Charlie and Slade are two men, polar opposites it would seem, each struggling with life choices. One is plagued with a moral crisis while the other is a walking crisis, yet these two seem to find in each other the strength to face their particular problems.

Charlie Simms is a seventeen-year-old boy, who goes to a private, rich boy’s New Hampshire boarding school, and is on a full scholarship. He crosses paths with Lieutenant Colonel Slade, an obnoxious retired colonel with a very limited appreciation of women. He intensely despises himself, and is undergoing a rapid physical deterioration as he mentally contemplates his forthcoming death. The link between the mind and the body is clear as he programs his body to slow down it’s functioning

But I have come to realise there is no such thing as always in a friendship and will not be there forever. People change and feelings towards each other change and what was said earlier meant nothing because everything was new and that was the feeling at the moment. I am realising that people say one thing and even though they were serious and sincere with their feelings but what they meant will disappear slowly and they will eventually do what they want and will not care about your feelings or how it will affect you.

in preparation for its final demise.

The more time these two spend together enjoying fine clothes, fine dining, the best accommodations, a tango with a beautiful woman, a ride in a ten thousand dollar sports car, they discover other treasures of life, which are being a friend, being needed and being able to make a difference in someone else's life, no matter how hard it is to do. They wind up doing something phenomenal for each other, giving each of them a life-changing experience.

“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet may not really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” I believe this is a good saying for the movie Scent of a Woman, because it shows the relationship between Charlie’s School friends with Charlie himself, and Slade with Charlie.

However, is the relationship between Charlie and Slade a true friendship? I believe true friendship is extremely rare, even though mos

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