Patient: Hmm… I dunno’. Every morning, I get up, and I think what am I doing here? What am I feeling? What am I giving?
Psychiatrist: You see (name), it doesn’t matter what path you’ve gone down, or where you plan to go. You just need to find some hope in this world.
Patient: Hopes just a word, and you can’t just find it at work, or with the family, or in some dream. And sometimes you just think, damn, have I really got to live like that?
Psychiatrist: Well now, that’s why I’m here, together we can beat this.
Patient: Are we done?
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Patient: Now listen, I may be wrong, but this hope you speak of. It lies in the air we breathe, the sounds we hear, and the water we lay in…
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Script Inspiration- "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie"
The inspiration and influences for the script above derive from a recital, performed on the 12th April 1963 by American Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan.
The reason I have moulded the script around this renowned piece of poetry is due to the context of poem. Dylan uses this five page stream of consciousness to singlehandedly convey all paths we can pursue in life, from a youthful mad delirium, to old age, and unavoidable death.
Through this collective piece of writing however, the piece manages to entice the reader to realise how we function in this world. We all have no recollection or reason as to why we are here, and our lives, and inevitable death is subjective to the people around you. For instance, Woody Guthrie, died in a hospital, yet Dylan summarises the poem with- “And though it's only my opinion, I may be right or wrong, you'll find them both in the Grand Canyon, at sundown”.
Therefore this poem reflectively conveys all walks of life, whether that is misery, or happiness. This is the sole reasoning behind using this piece as influence, as both the patient and psychiatrist are two people of conflicting personas, who hold fixed ideologies upon life, a theme consistently regurgitated throughout Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie.
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