Footprints on the Moon story
A woman begins to see her life fall apart due to strange memories from childhood when she was forced to watch a film called "Footprints on the Moon" involving an unethical experiment in leaving astronauts stranded on the Moon's surface.
6 total · 3 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| acute anxiety | major | One gathers that Alice was suffering from a paranoid delusion that the fictional scientist Blackman was trying to capture her and strand her on the Moon. Alice was generally paranoid and confused throughout the film as she tried to make sense of the strange world her mind assembled before her. |
| descent into madness | major | One gathers that Alice was suffering from a paranoid delusion that the fictional scientist Blackman was trying to capture her and strand her on the Moon. |
| schizophrenia | major | One gathers that Alice was suffering from a paranoid delusion that the fictional scientist Blackman was trying to capture her and strand her on the Moon. She suffered from several schizophrenic-like episodes in the film. |
| drug abuse | minor | Alice became addicted to tranquilizers. |
| infatuation | minor | Alice and Harry made love at one point int he film. |
| pollution in society | minor | Some scientists were talking about how pollution would make the earth uninhabitable by the year 1990. |