THE RAPTUS PLOT

THE RAPTUS

PLOT: JUDE, AN EX COP WHO HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL AFTER AN UNKNOWN CRIME HE COMMITED. HE RETURNS HOME AND IS TRYING TO GET ON WITH HIS LIFE, LISTENING TO THE MUSIC HE WOULD MAKE, WATCHING THE FILMS HE WOULD MAKE. HE IS OFFERED HELP FROM HIS KIND OLD NEIGHBOUR, BUT HE IGNORES HIM THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE MOVIE.  UNTIL HE STARTS GETTING HARRASSED BY A GANG WHO CALL THEMSELVES THE LEGION. BASIC LETTERS, BECOME PEOPLE WATCHING HIM ON THE STREET (THOUGH WE ARE UNSURE IF THEY’RE MEMBERS OF THE LEGION OR INNOCENT BISTANDERS WHO KNOW ABOUT THE CRIME HE COMMITED), EVENTUALLY PEOPLE START MAKING PHONE CALLS, THEN SUDDENLY HE GETS VISITED BY A MAN IN A TERRIFYING MASK (RAPTUS). HE SAYS HE DOESN’T WANT TO KILL HIM AS HE PERSONALLY WANTS HIM TO LEARN A LESSON. IT INFLUENCES HIS SUBCONSCIOUS TO THE POINT THAT HE HAS TERRIFYING HALLUCINAGENIC NIGHTMARES ABOUT THE MAN. HE GOES TO THE POLICE BUT THEY SAY THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE TO HELP HIS CASE (WE DON’T KNOW WHETHER THEY LEGIT CAN’T HELP HIM OR IF THEY HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST HIM FOR THE CRIMES THEY COMMIT). HE TRIES TO SEEK HELP BY GOING TO A LOCAL GANG, WITH ONE OF THEM (MORTEM “MORTY”), WHO CARRIES A SKULL CANE NOT FOR HIS LIMP BUT FOR THEATRE. HE RELATES WITH JUDE’S SUICIDAL TENDENCY AND PROMISES TO MAKE THE RAPTUS GO AWAY. HE IS FOLLOWED HOME BY A LEGION MEMBER (FOUREYES) AND GOES HOME ONLY TO BE ATTACKED BY THE RAPTUS. HE LEAVES HIS HOUSE, BREAKING HIS FAVOURITE BELONGING. JUDE BREAKS THE SAME BELONGING AFTERWARDS. AFTER HAVING ANOTHER NIGHTMARE, HE GETS A LETTER FROM MORTY SAYING THE JOB IS DONE. HE CELEBRATES BY GOING ON A WALK TO HIS FAVOURITE FOREST AND COMES ACROSS A SEVERED HEAD OF FOUR EYES. REALISING HE’S KILLED THE WRONG GUY, JUDE RUSHES HOME AND TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF, BUT HE CAN’T BRING HIMSELF TO. AFTERWARDS, HE GETS A VISIT FROM A COP, WHO WAS SENT BY HIS NEIGHBOUR. HIS NEIGHBOUR NOTICED HE WAS ATTEMPTING SUICIDE AND CALLED FOR HELP. THE COP IS SURPRISINGLY REALLY CALM WITH HIM, DESPITE JUDE’S NATURAL INSTINCT TO FEAR THEM. HE IS VISITED BY THE RAPTUS IN PERSON WHO IS ANGRY FOR THE LOSS OF FOUR EYES. HE BRINGS UP HIS CRIME (RAPING SOMEONE WHILE GOING THROUGH A PSYCHOTIC EPISODE) WE LEARN THE MEDS HE TAKES IS FOR SCIZOPHRENIA AND AS HE GOES THROUGH THE MEMORY OF HIS CRIME, IT BRINGS OUT THE ALTER EGO IN HIM: RED. AS “RED”, HE ATTACKS RAPTUS. HOWEVER, THE RAPTUS FIGHTS BACK, REVEALING HIMSELF TO BE THE COP. REALISING HE’S HALLUCINATING AGAIN. AS RED PRETENDING TO BE JUDE, HE APOLOGISES AND THE COP LEAVES, AGAIN FORGIVING HIM. HE SPENDS THE REST OF THE NIGHT PREPARING FOR THE RETURN OF HIS ENEMY. IN THAT TIME, HE LEARNS TO ACCEPT WHAT HE DID AND THAT THE LEGION ARE HIS DEMONS, A REPRESSED MEMORY COMING BACK TO HAUNT HIM, AND HE MUST COME TO TERMS WITH HIM BEING A CRIMINAL (AS WE THE AUDIENCE COME TOACCEPT THAT HE’S A RAPIST). THE RAPTUS RETURNS AND HE FIGHTS HIM IN A BATTLE OF WHITS, A HIDE AND SEEK MATCH NOT AN ALL OUT BRAWL. HE SUBDUES RAPTUS AND TAKES HIS MASK OFF, REVEALING HIS OWN FACE. HE KILLS HIM. HE THEN GOES INTO THE LIVING ROOM, WHERE ALL HIS BELONGINGS ARE AND STABS HIMSELF. RED IS DESTROYED BUT JUDE IS ALIVE. AS JUDE, HE BURNS HIS COSTUME BOX WHERE ALL THE LEGION’S COSTUMES ARE. HE THEN GOES FOR ANOTHER RETROSPECTIVE WALK, WHERE HE COMES ACROSS MORTY. KNOWING HE IS SCREAMING INTO THIN AIR, HE POLITELY TELLS HIM HOW ANGRY HE IS WITH HIM NOT HELPING ANYTHING. MORTY (BEING A METAPHOR FOR HIS SUICIDAL TENDANCIES) SAYS THAT HE IS AWARE HE CAN’T HELP AND OFFERS JUDE TO GO OUT ON THE TOWN WITH HIM. JUDE ACCEPTS.