A literature usually tells an extraordinary story, no matter through a book or a movie. It is not only a storyteller, but also “ideas about life” (Griffith, 2010), defined as “theme” in literary advice. Theme is one of the spirit of the literature, delivering writer’s message about life lesson to learn. In Abrahamson’s Room, the movie overthrows the stereotypes of people about “kidnapping” movie, focusing on how the characters fall victim to it and how brilliant is the police to tackle with the case. It starts from a five-year-old child’s perspective, showing his strong cohesion with his Ma. The movie does not put full emphasize on the days they spend in the room confined them, but to show how they adapt the world again after a long-term isolation,
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In McDonagh’s The Pillowman, Katurian and Michal’s parents are the flat characters. Both of them are solely presented through Katurian’s narration, by using different voices like imitating a boy’s voice (which in text is marked in the brackets) in order for audience to distinguish him from his mother. Although Katurian’s parents are not dynamic, they play the key role to show Katurian’s affection towards his brother Michal. As their parents torture Michal, it triggers Michal to write Katurian a paper slip about his childhood tragedy, saying “they have loved you and tortured me for seven straight years for no reason other than as an artistic experiment”. (McDonagh, 2003) Katurian eventually know the reason why there is always muffled scream burst out from the room next to him. Despite the biological relationship between him and his parent, Katurian’s desire to save his brother Michal from the torment generates his motive to kill his biological parents. Katurian’s murdering is considered not only as an illegal but also immoral act, but his love towards Michal still hatch him braveness to overstep the morality, as he thinks saving his brother is more important than to merely consider the morality. All of this is stemmed from the word
In McDonagh’s The Pillowman, Katurian and Michal’s parents are the flat characters. Both of them are solely presented through Katurian’s narration, by using different voices like imitating a boy’s voice (which in text is marked in the brackets) in order for audience to distinguish him from his mother. Although Katurian’s parents are not dynamic, they play the key role to show Katurian’s affection towards his brother Michal. As their parents torture Michal, it triggers Michal to write Katurian a paper slip about his childhood tragedy, saying “they have loved you and tortured me for seven straight years for no reason other than as an artistic experiment”. (McDonagh, 2003) Katurian eventually know the reason why there is always muffled scream burst out from the room next to him. Despite the biological relationship between him and his parent, Katurian’s desire to save his brother Michal from the torment generates his motive to kill his biological parents. Katurian’s murdering is considered not only as an illegal but also immoral act, but his love towards Michal still hatch him braveness to overstep the morality, as he thinks saving his brother is more important than to merely consider the morality. All of this is stemmed from the word