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This 4 page paper focuses on the film Men in Black but relates it to Plato's cave allegory. The fact that the film is based on a myth, and that there are similarities to the allegory, is carefully examined. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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are repeated over and over again. Everything has been done before. For example, there is the tragic hero who comes from an old classic works from Ancient Greece and then
there are tragic heroes in todays films. Along those lines, one may take the film Men in Black and align that with Platos famous cave allegory. In the allegory, humans
are born and live in a cave, but they are chained and shackled. They can see light only in the distance. In some way one can compare this to how
humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans only having a slight knowledge of reality, one can take Platos
form theory a step further. People are born in ignorance but the body of knowledge that exists is there for the taking. Many humans understand this deep down, but
on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they cannot remember the eternal truths. They can only draw
on some knowledge and have some recollection, but it is enough to allow them to understand form. This was Platos contention. While humans cannot readily draw on the human collective
conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that explains why people can comprehend form. It explains everything from the reality
of intrinsic knowledge to deja vu. One can relate this to ordinary life where people go around and go about their business, only to achieve enlightenment in their forties. They
wonder how they could have been so naive and so wasteful of time and emotion in their younger years. Yet, there is a learning process. Similarly, the people who lived
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