Cigarette Girl

The movie "Cigarette Girl" is very hard to imagine as a written piece of literature, but I truly think that once you see a movie it is hard to differentiate yourself from the actors in the movie and allow yourself to see the characters for themselves. But as I watched the movie I tried to imagine how the writer would have written it out on paper and how much detail he would have to go into to show the amount of descriptiveness that he was able to portray with his movie. The main character of the movie is Cigarette Girl who is a young woman who sells cigarettes in the smoking section for a mob-like group of people that hang out at their headquarters Vice City. The movie is set in 2035 when cigarette smoking has been banned in the city and people who still choose to smoke are restricted to the smoking-section of the city and a pack of smokes cost sixty dollars! Cigarette Girl deals with three main issues in the movie. One is her grandmother who is the only person that she has left in the world is dying from emphazyma in a hospital in the city. Also at the beginning of the movie, Cigarette Girl gets fired from her job because she doesn't show up for three days due to her grandmother being sick and they know that she has been undercutting the prices of the cigarettes and selling them for fifty dollars. So now they are replacing her with a younger and more trainable cigarette girl. On top of all of this you get to see Cigarette girl face her personal demons and go through hell while trying to quit smoking. This guy with boots and a cowboy hat keeps appearing throughout the movie and at first it doesn't explain who he is, but then you realize that he is a resemblance of the iconic "Marlboro Man" and that he is just in her head. The use of this symbolic figure is to show her personal struggle with her addiction. I really thought that the way in which the writer developed her character so fully that you could understand her pain and strengths was amazing. The movie was definitely an experience I enjoyed.