Camilla

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Charlie Fineman is a man in the late forty’s that lives in the big city New York. Except that his hair looks very messy and his clothes looks scruffy, you would think that he is an originally citizen. You wouldn’t have a clue that he lost his wife, his three daughters and his poodle spider during the 9/11 attacks. Since then he got mentally insane. He just plays videogames, listen to music all day long and he often drives his scoter all over the city. He has no friends and no family except his mother in law and father in law who follow him and were tring to make him go to different psychologists. They were trying to help him and talked to him many times but he gets frustrated and puts his earphones on or he just walks away. He tries to forget the past with his family and he acting like he never had one. One day Alan Johnson sees Charlie on his scoter on the street. Charlie is namely Alan’s old college roommate from the late teens. Alan knows what Charlie been through because everything that happened to him was in the newspaper some days after the 9/11 took place. It was a few years ago they met. Alan tries to reach out for Charlie but he doesn’t hear him because of his earphones and drives away along the street with his scoter. A few days later he does actually see Alan again when he passed by him with his scoter and this time Charlie doesn't have his earphones on and stops. Even if Charlie and Alan were roommates for some years and were very good friends, Charlie seems to have forget him and looks confused. He tries to make Alan remember him and tells him personally things he used to do like sleep naked. Then Charlie starts to remember. They start to socialize and they become good very friends again and Alan is the only one Charlie can trust at the moment. They spend very much time together and Charlie shows him what he use to do and where he lives. His apartment is not very furnished except a music room and his kitchen that he renovates very often. He also has big TV and a sofa in a little living room where he spends the most of his time. As I said, he plays a lot of videogames and especially the game “Shadow of the colossus”. Since Alan is the only one Charlie can trust, he tries to help him to agree to go to a psychologist so he can tell his story to someone. Finally he agrees to go to one of Charlie’s friends who are a physiologist that himself have asked a lot of advices to. And at last his psychologist and Charlie makes him to tell his tragic story but not to his psychologist but to Charlie. Then Charlie moves out from his apartment and out over the weekend Alan meets the in-laws parents at the empty apartment, which is spotless and has a beautifully renovated kitchen. He asks them to let Fineman go and they agree.

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You might wonder why I choose this picture. It’s because the movie is about friendship and to help each other. I think the stone represent all the pain Charlie carries in his life and he tries to push it away but it’s too hard to just forget. And the two ants represent Alan and Charlie which help each other to push the stone to the top or away and in this case his way of living and to move on.