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The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman

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There’s underlying sadness for each of the characters that temper the story but overall it’s about facing your fears and moving forward. While this certainly can be true for those who think too highly of themselves, in this case, Sadie and Norman didn’t see themselves as special, while they were perceived so much differently by each other. She's not used to having to entertain Norman and Jax always kept her up to date of what was going on with them when Norman would forget his phone. I could sort of accept it, as Norman was a product of Sadie’s influence and he was seemingly precocious, but it still bugged me that they felt like the same character. When she spills all her woes to Leonard, an elderly pensioner who works part time with her, he comes up with a plan to help Norman and so the three of them set off on a road trip from their home in Penzance to Edinburgh.But as hard as I tried, and as many pethidine waves as I rode, I still couldn’t think about Norman standing up on a stage in my father’s moth-eaten jacket without seeing the emptiness around him.

When she saw Norman staring at the five year plan the two boys had laid out (slightly altered after Jax died), she found herself promising Norman, she would get him to the Festival, as well as try to find his father for him. Norman’s mum, Sadie is caught off-guard by Norman’s ‘new plan’ announcement, but, seeing him now getting so excited about something, literally anything, makes it impossible for her to refuse.It could be sloppy, sentimental, manipulative drivel and I’m not even sure why I tried it, to be honest – but I’m glad I did because it’s nothing of the kind.

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