Is saving a child poetic?

Rating: 4/10 (26 November 2006)

As a writer, I do not see how the ending could be poetic. American Beauty is a far more poetic movie than this. I feel a similar movie is "Hero", which starred Dustin Hoffman. A very ordinary man becomes a hero. One knows the ending is going to involve saving the child on the bicycle, which is foreshadowed in the accident the author character Kay imagines sitting across from a bridge. I still hoped that the ending would be poetic, especially after Kay sees the apple rolling in the street along the sidewalk, but I was sadly mistaken. The ending immediately became obvious, when considering the site for the movie which advertises, "Harold Crick thought his life had no point. That's about to change."