Take Shelter
Description
Joonmyun dreams of a storm.
Foreword
“My mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when I was ten.”
“Do you remember any of her symptoms?” The woman - whose name Joonmyun had forgotten - asked, scribbling something down in her notebook.
“No. The first time I noticed anything strange was one day when she said we were going to go buy groceries for dinner. I didn’t think anything of it at first, of course, but then we never made it to the store.”
“Where did you go?”
“I don’t know. She just kept driving.” Joonmyun shifted in his seat. He’d never liked remembering that day, but still he pressed on. “It wasn’t long before we were pulled over by a policeman. Apparently she’d been going twenty miles over the speed limit and I hadn’t even noticed. But I was only ten years old, you know? I didn’t know anything about road rules or speed limits.” He stared down at the lines on his hands, reluctant to keep going.
“Yes?” The woman across from him urged.
Joonmyun swallowed hard. “Before the officer could … detain her, she leapt out of the car and disappeared into the woods.” He hung his head, “They found her two weeks later in the next city over, living in a box in an alleyway and muttering about people watching her.”
The woman nodded. “I see.” She paused a moment, frowning, before looking back up at Joonmyun. “So tell me about these dreams you’re having.”
“They’re not dreams.”
“Oh?” The woman looked confused for a moment. “Then what are they?”
Joonmyun looked out the window, his eyes zoning in on the storm clouds roiling across the sky, and sighed.
“Premonitions.”
So I watched the movie Take Shelter the other day (which I definitely recommend, because it was amazing) and this happened.
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