Q1.

How do you relate to the movie “The Next Three Days” as one of the best

projects designed under the category “problem”?

Following are the reasons that relate the movie “The Next Three Days” as one of the

best projects designed under the category “problem”.

1. False Accusation of Murder:

The case is about Lara Brennan who has been arrested for murdering her boss. The

whole life of a married couple became upside down when the wife is accused of murder.

It is about one afternoon; Lara has had a heated argument with her boss. That particular

evening, her boss is found dead near her parked car, her skull was crushed by a fire

extinguisher.

Lara Brennan, who was barely known about this incident came back from the office

having a double date with the brother of John and his wife. The next morning, it seemed

like a regular household Monday where the wife was getting ready for work and saying

goodbye to his husband and their very young son, Luke, while all of a sudden police

burst through the door arrest her in front of her family leaving her husband horrified and

put the child to a trauma.

2. Childhood Trauma

The entire shocking and horrifying incident put Luke, the child into a traumatic condition.

The happy and jolly kid did not continue as before. John has caught up in depression

and was discouraged because of Luke’s behavior. He tried many things to keep him out

of trauma. He used to bring him to his father’s house and make regular visits to meet his

mother but the kid’s attachment with his mother was concerning and affected her badly.

He ceased to acknowledge her when John and Luke visit her in prison. She asked him
to kiss her but he did not even listen and respond to her properly. She said to John; you

think he will ever kiss me again? This whole thing causes parents extremely stressed

and worried.

3. No Legitimate ways left:

John did whatever he could to fight in court for her but all the evidence was against her.

Three years later, the Lara appeals got canceled but John did not want to stop. He was

committed to going to the Supreme Court but his lawyer advised against it and asked

him to give up on the thought of getting her free. The Lawyer said that the supreme

court had not heard a murder case in the last 30 years and that they would not start

hearing it now. Lara’s lawyer told John there’s no realistic legal recourse left, and John

began to doubt that the lawyer ever believed Lara was innocent in the first place.

“It no longer matters what we believe,” the lawyer shouts. “Lara is not getting out!”

John said he will find another lawyer because he thought the lawyer did not believe in

his wife’s innocence. He went through the evidence a number of times but could only

find that it all points to her wife being the murderer. He was left with no legal way to fight

for her. John could not able to see his son like that; he was disheartened by this whole

incident and he also could not bear the thought of his young wife spending the rest of

her life in jail for something he believes she did not do.

4. Hopeless and Suicidal Thoughts

The cancelation of the appeal affected John and Lara very much. Lara when heard that

her appeal got canceled and she has to spend the rest of her life in prison shattered
herself. The fear of living without her family caused so much depression that she

become suicidal. She tried to kill and got herself hospitalize.

This incident put John in the great depression as well. But John could not have

accepted that. Never mind the blood. Never mind the fingerprints. He knew that Lara is

innocent. He knew it with full confidence.

5. Parenting Problem

Parenting is one of the main concerns for John. It was becoming difficult for John to

manage Luke solely. Luke has never become quiet and sad. Luke’s absent behavior put

John into the question of doing something on his own.

Someone’s belief in virtue is more important than virtue itself. These were the

words that director Haggis throws at us in the compelling yet somewhat shadowed

scenes of the movie where he showed us the inspirational moments for John when he

quotes on Don Quixote’s theme during his class.

John was a teacher, at a community college who had a moral sense of doing

good and believing in good. It was his main motive for doing what he did as he rationally

believed that his wife was innocent of her charges and did not commit any murder. This

sense was so high that we saw him a couple of times getting upset or angry at his

parents and other people around him, even his wife once where he made her believe

that she is not guilty.

He questioned his morality, his rational thoughts, and his irrationality that gives

the power to these thoughts. And then he questions what part of our lives is truly under

our control? That is the moment where we see a change in John’s character and he
takes his first action then and there. He saw that there is no way he can save his wife

legally and started planning an escape.