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A housewife juggles moving into a new house with her dysfuctional family, fantasizing about the life she wants to live, and preventing her seemingly idyllic fantasies from becoming reality. Directed by: Joe Chappelle. Story by: Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
16 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if the people around me changed | choice | Annie became evermore befuddled as the people in her family seemingly kept changing. |
| be careful what you wish for | major | Annie wished she had a perfect family and home, but regretted it once her imperfect family members started getting replaced by perfect ones. |
| family affairs | major | The story follows an ordinary family as they settle in at a newly moved into home. |
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | Annie was initially at a loss to explain why her family members were getting seamlessly replaced by other, better people. |
| husband and wife | major | Philip and Annie MacIntosh. |
| speculative virtual reality | major | It turned out that the family members in the story were just simulated characters in a little girl's computer game. |
| the universe is a simulation | major | The narrator spelled out the idea that we might simply all of us be characters in some game and liable to be replaced at a whim. |
| brother and sister | minor | The teenage siblings Sean and Tess were quarreling. |
| father and daughter | minor | Philip and his teenage daughter Tess. |
| father and son | minor | Philip and his teenage son Sean. |