The Plot

Zainab Jafri
1 min readSep 12, 2020
Vice (2018): The scene where I stopped watching the movie and started writing this story instead.

Watched that movie two minutes ago

It was written and executed perfectly

Based on a true story, they said

How could it be so perfect?

So perfect that it seemed made-up

Based on a true story, they said

Natural plot twists this life is

Who plotted it?

A perfect piece of pure irony

I can’t believe you can’t feel

I can’t believe you can’t believe

Someone rewrote the written plot

It’s so imperfect, I can’t even…

Carefully designed and thought

Yet so many plot holes?

Don’t you see you don’t see it?

I can’t believe you can’t feel

I can’t believe you can’t believe

Author’s Note: Just watched Vice (2018). Christain Bale is undoubtedly awesome. Amy Adam had me in Sharp Objects. She’s perfect. The movie was about Dick Cheney. For me, it was about the Iraq War and the sort of chaos this world is. Wow, what a wasted opportunity.

Another Note: Again, this is getting nowhere. Maybe, it’s just irrelevant. Maybe, that’s why people don’t explain what they write. What they produce, direct, paint. Hm. The author’s note is an afterthought.

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