Research for movie opening

 Movie opening research

After we decided on our genre and characters for the movie, we started to move along with more of our plot.

We began doing research on how domestic violence with substance abuse is usually portrayed. Our sources and hearing from personal stories from what we have seen have told us that substance abuse and domestic violence is usually portrayed in a very confusing way. It can usually be someone that everyone least expects. 

Some movies that include domestic violence and substance abuse might be the movie "Waves," or the movie "Precious." The movie waves I have watched many times before. It is a very deep and has a major background. The tone of the movie is very slow and melancholy but shows progression of anger and held back emotions that lead to the abuse of both substances and a significant other.  

I also recently watched a movie called "It Ends With Us" which shows strongly of a woman who is deeply in love with a man that abuses her and she doesn't even realize. Even though throughout the movie he shows how much he loves her and he does a lot for her throughout the movie that would make him less expected to be an abuser. This is where our plot twist of the movie opening will come into play. We are going to show the meaningful relationship between the couple where both sides are showing a loving relationship and a strong love for eachother, as well as underlying forshadow of whats the come and what the result is going to be from this. The other half of the opening is going to show the true result. The evil that comes into play through domestic and substance abuse is going to come to light in one half of our opening.