A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

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I would present the film from Ida’s perspective, whose story runs through the whole novel and as what Ida herself said, she is the story. The film would start from the scene when Clara came to Ida’s family, and ends at the Christmas Eve when Ida and Father Hurlburt went out onto the roof and Ida began to braid her hair. Thus in this film, the main character, Rayona, would not have her story presented. With Ida as the film narrator, saying “I have to tell this story every day, add to it, revise, invent the parts I forget or never knew”, my film starts.

The film focused on the theme, love, and especially Ida’s love towards Christine. It can be separated into mainly two part, which is what Ida experienced in her young age and the depiction of the daily life of Ida and Christine. The first phase about young Ida is the bedding of how Ida’s character was formed. It explained her experience of betrayal from those who her love. Though in this part, there is no plot about the interaction between Ida and Christine, it is a very important part, contributing to Ida’s contradictory attitude towards Christine. Thus, I would put one third of the time on this part, telling the story of young and poor Ida.

In this part, there is one moment that I would emphasize, when Clara and Ida’s Papa were talking about the solution of hiding Clara’s pregnancy, the moment would show how Ida felt helpless. The camera would focus on Lecon and Clara first, with the imagination of Ida provided by the novel. Lecon and Clara were staring at the closed door, with the hope to see Ida open it and save them. Then the camera would move slowly to the outside of the door, focusing on Ida’s eye. Her emotion in the eye would express her inner activity. Ida love Clara and her family and she want to protect them by scarifying herself. She is afraid of the choice but her concern towards other people overweight everything else. The emotion from the hesitation to determination transferred quickly. It would be long time in the film, but actually it is just a moment. And immediately after Ida’s eye expression changed, she turned back the covers. The camera would record how Ida felt cold, reflecting her fear and trembling inside the heart, and how Ida hugged a blanket around her shoulders and lifted the latch, trying to convince herself by those actions. This moment hereby is the turning point of Ida. As the screen dims, Ida’s voice would come up, saying “Yes, I said, when I should have said no.” This is how Ida expressed her love towards the family and the start of her inner contradiction to Christine in the rest of her life.

The second part would be more important of my film as there are many events about Christine and Ida. There are two events that the film would focus on. One is about Ida’s pressing the scalding cup of the ladle against the side of her face, and another is the most important moment in my film, when Christine beautified Ida with her utmost love from heart. For the former one, it is a scene that Christine was still a little baby and the focus is on Ida’s fear of losing her “daughter”. The camera would depict how tightly Ida’s grip on the handle of the scalding cup of the ladle. With her hand shivered without any notice and the preference of the pain from the fire, the scene delivered the message that Ida is really afraid of losing little Christine. Christine has been an indispensable part of Ida’s life and Ida actually had a paper heart in terms of Christine’s issues. This event also explained how the scar on Ida’s face came from. The scar accompanied Ida for her rest of life and so does Ida’s silent love to Christine.

After the trivial events among Ida, Christine, and Lee, the film finally comes to the sweetest moment, one that may not be considered excited or dramatic, but the central of the film. That is the visible love from both Ida and Christine’s eyes. The moment came up because Christine is afraid of the end of the world and she want to do something before her death. It is Ida’s love that allows Christine to do what she want. Ida did not show her distrust of Christine’s theory although she had already disillusioned from the religion belief. If there is no love of fully acceptance, Ida would stop Christine from her reactions towards the so-called apocalypse and there would be no moment that Christine decorated Ida and created Aunt Ida’s most beautiful moment. The overall style of this part of the film is delighted and sweet, without obvious conflict and contradiction. Maybe this sweetest moment is also the only time when Ida did not build the wall to prevent revealing her love to Christine. I would make the camera focusing on the mirror, which showed Ida’s surprise and impression of the how beautiful she looked like. Then the scene would move to Christine’s face, showing how surprised she also got and how satisfied she felt to make her mom a beautiful lady. After that, Christine and Ida would look into each other’s eyes, and the camera would enlarge the scene of Christine’s eye, which has the reflection of Ida’s face. This is the key moment that they both look into each other’s eyes, full of love and concerns. For this moment, there could be some background music that is soft and gentle, showing that Ida and Christine had established a strong connection that they had never had before. I also want to add a scene that Ida wanted to say something at that point to Christine. When she opened her mouth, unfortunately, Lee ruined this moment of connection with his mocking laugh. This left some mystery to the movie, showing that Ida might have something for Christine. However, as Lee broke into the moment, Ida was dragged back to the reality and would never reveal true sentiments so explicitly any more. No one could tell what Ida want to say and even the director of the film, making audiences to think about it. In addition, Christine might not notice it, making audience feel regretful about the moment. It would be the imperfect moment that is more attracting.

Although there are also many other key points in the novel such as Ida’s silence, preference in language, conservation towards Father Hurlburt, and self-respect towards her relationship that worth exploring, my film choose the concept of love as central of gravity. Because love convey a positive sense and through so many misunderstandings between Ida and Christine, Christine and Rayona, love is something that connects them together. They can fight, quarrel, but they still love each other, though not explicitly. Since love is silence, the important moments in my film almost all depends on the characters’ expressions and their actions. The wordless scenes would also raise audience’s thinking of the film and the novel, and the love that is conveyed.

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