Shaun Mayberry
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Metaphors in movies part 2
Metaphors in films have been a huge part of cinema‘s success. In the film “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” based on the 80-90’s TV show construes a very strong metaphor regarding husbands and wives in the institution of marriage.
The movie begins by showing the viewer how these two, crazy, athletic and sexy characters meet and fall in love. Then the film flashes to six years later after the couple gets married and loses the fire and passion of their early relationship. The marital tension and the metaphors of the hardships of the men vs women relationship are easily seen in this film. The directors and the writers presented the idea by pairing two spouses with the idea of two assassins. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith have secret lives of being a trained killer for separate undercover agencies. The film creates a conflict between the two characters when both of their secret lives are revealed.
In one scene the couple is having a gun fight in the living room, where almost every marriage couple today is familiar with (metaphorically speaking). There has always been ad least one time in a relationship where the other has had an urge to kill their loved one. So the question is sprung, ‘Is the urge to kill your spouse, at some point, really that unusual?’
The film also ties in many battle scenes and gunfights, where even though the couple is on the same side (near the second half of the film), they are still arguing and disagreeing.
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