Group – Jialu, Sylvia, Yolanda, Rachel, Kris

We imagine our project to be the final scene of a movie as it was based on the last paragraph of Camus’ first novel ‘The Stranger’. The main protagonist Meursault has reached the very last point of his life because he has been sentenced to death for shooting a man dead on a beach. The reason he gives is that “it was because the sun was too hot.” We have unfolded this scene by combining what is already in the book with our understanding of the last part of the novel.

Meursault, the protagonist is anti-social, indifferent, insensitive, uncaring and unmotivated. But his absolute passion for the truth is revealed during the second part of the book. In the first project, we decided to shoot in two locations, first in an ambiguous, interior dark space and second is a beachside shot after sunset,  both two shots were intended to represent Meursault’s anti-social mental space.

In the second project,  we removed the beachside scene and refilmed the interior location by filling in more details which symbolizing Meursault’s repetitive everyday life in prison. We have also slowed down the pace of the whole scene to represent Meursault’s calm and fearless mental space towards death on the last day of his life.

In both two project, we have kept the flower which symbolically represented Meursault’s mum, he is never afraid because he admired his criminal and at the last point of his life, he remembered the death of his mother.