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  • Essay / Ferris Bueller's Fault in Timeline - 984

    This film features Ferris Bueller, an intelligent high school student who feels he doesn't want to go to school when he wakes up, so he decides to pretend to be sick for deceiving his parents. let him stay home after school. His parents are kind, caring and naive people who would never imagine that their son would lie to them and, therefore, they believe his horrible sick game. He gets his girlfriend, Sloan Peterson, excused from school by calling to fake her grandmother's death. He also asks his friend Cameron, who is really sick, to accompany himself and Sloan for a day in the city of Chicago before they all go off to different universities. Two people who have no doubt that Ferris' story is false are his sister and Ed Rooney, the principal of his school. The gang takes Cameron's dad's car and goes to a baseball game, visits the Sears Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, and a parade where Ferris jumps on a float and lip syncs to a song that plays and no one recognizes it or worries. about this. At the end of the day, Ferris and Cameron attempt to roll back the car's odometer and somehow manage to completely total it, sending Cameron into an immense rage after which, he attempts to drown himself in Sloan's swimming pool, to be saved. by Ferris. Ferris has only moments to return home before his lie is exposed. He manages to get back into the time quirk while barely avoiding his parents and everyone is oblivious to his huge lie. In all of this, Ferris gets away with it and is praised for it, but there is one thing: engaging in all of these acts in an 8-10 hour period is not possible. Ferris Bueller's Day Off uses an impossible timeline in which a sol...... middle of paper ...... guards his house while racing his sister and meeting Rooney at the back door adds a bit of time. All of these times were accurate and rounded but were in Ferris' favor. Ferris' parents reportedly came home well before 7:15 p.m. and he was arrested. If Ferris wasn't arrested there, then maybe at the parade where he jumped on the float and no one asked who he was and no one recognized him. Her sister would have arrived much earlier than she did on her way to the police station, which doesn't take three hours considering she leaves school around 2:30 p.m., actually her own things before returning home and finds Rooney inside. the house then goes to the station at 4 p.m. Ferris's most famous quote is: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around every once in a while, you might miss it. In this case, time passed a little too quickly.