POST
APOCALYPTIC OBSERVER
-Marilyn Starlight
LOG LINE: Marilyn
Starlight, in a cameo, is in the throes of chaos all around her with other people
and ET’s in this satire about the power of the observer to save the mind vs
impending insanity taking it with other friends.
SYNOPSIS: Marilyn,
Normandy, Marcie and Derek are four characters that come together in oddball
circumstances of near apocalyptic chaos around them, they are totally freaking
about and navigating looking for answers in this satire that plays like a
surreal dream of people, before they lose their minds totally from frightening
chaos, yet something stops it; answers they find at the last minute through the
movie.
A clue about the demise of sun stroke victims, spoken of later
that the monarch butterflies resemble with magnified skin of sunburn victims,
is revealed in the opening scene of a violent crime portrayed by mannequins posed
fighting over right to sunscreen on clearance of a closing out sale in a street
store.
Veronica has a surprise visit for Marilyn, bringing back her key
and getting her stereo and TV from her ex boyfriend who has questionable life
style. She brings a gun and man handles him when he tires to give her a mini
version of the entertainment set he’s hiding in the bedroom. She
leads him in to get it to the truck and leaves angrily while he loads it. There
are murders all over with increased crime, so people began packing guns again. She arrives with the stuff and visits Marilyn
for a while. In the mall they meet Gil,
he chats up Veronica and is interested in dating her but she’s from out of
town. They leave and he’s left to his
life finding out about Brent, his friend in crime, robbing a corner store that
was supposed to bring arms they paid for to them and getting arrested.
Cataclysm like events occur such as a building that falls into
the water, Marcie’s, Marilyn finds on her way to visit her for a lunch date. Derek Rescues Marcie letting her stay with him
in his custom-built home, her boyfriend. They all wonder why comets re hitting
the planet, temporary tremors, the road opening like a zipper then closing and buildings
falling then erected again and more all around them, and if Armageddon or the
apocalypse is here. Derek suggests Marcie go to Scientology to find out if they
know anything about this, since religion predicted it’s arrival.
Marilyn meets Normandy a new man who moves next door to her and
right away his date falls and kills herself off a ladder. Marilyn thinks hes very
good looking but want to make sure he did not murder his date and he wants to
make sure she did not poison her with borrowed salad dressing for the dinner he
had made for her that he got from his Marilyn. Marilyn surmises it is his bad
luck dating if he falls for another woman, herself. They begin a surreal
relationship, finally trusting each other looking for answers to the chaos and
to battle their fear of ET’s, screaming like most people, every time they see
them appear.
Marcie sees scientology but they tell her they are rich and the
only Armageddon is lack of success. She
returns to Derek to look for more answers. On their dating anniversary party, a
wrecking ball demolishes their house finding the wrong address, enraged, they
have to go to a hotel. They go to a hotel they re climbing the walls at
discovering it heavily engaged by ET’s and swap with Marilyn for her condo to
cook there. She experiences phenomenon at the hotel and romance with Normandy.
They chase after ET’s appearing then disappearing tht finally leads them to a
hotel room where they re seen going in. They pull Marilyn in to Normandy’s
horror, the door is show shut fast the audience is left in suspense.
Marilyn is a post apocalyptic observer who reveals herself to
know science and the deeper aspects of life as heroine in her own life battling
against mental break down like the other characters are who admire her for this
and take her advice. Marilyn has told Normandy if the observer forms reality
from fear, which causes chaos, it is what is happening all around them with the
seeming apocalypse, and Marcy states there’s something wrong in ET circles she
suspects also but is not sure what it is, which viewers find a shocking answer
to at the end of the film. A discussion of the blue butterfly and who was the
first invisible man is revealed as relevant to the burn victim theory of the
monarch butterfly.
The film ends poignantly on Hollywood Boulevard where the four
characters walk down it and see symbolism in a short parade of the bizarre and all
around them they realize how the mind is constructed and what agreements
society makes for accessing information streams for inspiration and how they
are constructed, which has different out comes.
Marilyn states that writing after all is a science. They are left after an ET engagement by a
ship wondering about the future, having seen a glimpse of what is possible to
abate the personal apocalypse tht can manifest all around humanity experiencing
it collectively.
