Last night, I watched a movie after a very long time. It was ‘Dear Frankie’. It’s nice and simple movie. The story was of a single mother Lizzie and her nine year old son Frankie who is deaf by birth. Lizzie is constantly moving from town to town with her son and her mother Nell escaping from her husband who is happened to be an abusive man.
Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. He bets hi friend that his father would come to see his football match thinking that his father’s ship would dock his home town in those days. He also writes a letter to his father about it. Lizzie collects the Frankie’s letter from the post office and gets very upsets about it. The Ship is going to dock there for just a day. She does not want to disappoint Frankie and embarrass in front of his friends. She hires a handsome and good looking man for playing the role of Frankie’s dad for just a single day. The stranger spends one day on Lizzie’s request and other day on his own wish. These two days make the life of Frankie heaven. Frankie gets so much attached to him that he cries when the stranger leaves.
On the other hand, Frankie’s real father who is counting his last breaths and contacts Lizzie and requests her to bring Frankie. She refuses and just sends Frankie’s pic. His real father dies the other day. Lizzie gets very upset and feels guilty on what she has done to Frankie. She thinks of telling Frankie the real story. But she cannot tell him the whole story and just tells him that his father has died of sudden sickness. After few days, she collects Frankie’s letter from the Post office. She comes to know that Frankie knows the real story and that he loves the stranger so much and that he wants him to stay with them forever. Bara hi siyana bacha tha ans. While on the other side, Lizzie also feels some ‘Kuch kuch hota hai feeling’. The movie ends here showing both mother and son sitting on the beach without stranger. But I hope he would join them later. So a happy end.
