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There are two different interpretations: ask about them again!

- An easier and more simplistic one, that only sees how the movie covers different
themes: it introduces very well the topic of fathers and sons, see Paul Benjamin as
very connected with Paul Auster. There is a parallelism between Cyrus and Rashid.

- City of Glass is about metaliterature, the act of writing and how one feels inspired to
write. The movie is filled with certain events that at the same time inspire fiction.

Baseball is a very important part of the movie and of Paul Auster’s fiction in general.

Rashid hadn’t only bumped into the creeper, but he also stole the money from him, getting in
trouble. He claims that those six thousand dollars are his future, when he is only 17…
Rashid, scared of the creeper, leaves the house, and goes to live with this father, who doesn´t
know him until Paul Benjamin visits him at the petrol station where he works and somehow
forces Rashid to tell his father the real name. However, the creeper goes to the house and asks
Paul Benjamin for the money and, because he doesn’t give it to him, he beats him up.

Paul Benjamin and his friend force Rachid to tell his father that he is his sonà from a
structural perspective, the plot, in order to be complete and in order for this void in the chain
of fatherson-father-son-… to be filled, needs Rashid to tell his father the truth.

There is no way Paul Benjamin is going to redeem himself as a father, since he lost his son.
However, he does feel his situation will be better if he helped Rashid reconnect with his
father. The movie introduces the racial aspect. They live in Brooklyn, only one km away
from where Rashid is from. Thus, the huge different between white and black Brooklyn is
made clear.

Impersonation: Thomas Cole, Rashid Cole, Thomas Jefferson Coleàare all the names Rashid
claims to have.

From the point where Rashid has told his father his real name, and they come to peaceful
ends, there is only one part of the plot left to fix. àthe movie starts with the underground and
finishes with the underground (NYC metro)

Cycle of redemptionà Rashid starts a new life, finding a girl with whom he fell in love.

Augie Wren’s Christmas Storyà story published for Christmas by Paul Auster. In the
movie, Paul Benjamin, at the very end, talks about how he must write a story for the NY
Times, to be published for Christmas.

At the beginning of the movie, we see a kid entering the shop to steal a pornographic
magazine. At the end of the movie, we can tell how that kid is Paul Benjamin’s son.

Story about Roger Goodwin’s wallet and granny Ethelà again we see impersonation, since
Auggie, who finds Goodwin’s wallet, goes to the address in the wallet and doesn’t find
Roger, but his blind grandmother Ethel who thinks he is Roger. It is Christmas day, and
Auggie ends up having dinner with Ethel, pretending he is actually Roger. He steals a camera
from her.
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1 Auggie, at the end of the movie, tells this story to Paul Benjamin. However, he
doesn’t seem to believe it, and thinks he is making it up.

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From the beginning auggie tells the story of how he got the camera and started using it.

When auggie goes to have launch, he sees two black men that are arrested for robbery. And
then puts this story on his photographs. And he connects that incident that he had with the
cover of the newspaper. He is creating fiction and stories.
We can se how auggie talks about a real event but actually changes the characters. From what
he saw from the newspaper.
How the movie can understood as a certain metafiction. How the whole movie can be a whole
fiction. One of the interpretation of the movie is that.

Conclusion: Smoke can be rewriting the city of glass

How this movie can be interpretation of city of glass in the importance of new York,
Brooklyn but also the relationship of father and sons. But its not an adaptation. Its is a source
literary speaking. We can find lot of coincidences and similarities. We can talk about the
movie as a new version of “city of glass” through images.
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Fight club was not really successful in the beginning. After the movie it became extremely
famous . The narrator is very well constructed. The narrator truly challenges the limits
between the himself and the reader establishing a connection with them in the sense the
reader is deceived by him. There is a narccistic interpretation there, about how the narrator is
in love with the character. How the protagonist is in the way in love with Tyler. He creates
this very attractive man, he is brave, courageous, a very good looking man.( Brad Pit was
chosen for that reason, he was famous for being attractive). Its about capitalism alienates us
and our identity.
The film bumps back and forth all the time form the novel.
Beginning of the novel
its great because its show how unstable the narrator is. We are inside his head.
Beginning of the movie
the movie already gives you a hint. The first thing we see is a brain. It places you inside the
narrator’s brain. In the novel everything is mixed, he talks about Tyler and Marla constantly
whereas in the movie not so much. In chapter 2 he explains everything about the support
groups and therapy. The fragment from IKEA takes place in chapter 5. It immediately shows
the idea of capitalism that is present even when people are in the toilet. He is making a
reflection about consumerism and he keeps interrupting himself with thoughts and ideas.
Also while reading the IKEA catalogue he kept making noise, like orgasm related and sexual
pleasure. Chapter 2: “ three weeks and I haven’t slept...Seconals” he changes his name
constantly in the movie but specifically, in the group therapies that e goes he inform us that
he never gives his real name. In movie we see him putting a sticker with the name Cornelius.
“ Bob the big moosie”. He lets go into Bob’s hug and lets himself cry. He gets addicted to
group therapies.
The movie reorganizes the thoughts and the stream of consciousness . Tyler and Marla will
never be in the same room throughout the movie.
It shows in one group-therapy the image of a cave and a penguin:
p22. Marla appears . both novel and movie. “With her watching i am a liar” with her
appearing he can not concentrate on his crying and has difficulty in sleeping again. “ I’ll say
Marla, you big fake, you get out”.
Marla has no essence of death. She does not care if she is going to die anytime soon. The way
she just casually walks through the cars and streets.
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