Update - 'The Descent' new title

The idea for the title has developed, the title of 'Pandora' was always a working one, and I think the idea of descending is core to this film, both in theme and emotion.

I am focusing on Women, Nature and Horror, controlling idea of the female body processing the destruction of climate change.

There are many reasons for this shift to this idea. After thinking for a while about what is at the root of this film, and what I want to convey, this makes the most sense. At its core, I want to explore how pollution is affecting us as people and disproportionately affecting women all around the world, because of these problems that patriarchy and capitalism have created. Stories have been used to explain the world, and natural disasters for millennia, so I think tapping into this culture of folklore and mythology is important as it helps give me a framework to communicate my ideas.

Key motifs I want to explore are the personification of nature and its ruination, through scenes of goddesses and nymphs processing the destruction. I still need to figure out how to use the Pandora narrative and the symbol of the box to frame all this and communicate the ideas that by humans opening the 'box' of industrialisation, capitalism etc. that it has led to the climate crisis.

The box as a vessel, often tied with symbolism for the womb etc. Demonised as a site of destruction.

In terms of narrative and researching narrative approaches, should look at Ursula K. Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory.

Idea - do I structure this like a hero's journey, but dark and twisted? Instead of an ascent from ignorance to knowledge, it's a descent from knowledge to despair. Maybe look at Dante's Inferno for some sort of rough arch? Structure of a classical story but subverted and twisted. Then I can incorporate this episodic feel.