Jealousy As A Theme In The Film 'Spellbound'

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The theme can be obvious but not when the story/film has more than one theme, when the theme is more complex than meets the eye, or when you overlook something from the story. Spellbound’s theme may seem clear, but there’s more than one. Rene’s jealousy of her sister’s success is the cause of the ink monster assassins so it seems evident that the theme of the film is about how jealousy causes trouble. However, Spellbound has more than one less-obvious theme topics like acceptance, truth, choices, and greed. More theme topics means more themes. All of this proves that Spellbound has both clear and less obvious themes. A theme can also be both obvious and not obvious when the theme is more profound than it seems. At the end of Spellbound, Rene

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