Catharsis In Movies

Catharsis in movies.

I bet most of you know this man (picture). Exactly, this is a 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen from the animated movie “Up” by Pixar. In the film, Carl travels to Paradise Falls, which is a large waterfall located in Venezuela. (Picture). The most fascinating thing about this journey is that Carl isn‘t simply buying a train or plane ticket but instead he travels to his dream destination in his home equipped with thousands of balloons. This is an original, boundary-pushing story that can deeply affect all of us, both kids and adults. I am going to show you a short extract from the movie where we can see Carl's and his wife's Ellie's life is passing by throughout the years. (Video). This scene can give us feelings from fear to love, from happiness to sadness. All of those feelings mix up in our heads and make us feel kind of lost. This happens because the scene is leading us to the inevitable truth – we all will have to deal with the loss of our loved ones at some point in life. Although our consciousness might not understand this message, our subconsciousness takes that message very seriously. This separation between our consciousness and subconsciousness makes us experience catharsis or purification in simpler words.