Forgiveness and Family in "An Unfinished Life"

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When I first watched “An Unfinished Life”, I did not like it very much, but as I watched it several time in order to write my reflection paper, I resized it was great movie about forgiveness and family. I started to see the hidden means of the movie. I came to understand that some objects in the movie have significant meanings. However, when I read the novel, No One You Know, I thought the same way. Reading that novel taught me a new way to look at family, and relationships. Stories it selves are very different from each other but the lesson I learned from them were quite similar. As I was reading the book, during this term, I found no similarities between the movie and the novel, I never even thought of finding any similarities. However, when the opportunity arose to do this assignment, I started to think of a connection between my favorite movie and the book. I let myself go and wrote down everything that I thought was similar in the book and the novel. I was surprised to see how many similarities I came up with, in the theme of family and relationships. Therefore, I decided to compare the movie An Unfinished Life and the book, No One You Know that seemed quite different but shared some subtle themes and aspects with each other. An Unfinished Life is a family drama movie directed by Lasse Hallstrom. This movie is about four characters trying to heal old wounds and find new solutation for their own life by forgiving each other. Both the movie and the book are basically based on family and relationships. The characters in the movie and the book, For example Einar, jean, Griff, and Lila and her parents all deal with loss of a family member. No One You Know is a murder mastery novel by the author Michelle Richmond. ... ... middle of paper ... ...y well happen in real life. This reminds me of “I, Robot movie because Detective spooner thought Sonny murdered the scientist but It was suicide, that looked like a murder. I think, Thorpe’s book, Hanry’s brake up, and even Lila’s passion for coffee, everything lead Lila to find the truth about her sister’s murder. This explains in the movie an Unfinished life as well, Mitch says “I got so high, Einer. I could see where the blue turns black. From up there, you could see all there is. And it looked like there was a reason for everything”. I think both the book and the movie is a good example to show that everything has a reason and they both are really good family stores. they explain the importance of family relationships. We all have unique role within the family relationship and it shape up our lives. Family relationship can change and control someone’s life.

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