The Sliding Door Film

I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work.

The sliding door film.

The film alternates between two storylines showing two paths the central character s life could take depending on whether or not she catches a train. Sliding doors uses parallel time lines to explore the different paths that a woman s life might take after she does and doesn t find her lover in bed with another woman. Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun. If not then no amount of shifting back and forth between them can help.

Sliding doors is one of gwyneth paltrow s best films made when she was in several films a year just between emma and great expectations. This film is a lightweight comedy drama with a unique story. Is either time line interesting in itself. Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two divergent paths when in one reality she misses the.

This was before she became an object of scorn and outright hatred for many people a stance which tells more about their pettiness than anything about the actress. Although gwyneth paltrow plays the same character in both aspects of the story both helens seem completely different.