Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Practical Task - Synopsis of "Innocent Till Proven Guilty"

Storyline

When 20 year old Michael Blakewood gets unknowingly involved in a murder, he is told he has two days to prove his innocence before he is framed by an assailant of which he has no idea has a grudge against him.

Synopsis:

The film opens with the main character Michael Blakewood (Michael Thomas) sitting down on a chair swallowing pills along a tipped wine bottle on a table by the side, contemplating suicide. While he prepares to kill himself with a loaded gun, a gunshot from elsewhere is heard. Alerted, he walks out of his apartment taking his gun with him into the corridor and spots a partially opened door and walks into the apartment. Michael walks through to see a man lying on the floor facing death as mutters a few words to Michael that aren’t made out clear. The man then dies, along with Michael passing out from the pills he had previously taken.

Michael then awakens in a holding cell with his vision blurry and realising he has clearly been arrested. To his own shock, he demands that the working officers release him immediately before they take him out of his cell to question him over the murder of a boy identified as "Alex Wilson". Claiming not to have had any part within the murder and not possessing any information over the murder, the police have no choice but to bring him back to the holding cell upon further questioning. This due to the fact that he has no recollection of recent events due to the drugs. The police then open his cell to tell him he's free to leave. Not realising how or why, he is informed that his bail has been paid. 

Upon having his clothes and items returned to him Michael discovers a note in one of his boots. He finds that an unknown assailant has paid for his bail but that if he is unable to prove himself innocent within 48 hours he will go down for murder, spending his sentence in an adult institution a year premature as the evidence to frame him is strong enough to enforce such as sentence. Knowing he'd be unable to survive that lifestyle, Michael comes to the realisation that he must act fast.

Michael's first instinct is to visit his home in order to try gain access to CCTV footage of any kind that would be relevant to his case. Upon his arrival to the security department he is informed that all CCTV footage in the past week had been stolen and destroyed. He then opens an unread text again from an unknown assailant taunting him about not being able to find any proof through video of his innocence while telling him that "time is ticking". He discovers a clue given to him telling him to look at the side of his aspirin bottle. Not seeing any written words he sees that he is overthinking it and that he is being advised to go to the pharmacy from where he purchased his prescription drugs.

While en route towards the pharmacy a man is assassinated in public causing controversy and a state wide traffic jam. Knowing that he has no time to waste, he abandons his car and sprints towards the pharmacy only to find that it's closed due to a large amount of stock being stolen within the company warehouse. At the same knowing that he needs a new pack of pills to maintain his normality he then opens the next text message as it seems like the most appropriate thing to do. It is telling him the location of the drugs but to bring £5000 cash and leave it in a brown paper bag under the yellow van waiting at the given site and that he must drive off immediately upon arrival. He finds that the sensible thing to do is return the goods to their rightful owner and sets off to take it back to the pharmacy but finds police waiting for him at the exit where he arrested and brought back to station where held at first.

The officers investigating his case find it very difficult to believe he had no involvement in the murder at hand if he committed an offence which would also get him sent down for a long time (possession of stolen goods). As Michael awaits within the station, two officers walk in and inform him that the results from the analysis of there body have returned. they then tell him that they have found fingerprints of a man who was believed to be dead over 5 years ago who went by the name Keinan.

All charges on Michael were dropped, Michael leaves the station and decides to carry on his own investigation. the film ends with a man watching Michael from across the road.

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