Andreas

‍‍FriendshipAndLove... ‍‍
=TASK ONE!=

Alan is a normal man with a job, kids and a wife. He lives the normal stressed life in New York city. Charlie on the other hand has been living in his own world in his house and has been eating Chinese food for a long time, until he meets his own college roommate Alan. One day Alan is sitting in his car and sees Charlie walking out from the color store. He tries to reach out to Charlie but he could not because Charlie had his headphones on and drove away on his scooter. Charlie lost his wife and three daughters and his dog during the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Since that Tuesday he has been ignoring everything.

I think Charlie really needs to wake up and start facing reality. People comes and goes, it is very sad but true. And they might have it even better in the place his family is right now. But I understand his feelings, all are diffrent and it can take´s longer for others to swallow the pain. But i really don´t understand why he don´t want to meet his own mother and father in love.

When Charlie meets Alan he starts to open his feelings more and more, steps by steps and in the end of the movie we know everything about him. But it´s a long road Charlie had to walk until he gathered all his courage and told Alan the whole story. Charlie has been building a big wall around himself that only Charlie can break.

Charlie has been acting like he never had a family but when he walks down the street he sees their faces everywhere.

Alan does really change as a person after visiting Charlie. He becomes more independent and doesn’t take crap from anybody and I think that´s lovely. Alan gets help from Charlie meanwhile Alan helps Charlie if you know what i mean :).

After some days Charlie and Alan starts to fight and Charlie think that Alan is from the psychiatrist. After the fight Charlie want to make everything alright again with a million dollars but Alan refuses the offer. But they still became very good friends again. They start to really enjoy the time they spend together.

They visit the music store. Alan has been complaining all the years of Charlie’s taste of music and says that he will show Charlie some real music. But that doesn’t change Charlie’s opinion.

After some days it seems like Alan rather spend time with Charlie than his own family which I find very strange but its his own decision.

Later in the movie Charlie agrees to try to get help from a psychiatrist. But in the beginning he doesn´t want to talk about what he has been through. But after a few visit´s at the psychiatrist he tells the whole story to Alan. They were going to Boston to visit his wife´s sister and then fly to her youngest cousins wedding in LA. But Charlie couldn´t join them because he had to work so they were going to meet in LA but the plane from Boston to LA got hijacked by members from Al-Qaida. After that horrible day Charlie lost his whole family but also himself.

In the court Charlie’s mother in law and father in law want Charlie to go to a mental hospital but they doesn´t know the secret about Charlie Fineman. The leader of the court has a serious talk with Ginger (The mother in law) and the father in law. They decide after a week of thinking that Charlie will have to choose his own path. He meets a woman called Dona and they starts to make out in the end of the movie. If I have been able to choose the end would Charlie and Dona would fall in love.

I think that this movie was instructive because Charlie showed us that we shouldn´t be locking us in mentally and in the movie we saw that Charlie was very sad before he met Alan but when they met again Charlie became more positive.

tHE ENd

=TASK 2=

When I see this photo the first thing i think of is that the folder is Charlie´s memories of 9/11 and only Charlie got the key to open it. Charlie has tried to open the lock many times but have allways failed. Alan has also tried to open it with his own key but he has also failed. Wath mean is that Charlie has never been able to talk about the 9/11 memories beacus he can´t open the folder and Alan has also tried to help Charlie to open it but they have failed. But after some weeks Charlie opens the lock. ‍‍ ‍‍ =TASK 3=

"Music should be your escape" I choose it beacus when I hear it i thought of Charlie in the movie "Reign over me" when he allways put his earphones on and drove away on his scooter.

"It´s never to late to regret" I immediatley thought of Charlie when he told Alan the whole story about the miserable accident of 9/11.