Live Without A Fire Analysis

This movie begins with a man named Will Atenton who is an editor in New York. He was very successful at the work he did but he wanted to make a change in his life. So he left his job and the city life to live in the quiet suburbs. A small town with him and his wife and their two daughters. He wanted to write a book.
He was concerned about his neighbors Anne and her ex-husband Jack. Will was outside on one occasion when Jack was picking up his daughter from Anne and he could see the tension and the anger that was between the both of them. Jack drove off from Anne's house in rage. Then he stopped and looked at Will as if Will was the one that was the cause of their problems, and the reason why Jack and Anne are having all these disagreements.
Will later learns by asking around the neighbor hood that five years ago in the very house he has been living in a murder took place. Killing a man named Peter Ward's wife and children. Peter Ward was the original owner of the house. At first the police took Peter Ward in to custody and was going to charge him with the murder of his wife and children, but they had no evidence against him so they had to set him free. Peter was released in to a half way house. People in the …show more content…
Then he says but that can't be me because my name is Will Atenton. The office told Will he was so traumatized by the murders of his wife and children, that while he was in the hospital he bit his name band and seen the letters and numbers in this order W1LL 8TT0N and from that day on Peter Ward became Will Atenton.. Peter has slipped away from reality and fell into fantasy. Before the wife (Libby) passed away she picked up the gun to shoot the shooter, but instead she shot Peter by accident. The officer tells Will to touch the side of his head that he was shot in and he did and he couldn't believe that he felt the wound by the