Task 8

I have watched A Thousand Word by Brian Robbins.  The story about Jack McCall  is a literary agent. While he is trying to get a book deal from a New Age self-help guru named Dr. Sinja  the guru agrees to the deal, only to later deliver a five-page book. That night, a tree magically appears in Jack’s backyard, with a thousand leaves. Dr. Sinja goes to Jack's house and they both discover that for every word that Jack says, a leaf will fall off of the tree. When the tree runs out of leaves, the tree will die, along with Jack. In time, he finds that even written words count towards his limit, plus anything that happens to the tree will also affect Jack. When Jack tries to cut it down with an axe, an axe wound appears on him. When squirrels climb the tree, it tickles him. When a gardener tries to poison the tree, Jack gets high on the fumes.With Jack forced to pick and choose his words, communicating with others becomes difficult and full of misunderstandings. These misunderstandings cause him lost in, his job, and his wife Caroline. She walks out on him when she thinks his sudden silence is due to him not loving her anymore. When he tries to explain the tree to her, she doesn’t believe him. Only Jack’s assistant Aaron realizes that he is telling the truth, and goes to Jack’s house to keep track of how many leaves remain. With his life falling apart and the tree running out of leaves, Jack meets Dr. Sinja and asks how to end the curse. The guru tells him to make peace in all of his relationships. With just one branch of leaves left, Jack tries to reconcile with Caroline, but she remains hesitant. He visits his mother, who lives in folk house. She tells Jack, who she thinks is Jack’s late father Raymond, that she wishes Jack would stop being angry at his father for walking out on them when he was a kid. Jack, realizing that this is the relationship that needs , he goes to visit his father’s grave. Jack expends the last three leaves of the tree with the words, "I forgive you". With no leaves remaining, Jack suffers a heart attack and appears to have died. Jack’s cellphone rings, and it is Aaron. Jack, who is still alive, answers his phone. Aaron tells him that the tree’s leaves have magically reappeared and Jack can now talk freely again.Jack and Caroline get back together, with Jack buying the family-friendly house Caroline asked for earlier, and the tree is in their front yard. He doesn’t get his job back.

From this story if I were the character of Jack, I will try to solve all my problems first with my wife and family problems with job problems ahead. Even if the situations make limited movement to me, I will stay calmly to overcome the problem without having difficulties on the word that I’ve said. Every words are valuable so all words that I said will be the best to other. This movie were so good and give us many moral values such as every word that came out from our mouth are worthy, so be rationale when saying even a single worth.Thank you.