Essay/Term paper: 1,000 word essay on the love story

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Movie Reviews

Sophomore Composition

1,000 Wd. Report

October 27, 1999



There are many positive things and negative things about the movie and the story. In the movie

you have a chance to see what Elizabeth looks like. That alone could be a positive and negative thing.

The movie is more glamour than thought. In the movie your mind has more free will so therefore this is

the better of the two. The thought in the movie that, there is unlimited communication between the two,

takes away your imagination and the curiosity of what they will say and how they will say it in the last

message between the two of them. The changing of the time period was a very smart and interesting thing

done in order for the movie to fit exactly into place. In the story the little details is what makes it

important. Such as the marble floor in the Post Office, or that in the story, the Post Office is small. All of

these little details are left out in the movie. Although it doesn"t seem like a great deal, the little details do

play a large part in the importance of the Postal Office in the story. Although the story seems more

simple in the "word" sense, it also leaves a lot of room for the mind to wonder what it is like back in the

1800"s. Therefore the story is more open for the mind and it is more pleasing.



"A girl in a high-necked dark dress with cameo brooch at the collar. Her dark hair was swept

tightly back, covering the ears, in a style which no longer suits our ideas of beauty. But the stark severity

of that dress and hairstyle couldn"t spoil the beauty of the face that smiled out at me from that old

photograph." This above is the description stated in the story that described Helen Elizabeth Worley.

This description is not of lustrous beauty, but of the true love he felt for her. This statement and

description is made at the end of the story. The movie gave you the chance to make your opinion on looks

before you even began to know her. You are sort of forced by your eyes to make judgments on her

personal appearance in the movie. When you make judgments on appearance then you don"t get the

picture of this story, or any story for that matter. The imagination is one of the most powerful tools you

can have, and in the movie you don"t use it that often, because the movie paints the picture for you.



The unlimited amount of communication is a very important change from the story to the movie.

The idea that their is unlimited communication between two distant times seems more impossible than

just being able to contact someone two or three times. "The little center desk drawer stood half-open as

I"d left it, and then, as my fell on it. I realized suddenly that of course it, too, must have another secret

drawer behind it. I hadn"t thought of that. It simply hadn"t occurred to me the week before, in my

interest and excitement over the letter I"d found behind the first drawer of the row: and I"d been too busy

all week to think of it since. But now I pulled the center drawer all of the way out, reached behind it and

found the little groove in the smooth wood I touched. Then I brought out the second secret little drawer."

It seems more possible and logical, as explained in the quote above, to be able to communicate only a

limited amount of times rather than unlimited. This also keeps great suspense on what they will say in the

letters because they are more precious because they can"t continue to send that many more letters.



"It must easily be one of the oldest postal substations in the borough; built, I suppose, not much

later than during the decade following the Civil War. And I can"t imagine that the inside has change

much at all. The floor is marble; the ceiling high, the woodwork dark and carved. The outer lobby is

open at all times, as are post-office lobbies everywhere, and as I pushed through the old swinging doors, I

saw that it was deserted. somewhere behind the opaque blind windows a light burned dimly far in the rear

of the post office, and I had an impression of subdued activity back there. But the lobby itself was dim

and silent, as I walked across the worn stone of its floor, I know I was seeing all around me precisely what

Brooklynites had seen for no telling how many generations long dead. The Post Office has always seemed

an institution of vague mystery to me: an ancient and worn but still functioning mechanism that is not

operated, but only tended by each succeeding generation of men to come along. It is a place where

occasionally plainly addressed letters with clearly written return addresses go astray and are lost, to end up

no one knows where and for reasons impossible to discover, as the postal employee from whom you

inquire will tell you. And its vague air of mystery, for me, is made up of stories--well, you"ve read them,

too, from time to time: the odd little stories in your newspaper. A letter bearing a post-mark of 1906

written half a century ago, is delivered today--simply because inexplicably it arrived at some post office

along with the other mail, with no explanation from anyone now alive. Or sometimes it"s a postcard of

greeting--from the Chicago World"s Fair of 1893. And once, tragically, as I remember reading, it was an

acceptance of a proposal of marriage offered in 1901--and received today, a lifetime too late, by the man

who made it and who married another woman." The quote from the story tells a very detail description

that is important to the mind so it makes a clean picture of the Postal Office to all of the readers. It is one

of the most important of the faults from the movie that is gone. Simply because it gives the mind a detail

and mental picture of the Postal Office.



Now the end is near. The above paragraphs describe why the movie is by far worse and less

favored versions of "The Love Letter", by Jack Finney. All in all their are many faults in the movie and

the story.