Two magical realism devices that are presented in both the movie and the story are parallel worlds and the nature of reality as seen through imagination. In the short story, Cortazar is able to create parallel worlds between the realities and photo where the characters are able to act with imaginary personalities which we cannot know for sure if they are real. The other device used is the nature of reality. In both the movie and short story the characters use their imaginations and to magical things during their everyday lives. It is our job to find the reality in the things they are doing. For example, at the end of the movie when they are playing tennis with an imaginary ball Thomas must believe that the ball is actually there before he can “enjoy” the game being played even though it is all in their imaginations. In the story, the characters trespass through different imaginary worlds during different periods of time as the story evolves bringing about the questioning of what in the story is real and what is imaginary.
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