Sunday, November 28, 2010

The Station Agent

In the film, The Station Agent, there are three main characters. Fin McBride, Olivia Harris, and Joe Oramas. Fin was first introduced who is a midget and having hard time people making fun of him. Fin inherited a house from a friend in New Jersey and decided to live alone from people making of him. Secondly, Joe was introduced. Joe is also lonely but talkative and socializing guy unlike Fin who’s quite and not socializing person. Joe volunteers coffee shop that his father owns near the depot that Fin lives in. Lastly, Olivia was introduced whose old age woman and lonely as Fin is. These characters have all loneliness in common but Joe and Olivia likes to socialize unlike the one who inherited the house, Fin. The house he inherited seems to be everything to Fin, where he can hide from the fun making human beings. As Anna Quindlen said, “Home is where the heart is. There is no place like home. I like my home with a ferocity totally out of proportion to its appearance or location” In her essay “Homeless”. This goes for Fin as well, because he lives in a depot that looks very old and near train station. Fin really enjoys being home alone and it’s where he is mostly happy being at. Joe and Olivia tried to help Fin socialize and have fun with them. By the help of his dear and newly friends, Fin finally became sociable. He even went to an Elementary School and gave some speech about trains which was something that he enjoys and he didn’t even felt bad about the judgments of his height by the little kids. The film ended and eventually Fin was sociable, happy, and even had girlfriend in his life.

1 comment:

  1. Nicely put dude, you and I wrote from the same point of view but you had more details than i did.

    Great job.

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