Mirvari Aghakishiyeva

"EXPECTATION" short animated cartoon script Mirvari Aghakishiyeva- INT. HOME. SITTING ROOM. NOON. Three year-old BOY is playing with his car sitting on his knees. He raises his head towards the window. The curtains allow him to watch the light blue sky. The Boy continues to play. INT. HOME. SITTING ROOM. EVENING. The chandelier spreads light into the room. The boy with his aircraft in his hand is running from one side of the room to the other. Then he looks towards the window. The curtains have covered the window glass. The boy walks towards the window jumping with enthusiasm. He draws the curtain, hardly rises on his tip toes and grabs the windowsill. His black curly hair and innocent black round eyes can now hardly be seen behind the window. Now he can also see the sky. It is already evening. The sky's blue is embracing black. Boy's eyes are smiling. So do his lips and his small tiny teeth are slightly seen. There're dimples in his cheeks. INT. HOME. CORRIDOR. EVENING. Happily the boy runs to the corridor and stands in front of the entrance door. The boy is small and the door is big. He is staring at the door. He is expecting something. And he can't wait. Here it is. There is a knock at the door. the air, he happily jumps up. The boy's hands are in HIS MOM comes and opens the door. Boy's eyes are gradually becoming bigger. That's the moment he expected: HIS FATHER comes in. The boy expects his father to take him into his arms. But father first takes off his cap and gives it to his mom. The mom helps the father to take off his coat and then hangs both the cap and coat. 1 Then father takes off his shoes. And the boy is still expecting him to take him into his arms with enthusiasm. The father takes on slippers, then pats the boy's hair. Mom immediately passes to the kitchen and father goes to his bedroom. The boy with his little feet follows father as fast as he can, but he cannot enter the bedroom together with his father. The father goes into the bedroom and the door slowly closes on the boy's face. Boy is left behind the door. But he's still waiting for his father with enthusiasm. Here it is. The door opens. Father has re-dressed and goes out the room. The boy has stared at the father's face from down to up. The father passes to the bathroom. The boy follows him. The father enters the bathroom and closes the door. Boy is left behind the door. But he's still waiting for his father with enthusiasm. The door opens. Father goes out of the bathroom and passes by the little boy, whose height hardly reaches the father's knees. Father enters the kitchen. INT. KITCHEN. EVENING Father sits at the table. There are dishes on the table. The mom serves the father. The father starts to have dinner. Boy comes up to him. He is holding a small car in his hand. Boy drives the car on the table-cloth trying to attract the father's attention. The mom holds his hand and takes the boy out of the kitchen, so that he would not bother his father having dinner. INT. CORRIDOR. EVENING. The kitchen's door is shut on the boy's face. Boy sits on the floor against the wall, which is opposite to the kitchen, and hugs his knees. And he's still waiting for his father with enthusiasm. Here the This room it is. The kitchen's door opens for the boy. Father passes to sitting room. Boy follows him. Boy suddenly gets confused. time the door is not shut, it is left open. He can enter the with his father. INT. SITTING ROOM.EVENING Father sits on the sofa and takes the TV remote control device. Boy with his toy-car in his hand jumping comes to sit beside his father. Father is fully concentrated on TV. Some time passes. Father wants to lie on the sofa. Boy has to get up. 2 Father lies on the sofa on his side and continues to watch TV. And he's still waiting for his father with enthusiasm. Boy runs here there in front of the TV so that the father could notice him. Father gets angry. Mom comes and takes the boy into her arms, and rebukes him for he does not allow his father to have a rest. Boy is taken away from the room. In his mom's arms the boy turns his head back to see the father, but the door closes on his face. INT. HOME. KITCHEN. EVENING. The boy is already 18 years old. He is having a dinner together with his father. He is talking about his plans trying to attract the father's attention to himself. But father is fully concentrated on the food. Father eats up his dinner, while the boy is still speaking. Father takes some money out of his pocket and puts on the table, then stands up and leaves the kitchen. The kitchen's door closes on the boy's face. The boy is upset; he looks at the door, then at the money on the table. Then he rises and goes out to the kitchen's balcony. The door of the balcony closes. INT. KİTCHEN.EVENING The balcony's door opens. Boy is already a man of 40 years. He enters the kitchen. His little 3 year-old son runs to him and the man embraces him taking him to his arms. Together they enter the father's bedroom. The room's door closes. INT. BEDROOM. NOON. On the bed there lies the father, who has grown old and weak. The man sits on the chair beside the bed. His son is sitting on his knees. Father slowly raises his eyes and watches his grandson. The father's pale eyes smile among the wrinkles. Suddenly the father's eyes notice the man's face behind the grandson: the man is still waiting for him with enthusiasm. 3