Blossoming Flowers & Frog Rain
Before the opening credits role we are shown three different scenes, all of which involve what some would see as coincidence, but what others would see as fate. A pharmacist is murdered one night in a town called Greenberry Hill by three men who were attempting to rob him, their names being Green, Berry, and Hill. A scuba-diver is lifted by an airplane carrying water to extinguish a forest fire and dies second after falling from the plane, which is being flown by a man who interacted with the scuba-diver just days before at a casino. Finally, a boy tries to commit suicide by jumping off of his building’s roof top, but is then killed by a bullet being shot threw a window three stories down by his mother, who is arguing with his father and who is threatening him with a gun that the boy has loaded several days earlier. The boy then falls on a net that had been installed for window washers which would have saved his life were it not for this incredible sequence of events. Magnolia, as keenly noted by James Berardinelli, a reviewer for the New York Times, “deals with the effects of physical and spiritual cancer on individuals and their families.” It is the story of Earl Partridge the producer of a television show called “What
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Approximate Word count = 1120
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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