Thursday, February 18, 2021

Now Showing: The Journey

The Journey
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Fernando Gonzalez Molina
Writer: Meirad Tako
Cast: Tom Holland, Kiernan Shipka, Jace Norman, Joey Bragg

Plot: Two different people woke up at the same time on the different sides of the world, they are James Harris (Tom Holland) and Ariana Holt (Kiernan Shipka), they do their morning routine and ended up on their laptop on the same time.

They are chatting each other from the social media, both of them seems happy and like one another, James never seen her but he said that, he'll meet her soon.

But let's focus on James a bit. James Harris is an 'unemployed' young man lived in Britain, he is the lead singer of a small local pop Duo in his town, named The Men. He teamed up with his long time friend, Kelly Smith (Jace Norman) and Kelly did not like his idea to meet this random girl.

He is in Kelly's house at the moment and he loses his mind, Kelly argue with him, Kelly tries to calm himself, and try to talk to James' stonehead about he need to focus on his music for now and ditch any romantic relationship, especially, the serious one, but, James stood his ground and insist to meet her, Kelly give up and let him be. James thanked him and book a flight right away.

Let's move to the other person, Ariana Holt, she is a cashier in the local grocery store, she lives in America, she's had been listening to The Men for 3 years now and she is really into their music. So, one day she DM'd the lead vocal, James and he replied and the rest is history, they get along easily and his been her only person that she wants to talk about her life problem.

Yesterday, her idol told her that he'll go a long way to meet her and she loses it and unimaginably happy and she ready herself.

A couple days later and James arrival is just one hour apart, she's already prepare everything and she just about to go to the airport, but when she lock her door, her ex-boyfriend, Mark Gates (Joey Bragg) stand behind her and grab her by the shoulder and beg her to accept him back.

James has arrived, and he couldn't find Ariana, he waited for a while four hour to be exact, he decided to walk. He remembered that she once send him her address, so he takes out his phone and check his chat history. It took a while for him to found the address but he found it and he starts walking and asking people.

He asks people and his journey continue until he is in a small alley and he was stopped by a group of men. They demanded him to give them his belonging but James try to refuse it and he was beaten and they take all of his belonging.

At home, James' friend Kelly, is panicking because his friend hasn't picking up his phone,he walks in circle because of panic, he smack his phone to the ground. After a while he pick it up again and book a flight as quick as possible and hope that the 'son of a gun' is okay in the 'wilderness'

Back in Ariana's house, it is a mess, Mark screw everything's up, he got mad he abuses Ariana, she got some wound on her body but he keeps on asking her to accept him back. Her neighbor saw it, but no one do anything particular, they just hear and look through the broken window and keep on living their life, Ariana was tied to the chair so that Mark can go out to do his job, he had been 'asking' her for one day straight, and now he needs to go.

At that morning, James woke up on the bench of a park, he passed out tired the other night, he lost everything he owned but he needs to keep walking, he is sure that Ariana has something to tell him, he take some paper rubbish and asked some people for pen and wrote down Ariana's address, he remembered it enough to write it but he is afraid of forgetting it.

So.after that he keeps walking and walking as well as asking and asking until he arrived in front of Ariana's house and want to get inside when he heard a man (Meirad Tako) shouting at him, "I WON'T GET INSIDE THE HOUSE IF I WERE YOU!" after that he leaves.

James shrug, and proceed to get inside, there he found Ariana was tied to a chair and crying he freed her but all of a sudden, Mark came from behind and attacked him, they have a little of a fight but James can handle it, after he kicks Mark's butt and free Ariana they call the police, James also calls Kelly that's already on the airport so Kelly go to their place.

After a couple of years later, they get married, the man that shouted to James not to enter now sitting on a pew watching the marriage and say "bloody hell, if i was brave i would have get married by now"



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