'Scratch' (1991) is Jamie Thraves award winning graduation film. Most babies scream when they're born. When Dougie was | dG1fLUNoeHhUQ0ZjM1U
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00:002.35 a.m. Dougie is born.
00:09Oh Mary, it's a boy!
00:14Most babies scream when they're born.
00:18When Dougie was born, he scratched his head.
00:3120 years later, nothing much had changed.
00:35My mother had walked out on us when Dougie was only 10 years old,
00:38leaving Dad and I to do our very best to take care of him.
00:44My Dad was fast losing his patience.
00:49Until one day, Dad finally lost control.
01:00You see, Dad came of a time where a couple of good blows to the chin
01:03sort of took off himself.
01:05Unfortunately, this only made Dougie scratch his head even more.
01:09So then Dad would hit Dougie again and again,
01:11hitting Dougie harder than he'd ever done before in his life.
01:14But still, Dougie scratched.
01:19Eventually, Dad started to hit Dougie so fucking hard, his fists would bleed.
01:24He'd almost given up, but that's when he came up with Plan B.
01:29Plan B was tying Dougie to his chair.
01:33It was a bloody awful thing to do, but it seemed to work.
01:37You could see Dougie wasn't enjoying the experience.
01:40He just wasn't himself.
01:43And it took three months for Dougie to finally realise
01:45that there was a solution to Plan B.
01:53And there he was, back in motion, scratching his head, filled with pleasure.
02:07Good things never last, my Dad used to say.
02:11And he was right.
02:14But no one, no one could have predicted what Dad was about to do next.
02:54Don't get me wrong, Dad wasn't a bad man.
02:57He was just someone who badly wanted things to change.
03:00Someone who battled with 20 years of frustration, only to lose at the last moment.
03:05For things were about to change, and for the worst.
03:23When I saw what Dougie had done, I knew what I had to do.
03:51But it wasn't easy, and I'm not sure entirely successful.
03:54Making Dad's death look like he drowned himself in the lavatory
03:57was the first idea that came into my head.
04:00What a way to go.
04:02And as for Dougie, well, it's like they say,
04:06bad habits are hard to break.