Tuesday, 6 October 2009

The film starts with a shot of a man dead on a path, a letter is seen protruding form his pocket and a close up shows a blacked gloved hand taking the letter. The title shows on the screen in black writing on a white background fading into a shot of the protagonist Chris. We see Chris getting ready for work and then going downstairs when the post falls onto the mat. Chris picks up the post and goes to the kitchen, while the kettle is boiling he reads the post which is all bills except the last letter is addressed to Mr Anderson in handwriting. He looks at it quizzically and opens it. While reading a look of confusion comes across his face. He carries on reading till the end and then checks the other side for writing and checks inside the envelope but finds nothing. He then realises the time and abandons the kettle grabs his bag and rushes out the door, he puts his bag on the passenger seat and sits down on his glasses, he checks them and they are broke to his annoyance, the broken glasses are shown then a shot of the letter before fading to black and showing day 2 in white writing.
Day two has Chris similarly to 1, getting up and ready for work


in his car he crams the letter into the pocket of his bag.


The next shot shows the same hand delivering the letter through a letter box and it falling on the mat. the man in the house is seen getting ready then going downstairs and picking the letter up. he reads it and seems puzzled so puts it on a table and leaves the house, at work he goes to put his glasses on but finds they are broken which is quite frustrating to the man. the next shot shows him going to work but finding his car has been scratched/crashed into. then the next day we he returns home from work to find his house has been robbed, then the next day he is fired from his job, then the next his girlfriend dumps him, then the next he gets beaten up and then final the next day he commits suicide. after this the same hand with glove is seen taking the letter from his pocket and re delivering
day one – breaks glasses
day two – something wrong with car
day three- house gets robbed
day four- gets dumped
day five- gets fired
day six – gets beaten up
day seven- commits suicide


The film starts with a mysterious hand picking a letter from a pocket, sealing it and posing it, the the screen fades to black. The man gets a letter Monday. The content of the letter is unseen and the man appears puzzled by the letter and sticks it in his pocket. Over the next week, gradually worse things happen to the man each day. He loses his job, his girlfriend, gets beaten up and his life spirals out of control until on Sunday he decides to end it all and throw himself off a bridge, the ultimate bad luck. When doing this the letter falls out of his pocket. The mysterious gloved hand then picks up this envelope, and is seen sealing and posting it. The next shot is Monday and the shot is identical to the first shot of the film where someone is receiving the same letter, this implying similar unfortunate events are going to happen to this person, so the letter being a curse, a continuous never ending chain.

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