This film is a lightweight comedy drama with a unique story.
Sliding doors film analysis.
The story follows helen played by gwyneth paltrow as she discovers how a split second can change a whole life we see both sides of the story in parallel.
Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two divergent paths when in one reality she misses the.
Sliding doors 1998 explores the two distinct outcomes of the life of a woman who misses her train.
Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun.
Characters drink alcohol to excess and smoke cigarettes.
Pregnancy and losing a baby are plot points.
Sliding doors is a 1998 romantic comedy drama film written and directed by peter howitt and starring gwyneth paltrow and john hannah while also featuring john lynch jeanne tripplehorn and virginia mckenna.
Is either time line interesting in itself.
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Analysis of sliding doors.
The worse off scenario.
Helen gwyneth paltrow the woman in question is fired from her pr job for trivial reasons and goes to take the train back home.
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.
The flow of the story seems quite natural and the cast does a wonderful job going through the twists and turns of their characters lives.
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.
By chance a woman discovers her boyfriend is having an affair at the same time she meets a much nicer guy who s getting divorced.
The plot is based on the difference it makes to this woman s life whether she gets or misses a tube train.
The film alternates between two storylines showing two paths the central character s life could take depending on whether or not she catches a train.
I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work.
In both stories there are 4 key characters who we see.
Parents need to know that sliding doors is a 1998 fantasy about finding love featuring two parallel stories.
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.
Although gwyneth paltrow plays the same character in both aspects of the story both helens seem completely different.
Sliding doors was directed and written by peter howitt and was released in 1998.
