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The focal imaginative journey involves Lester Burnham, a middle aged man experiencing a mid life crisis. ...
Lester’s imaginative journey first starts when he is at the local high school watching a basketball game. ...
Another imaginative journey can also be seen when Lester is journeying back to his younger life, as an adolescent, when he was free of stress. ... Visual codes that show Lester journeying back to his younger life are visible during the scene where he starts working out. ... For these scenes exotic, experimental music that includes the use of gongs, drums, power tool sounds, and animal cries are used to express feelings of forbidden desire and voracity. ... Each family is portrayed as normal but as the films tag line suggests “look closer” then it is possible to fully understand the implications that takes place in each seemingly happy home. A journey that all the major characters go on is to project a false image of themselves. ... Sam Mendes effectively uses the colour red as a central motif to accentuate mood and theme, to contrast families, and to reveal characters personalities and feelings. ... The various imaginative journeys that can be observed through the diverse visual and aural codes, in the course of the film, show that there is an intricate array of beauty, even in the most simple, inanimate objects in society.
Approximate Word count = 1088
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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