Hate Crimes
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Basic story
Dulla gets up in the morning and get yelled at by his parents for being a no good in life and not achieving anything . This happens everyday in his life so he has actually got used to it . Dulla has a history of violence . He was brought up in a house where his alcoholic father used to come home drunk every night and beat him up . He leaves his home as usual one fine morning and gets on the train ..has his usual coffee and smoke . Its 8.30 in the morning and already a lot of people he has come across have found fault with him. The final confrontation with a professor in the college who shouts at him for being late triggers off a split personality… this meek and calm boy …who had never spoken back all his life … develops a personality which is everything that dulla is not…all of a sudden he goes into a mode where his eyes roll …he feels a cold shrudder go down his spine and he becomes this alternate personality . He then has another confrontation with his class teacher who sends him out for not answering and makes fun of him in the class . He then walks out of class and goes outside the college has a smoke Dulla storms back into the college and enters the department …pulls out his pistol …takes the professor hostage . He then locks and chains the main door and exit doors so that no one can enter or leave . He then proceeds to the main office and announces over the P.A system that everybody should assemble in the common auditorium immediately… he locks down the auditorium and secures all the other floors. He walks in to professor martins office and bangs him on the head with the but of his gun and takes a shotgun from his cupboard .He then proceeds to address everyone with all the hardships he has gone through and what drove him mad . He becomes himself for a moment yet it is short lived as one of the professors tries to use a mobile phone to get help , Dulla becomes his alter ego again and shoots the professor in the leg . The police surrounds the building . Dulla then demands a large sum of money and a getaway helicopter and says till his demands are met he will kill one person every hour .One of the professors Raju sir tries to take out his cell phone and call the police ..Dulla notices and shoots him in the hand . He continues the romantic involvement with one of the girls of the college ..She was the only one who ever noticed him and supported him and was honest with him from the beginning . He makes a promise to her that he will not hurt anyone…He even shows her that he doesnt have any bullets in the gun. The drama unfolds and in the end Dulla has to take his own life . He makes the professor shoot him … he gives the professor a loaded gun and points the unloaded one at the professor and says “shoot me before I count to 5 else I will kill you” . The professor has no choice and shoots Dulla . Later the police find that the gun wasnt loaded and also find a paper in his pocket which said
” This education killed me long before the bullet through my heart ….I died a long time ago P.S I hate you guys”
Education institutions all come under the scanner …and media news channels exploit the story …pointing out the poor condition of educational institutions in India and call for a revolution to happen and for some major changes to be made
Characterization
DULLA
He is from a lower middle class family . he is badly abused by his drunken father . all his anger in life has been suppressed and he has never revolted or spoken back even once . His only method to take out anger is by physical means . he is very medium built , kinda skinny tall dark lad with curly hair and glasses .. he is extremely athletic
He has had several instances during playing sport where he takes out his emotional built up anger on someone . the boy has an identity crises and suffers from split personality or multiple personality disorder .he is not sure of who he is or who he want to be . he does not want to be disrespected in anyway …and only seeks respect . he has deep emotional and psychological problems .. the rage and anger that is suppressed in his body …builds up can is released by creating this split personality …who is everything that dulla is not .
Multiple personality disorder
Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one “alter” personality that controls behavior. The “alters” are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other. The unity of consciousness, by which we identify our selves, is said to be absent in MPD. Another symptom of MPD is significant amnesia which cant be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. Memory and other aspects of consciousness are said to be divided up among “alters” in the MPD. The number of “alters” identified by various therapists ranges from several to tens to hundreds. There are even some reports of several thousand identities dwelling in one person. There does not seem to be any consensus among therapists as to what an “alter” is. Yet, there is general agreement that the cause of MPD is repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. The evidence for this claim has been challenged, however, and there are very few reported cases of MPD afflicting children.
These children have often been kept in such extraordinary terrifying and confusing circumstances that I am more amazed that they survive psychologically at all than I am that they manage to preserve themselves by a desperate redrawing of their boundaries. What they do, when confronted with overwhelming conflict and pain, is this: They “leave.” They create a boundary so that the horror doesnt happen to them; it either happens to no one, or to some other self, better able to sustain its organization under such an onslaught–at least thats what they say they did, as best they recall.
Scene breakdown
SCENE 1
The story begins with a shot of the boy holding a gun to the professor and the professor pointing a shotgun back at Dulla. Dulla then tells the professor to kill him before he counts to five else that he would get killed .