The Search for Zest

The Search for Zest

00:02:01:06 CU elevator door open to CU to depressed man’s face wearing Malcolm X 1960s style glasses; Audio track “Boredom is this man’s problem. Boredom at home, boredom at play, boredom at work”; man with bored look exits elevator and lights up a cigarette while looking out window. 00:02:36:28 CU door to office of Ira Jeffers M.D.; CU man’s hand grabs door knob, camera pans up man’s arm to man’s nervous expression as he takes a drag from cigarette; CU man puts out cigarette on floor with shoe. Audio track “…still battling himself, still holding back. This going to a psychiatrist, is it really the right thing to do? Is boredom worth all this fuss? Can a psychiatrist really help?” 00:03:03:29 Man looks at himself in bathroom mirror, removes glasses. 00:03:50:17 CU man with pensive expression looks at himself in mirror and rubs face, washes face in sink; extreme CU man’s wet face. 00:04:55:20 CU shot reverse shot patient psychiatrist exchange: “What seems to be your trouble?” Man respond in Oklahoman accent “You’re the psychiatrist you tell me” “People get confused about psychiatrists Mr. Marriott. No one can tell you how to run your life…now lets try again.” 00:05:28:02 CU man with pensive expression wearing Malcolm X glasses lights up cigarette. 00:05:49:14 POV CU shot of poker hand in cards with royal flush, hand lowers cards to show woman in glasses looking down at hand; camera pans to man smoking cigar laughing. 00:06:22:14 CU man lying awake in bed. 00:06:44:07 CU man speaks to psychiatrist with back of psychiatrists head in frame. Patient says “I can’t even remember when I cared about anything.” Psychiatrist “But back when you were a boy though” Patient looks up to remember something “Oh then…yes things were different. So damn different.” 00:07:09:08 Father and son hunting in field together in Oklahoma uplands. 00:07:15:05 Boy lying in row boat, smiling, with fishing pole between his toes. 00:07:18:26 Saw sawing 4x8 piece of wood. 00:07:29:26 CU hand cocking

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