What is the point of showing a movie where a guy, one of the biggest movie starts does everything wrong,
Anyways the point in showing a movie that starts like that IS CALLED THE BEGINNING OF THE CHARACTER ARC.
First the audience sees the world the character is in, its a baseline, and through conflict and rising action, we see the protagonist slowly overcome and change, till at the very end, the protagonists world is different from how it began. Resolution is Captain Whitaker decides to stop the lies and take some of the blame, and get clean. Fix himself, fix his relationship with his family.
Anyways, so in character arcs, its all about contrast and conflict, and resolution. Captain Whitaker's arc ended with him being a changed person.
Its quite clear how he got there and the plot rang true that addiction isn't something you fix in Act One. It's a disease.
So all those gratuitous scenes with drugs and alcohol, and Man VS Self and Man VS Society themes, drove the plot to the end of the arc.
So Captain Whitaker had to go through some lows, thats how drama works lol. The film's genre is Drama, or wasn't that clear to you?
Film 101 stuff
If your hair is on fire, you need to act like your hair is on fire. - Senator Nina Turner
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