The Day I Stopped Believing in Fairytales: A therapist helps a twelve-year-old see magic in new light. FADE IN:
EXT. BOISE RIVER, IDAHO. DAY (1) Set in Idaho, USA. The camera zooms down the Boise river to a typical American style house. MUSIC CUE: River Flows In You by ‘Yiruma’ is being played quietly.
INT. DESTINY STARTRIGHT’S BEDROOM. DAY. (2)
The camera then zooms through the window, where 12 year old Destiny is sitting on her bed taking posters off the wall of the fairytales she used to love so much, in particular, posters of Cinderella.
DESTINY (V.O.) I had always loved the story of Cinderella for as long as I could remember.
INTERCUT: DESTINY IMAGINES HERSELF WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG. There is a clip of Destiny when she was young, dressed up as Cinderella and posing for the camera in the same bedroom.
DESTINY (V.O.) Even when I was young I used to dress up as her, imagine that I had two horrible step sisters and that one day some handsome Prince would come to take me away. That was me all over, your typical naïve ‘Disnerd…’