Love Conquers All Trap in the film, The Wrestler - 1624 Words

The film The Wrestler takes advantage of society’s deep-rooted beliefs of domesticity. It teases and plays with one’s heart until the very end when the master narrative is surprisingly overthrown. Through its cinematic realism and clever marriage of typical plot structure and unconventional resolution, The Wrestler creatively rejects this master narrative of domesticity. The master narrative is a compelling force that dictates audience’s expectations of stories. Master narratives are steeped in culture and are ingrained into one from a young age. Audiences unwittingly accept the master narrative as how things ought to be. When reading a story or watching a film, the master narrative can be so strong that audiences sometimes cannot accept or are shocked by a narrative that diverts from it. One such master narrative is society’s attitude toward domesticity. Preconceived notions of domesticity guide one through a story. This can easily be seen in contemporary literature and film. One expects the â€Å"boy meets girl† and â€Å"they lived happily ever after† stories. One hopes for the characters to fall in love, get married, and have 2.4 children, because that is how things should be. That is what will make the characters happy no matter what obstacles they encounter. Audiences fall into the â€Å"Love Conquers All† trap. It is no surprise that many stories present conventional forms of domesticity. It is derived from American heritage and religion. Take for example the Puritans. TheyShow MoreRelatedLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 PagesCopyright  © 2011-14 by Bradley H. Dowden This book Logical Reasoning by Bradley H. Dowden is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. That is, you are free to share, copy, distribute, store, and transmit all or any part of the work under the following conditions: (1) Attribution You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author, namely by citing his name, the book title, and the relevant page numbers (but not in any way that suggests that