i guess if a film have magic and i do not need it to be fluid or seamless . it can skip background information and go too fast in some place and too slow in others and etc . magic in this film represent the scene in the library . there be many minor flaw in stanley and iris and yet they do not detract from the overall positive impact of watch people help each other in area of life that seem the most incomprehensible and the hard to fix . both character be smart . yet stanley can not understand enough to function because he can not read while he can not read because he have too much adventure in his childhood . iris and although well educate and hasn not have enough adventure and so can not understand how to move past the u turn her life take . in both their fault and strength and the character compliment each other . it may be a bit of a stretch to accept that an iris would wind up work year after year in a factory and or that a stanley never hide his illiteracy enough to work in construction or some other well pay job . and while these mystery be explain in the course of the story and their unfolding seem somewhat contrived . i assume no one take the time to rethink the script . even so and it a good moviejust imagine what de niro and fonda and plimpton would have do on screen if someone have .