JANUARY ONWARD THE YEAR
- Marilyn
LOG LINE: January Onward the
Year is a poetic film about two people who find each other through the language
of purity of communication from innocence like a refreshing slice through the
mundane life and its irrelevant ponderings.
SYNOPSIS: Laira is sitting and contemplating a meeting
with a man a point in destiny of their creation. She is a technical writer for
a company providing information on a variety of topics to corporations. Her
meeting is with a man Dryden who distributes tarot cards to a wide market place
of new age and book stores. By the lake they meet and converse where space time
is stilled and words drop like gold into the moment of the meeting expanding
their repertoire all around them in the beauty of the scene. Contrasting this
sharply Alexa Laira’s friend and her have a conversation regarding studs and
their demise being the perfect pick up picture to ‘sell themselves’ to women
and how realities collide till you get back into a stream of your own truth.
Laira is assaulted by a
driver and throws a rock at his windshield making a successful gateway. She
decides to hold a conference with her magnificent love interest on defensive
driving which produces hilarious results and novel items to help the driver on aggressive,
hostile road ways.
Miriam is a corporate woman
who has a daughter Kyla who is experiencing some rebellion they have a falling
out after Kyla smashes Miriam’s car she sends her for spring break to her
sister Laira to have a break from all the stress. Richard, Miriam’s long time
boyfriend and her talk about getting more serious in their relationship having
reached ac comfort zone of dating. Kyla learns how to do tarot spreads and how
it engages some force within to read eh cards; that there is no psychic over us
we are our own readers.
A book falls into the lives
of the characters a novel set in the near future; the book becomes a point of
intense conversation where several key story lines and characters are discussed
in philosophical depth with humor and revelation.
Laira and Dryden attend an
art exhibit where they are featuring the desecration of religion in a variety
of themes. They peruse the offerings and discuss the deeper meaning of life and
the rebellion the exhibit represents.
A box is left from a ghost
of a burned down house in the shed and a boy finds it he takes it home and see
visions of the deceased child in his life. He box makes its way to Miriam who
finds she’s pregnant by Richard (to their shock and pleasant surprise) when
Kyla returns home from visiting Laira. Dryden and Laira have grown closer since
the advent of the instant family when Laira and his nephew who he brought over
took partial hold of their day.
Passing of the months with a
key event happening in the lives of the characters who move through progressive
events in their lives with the final one; Dryden and Laira (who finds the ice
of a diamond ring hidden in the snow covered tree) heralding her engagement to Dryden ending the film.
