Snowflake (2017) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

Javid and Tan struggle against a screenplay that predicts their lives, revealing how attempts to escape one ending may create another.

Story Structure — 4 Plot Phases

The Script Finds Them

Javid and Tan move from a petty argument into a collapsed near-future Berlin. Their discovery of a self-recording screenplay reveals a terrifying prediction involving Winter and their own lives.

Key Events

• Döner Argument — Javid and Tan begin by arguing over a terrible döner. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin
• Collapsed Berlin — The story establishes a near-future Berlin devastated by economic and social collapse. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin
• Screenplay Discovery — Javid and Tan discover a screenplay that appears to describe their lives in advance. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin
• Future Names Revealed — The screenplay names Winter, Eliana, Bolek, and Snowflake as parts of the predicted story. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Eliana, Bolek, Snowflake Location: Berlin
• Winter's Dictatorship — The script predicts Winter will kill everyone, conquer Germany, and become a new Hitler. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin

Fighting The Prediction

The two men question whether the screenplay is cursed or from the future. They decide that its unfinished passages may allow them to resist the predicted ending.

Key Events

• Script Records Them — The screenplay begins recording Javid and Tan's own words and actions. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin
• Curse Or Time Travel — They debate whether the screenplay is cursed or has traveled back from the future. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin
• Rejecting The Ending — Javid and Tan decide to act against the screenplay's predicted ending. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin
• Unfinished Passages — They recognize the rough, unfinished passages as a possible opportunity to change events. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin
• Eliana's Revenge — The screenplay says Eliana keeps hiring killers because Javid and Tan allegedly killed her parents. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Eliana Location: Berlin

The Angel In The Forest

The screenplay identifies Snowflake as their possible protector, leading Javid and Tan into a nighttime forest ambush. Snowflake stops the mock execution but confronts them over her parents.

Key Events

• Snowflake Prophecy — The screenplay promises that Snowflake will protect them and help them reach Winter. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Snowflake Location: Berlin
• Search For Snowflake — Javid and Tan conclude that finding Snowflake may be their only escape from the predicted future. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Berlin
• Night Forest Ambush — Javid and Tan are led into a forest at night by their search for Snowflake. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Forest at night
• Mock Execution — An armed killer forces Javid and Tan to kneel and stages their execution. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Forest at night
• Snowflake Intervenes — The killer declares them dead, but Snowflake intervenes before the execution becomes real. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Snowflake Location: Forest at night

A New Ending

Javid and Tan seek to force a rewrite after learning that the dictatorship ending was a depressive experiment. A revised story instead turns Hyper Electro Man's grief into a revenge mission.

Key Events

• Parents' Accusation — Snowflake says her parents were killed and accuses Javid and Tan of letting the perpetrators escape. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Snowflake Location: Forest at night
• Separate Instructions — Javid remains behind while Tan is told to wait, as Javid plans to make the dentist rewrite the ending. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Snowflake Location: Forest at night
• Depressive Experiment — The dentist explains that Winter's dictatorship ending was only a depressive experiment. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Dentist's place
• Revenge Ending — The proposed new ending has Hyper Electro Man find Snowflake dead and pursue Javid and Tan for revenge. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Snowflake, Hyper Electro Man Location: Dentist's place
• Forced Rewrite Fails — Javid and Tan force the dentist to rewrite the script, but he refuses. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat Location: Dentist's place
• Door Breach — Hyper Electro Man begins hunting them and breaks through the door, catching Javid and Tan off guard. Characters: Javid / Winters Soldat, Javid / Winters Soldat, Hyper Electro Man Location: Dentist's place

Story Breakdown

• Broken Berlin — The film begins with petty conflict against a backdrop of social and economic collapse.
  • Döner Dispute — Javid and Tan argue over a terrible döner.
  • Anarchic City — Near-future Berlin is presented as chaotic and socially ruined.
• Living Screenplay — A strange screenplay appears to know the protagonists' lives and records their present behavior.
  • Future Predictions — The script names Winter, Eliana, Bolek, and Snowflake.
  • Recorded Dialogue — The screenplay begins documenting Javid and Tan's own words and actions.
• Winter's Threat — The initial ending predicts mass violence, conquest, and dictatorship under Winter.
  • Super Soldier Army — Winter is predicted to conquer Germany with super soldiers.
  • New Hitler — The screenplay predicts Winter will become a new Hitler.
• Changing The Story — Javid and Tan attempt to oppose the script by exploiting its unfinished sections.
  • Reject The Ending — They decide not to follow the screenplay's predicted conclusion.
  • Find Snowflake — They treat Snowflake as their possible route out of the predicted future.
• Forest Judgment — The search for Snowflake leads to a staged execution and a confrontation over revenge.
  • Mock Execution — An armed killer forces Javid and Tan to kneel.
  • Parents Accused — Snowflake accuses them of allowing her parents' killers to escape.
• Revenge Ending — The attempted rewrite produces a new danger centered on Snowflake's alleged death and Hyper Electro Man's grief.
  • Dentist Refuses — The dentist will not rewrite the screenplay when forced.
  • Door Breach — Hyper Electro Man breaks through the door and catches them off guard.

Directed by

Adolfo J. Kolmerer, William James

Key Cast

• Reza Brojerdi — Javid / Winters Soldat
• Erkan Acar — Tan / Winters Soldat
• Xenia Assenza — Eliana
• David Masterson — Carson
• Alexander Schubert — Arend