It's often addicting to visit that secret inner world. We all live in two worlds: one that we share with others and one inside the privacy of our minds.
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Loli leaves the apartment and wanders away, free at last. Adam is now just a stranger in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar home, in an unfamiliar town. When Loli finally wakes, she has no idea who the boy asleep with his arms around her is. Then they're speeding down a desert highway in a convertible, until finally, the road comes to an end, and Loli is alone in the darkness. Then Loli and Adam are taking their first hit on a sidestreet after a rehearsal for Waiting for Godot. She's grabbing the gun, then killing Peaches in an alleyway, where she snorts Peaches' stash to try and undo the act. Loli is seeing Adam beat Jesse to death in their parking lot. So is Peaches.ĭesperate to forget everything, Loli purposefully overdoses on Nostalgia and tumbles through scenes of memories. Where's the bullet? Adam realizes that Loli's memory has been wiped from overdosing.
Loli shoots Adam - but the gun was empty. Loli resolves that the remnants of her relationship are not worth blood on their hands. When she admits this to Adam, he's confused, brushes her off. Then she spots the gun by the sink and hides it in her pants. Testing him, Loli begs Adam to dance with her, but he ignores her. Loli wakes, and yet another Nostalgia memory fades into her dismal reality. Should she stay or should she go? She stays. Terrified by the idea of murder, Loli prepares one final hit of Nostalgia and goes back in time to a nightmarish memory at a dry boatyard where she had an opportunity to run away with Jesse. Helpless, Loli is convinced by Adam that there is only one way to save their love: they must erase their past by killing those they've been unfaithful with. Distraught, Loli revisits a memory where she fell for Adam’s friend JESSE over the phone.Įnraged by Loli's lack of loyalty, Adam devises a plan.
Where can Loli go from here? She can hardly remember a time she wasn't with Adam. in his trips, he's been 'visiting' nights he spends with their dealer, PEACHES. In their waking haze, Adam is distant from Loli and confesses he’s been having an affair. She and Adam are still together and addicted to a crystal and water-based drug called Nostalgia that lucidly induces their memories. Loli wakes from the trip, now thirty years old in a forlorn bedroom. Slowly, the world fades away as this once perfect moment becomes a broken memory. Pretending to command the lightning, LOLI, 20, screeches with joy as ADAM, 20, watches. Two lovers swim in the sea as a lightning storm roars above them. It inspires hope in the end, when Loli, the hero, is able to escape her relationship after overdosing on Nostalgia and forgetting all the years she ever spent with Adam. It explores the addictive nature of clinging to the past. It explores the daunting odyssey of leaving a toxic relationship. It explores the isolation that stems from a misalignment between our inner world and the world we share with others. A change like this at only twenty-one sent earthquakes through my worldview.įascinated with the place of memory in intimate relationships, the story of MIRAGE took form. A true addict of Nostalgia, he is plagued by memories of my mother - he says her imagined presence is “like a ghost in the house." At the same time, I was also facing the sputtering end of a troubled seven-year relationship.
My father began to suffer bouts of amnesia, brought on by debilitating sadness about my mother leaving him.
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Last summer, a series of experiences stirred the inspiration for what would become the first draft of MIRAGE.
Hooked to a drug that induces memories, a toxic, lifelong couple finds that escaping into their past is doomed for tragedy.
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