FADE IN.
Act 1
EXT. ROADSIDE - DAY
Walking by a flower bed, PETER notices purple flowers. He captures an image.
PETER (V.O.): My favourite colour has been blue. But now, I'm attracted to the colour purple.
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): When I was living in NT, I saw light-purple wild Morning Glory flowers everywhere.
Checking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): While the flowers here don't look like Morning Glory, the shade is similar.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): After retirement, I've become very fond of flowers.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): To me, they're like silent music.
Act 2
INT. STUDY - DAY
Peter reads the texts on his smartphone screen.
PETER (V.O.): Purple combines the energy of the red with the calmness of blue.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.): Purple symbolises intuition, creativity and care. It can also support, motivate and uplift people.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Purple can inspire self-reflection and self-awareness too?
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): It's the colour of the sensitive and compassionate ...introvert?
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In the late 1960s, there's a rock band called Deep Purple. I love their heavy-metal "Smoke on the Water" and their blues rock ballad "Soldiers of Fortune."
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In 1986, when the film "Colour Purple" was released in Hong Kong, I missed watching it, as I was preparing to study in UK.
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In 2007, when the State Department invited me to visit various US cities, I watched Colour Purple in Broadway in New York City.
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): What struck me in the musical was the archaic lyrics: What say you?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In Cantonese, it's: You say what?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Slavery is wrong. But human dominance is diehard.
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): When I was in Charleston in South Carolina, my well-to-do host remarked that lives would be better if labour was readily available.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): While slavery was unknown in Hong Kong, we all worked very hard to adapt and thrive during the colonial days.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Unlike the younger generations now, career prosperity then didn't come easy.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Now, for my wife, she'd say that she's a slave - not of me, but of our family pet.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): And, without knowing it, anyone can be enslaved by ideologies and environment to think and act in certain ways.
Recalling.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Can colour purple help awaken them?
Peter shrugs his shoulders.
Act 3
INT. STUDY - 20:30
Peter works on his laptop.
PETER (V.O.): Being a rational person, I can't imagine that I'm somewhat ruled by the mysterious power of colour.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.)(Cont'd): Colours impact on my emotions, moods and behaviours.
Peter inserts the image of a purple flower in a post.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I like the colour purple probably because I associate it with my positive experience.
Reflecting.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): There's wisdom behind purple.
Peter clicks the blue Publish icon.
FADE OUT
THE END
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