People encounter reality in different ways, there are people who mistake the epistemic knowledge as their reality while there are others who dive further and investigate into the true reality. The prisoners in ‘Plato’s allegory of the cave’ and the police officers in ‘Changeling’ (Clint Eastwood, 2008) believed in the reality of epistemic knowledge, whereas Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) and the prisoner who left the cave tried to transmission their knowledge and refused to believe in the conventions forced upon them by the people around them. In this essay, I will explicate how the film ‘Changeling’ bears feature that are similar to ‘Plato’s allegory of the cave’. The implication of the fake reality on Christine Collins and the prisoner,
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He tries to believe in the reality in the cave once again but it is very difficult for him because deep in his mind the outside world seems more real to him than what he experienced in the cave. Likewise, Christine Collins in the movie, tried to make herself believe that the boy is her son by fulfilling her motherly duties with the child by making him food, providing for him everything that a mother does for her child but one day while giving this boy a bath she notices that he is circumcised and she measures him, this confirms her suspicions and makes her truly consider that what the police is trying to persuade her of is not the …show more content…
The prisoner who tried to enlighten his fellow prisoners about the truth and wanted to help them come out of their delusional world is in fact Christine Collins. She knew what was the true reality, she tried to make the police realize, that what they believe in is nothing but lies and illusions. But like the prisoners in the cave, the police laughed at her and they claimed that she’s a lair and unwise. Most people just like the police in the movie and the fellow prisoners in the Allegory of the cave, enjoy living their life in the traditional way of ignorance as they don’t like having their ideas of convention challenged by anyone and when someone like Christine Collins or the prisoner who went out of the cave deviates from these conventions to explore reality, they are rejected and looked down upon. Forcing false reality into the society does not benefit anyone, in the movie the police insisted that the boy they found is the son, they wasted time trying to make people believe in their reality instead they could have saved the boy and similarly in the allegory of the cave the prisoners could have experienced so much more and would have been freed from the cave only if they had faith in the prisoner who did experience the true reality of the
He tries to believe in the reality in the cave once again but it is very difficult for him because deep in his mind the outside world seems more real to him than what he experienced in the cave. Likewise, Christine Collins in the movie, tried to make herself believe that the boy is her son by fulfilling her motherly duties with the child by making him food, providing for him everything that a mother does for her child but one day while giving this boy a bath she notices that he is circumcised and she measures him, this confirms her suspicions and makes her truly consider that what the police is trying to persuade her of is not the …show more content…
The prisoner who tried to enlighten his fellow prisoners about the truth and wanted to help them come out of their delusional world is in fact Christine Collins. She knew what was the true reality, she tried to make the police realize, that what they believe in is nothing but lies and illusions. But like the prisoners in the cave, the police laughed at her and they claimed that she’s a lair and unwise. Most people just like the police in the movie and the fellow prisoners in the Allegory of the cave, enjoy living their life in the traditional way of ignorance as they don’t like having their ideas of convention challenged by anyone and when someone like Christine Collins or the prisoner who went out of the cave deviates from these conventions to explore reality, they are rejected and looked down upon. Forcing false reality into the society does not benefit anyone, in the movie the police insisted that the boy they found is the son, they wasted time trying to make people believe in their reality instead they could have saved the boy and similarly in the allegory of the cave the prisoners could have experienced so much more and would have been freed from the cave only if they had faith in the prisoner who did experience the true reality of the