-social and psychological drama. Screenplays in which the character is forced to struggle with society and with herself Face her reality and her resentment. However, this script, which has the elements of a long script, fully cultivates the character's ego, and by returning her to the world of the living at the end of the script, he does not determine her fate and leaves it up to the audience.
The screenplay of Stealing the white umbrella from a shop that is selling happiness, relying on the choice of the fantasy genre, creates good visions and the bitterness of social reality.
Mahsa Alinaghian