J'Arrive Acadia

Where would you go? It's not so far - though further in winter. And what is the season, anyway? Questions to be answered.
below follows an untidy version of today's mise-au-point. May be tidied up in the next days, until then, ponder; disagree;complain.

Structure at start of 2008:

House of War
general synopsis

1st scene- news report on T.V. about draft/war with Iran –not saying it exactly
media character…john stewart ??

2nd scene- all characters present, in a public place but not necessarily together (school cafeteria/diner/ restaurant/ train station)
longish scene

3rd scene- DOC interview 1 – e.g. American deserters in Canada from Iraqi war

each story strand starts with the same scene/image/moment

4th- (1 story strand) ??????????????? could this be a child???
geneva’s story
kid obsessed with reading and Lord of the Rings, theatrical. Has a friend (imaginary) with same interests, and always meets her in the forest. Upon discovering he is drafted, goes to hide in forest with her. When police finds him, the audience finally realizes that the friend doesn’t actually exist. Backstory: father died in a war. Character is anti-war because he believes is it dishonorable to fight and kill virtually, without face to face contact.

5th section - DOC interview 2

6th section - (another story strand)
jericho’s story: prereq, women are drafted.
boy’s pov. 18 yr old. Gets draft letter, ambiguous. Lets anger out on girlfriend. Reveals the news. Later, girl tells boy she’s also been drafted…And, she’s pregnant. Boys pushes abortion, but argument ensues. She breaks up with him, keeps child to avoid draft.

7th section
DOC interview 3

8th section (Robin’s story)
a bunch of slackers sit and ignore the draft. One of them begins having nightmares of war and decides to take extreme drugs to render himself unsuitable for selection. But the price paid turns out as bad as going to the Army.

9th section
DOC interviews 4

10th section (child’s view)
a kid in elementary school knows her father is going away, but can’t understand why or the context.

11th section
DOC interviews 5

12th section (Kaela’s story)
a young man evades the draft by going up to Canada (or Mexico) and uses and develops a kind of Underground railroad system which - at great risk - he transmits to his friends who have not dared to run away.

SECION 13 – the ends
We see what became of each person in the story and learn some interrelationships between the various people. Some reversals? Some surprises? Some epiphanies? Let’s dance.