The movie?s hero, Kevin Costner, plows under
The movie?s hero, Kevin Costner, plows under his Iowa cornfield to build a baseball field to ?ease? baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson?s ?pain.? It?s only in the last ten minutes of the film that the viewer discovers the pain to be eased is Kevin Costner?s own at being estranged from his father.
Ron Howard?s
A Beautiful Mind
offers another example. The viewer is first led to believe that the film?s hero, played by Russell Crowe makes friends with a college roommate and works as a top secret code breaker for the US government. The film later reveals that neither happened, except in the hero?s mind.
Perhaps Hollywood?s best purveyor of alternate perspectives is M. Night Shyamalan. In his thriller
Signs
, the movie-goer is led to believe that the ?signs? are crop circles created by aliens as navigation signals.
neon signs
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