Narrative Desire: Film Analysis

The Narrative Desire recognizing two classes of fictional desire: character desires and narrative desires. Currie defines character desires as the desires which an agent holds in connection to a specific character or group. Narrative desires are the desires which an agent holds in connection to a fiction 's larger story. In Narrative Desire, Gregory Currie argues that an agent who desires some X in the imagination may be slanted to desire for X in reality. This concept, however is not constrained to the imagination required to be a part of a film, a written work, or other forms of fiction. The agent regularly considers fictional desires as being both sound and tastefully refined and frequently views anecdotal desire as being undesirable in connection to the present reality. Along these lines, fictional desires may lead to harmful behaviour.
For example, in Harold and Maude movie, Harold and Maude are the main characters in the movie. Harold is a young fellow with an unusual mental interest with death and Maude is an old lady who is additionally keen on death however appreciates living and has carried on with her life without limitations. Through Maude 's impact, Harold loses his fixation on death and obliteration and grasps life driving his hearse over a precipice. Also, at the point when Harold …show more content…
Fiction may impact the desires which are held in connection to real individuals and occasions. As indicated by Currie, fiction may impact an agent’s desires concerning real individuals and occasions seeing that fiction, and make ideas accessible which were already distracting to the agent. Fiction clearly portrays situations which an agent has had desires about, but has not acted on and therefore specific situations evoke a pleasurable reaction and thus, causes the viewer to desire a situation which is appropriately like that