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the fisher kingmovie review

Jack, a cynical Manhattan disc jockey plunges into a suicidal depression when one of his outrageous comments inspires a crazed listener to shoot seven people in a Redemption comes in the form of a derelict, ex-history professor named Parry whose wife was one of those killed by the sniper. Parry heads a gang of loony homeless people in the search for what he believes to be the Holy Grail. Jack helps Parry in his quest and in the process finds what he had been looking for, too. Heros JourneyThe movies main two characters Jack and Parry go through the heros journey of departure, fulfillment, and return. Parry brought Jack in to his subconscious world of red knights and midget people, and freewill. The two men departed in to the real world in search of their identity and to save their sanity. Parrys fulfillment was when he was in the hospital after having been beat up. He went in to a non-responsive coma of sorrow. Jack, then went and stole the Holy grail that Parry had continuously asked him to retrieve and brought it to Parry which helped him concur the dark, pain and sorrow that lay with in him from the tragic death of his wife. He returned from his journey a new free spirited man.Parrys journey relates a lot to the myth The Briar Roses. Parry is in a deep sleep and can only be woken when the Holy Grail is retrieved and given to him. Kind of like how the sleeping beauty can only be woken from her sleep by a kiss. While in his deep sleep he is concurring his depressing and sorrow of the death of his wife. As did the sleeping beauty mature in to a women.Jacks journey takes the path of Peer Gyant with the theme of the lose of ones self. After the shooting, Jack blamed himself for the shooting and felt responsible for the death of the seven people. Jack no longer knew who he was, and what he stood for and that is how Parry helped him. Parry, lets Jack see the life he lead as a bum. As Peer Gyant was obsessed with sleeping with all wo...

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