Desensitized Society

By Matthew B Miller

Desensitized Society is an Ultra-Violent Post-Apocalyptic Action Drama based around the contentious relationships of three characters wandering through the desert. 'Years after the last bomb had fallen; when the rain still burned our skin; most of the world was dead. Survivors were forced out of their homes from the valleys and mountains out into the desert. Mostly only the young and the strong survived. Desensitized was society.'

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew B Miller
• Release date: Jul 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476474199

Matthew B Miller

I'm a businessman from Oregon. I don't make much or any money from art / film which is what I began my education in. I write low budget screen plays which may be produced. A lot of what I've written has written itself based on conversations with people.

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Desensitized Society

By Matthew B Miller

Copyright 2012 Matthew Baxter Miller.

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Scene 1

Act I

Character List

Clyde, Dave, Veronica, Kid, Guy

Theme song:

Narrated: Years after the last bomb had fallen; when the rain still burned our skin; most of the world was dead. Survivors were forced out of their homes from the valleys and mountains out into the desert. Mostly only the young and the strong survived. Desensitized was society.

Clyde, Dave, and Veronica are all in the scene around a freshly dug grave covered with stones.

Clyde: I guess that’s the last we’ll see of Walter… You two ready?

They all move on-

Dave: I like it here.

Clyde: Alright, we’ll make camp.

Dave and Veronica sleep besides each other. Clyde attends to the fire overnight in a time-lapse. The next morning foraging. -

Clyde: When is Veronica going to make you get a job?

Dave: What?

Clyde: Maybe it would help if I pronounciate. Don’t you understand English?

Dave: Yeah, I just don’t understand your question… I’m getting really sick of you.

Clyde: What are you going to do about it?

Dave: Stuff.

Clyde: What stuff?

Dave: Bad stuff.

Clyde: I’m going to wire you from a tree as a puppet, and strew your intestines through the branches! I’m going to feed your brains to squirrels. It'll be nuts.

Dave: Keep that up and you’ll be eating your teeth for breakfast.

Clyde: I’d like to see that.

Dave: I’ll knock you so hard it separates you’re brain stem. You’ll be a vegetable for life.

Clyde: (pointing his finger) You don’t have what it takes!

Dave: You’re pushing it.

Clyde and Dave walk down a grade lined with trees to the river with containers. Clyde forages for berries while Dave searches for crawdads in the river. They can hear from a mile away a motorcycle approaching so they stay in wait hoping the rider will pass. When he stops nearby; Clyde and Dave leave passing the rider across the grade on a parallel trail.

Guy: (mumbling) Fucking Kids better not touch my bike.

Clyde and Dave approach the bike opposite the tree