Inception and Arrival Movie Cinematic Ambiguity Essay
For the two movies you watched that do not focus on a hero’s journey, how does each movie use ambiguity to engage the audience, develop character or plot, and explore complex ideas. Are these movies effective in the way they challenge traditional expectations of cinematic storytelling?
The two movies are Inception(Christopher Nolan) and Arrival(Denis Villeneuve).
Basic directions for this essay:
Your essay should have a thesis statement that answers this prompt directly.
Your thesis statement should be the last sentences of your introductory paragraph.
Your introductory paragraph should contextualize the concept of ambiguity vs. traditional expectations of cinematic storytelling.
Your introductory paragraph should also contextualize both of the movies you watched for this assignment before delivering the thesis on them.
You should have at least four body paragraphs in the essay. Two body paragraph should focus on Movie A and two should focus on Movie B.
Each body paragraph should attempt to work in a quote from an outside source you found in your online research around interpretations of the movies.
The conclusion should restate the briefly and the return to the bigger pictures related to cinema, storytelling, and art. It should discuss real life extensions of this stuff.
The essay should use MLA format and include a Works Cited page that includes a citation for the film and other sources used.
The essay should likely come out somewhere between 1,200 – 1,500 words if you are writing enough for each of the paragraphs in the essay.
