Epic Cinematic Journey By Ann Hornaday

We learn from the journeys we take, through experience, not from the destination itself. This statement is supported by both Margaret Atwood’s fictional dystopian novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and Oliver Stone’s crime fiction film ‘Natural Born Killers’. Through the use of multiple techniques Atwood makes it clear that the protagonist Offred undertakes inner and imaginative journeys during the course of the novel and learns from them. Likewise, Stone uses an array of film techniques to convey both physical and inner journeys. Both texts are formed so they unfold gradually taking the viewers on a journey and it becomes evident that there is much to be learnt from journeys.

The tone is set quickly and effectively. With the book and the movie you “are not being invited into fictional believe and deaths, into the imagination, but into the absorbing reality of flesh and blood”. (McCabe 561).

Movies have the ability to transport people to different times and places and distract them from ordinary everyday reality. They allow for a range of emotions to be experienced. At their core, movies examine the human condition. There are plenty of deeper truths woven into screenplays and plenty of lessons to be learned, even when an individual is solely seeking entertainment.

The film takes a more elliptical, almost a poetical approach to the characters’ lives it shows on screen than the audience might have anticipated from a film of this sort. The whole aim for the editing of this film was to make the audience see the protagonists’ life from his point of view – they wanted the audience to be inside his head, seeing what he’s seeing, hearing what he’s hearing, etc.

Amazing special effects, containing brilliant car-chase and shootings scenes, zero-gravity atmosphere with fist fights and explosions, and cities that can be folded upright with just a thought. But its depiction of ethics, suspicion, logical uncertainty, and things-are-not what they-seem moments regardless how concrete and distinct or dreamy and obscure they really are, the film portrays the feeling and characteristics every audience member can relate to in a dream.

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Freedom of thought, alternate realities, memory, self-realization, the battle amongst the desires of an individual against the desires of an institution and the complications of attempting to alter the past are just a portion of the subjects investigated in this romantic sci-fi/thriller by Duncan Jones. Duncan Jones's emphasis on the subtle elements of the passenger communication going on around Jake Gyllenhaal's character indicates the significance that reiteration will play throughout the film.

The director seamlessly weaves five separate plot threads throughout the main story, all involving their own social repercussions and the consequent changes in the lives of all those caught up in the dilemmas they face. The film is filled with a rich

A place where cinema is considered a treasure. Throughout the film, most of the events have kept using film as a key pivot. Film was the cause of having a young boy finding joy, Film brought two people together for friendship and love, as well as abandonment. From beginning to end the cinema kept the plot going and motivated the characters with their lives and experience

By using symbolism as a stylistic feature Gus Van Sant and Denzel Washington are able to successfully present the idea of a personal journey to their intended audiences.

This real based true story film revives in our character some traits that we are sadly unable to explore with our current social environment. It is an environment where we lack honesty, braveness and decisiveness.

Leonard. P, a news reporter for ET 43 News described the reaction of preview screening audiences in 1999 as, “Well I don’t think anybody is gunna be walking away disappointed with this movie”. Audience members he interviewed praised the visual effects and the story; with one interviewee, saying it even “lived up to the originals”.

A film review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat start out by saying “A stirring film about losing your job and reclaiming your soul.”(1997). Though in their review there is no real opinion but they are able to relate what the characters in the film were going through to what many may be going through in their daily lives too.

This movie opened my eyes to a whole new world full of creativity and glamour; captivating me like the hook of a good book into a life in which I was born to be apart of.