So for my characters, I want the audience to follow them throughout the movie and get a feel for them. I would like if they had empathy for the trio( Allen, Tommy and the Monster). Whether they not exactly had the same experiences as these characters will have but I'm sure divorced parents and their kids will have a better understanding than those kids whose parents are still married. Allen is trying to patch things back up with his son Tommy who is having a difficult time dealing the seperation. If I wanted the two to come together again, what better way to have it with a monster in the forecoming. it might be a tad cliche, but to me I didn't care. Even though the audience might feel bad for the creature as he gets shot down, we really dont know his background at all. Why is he doing this? Was he a divorced child too? Or was he just plain hungry? But in the end as the father and son drive away in the distance, we go back to the lake where the beast has fallen in and zoom in closer. The water begins to ripple and splash and suddenly one of his arms appears and reachers to grasp onto the icy wreckage.