Fellow Pious

Description

Beat 1: Mae (MC, 29, female) is called up to the stand in court. She steadies herself, opens her mouth to speak then we cut. Beat 2: Mae is in police uniform restraining a violent man, he spits up in her face as she reads him his rights, officers stand around. Beat 3: Mae is no longer in uniform, she is in the pub with 3 male colleagues, sipping pints. Jason (colleague, M, 40\'s), makes a joke about Mae\'s breasts looking nice now she\'s no longer in uniform. Mae brushes the comment off, clearly displeased however it takes a lot more than that to rile her up. Beat 4: Mae arrives home, it\'s a mess. She opens a bill, it is a final warning from a care home, threatening action if a bill isn\'t paid. She calls the home to speak to her mum, they pressure her about the debt.Beat 5: Mae opens her laptop, looking at her bank balance again. She then hesitantly opens Only Fans on her laptop, she has forgotten her password. She resets and scrolls through pictures of her younger self in a bikini, nothing too revealing, she looks through the messages hounding her for more. One message offers her the exact amount she owe\'s for a fully nude photo. She sets up her camera cautiously, contemplating stopping, we cut. Beat 6: At work, Mae gets a call from the home saying her mum is lashing out (sundowning). She asks Jason if she can go, he refuses as they get a call to a job. Beat 7: Mae visits her mum, she has dementia. Mum asks where Mae\'s ex is, saying how sweet it is for him to pay for her place there and for all those times he visited, far sweeter than Mae as she rarely visits. Mae reminds her Mum that they broke up, explaining she is doing everything she can to come more often but work is really hard right now. Mae\'s phone pings, it is a colleague we saw from the pub, Max, telling her to meet him ASAP.Beat 8: Mae approaches Max whose drinking nervously. He explains that Jason was showing everyone this picture of Mae at work. The picture. Superiors have found out , someone even stuck it up in the mens toilets. Beat 9: Mae is at work in an office, not in uniform. The POV is out of the room looking in, she is mortified, being suspended by her female superior. Outside the office one of the lads makes a joke praising Jason for his \'good work\', Max calls them out. In the office, Mae\'s superior tells her, then explains off the record, that there are teams who can find out who leaked the picture. Beat 10: Mae is broken, she\'s at her mums funeral. Beat 11: Mae reads her statement in court, explaining why she did what she did, that she regrets it\'s outcome, we realise she is suing Jason for revenge porn.

Biblical Connection

John 8 vs 1 - 11 This verse captures Jesus\' forgiving soul, allowing someone a life of freedom. I find there are many conversations around sex in the Bible, and the shame in them mostly projects towards women. As a Christian, I find sex an uncomfortable topic to discuss with others due to this. With there being so much history of media using women\'s bodies to sell products, and having experienced day to day life as a women where you get cat called, touched by strangers, comments on your body for just existing, this all makes me drawn to the woman being shamed in this verse. Mae is the adulterer, her colleagues are the fellow sinners. This isn\'t a story shaming Mae, but highlighting the fellow sinners shaming each other. I want to capture this woman\'s story, being shamed for her actions of a sexual nature. Given history of brutality in the police towards women, I thought this would be a great avenue to explore. I am sure the adulterer had reasons for her choices in this verse, I want the audience to see Mae\'s. This film should explore our relationship with sin and shame, opposed to shaming Mae.