Dragonfly: Reaching A Little Too Far

Can the dead communicate with you after they have passed? Can the dead talk to you through children and other dead people? In the movie Dragonfly, these things happen quite frequently. This movie reaches a little to far too follow the plot that Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) is trying to be reached by his deceased wife Emily (Susanna Thompson). In Dragonfly, unusual things happen to Joe Darrow that are just plain unrealistic. This movie tries to use the normal qualities that makes a movie shocking and thrilling, such as the dead talking and children saying they talked to his wife, but in the end this movie leaves the audience wondering how these things are even possible.

Kevin Costner plays the role of a Dr. Joe Darrow, who has recently lost his wife in an accident. His wife is also a doctor who has decided to pack up and leave for Venezuela to help out the people there who are in trouble. She leaves even though Joe strongly wants her to stay, mainly because she is pregnant at the time. Emily dies in a bus accident, when the bus is hit by a rock slide and is thrown off of a c

Joe’s wife loves dragonflies. She has a birth mark on her shoulder that greatly resembles a dragonfly, so therefore she has a connection with them. After her death, Joe starts to see dragonflies everywhere. He hears something outside the window and to his astonishment it’s a dragonfly. A mobile for their baby comes in the mail, and it’s decorated in dragonflies. All of this is too much coincidence. For instance, one night when Joe goes to sleep he looks at a drink coaster which is a dragonfly sealed in glass. He sets it on the night stand and goes to sleep. Joe then wakes up to a loud bang, and it turns out to be that this two pound coaster has fallen off of the night stand, rolled across the floor, and then spun until it laid flat on the floor. All of this is just too much. A connection with dragonflies is going to happen, but the connection in this movie reaches too far in using a dragonfly in just about every scene.

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