film analysis

About The Purple Rose of Cairo, we had to watch it for my Creative Writting class. the movie sets in the 1920´s, where Cecilia is the main character, and she lives her life in the city. a hardworker but a little but clumpsy, she is married to a man who treats her like garbage (so sexist). she also likes to go the movies a lot, even do they show the same movie over and over again, she enjoys watching them. the bad thing of the movie is that the setting is the Great Depression, but the movie has nothing to do with it. it shows how people try to escape from reality in the way that she meets a movie character and wants to run away with him.

Cecilia works at a caffeteria, serving coffee to people and working as a waitress. she is really clumpsy do, making her drop dishes to the ground and break them. this gets her fired. the only place where she can be by her on is the theater and watch a movie. at the theater, Cecilia is watching the movie, and all of a sudden, the main character turns to her and talks to her. Tom baxter comes out of the movie, and goes out with Cecilia. they walk in an amusement park where he starts to flirt with her. at the theater the people watching the movie feel robbed and want their money back. know the movie characters interact with real life people.

the productors now worried about the movie character running around outside the movie, want to send the actual actor, Gill, so that it won´t affect the hollywood people. Gill sees that the only way to get Baxter back in the movie, is to make Cecilia fall in love with him. Gill tells her that he wants to go to Hollywood so that they could make a movie together. She was really happy to know she was going to leave her crappy life behind and start a new life. At the end Cecilia was left alone, Gill was gone, so as Tom Baxter. She was trapped in that horrible life she had.

For me this movie shows how reality can be avoided in certain ways. how people seek for a little bit of pleasure and happiness when they suffer. This is a great movie to watch, and people can understand it in their own ways. I think this movie avoids reality, making hard for the audicence understand what is going on around the characters. Cecilia thought that Romance only happened in the movies and tried live it, but she only kept making more mistakes.