Copyright © 2002 – 2006 Rhou Francis-Lau. All Rights Reserved.
LOGLINE
Two wealthy suburbanites save their best friend from committing suicide after she becomes pregnant for an aspiring rapper.
THEME
Prestige focuses on the social issues of teenage pregnancy and suicide, but also addresses several other issues, including class discrimination, depression, family conflict, and the power of friendship.
STORY
A young girl from a prestigious patrician family becomes pregnant for an aspiring rapper she has been secretly dating.
When she confesses this to her best friends, their initial reaction is of frank criticism, a reaction that she takes to heart.
Eventually, her best friends apologise for their unsupportive reaction, and attribute it to the sudden, shocking, and grave nature of her revelation.
As they help her through her crisis, her conservative mother learns of her condition and condemns her, both for becoming pregnant out of wedlock, and for her deceit about being pregnant.
Her mother’s condemnation deeply affects her, and leads her to the belief that the only way to save her family the embarrassment and humiliation inevitable, is to escape the problem, through suicide.