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The Twilight Zone: Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (1960)
Jackie Vs John
I love isolation stories. The kinds of stories where a character or characters are stuck in one place, leaving nothing but character development. That's why I love movies like Life of Pi, The lighthouse, and 12 Angry Men. It is the same here.
The episode has a creative premise, which, like a lot of Rod Serling scripts, dives deep into the human soul and what it means to be alive. John represents the virtuous side of us that is there. When we get older, we battle with this virtuous side for the sake of doing things and having the things we want. We think this "better" is holding us back, but really, it's slowly making us the people we are meant to be.
That is who John is and what Jackie needed to become.
It seems to happen to all of us. We grow up and mature. We have all been on both sides of the mirror, we just need to stay on the right side.