The returned-

Influences for select scenes of the film: Particularly focusing upon the The Returned (French: Les Revenants), the French supernatural drama television series created by Fabrice Gobert.

This particular scene foreshows a women entering the water, through losing the only importance in her life; the unknown child that had returned to her prior (Victor). The significance upon this in relation to the film is that the main focus is upon the relationship between the young women and the infant in question. The relationship in particular is the key essence upon the film, as the film needs to highlight how a women’s adornment for her supposed ‘son’ is the overruling aspect throughout. Another factor to take into vast consideration, is that due to the season when we film the scene, it will be rather difficult to film a women and an infant devouring both of their bodies within the water due to a numerous of mitigating circumstances 1) weather, 2) reoccurring ethical issues 3) safety of both the actors and the unknowing of what remains are within the lake. Therefore we have decided to interpret this scene by having both women and the infant eroding into a wood or forest of some kind, also highlight the significance upon an additional recurring theme: nature, which will be thoroughly discussed on another blog post. The scene is in retrospect portrayed to represent a rather significant part upon the film and the women’s mental state. The initial point of when the women enters into the woods is to represent the crucial emotional moment when her fervent exodus has become no longer abhorrent or prolonged and her fuel to life has abolished. The women comes to the final conclusion due to  enforcement upon natures natural process of dispersal and how she initially foresees that her life no longer entails being on earth surrounded by humanity or the confinements and stigmatisation she has been rigorously forced to endure. Rather she sees a life that is to live in soul with God and the young child due to her religious devotion but on the contrary allowing her soul to be free of the unjust misery she has torturously endured throughout numerous miss-happenings; indigence, entanglement of charisma, devotion.  

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This is additionally another scene from the returned which the child star ‘Victor’ draws events that will occur in the future and connotes how death is a recurring life expectance that one must somehow and somewhere occupy. Another factor that will be portrayed within the film is that the drawings vastly influenced select parts of the infant’s mannerism and what characteristics he will portray throughout. Therefore this led onto the idea that the infant drawings will link onto actual key events within select parts of the title sequence, highlighting to the viewer what they’re about to endure their selves into and again signifying that psychological themes will occur vastly from numerous perspectives.