This film is about a hypersensitive young girl, who perceives her family milieu as too narrow and feels restricted. Her world consists particularly of her father and her little sister Phoebe, whom she adores. When she looses her beloved father because of leukaemia, she decides to leave her small world together with her boyfriend Wolf. .
Her encounters with various young groups in Amsterdam, Paris and later in Berlin end dramatically. During a terror attack on a public building in Berlin she kills the father of 2 daughters. Unable to overcome this tragic accident she commits suicide. .
Many years later her small sister Phoebe turning 18 leaves her home to follow the footsteps of her sister - retracing each dramatic episode in her life to put the puzzle of her disappearance together and to understand her death. .
What insight about The Journey has this text given you?.
This film leads the reader onto the various tracks of a young girl who is in search of her ego and of the sense of life - the omnipotent general question. .
The mother is nice but does not recognize the queries, fear and trembling of her daughter. She is too much involved with her own problems to go on after death of her husband. .
The reader gets integrated and involved in the battles of survival and the imaginary facts through the eyes of the small sister Phoebe. In fact Phoebe is trying to reconstruct the life of her sister and why it had such a sudden end. .
After her own journeys in the footsteps of her sister she comes to the brilliant conclusion that her sister had been egoistic leaving herself and her mother behind. This realization give Phoebe finally peace and allows her to move back to her mother. .
Analyse the text for purpose, audience, resources of language, tone and overall effectiveness.
"Invisible Circus" is the evocative, mysterious and emotionally powerful journey through the lives of 2 young women - one obsessed with the past to find reasons for the dearth of her sister and the other one trying to understand the future.
