A Publicity Film designed for ET friends

Dear Uyghur friends,

This is your Komland friend who is willing to contribute to your freedom as Komland, known as “Jiangxi” Province, was invaded 70 years ago and Komlish people who live there were kept as prisoners ever since, just like your people.

The torment of even thinking about the suffering of my people over these 70 years never stop haunting me. But the merit of such torment has came to me last night when I had a nightmare about a scene where a Komlish house was broken into and the family was murdered by the communists. I can’t help crying after waking up and I felt guilty not to remember the dream. Then, after some editing in my mind, I realized that the scene, starting 70 years ago and intermittently continuing after then in Komland, is actually also the ongoing persecution happening right now in East Turkestan. Therefore I wondered if this inspiration, which I now would present as a publicity film plot, could be of help to my Uyghur friends, you.

Forgive me if you find the content of the plot offensive. I would never mean to hurt the feeling of any free soul of all the nations now trapped in this prison called China. And please forgive me for not being familiar with Uyghur custom as its prototype was to depict a Komlish family. However you can always edit my content should you be kind enough to accept my idea.

Overall: It should be a cartoon film, in realistic style, about 2 to 4 minutes. I’m thinking about a deeply moving and nostalgic style as in La Maison en Petits Cubes, whose drawing style is my prototype but there are indeed many other styles available.

BGM: Slow piano song as sad as possible and I’m thinking the theme song of the trailer of Dead Island, a game. The BGM of this trailer is something you can’t stop your tear from streaming down and that’s the main tone of our film.

Scene1: A family gathered around under the dim but comforting light and enjoyed dinner. This is not a wealthy family and you, the audience, can see some need-to-repair place in the house such as the wall or the TV. But overall it’s a happy family and you can see the love and care each one had in their eyes. The grandfather, the parents, an old brother, about 15, and his young sister, about 6, are five members of this family, they laughed and talked in front of the desk, saying something vogue but discernible as Uyghur.

Scene2: The door was suddenly broken in slow motion and please be noted that anything happened in this house after was in slow motion. 2 or 3 Chinese cops came in and the family responded differently. The father was immediately standing up and pointing one finger to the cop furiously with the mother standing up a little slower and hence could only embracing him on the waist, trying to stop him from fighting the cops. The grandfather was also trying to stand up but much more “shaking” due to his age. The brother was turning around to grab his school bag which he later wanted to use as a weapon and the sister was totally stunned.

Scene3: Slow: the father and the mother were still in that position when the cop shot a bullet for no reason to the father with the looks on the mother, the grandfather and the clue-less sister frozen on their faces. The bullet was about to hit the father’s forehead.

(every detailed cruel scene was avoided, by telling a family story with a similar scene setting at the beginning. For example, in Scene4, a raindrop hit the father’s forehead instead of the bullet.)

Scene4: Normal: Please be noted that anything in flashback is in normal motion. A raindrop hit the father by his forehead. The father and the mother were obviously younger and their facial expression showed they were amorous lovers before marriage. The mother was embracing her lover in the waist and the father was covering his top shirt or outfit on his head and above the mother to hide themselves from the rain. The position they hold resembled that in Scene2 and 3. They quickly came to the mother’s door, the mother opened it and the father stood there, don’t know what to do. The mother closed the door just to joke with him, but she opened it again, dragging him to the house. Then the mother, changed in her pajama, shyly carried one pajama for men and threw it to the father and then pointed to the couch. When the mother came out midnight to check on the father, the father, now in pajama, moved a little in the couch and fell on the floor, making the mother giggling with mouth covered. The father opened his eyes and saw the “ceiling vision” with the mother’s face in the picture and he smiled. Zoom in father’s eyes.

(Zoom in the father’s eyes and zoom out from the next character’s eyes. And the deceased’s last position was the same with that in their stories. And in the scene of real life, their body, with the cruelty of blood, were not shown again. Only strongly imply they were murdered.)

Scene5: Slow: Zoom out from the grandfather’s eyes. Now he was in the previous position of the father with one hand protecting the mother, his daughter. And the mother was kneeling down as if she was to check something(the father). The father was lying on the floor on the same position of the last scene but most of his body was now blocked by the grandfather so the audience won’t see. The grandfather was now angrily waving his fist and palm to express his anger. He came closer as if to catch the cop by the collar but the cop ruthlessly waved his fist towards the old man’s cheek, about to punch him in the face.

Scene6: Normal: a beautiful blanket was suddenly dropped on the shoulder of a younger version of grandfather, but the dropping was too hard and the old man got one on the cheek. The old man looked a little bit pissed on the younger version of the father. So it was the father who threw the blanket before and the mother leaned closer to the grandfather, playing some “daughter’s trick” to her father to stop him yelling to her lover. So the old man was trying to help the couple decorate the house. Two men carried the huge blanket on their shoulders to the house. Montage showed they decorated the house and finally stretched the blanket in the living room. Exhausted, the old man lay down trying to take a nap and soon after the couple lay down too, each along one side of the old man. The old man hugged them both like hugging two children, rubbing their hair and looking very happy. Zoom in.

Scene7: Slow: Zoom out from mother’s eyes. She now blocked the father and grandfather who were lying side by side on the blanket(yes, the same one). She just turned around her face from her deceased family and looked right in the eye of the cops. She looked desperate, furious and revengeful with her beautiful eyes filled with tears. She gritted her teeth and tried to stand up( She was kneeling to check on her husband and later her dad before). But what was coming to her was a foot of the cop about to stamp on her underbelly.

Scene8: Normal: The mother was feeling a kick from her first baby with her husband jumping happily around her, asking her if she’s OK and stuff. They were shopping for the baby’s clothes and montage showed few other scenes of preparing parenthood. And then the basic scene of delivery where the parent finally had their first kid. In the next scene the father kissed the mother and then the baby and went to work while the mother, sitting on the floor/blanket, watched the baby’s cradle, glowing. Zoom in.

Scene9: Slow: Zoom out from the teenage boy’s eyes. He, from another side of the desk, were in the middle of the scene so that the mother(badly injured, sitting on the floor) and the other two men could not be seen. He now turned around with one hand grabbed on his school bag. He was about to wave the bag onto the cop when the cop shot another bullet to the boy.

Scene10: Normal: A bean hit the boy on the throat and it tickled. The boy found it was his newly born sister who did the trick to him. He chased her and she giggled all along. Then he played with his sister in some montage scenes showing she was growing up, one of which showing that he taught Uyghur instead of Chinese to his sister. Finally, the montage stopped and suggested that it was just before the tragic dinner. The door was opened and his parents, along with the grandpa, took over his job to look after his 6 years old sister. The teenage boy was exhausted and, with his head down, sat down on his chair, the same chair he used by the dinner table. But he still looked happy having played with his sister. Zoom in.

Scene11: Slow: Zoom out to the little girl who’s the center of the scene now so nobody else’s tragedy can be seen, only part her brother’s shoulder was shown, suggesting he was sitting on the same chair with the same position but had been cruelly murdered. She just looked frozen with wounded cub’s eyes. A cop came near her and she was about to be grabbed supposedly from the collar.

Scene12: Normal: It was definitely the time before this dinner. The girl was held by his father high in the air to play “plane game”. She giggled happily and the game was passed to the grandpa. Grandpa took his granddaughter and continued to “fly her to the moon”. Then she was passed to the brother. The skinny boy who was afraid that she would fall carefully half-hug half-hold his sister to continue this game. The father then came into the kitchen to help and then came out with the mother, dishes on their hands, telling everybody dinner was ready. Then they gathered around and repeated the happy scene at the beginning of the film. Zoom in.

Scene13: Slow: Zoom out from the same little girl who were now in the concentration camp. She was sitting on a similar chair in front of a similar table but surrounded by not her family but other unfortunate, equally terrified Uyghurs, women and children included. The little girl tried to look up to the sky and the camera Zoom out vertically, from her table to all the tables with thousands of Uyghurs kept in this one camp, from the dome of the concentration camp to all the camps in East Turkestan, showing at least hundreds of them, from the territory of East Turkestan to the whole East Asia.

Scene14: Camera stopped at the East Asia map scene. Showing propaganda slogans.

The film stops there.

Sincerely yours,

A Komlish Patriot