Men In Black Film Analysis

Men in Black "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself" was once said by Emerson, the father of transcendentalism. The movie, Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, shows transcendentalism. It shows this through the ideas that nature is beautiful, nonconformity, and intuition over reason. A major concept of transcendentalism is connecting with nature. Throughout the movie, multiple people say that the stars are beautiful including an agent in the beginning. These people notice nature and how pretty it is which shows that on some level they are connected with it. If they weren't connected, they would be able to ignore it like so many have and do. Later in the movie, the bug, who is the antagonist, gets angry when people try or do kill cockroaches. He feels personally attacked when people hurt a part of nature. He is connected so much so with nature that he feels the pain of nature. These connections with nature throughout the movie make it transcendentalism. Another concept of transcendentalism is nonconformity. Agent J shows up to the job interview wearing red. Red is used as a symbol of sticking out from everyone else . All of the other people there were wearing dark clothing which is typical for job interviews. J went against the norm and therefore did not conform. During the interview, J pulled over a table to …show more content…
When J hears about the galaxy being on Orin's belt, he sticks with this thought even when everyone else doubts him. The other agents were saying a galaxy is millions of stars so it can't be on three stars. Even though it goes against logic, J still sticks with his original thought. The lady that works at the morgue also chooses intuition over reason. She believed pretty quickly that aliens are real. Most people say that aliens are not real and are most definitely not on earth. She, however, believe her intuition that aliens are in fact on earth, going against societies