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Exploring How the Film Parallel Mothers Represents and Elicits Emotions in the Context of Thinking Theory
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Abstract
There are two types of theories for emotional elicits when watching movies: Seeing Theory, which is based on the plot or characters finding similar references in the real world, and Thinking Theory, which is based on direct empathy for the plot of a movie or additional emotions caused by external factors. Thinking Theory is used to analyze the parallel mothers of the film and to find the factors that lead to the audience’s emotions. The article presents a detailed analysis of the way emotions are evoked in three parts of the film: emotional stimulation, emotional imitation, and involuntary response, respectively, in order to focus on the influence of Central Imaging on emotions in Thinking Theory, which It includes an analysis of why emotional imitation is a non-conscious emotion reproduced through the facial or physical expressions of the characters in the film through mirror neuron theory, and an analysis of the impact of several sequences on emotion through the language of the camera, such as color and long shots. In addition to an analysis of the narrative and footage of the film itself, the essay will discuss the immediate and rapid moral emotions (primarily community ethics) generated from an external perspective and explore why viewers change their emotions about the people around them while watching the film, and why the film generates deeper emotions.
Keywords
emotions, moral emotions, thinking theory, mirror neuron theory
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Politics and Socio-Humanities (ICGPSH 2023)
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-113-1
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-114-8
- Published Date
- 20 November 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/12/20230051
- Copyright
- 20 November 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited