It's easy to assume that movies from different eras and different genres would have different meanings and techniques, but after watching multiple films across all categories, it's suprising the amount of similarites these films share to reveal a deeper meaning about individuals seeking escape. In film, directors and writers often use objects or ideas to symbolize a desire of starting over. Movies like Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Wendy and Lucy (2008) implement symbols that transport individuals, whereas films like Lost In America (1985), The Fugitive Kind (1960), and The Passenger (1975) contain symbolic ideas, thoughts, and objects to represent certain desires. These ideas represent common themes relevant in movie that discuss "how humans experience life on a deeper level." Symbolic images help us to understand abstract concepts that cannot always be translated into words.
This is a common characteristic in films exploring characters seeking escape. A symbolic object contradicts the character's plan to escape; these things become chains. The use of symbolism in film is dependent on how the writer and director implement an object into a scene. Characters are not confined by symbolic object in Saturday Night Fever and Wendy & Lucy, but rather increasingly motivated by them to begin a new life. In Lost In America, there isn't a physical object but the idea of one. This is in contrast to the bridge and trains discussed above because those objects clearly stand out among spoken words, which aid in the importance of classifying escape in film. The audience can see modes of transportation and infer this means escape, but it is not so obvious when films represent a larger idea in a smaller medium.
THE PASSENGER is of crucial significance. On one level, it helps make sense of Nicholson’s desire to cease being David Locke, to adopt a new identity, to escape the tyranny of the co-ordinates of his present existence, to re-open his life to new experiences. This represents a direct relationship to films like Saturday Night Fever, Wendy and Lucy, The Fugitive Kind, and Lost In America. All these characters seek escape in hopes to achieve new experiences that make life meaningful. Although directors and writers have different ways of revealing this theme, it is evident that films can be similar through their use of technical skill.
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