New Elements to the Story - I love this.
One day, alone in her bed, Annie - 32, so skinny you can see every bone of her body, and completely dehydrated – Annie dies of a heart attack. During the process of leaving her physical reality, she discovers what is beyond death. She is transported to a huge place, where she feels total goodness, absolute love, and sees moments of her past.
In a Middle Eastern city, beautifully sunny and peaceful, Annie, now at the tender age of 13, is offered by Mario - a kid from the boy’s school right next to her bus stop – to leave the city for the promised land of Hollywood! She tells him to leave her alone , but he insists so much that she pushes him in the street. The boy nearly gets run over by a car and she apologizes for almost killing him.
Annie is watching the memories as if she’s watching a movie but on a infinitely huge screen.
Annie is now 20, a beautiful mix of femininity and strength. Her mother tells her to get married, sooner than later. She is pressured to marry Henry, a young and touch military man. She finds just 2 days before the marriage that he has a few blond hairs on his head. He won’t admit that he sees another woman. She decides to cancel the marriage, leaving him publicly humiliated .
She is then presented another contender, the son of the chief of the country’s secret services. She refuses to marry him because she finds a man, more of her liking, a young rebelious student who is famous for throwing chairs at his professors.
The day of her marriage ceremony, a civil war begins and the newly weds have to run between the falling bombs around the church.
The "movie" of the memories seem to be over, and Annie looks everywhere. The huge space fills with butterflies. She loves butterflies. She turns around and sees the beautiful earth. She smiles and says "I want to go back".
A new image appears on the big infinite screen: it’s her, lying in bed, dead. Her husband is working as a Lexus car dealer. She sees him working hard in his office. He is a director. Annie sees herself being next to him during a big publicity stunt to launch a new model, with acrobats and contortionists. She is a spectator at the circus act for a brand new car, and suddenly, she see herself as an acrobat.
While spinning in the air she misses one step and crashes on the car.
With her 2 kids and husband eating alone at the diner table, she looks out her beautiful suburban house, not responding to the children’s calls for a short moment.
At a grocery store, she observes a few men doing their groceries. At a restaurant with friends, she falls head over heels for him. It’s like a lightning bolt . She manages to talk to him. He is a Scottish businessman, brilliant and vibrant, who just arrived in North America in order to re-energize his own struggling marriage.
At her house, Annie is at the dinner table with her family, but can’t eat anything.. Torn apart between her life as a dedicated wife and the passion she feels for Ian, she sinks nose first into a depression.
Annie leaves the huge room by flying with the millions of butterflies and a wakes up on her bed, feeling sick. She manages to crawl to the kitchen and eats whatever she can fin in the refrigerator, much like a starved animal.
Hence, she returns to her physical experience, transformed. She is not afraid of anything. Life is no more no less than a Divine Comedy. She is just determined to be true to herself.Knowing now that thoughts and matter are all forms of energy, she discovers an outlet for her new passion for life : Carnivals. One day, at a Trinidad Carnival, she gets acquainted with a black Trinidadian family who initiates her to intense dances that power up her energies to extreme hights, modifying her perception of reality in pure ecstacy, aided by the intense music of " Steel Drums ".
Annie decides that she wants to make the Carnival known to the world, she gives herself a mission, and she is determined to do whatever it takes to see it come true : make a documentary film about Trinidad’s Carnival, a celebration of life and freedom.The following year, Annie goes back to Trinidad with a camera, to film the Carnival, and show how her Trinidadian friends transform themselves for the event.
But on the first day, she believes she saw Ian, her Scottish Lover in Montreal. She goes searching for him, and she does indeed find him, in a perillious situation, running away from a mad man who attracted him into a trap. Annie discovers that the mad man is no one else than Henry, the military man who felf humiliated in front of the world when she refused to marry him 7 years earlier. He used Ian to get Annie.
Not afraid of anything, Annie takes upon herself to save Ian and herself from the raging Henry and his goons. She manages to disappear with him in the black neighboorhood, where friends help them escape. Hidden in a pick-up carrying steel drum and musicians, they cross town and manage to gain the ocean, where they find a boat. Feeling safe and relieved after the perillous chase on the island, Ian asks Annie to once and for all follow him to Holland, and start a new life.
But Henry gets on the boat, with his big guys, and tries to rape her. Ian is beaten to death. Annie remembers her near death experience and tells Henry, her raper, that she never will die, even he tries to kill her. A gust of wind suddenly violently pushes the sailboat to one side, and all the men fall in the water. She grabs Ian’s body and he manages to get back on the boat. The other men are left in the water as the sail boat speeds away.
In the morning, Ian wakes up, Annie is gone, so is the small boat.
She is back on the island, shooting the continuation of the Carnival, and having a great time with the people.
A Story by Alex Pierre and Annie Tazbaz - 2005 all rights reserved"Playing Annie" is a work of fiction. Any resemblance with individuals or a person is purely coincidental.
In a Middle Eastern city, beautifully sunny and peaceful, Annie, now at the tender age of 13, is offered by Mario - a kid from the boy’s school right next to her bus stop – to leave the city for the promised land of Hollywood! She tells him to leave her alone , but he insists so much that she pushes him in the street. The boy nearly gets run over by a car and she apologizes for almost killing him.
Annie is watching the memories as if she’s watching a movie but on a infinitely huge screen.
Annie is now 20, a beautiful mix of femininity and strength. Her mother tells her to get married, sooner than later. She is pressured to marry Henry, a young and touch military man. She finds just 2 days before the marriage that he has a few blond hairs on his head. He won’t admit that he sees another woman. She decides to cancel the marriage, leaving him publicly humiliated .
She is then presented another contender, the son of the chief of the country’s secret services. She refuses to marry him because she finds a man, more of her liking, a young rebelious student who is famous for throwing chairs at his professors.
The day of her marriage ceremony, a civil war begins and the newly weds have to run between the falling bombs around the church.
The "movie" of the memories seem to be over, and Annie looks everywhere. The huge space fills with butterflies. She loves butterflies. She turns around and sees the beautiful earth. She smiles and says "I want to go back".
A new image appears on the big infinite screen: it’s her, lying in bed, dead. Her husband is working as a Lexus car dealer. She sees him working hard in his office. He is a director. Annie sees herself being next to him during a big publicity stunt to launch a new model, with acrobats and contortionists. She is a spectator at the circus act for a brand new car, and suddenly, she see herself as an acrobat.
While spinning in the air she misses one step and crashes on the car.
With her 2 kids and husband eating alone at the diner table, she looks out her beautiful suburban house, not responding to the children’s calls for a short moment.
At a grocery store, she observes a few men doing their groceries. At a restaurant with friends, she falls head over heels for him. It’s like a lightning bolt . She manages to talk to him. He is a Scottish businessman, brilliant and vibrant, who just arrived in North America in order to re-energize his own struggling marriage.
At her house, Annie is at the dinner table with her family, but can’t eat anything.. Torn apart between her life as a dedicated wife and the passion she feels for Ian, she sinks nose first into a depression.
Annie leaves the huge room by flying with the millions of butterflies and a wakes up on her bed, feeling sick. She manages to crawl to the kitchen and eats whatever she can fin in the refrigerator, much like a starved animal.
Hence, she returns to her physical experience, transformed. She is not afraid of anything. Life is no more no less than a Divine Comedy. She is just determined to be true to herself.Knowing now that thoughts and matter are all forms of energy, she discovers an outlet for her new passion for life : Carnivals. One day, at a Trinidad Carnival, she gets acquainted with a black Trinidadian family who initiates her to intense dances that power up her energies to extreme hights, modifying her perception of reality in pure ecstacy, aided by the intense music of " Steel Drums ".
Annie decides that she wants to make the Carnival known to the world, she gives herself a mission, and she is determined to do whatever it takes to see it come true : make a documentary film about Trinidad’s Carnival, a celebration of life and freedom.The following year, Annie goes back to Trinidad with a camera, to film the Carnival, and show how her Trinidadian friends transform themselves for the event.
But on the first day, she believes she saw Ian, her Scottish Lover in Montreal. She goes searching for him, and she does indeed find him, in a perillious situation, running away from a mad man who attracted him into a trap. Annie discovers that the mad man is no one else than Henry, the military man who felf humiliated in front of the world when she refused to marry him 7 years earlier. He used Ian to get Annie.
Not afraid of anything, Annie takes upon herself to save Ian and herself from the raging Henry and his goons. She manages to disappear with him in the black neighboorhood, where friends help them escape. Hidden in a pick-up carrying steel drum and musicians, they cross town and manage to gain the ocean, where they find a boat. Feeling safe and relieved after the perillous chase on the island, Ian asks Annie to once and for all follow him to Holland, and start a new life.
But Henry gets on the boat, with his big guys, and tries to rape her. Ian is beaten to death. Annie remembers her near death experience and tells Henry, her raper, that she never will die, even he tries to kill her. A gust of wind suddenly violently pushes the sailboat to one side, and all the men fall in the water. She grabs Ian’s body and he manages to get back on the boat. The other men are left in the water as the sail boat speeds away.
In the morning, Ian wakes up, Annie is gone, so is the small boat.
She is back on the island, shooting the continuation of the Carnival, and having a great time with the people.
A Story by Alex Pierre and Annie Tazbaz - 2005 all rights reserved"Playing Annie" is a work of fiction. Any resemblance with individuals or a person is purely coincidental.
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