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To Create Catharsis and Empathy Today’s cinematic interpretation of catharsis can be translated as the feeling we feel after the resolution of the story and the protagonist’s overall journey.
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Logline: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career. Moment: Chris has spent the whole film struggling to achieve his dream of attaining a well-paying job so he can support him and his son — both of which are homeless. After his unpaid internship as a stockbroker ends, with slim chance...
Logline: Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other, a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics. Moment: Eric Liddell, the devout Christian, is the fastest man alive in 1924. During each of his runs, at the final leg, his head always goes back, pointed towards the skies. This is where he somehow becomes even faster than h...
Logline: Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame. Moment: Throughout the opening act of the film, and into the second as well, Rudy has been struggling to raise his grades to move from Junior College to the college of his drea...
Logline: A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher. Moment: Glen Holland, a musician that put his dreams of being a composer aside as he raised a family and taught music classes at a high school, took a job he didn’t want but learned to love. He continued to write his own symphony as he worked the day job. Year after ye...
Logline: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. Moment: After spending the entire movie witnessing the injustice of Andy's imprisonment, we finally see him receive the justice that he so deserved.
Logline: English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings. Moment: Keating has been fired from his teaching job due to the recent suicide of one of his students. The school puts and the student's parents put the blame on Keating's teachings and influence, forcing h...
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Logline: Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. Moment: After a young Carl meets Ellie, we see their marriage progress throughout the years, leading to the inevitable truth that we all will have to deal with at one time during our life — the loss o...
Logline: The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. Moment: We've learned that John is innocent of his crimes. Yet it can't be proven to the courts. His execution has to go through, despite the fact that the prison guards know that they are kill...
Logline: A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island. Moment: After years on the island, with only a volleyball — Wilson — keeping his sanity, Chuck constructs a boat and escapes the tidal pull of the island. While drifting through the ocean, all hope lost, Chuck awakens to realize th...
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Movie emotion is therefore quite safe and inconsequential but can still be unusually satisfying and pleasurable. I think of the movie emotions as modeling clay that can symbolize all sorts of human troubles. A major function of movies then is catharsis, a term I use more inclusively than usual. Throughout I use a pragmatist approach to film theory.
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Nietzsche, Tragedy, and the Theory of Catharsis. James I. Porter. 2016. Nietzsche’s view of catharsis has attracted some but not a great deal of attention. Part of the reason is that he rarely makes use of the term itself, whether in his Birth of Tragedy or elsewhere, and when he does he is rather dismissive, seemingly rejecting out of hand ...
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Dec 31, 2013 · Our results provide preliminary evidence for the therapeutic benefits of cinematic human drama through an altered conception of catharsis. Implications for using media to facilitate emotional ...
