Walter Sparrow The Number 23 Analysis

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The movie “the Number 23”, is a chilling movie surrounded around the life of a man named Walter Sparrow. Walter Sparrow throughout the movie displays symptoms of what one might first see as a personality disorder, but in actuality he suffered from memory loss which came from the result of attempted suicide. Walter Sparrow is fighting with his own mind and throughout the movie there are certain things that trigger his thoughts to come back. Walter Sparrow in the movie starts out as an animal catcher who is bitten by a stray dog. With this event happening his wife fins the time to buy a book called “the Number 23”. While reading the book, Walter begins to see some of what might be some similarities in his life occurring in the book. The book

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