Celebrated Summer should be told from April's POV
CS is told from April's POV, so it begins and ends with her at the beach flats, trying to help rafe. That would be one way to cut stuff out. So would it only be scenes from April's POV? Or is that too restricting?
What's the arc,though? What changes significantly in the course of the day? April experiences a rapprochement, with her mother as the result of her mom helping rafe, who ends up living with them? But that doesn't make sense with the plot of 1989 A Novel.
Maybe the ending is just April learning how much danger rafe is in, but as a stand-alone movie, how satisfying is that? Saves him temporarily, but with no long--term resolution? That might work.
What's the arc,though? What changes significantly in the course of the day? April experiences a rapprochement, with her mother as the result of her mom helping rafe, who ends up living with them? But that doesn't make sense with the plot of 1989 A Novel.
Maybe the ending is just April learning how much danger rafe is in, but as a stand-alone movie, how satisfying is that? Saves him temporarily, but with no long--term resolution? That might work.
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