Sliding Doors Character Analysis

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Sliding doors character analysis. Although the storyline of sliding doors does sound very similar to our plot line for our short film they both include a train and two different lives that our. Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun. Parents need to know that sliding doors is a 1998 fantasy about finding love featuring two parallel stories. Helen is a successful pr executive who fired from work returns home earlier than usual.
In both stories there are 4 key characters who we see in different roles for each reality. Pregnancy and losing a baby are plot points. The film revolves around the main character helen played by gwyneth paltrow and the plot splits into two parallel universes based on the two paths helen s life could take depending on whether she catches a london underground train or not. Characters drink alcohol to excess and smoke cigarettes.
Analysis of sliding doors. Sliding doors research analysis for film. The main plotline is that a woman s life is changed by a split second missing a tube. Sliding doors was directed and written by peter howitt and was released in 1998.
The plot splits into two parallel universes based on the two paths her life could take depending on whether she catches a london underground train or not. Her life then splits into two and the audience is allowed to see the difference between both of her lives. 50 series white vinyl sliding patio door right hand fixed panel with blinds model 50 pd b 359 00 359 00. While the two timelines split with helen missing the titular doors the more important catalyst for divergence is when the helen who caught the train walks in on her boyfriend cheating on her.
Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two divergent paths when in one reality she misses the. On her way to tell her partner gerry helen misses the tube watching as the sliding doors close off a potential outcome of her story. Synopsis the film follows helen quilley gwyneth paltrow a young englishwoman living in london who has just been fired from her public relations job. Is either time line interesting in itself.
Mp doors 72. American craftsman 72 in. The plot is based on the difference it makes to this woman s life whether she gets or misses a tube train. The worse off scenario.
Sliding doors is a 1998 film of a drama and romantic comedy genre. Sliding doors uses parallel time lines to explore the different paths that a woman s life might take after she does and doesn t find her lover in bed with another woman. I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work.