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Field Of Dreams Thesis

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Field of Dreams (1989) directed by Phil Alden Robinson is a glaringly idyllic rendition of the arguably overtaxed idiom "follow your heart." While deeper themes such as faith, fate, and national mythology were overarching constants in the narrative, such concepts were easily overshadowed by the consistent attempt to appeal specifically to the film's rather narrow target audience. Besides this, Field of Dreams may have accomplished nothing beyond eliciting the fleeting goosebump and momentary bout of glee from the lay viewer who exists only on the uttermost peripheral of the American pastime, or those who are hardly familiar with the history of baseball required to truly appreciate the exclusive sentimentality the film set out to evoke. As foolhardy as its fantastic subject matter would seem in introspection grounded in realistically mundane circumstances, Field of Dreams explores the possibility of whimsical, even childish notions overcoming sensibilities required of an adult, rewarding the viewer's suspensions of disbelief with fantastical, feel-good abrogations of consequence. …show more content…

P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, the film's exposition prioritizes on establishing an atmosphere in which the "hippie" counterculture of the 1960s and its contemporaneous ramifications were viewed in a largely positive lens, presenting protagonist Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, as a well-to-do individual despite specifically lambasting his formative years as ones spent smoking marijuana and neglecting school. Married to a daughter with fellow ex-hippie Annie, the Kinsella household resided on a mortgaged farm in Iowa. The narrative seeks to establish Costner's character as spontaneous, willing to go to lengths others would deem no less than leaps of blind faith, as made easily evident by the Kinsellas' impulsive undertaking of farming despite knowing nothing about the

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