Premonition story
Kim returns home to the U.S. from four years in Paris, hoping to reunite with his estranged father. He learns that his father died four years ago, a fact that his brother and sister-in-law did not tell him. Kim suspects foul play, but eventually learns that he is the one who killed his father, and he has been in a mental hospital for four years; his memories of Paris are just a delusion. Directed by: Robert Stevens. Story by: Harold Swanton.
16 total · 1 choice · 9 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with having injured someone | choice | Kim was so distressed at having killed his father that he had a total breakdown and had to be committed. |
| brother and brother | major | Kim's return to the family home came as an unwelcome surprise to his brother Perry. |
| coping with the death of a parent | major | Kim was distressed when he learned of his father's death. |
| father and son | major | Kim returned to his hometown to see his father only to discover that he'd murdered the man. |
| patricide | major | Kim had killed his own father during an argument and his brother had helped cover up the crime. |
| psychological stress | major | Kim was so distressed at having killed his father that he had a total breakdown and had to be committed. |
| questioning one's sanity | major | We understand at the end that Kim's "premonition" amounts to him thinking he might be as crazy as he in fact is. |
| remorse | major | Kim felt regret at not having made things up with his father, and later at having killed his father. |
| repressed memories | major | Kim was so distressed at having killed his father that he'd completely suppressed any memory of having done the deed. |
| to tell the truth vs. to offer a comforting lie | major | Kim's family members, in addition to the family lawyer, kept secret from Kim that he'd killed his own father and then suppressed the memory of having done so. |