Evaluation [2]

How does it represent social groups or issues?

Main Character - Hair dresser

she's a middle age working class and European women. She is hardworking like a machine she seems like a normal hair dresser but behind the walls of the salon she has her fantasy of hair. A Strand of hair that is a part of some one else's body. 

The actress that we want is someone who is willing to learn skills as a hairdresser, as there will be close ups of her skills. Actress should be experienced as there are two different identity needed to be portrayed. Character has a complicated and delicate personality as the audience should know that the hair dresser is not normal. however it also have to be ordinary, as the customers sees her as normal.

Dream Casting Requirements

• wide eyes - when she hallucinates her pupil dialates
• middle aged women
• acts in an indy film, not that well known
• does not mind looking ugly
• experienced actress

Real Life News Story

Even cannot resist pulling hair out of the drain up to three times a week, as it relieves his stress. This addiction started six year ago when he lost his father and he started inhibiting anxiety. He said "It has to be in the drain" his favourite hair is brown, long and slimy hair. His favourite place is a house where he's never been before when he sees the bathtub it generates his curiosity and he would guess how much hair there is in there.

SNIP's storyline would somewhat be similar to Evan's story as the hairdresser experiences anxiety from the salon, its disturbing ceiling wall and flickering light. The scene that portrays this anxiety the establishing shot where she stood looking out into the darkness, seeing nothing but the reflection of herself whilst she is exposed to everyone else. Just like her work as a hair dresser, no one seems to care about her, but the hair dresser's job is to care and serve the customer to beautify them. The establishing shot also establishes her loneliness as she is alone in the salon. Both the feeling of no one caring for her and her loneliness contributes to the cause of her hair fetish.

Representation

The main character is a representation of a working class female who lives a menial life. She is alone in isolation with the world as portrayed with the establishing shot. In contrast with her job, to beautify the customers the hair dresser lacks beauty as her hair is in a mess and her mouth is dry. The loneliness of the hair dresser, due to her fleeted relationship with her customers come in to beautify themselves, the hairdresser cares for them while the customer does not even notice, talk or even acknowledge their existent, as portrayed once again in the establishing shot, where she looked out in the dark, the only one she can see in this whole world is herself. Hairdressers are actually a fearful job as they remove a part of the customer's body. In this character's case her customer's hair is her procession, she collects it, cherish it unlike the customer who wanted to abandon their own. 

We used a female hair dresser as it is conventional, as there is 60% of female hair dressers in LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country), therefore it is more representation of hair salons. Having a male lead as a hair fetish would give another impression towards the movie. A female lead gave a more creepy feeling as women are more complicated and more delicate than men. They are more likely to be trusted as they are looked upon as fragile and feminine. 

Location of this salon is a representation of Bangkok city's nightlife. Some might imagine Bangkok being a party place, however if we look on the other angle, there are people who is working their hardest to earn a living. The hairdresser, a working class women who tries her hardest to accomplish her work, however ended up having anxiety and her only relief from it is hair. In Thailand over 20% of the population is mentally ill, but only 3 million went to the hospital and 1 million received treatment. The character does not know it herself that she is mentally ill, even the customers as being mentally ill is a subject of taboo in Thailand, moreover the school does not educated about the mental illness therefore they would not know what it is like to be mentally ill. Only the extreme cases are recognised.