Schumacher said that he hoped the wish-fulfillment element of the story would give it broad appeal.
There are other wish-fulfillment elements.
But Mr. Kudelka doesn't have a strong conceptual or dramatic arc to substitute for the tamping down of the wish-fulfillment elements of the story.
There was nothing wrong with those other, often very pleasurable stories, in aggregate, although for a person like myself, who tends to like her finales like her men, without too much closure or wish fulfillment, the fan-service element made me twitch a few times.
With de Kooning, each painting has its own culmination — when its indeterminate elements reach fulfillment in a suddenly apprehended quality of the whole.
An element of fantasy fulfillment comes in part from the author's inversion of the demographic realities in the world she is depicting.
Our downtown trips of yesteryear may be easy to romanticize, but it's difficult to argue against the observation that today's hyper-efficient warehouse and fulfillment infrastructure is taking an element of community and togetherness out of The Holidays.
Leterrier said that he planned to show Bruce Banner's struggle with the monster within him, while Feige added the film would explore "that element of wish fulfillment, of overcoming an injustice or a bully and tapping into a strength that you didn't quite realize you had in yourself".
The element of wish fulfillment is embodied in the figure of Reacher himself.
What is measured as life satisfaction or quality of life might differ from what patients and people in general consider as authentic happiness or as lasting personal fulfillment, and from what may constitute elements of personal "well-being".
Crucially, a further element of long-termism is the fulfillment of environmental commitments.
