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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
A young peacenik finds herself enmeshed in a taboo relationship with her college professor who is under investigation for a string of mysterious high profile assassinations. Taxi Driver meets Ex Machina in this futuristic thriller. * * * "Freak is an audacious and immensely creative thriller integrating contemporary politics, sci-fi and a complex, quasi-romantic friendship. This script gives a serious voice to a growing number of people disillusioned with the false choices of American politics and the two party system, but it also has a wicked sense of humor and remains a genre film. The tone is consistent and wryly funny, and though the circumstances that Kravitz and Scarlett find themselves in are heightened, the themes are grounded in our current political reality.The story starts in a naturalistic place, a college professor espousing leftist rhetoric that only seems radical when compared to the mainstream, reactionary discourse that has infected American politics on both sides of the aisle. These are conversations that people are already having on campuses and online, but Marxism philosophy is still taboo in commercial American cinema. As the story moves on, we peel back the layers of Professor Kravitz's life, meeting his mother and robot Mofo, and finally getting a glimpse into his plan to wreak revenge on those who care about money and power than a just and equal society.The script meshes elements of a sexual campus drama, a political treatise, and an action thriller, but everything feels necessary to serve the story. Kravitz might be slightly crazy, and his tactics are controversial, but the themes and story that Freak depicts are necessary in this time of centrist artistic hegemony.This is an extremely creative, memorable script juggling a lot of big, important ideas very deftly. The political point of view is incisive and a great rebuke to the wishy-washy liberalism of most Hollywood product." -- Diverse Voices 2021 "Not very often does a spec script like Freak come along, in terms of presenting a defiantly original creation that doesn’t feel overly manufactured to resemble a recent hit or trend. Freak is one of the more bizarre, yet undeniably cool and offbeat, reading assignments this exec has read in a while, if for no other reason that it's nearly impossible to guess where the script is going at any given moment, and because the world that’s been created is filled with all sorts of ingredients that feel both totally in synch with each other, and yet disparate enough to feel eclectic. From the inclusion of a robot as a major supporting character, and who makes a game-changing decision during the course of the story, to a morally conflicted protagonist who is operating in a near Fight Club level of personal redemption, and never stopping with their ultimate vision/goal, to the slightly futurized landscape that’s heightened further by discussions of au courant political beliefs and discourse, Freak feels very much cut from current-day storytelling cloth." -- Script Pipeline
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