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 cliff into a river. After she is dead, Joe is all alone in their old Victorian house, along with Emily's talking parrot. He begins to see and hear things that he cannot understand almost immediately after her death. The movie makes you lean toward the fact that Joe is overworked and delusional, but very shortly the sightings become all to similar. Everything he sees closely resembles only one thing, a dragonfly.
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Brandon Coburn, 2.
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.