Shadow Play story
A man convicted of murder and awaiting execution insists that everything happening is just a dream. Directed by: John Brahm. Story by: Charles Beaumont.
13 total · 2 choice · 5 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the universe is a dream | choice | Everything we saw was apparently just Adam's recurring bad dream. |
| what if I repeated a portion of my life over again | choice | Adam kept reliving his conviction and execution over and over, albeit in a dream. |
| capital punishment | major | Adam faced execution for murder. There was talk about making mentally unfit people be executed. |
| facing one's own execution | major | Adam faced execution for murder. |
| solipsism syndrome | major | People summarily dismissed Adam's assertion that they were figments of his imagination, leaving them left to think he was suffering from an elaborate delusion. |
| to kill or to spare | major | Should District Attorney Ritchie call the judge to stay Adam's execution? |
| what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me | major | Everyone thought Adam was mad when he insisted that reality was merely his dream. |
| carpe diem | minor | Someone said "drink and be merry for tomorrow" (we shall die). |
| Catholicism | minor | A Catholic priest attempted to comfort Adam prior to Adam's execution. |
| cracking under pressure | minor | A month on death row had turned Phillips into a nervous, rambling, wreck of a man. |