Reflection Of Midnight In Paris

Most of us sometimes evoke nostalgic feelings from our past. Even if it is not a distant past, for instance, a seniors who have about one year for graduating would miss the time when they just entered a university and some office workers would look back on their school days. Likewise, people pine for the past that the time they feel happier than the present. However, are we going to be satisfied with our lives than now if we go back into the past? The movie Midnight in Paris answers to this question with this quote. “If you stay here though, and this becomes your present, then pretty soon you will start imagining another time was really your… You know, was really the golden time. Yeah, that’s what the present is. It’s a little unsatisfying

But that does not mean that missing the past is negatively described in Midnight in Paris. In this movie feeling nostalgia and travelling the past are interpreted as the sort of driving force to make a new leap in the present’s life. In short, the pursuit of reality could be achieved by travelling a fantasy, the past in this movie. To begin with, in this movie, the plot mainly focuses on how Gil Pender, who is the main character of the movie, does time travel from the present to the 1920s and what he realizes through his journey. The plot of this film is primarily based on two conflicts that revolve around the lead character Gil. One is the external conflict between Gil who has a special allure of the past, especially Paris in 1920s and his materialistic fiancée Inez and the other is the Gil’s internal conflict caused during his time travel. While mysteriously being carried backwards to the past by chance, Gil is deeply absorbed in his life in 1920s and the conflict between him and Inez continually deepens as Gil starts to consider the past as his present and more focus on the past than his reality. At last, this conflict leads to the end of their

Paris, the city that makes everyone imagine some romantic ideas at least once in their lifetime is set for the basic background of the movie. In the first scene of the movie, by arranging a series of beautiful landscapes in Paris, it seems to invite the audiences to the city and make them fascinated by the beauty of Paris. In addition to this, the movie also explains the reason why Gil Pender always wants to stay in Paris in the 1920s to the audiences by simply showing the sceneries of Paris. In fact, most of the beautiful landscape of Paris shown in this movie is the scenery of 2010s and this seems to say to the audiences that you do not have to go back to the past since the present is fully beautiful enough. That is, by setting Paris, the city keeps its beauty regardless of time, as the main backgrounds of the movie, the movie continuously indicates its main