The Big Lebowski

Dopey Innocence

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Dopey Innocence

The Big Lebowski is a contemporary attempt to highlight the lives of ordinary people with high aspirations who eventually encounter complex situations along their way to achieving what

they wanted most . The movie does this mainly through the life of Jeffrey Lebowski as well as through the other characters . With the addition of several flights of fantasy the movie is able to set the parameters of the movie within the context of human relations where ordinary people with high aspirations can connect and relate themselves

At the onset of the movie , the character of the Dude ' is already portrayed as the individual who has fantasies of his own , most of which if not all , are barely attainable . He is mistaken as a rich man despite of his unemployed status . There is also one part in the movie where the Dude ' dreams after he drank the `drugged ' drink given by Treehorn . Apparently , the movie gives emphasis to the scenes that portray the realities faced by the Dude . However , these realities were portrayed with the combination of seemingly unreal situations such as the instance where the Dude ' is able to survive the dangers of being caught up in a kidnapping incident despite of being powerless in many ways

More importantly , the movie tells us that the lesson in life that no huge difficulty can be surmounted even by the least-advantaged person in the world . The parts where the movie detaches itself from the mundane such as the dream scenes and the flights of the imagination are precisely the parts which give more vividness and life to the whole movie . The absence of these seemingly exaggerated scenes will most likely undermine the core lessons behind the film and make the story as a whole another one of those movies whose only worth rests on filling-up the empty spaces of shelves

Instead of rotting away at the point of common sense and ease of prediction , the relations of the characters all point us to the fact that even from such a mirthful movie one can find story plots that twist right where you least expect it . The kidnapping theme essential to the movie carries this point across without much effort of spelling things out for the audience . In fact , the movie appears simple enough that the complexities behind it surface just at the fitting moment

Marjorie Baumgarten in her review of The Big Lebowski notes that the movie is paved with delightfully irregular and anticipated bits of business ' which clears the point that the movie departs from the structure of most movies in more recent times . She also maintains that the movie deliberately parades itself...