In a magic mirror, a slacker sees himself as twenty years older and when the older version of himself mentors the younger version on how to live his life, things spiral out of control for the both of them. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: It’s 1995 and JIM MANSELL (20) likes to party, hang out with his friends, smoke pot, and date women. SARAH likes him, but Jim doesn’t really pay attention to her. His father, PETER, reminds him of the importance of getting an education. In present day, the older JAMES (40) is a lonely man, who works in construction and hasn’t made much of his life. His father, Peter, who’s dying, tells James that he’ll never be alone if he has the mirror. James doesn’t know what he means. Peter dies. James returns homes, looks into …show more content…
It contains a great hook and the high concept is very appealing. It’s a bit of an identity-switching story, without them really switching identities. The concept is a great setup for conflict, comedy, drama, and character reflection and transformation. There’s a solid inciting event that propels the story forward. There are some good story choices when Jim gets into a relationship and changes the future. There’s a good midpoint twist (waking up with Jenny), and there’s a nice character transition at the end with Jim. The script conveys strong themes and messages about learning to live in the present and how our choices can shape our future or destiny. The use of the mirror is a smart story choice, as it conveys the theme of reflecting on one’s life and past, as well as reflecting about one’s future. With that said, while the script shows a lot of promise, the script would also benefit from more development to fully realize the promise of the …show more content…
Remember, it’s like a classic rise from rags to riches and then the fall. Show this. The other major concern about the script is the romantic subplot. Jim dates Jenny, but they share no chemistry with each other, and James dates Lisa, but they also, unfortunately, share no chemistry with each other. When James discovers he’s married to Jenny, he eventually falls for her, but sadly again, they have no chemistry. The lack of chemistry makes it challenging for the audience to believe they are in love and the audience doesn’t feel the pain they both experience. Thus, the solution is to elevate the chemistry and make the audience believe they are destined for one another. However, one wonders why it’s not Sarah (vs. Jenny). One suspects it’s because of the storyline in which Jenny discovers Jim’s red book. To be honest, this storyline never engages or feels authentic. Jenny claims she never loved Jim, but the older Jenny seems to love James. Regardless, it’s a storyline that doesn’t provide for an emotional
The story itself was quite interesting. The characters are believable and some had obvious arcs, the plot seems well paced, and most plot points are memorable. The dialogue didn’t seem forced, and flowed fairly realistically. The conflict, Devine Corporations vs the Beanfield (well, really, it’s owner but…), ended well, with Devine not being able to do anything about it, not for a lack of trying.
Fans of the novel found that the way the novel is written, you never want to put it down and the action keeps things moving and is quite entertaining. The novel pulls you in and makes you love each of the main characters in it. This is a great series for anyone to read, and it is audience friendly for whoever reads them. There is quite a bit of suspense that will make the novel exceed readers 's expectations, and the twists and turns keeps you guessing and lets nothing be predictable. Some like the way this group of people bands together when they really need to and keep things together so they can all stop the
Once I get past all of the rambling I did in the past paragraphs, I honestly really enjoyed the book. Though it wasn't like most of the other books I’ve read (meaning I didn't cry during the process of reading it), the characters were just as provokingly interesting as the characters in other stories, it was a little edgy and made me want to yell at it, shouting at Sam when she wouldn’t let Tyler play video games with Danny, or Danny when he called to have Sam and Tyler taken to a separate facility. Overall, this book opened me up to something that just isn't a romance novel. This story really shows that there are people with a lot of difficulties in their lives, and that’s what I liked the most about it.
Janie’s three marriages were all different, each one brought her in for a different reason, and each one had something different to teach her. In summary, she married Logan because of her grandmother, Jody because she wanted to escape from Logan, and Tea Cake because they had true love. The marriages were different in that Logan treated Janie like a Slave, Joe was moulding her into what he wanted her to be, and Tea Cake just wanted to be with her. As a result, Janie learned many things from each marriage Tea Cake taught her to be herself and do what she wanted to, her marriage with Logan taught her to make changes in her life, and her marriage with Joe taught her to stand up for herself. In conclusion, her experiences in her marriages shaped her into the person she became, and were an important part of her life.
... the little boy who stared in the mirror felt was gone." By uncovering Ruth's earlier life, James could understand his own singularity, thus creating the identity he sought his life to achieve.
Criticisms (Favourable): Very original, intelligent plot. Well-written characters that aren’t two dimensional and who make human decisions (David’s father, who may seem like a cruel man but who is really just doing what he was brought up to believe is right).
I think I agree with how the play was written. I believe it was written to relay a message to its readers on relationships and how they can explode in a fast manner. For example, the relationship that Jim and Dave had was ruined because on girl named Daisy. And because of her talking to both men it caused Jim to be considered guilty
This marriage is different because they become a team rather than doing the work based on their gender roles. Although Tea Cake seemed like the perfect husband for Janie, he took the abusive trait from Joe of showing that he was Janie’s owner: When Mrs. Turner’s brother came and she brought him over to be introduced, Tea Cake had a brainstorm. Before the week was over, he had whipped Janie. Not because her behavior justified his jealousy, but because it relieved that awful fear inside him. Being able to whip her reassured him of possession.
Janie was expecting to find love through her marriage with Logan, but instead discovered that marriage does not make love when Logan tries to force her to work. Janie meets Jody one day on Logan’s farm, and she believes that he will show her the world, and love, so she marries him, and leaves Logan. She soon discovers that all he wants to be is a big voice, and has only married her for his image. After Jody dies, Janie meets Tea Cake at her store; and, although he does not have a lot of money, she truly believes that he loves her, and will fulfill her life-long search for happiness.
... relationships, although different from each other, were based on status and protection. Janie chose Jody to fill in the feelings that were unsatisfied by Logan. She felt the need for change, but she did not live freely and peacefully with Jody. Her previous marriages had killed the life inside of her, and Tea Cake revived her. The last experience on her journey taught her everything there was to know about love. She learns that love acts differently than a grindstone and does not have the same effect on everything. (Page 191) Tea Cake is now a part of Janie and her feelings for him are limitless. “She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net,” (Page 193) letting out all the things she wanted to forget. Janie finally fulfills her journey to the eternal line of love, and recalls her story remembering all the important things that led her to the peaceful horizon.
Janie could wear colorful dresses and she could show off her hair, something that she did not do while she was married to Jody Stacks. Janie was finally free to love whoever she wanted to. As always, not everyone accepted Janie’s relationship, when Janie left town to marry Tea Cake, the town starts to gossip about how Tea Cake was younger than Janie, they also assure that Janie was being taken for her money. Despite all of the critics, Janie decides to continue with her romance, she no longer cares about the comments of people because she finds that her new husband loves and appreciates her immensely. “He kin take most any lil thing and make summertime out of it when times is dull.
... Other factors that affected Janie’s reactions were her level of maturity, marriage experience, and her experience dealing with domestic violence. When she met and married Joe, she was barely 18 and only had one or two years of experience of how she should go about fulfilling her duties as a wife. When Joe began to hit her, she was only 23 and had never been hurt in a relationship, so it shocked her to be hit by someone she was supposed to love. When she met Tea Cake, she had been married for over 20 years and, by this time, was used to keeping to herself to deal with emotional pain.
She wanted to be her own person, but she also wished for the perfect marriage stereotypical to the time. “Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?” (3.21). With these ideas going into her first marriage, Janie had set herself up for failure. Those were her questions about what marriage was, finding out they weren’t true were the deterrent to her marriage with Logan ending well. By viewing love as a union between two people who loved each other, not having love may have lead to Janie not even trying to make the marriage work. Being as young as she was, and having little to no experience with the topic, Janie never gave the marriage as much effort as she likely should have. Going into her second marriage, she met a man who spoke rhymes to her and gave her what it was she now thought a marriage needed, but he did not show her signs of what she needed out of love. “Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon.” (4.29). Janie's youth and little understanding of love should have made her listen to what she saw as love, the pear tree with its bee. Without her idea of love present in her budding relationship with Jody, Janie again set herself up for failure. Without feeling a connection to Jody, besides “newness” and
I would recommend it to someone who likes characters who struggle through a lot and they like books that they relate to. I like how the characters are always caring towards another. In this case what brought them together was when they were getting flowers before the concert and Keshia got hers taken away because she made a white bud accidently fall off. Ally’s reaction to this was insisting she would share her flowers with Keshia, and rips the bouquet in half. Ally then gets her flowers taken away too.”Keshia leaned in to smell them and runs her finger over top of the flowers.Then one of the white buds falls off and bounces off the top of her shiny black shoe. Mrs. Muldoon is there in a second. “What do you think your
I believe this movie does a good job incorporating what we have discussed in class in terms of adolescent development. Although the movie is greatly exaggerated and blown up, the movie does emphasize on key factors to the development of an adolescent. Aside from the self-identity and friendship, the film incorporates parental relationships, academics, teacher-student relationships, risky behaviors, and moral development during adolescent