Midnight In Paris Themes

Most of us sometimes evoke nostalgic feelings from our past. Even if it is not a distant past, for instance, seniors who have about one year for graduating would miss the time when they just entered a university and some office workers would sometimes look back on their school days. Likewise, people often pine for the past, the time they think that they would feel happier than the present. Even so, are we going to be satisfied with our lives if we go back into the past that we hope to live? The movie Midnight in Paris answers to this question with this quotation. “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 …show more content…
In particular, there are three women characters – Inez, Adriana, and Gabriel – around Gil the protagonist of the film. Through the episodes and relationships between Gil and these three women, the movie is delivering its main point to the audiences. First of all, Gil Pender is the character who has nostalgia for the past, especially Paris in the 1920s as it is mentioned above. In the first scene of the movie, it is revealed that how much the past means to Gil with the conversation between Gil and Inez. In the lines, especially, that Inez says to Gil “You are in love with a fantasy” audiences could easily grasp that Gil is a dreamer and romantic and the past is the time that has a subtle allure to him. Furthermore, Gil’s these characteristics deepen since it is discovered by Inez’s lines that his first novel centers on a man working in a nostalgia shop where it sells some sorts of old dolls or radios. As the story develops, three women characters around Gil appear in the movie and each builds a relationship with Gil. By describing the episodes and relationships between Gil and these women, the main theme of the movie is suggested to …show more content…
The interesting material that people could manage time travel to the past from their present, plot which unfolds with the internal conflict of the lead character, vivid and various characters and the beautiful sceneries of Paris are all together composing and creating the attractiveness of this movie in harmony with each element. With these factors, this film pleasantly conveys the message that people should live their present rather than stay in the past by capturing this with the beautiful city