The Anthropomorphize Of Houses In Film

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The final artifact I have is the movie Insidious (2010). Without giving away to many spoilers, Josh and his family just recently moved to a new home, and one night his son Dalton is drawn to the atticsince he heard noises up there. He also becomes even more interested when the door pens by itself. He falls from the ladder while investigating, and sees figures in the shadow that terrify him. He then went to sleep that night and never woke up, effectively in a coma. After 3 months with no progress, Josh is allowed to take Dalton home, when supernatural activities begin to happen, and most of these "spirits" hide in the attic it seems like. Later in the movie, Josh finds out Dalton is trapped in "The Further", and that he must go save him. So, with the help of some friends, he is transported to the further, goes up into his attic, finds the demon that has been haunting his son, and finds his son chained to the door. After Josh saves his son, and leaves the further, as they …show more content…

This article is written by Kelli Johnson. In this article, she explains "The Anthropomorphize of Houses in Film", or the personifications of the house in a film. Essentially, she is trying to make another character in the house and essentially humanize the house. She begins to explain the attic in the following paragraph. Johnson is trying to say that the attic is the mind, the conscious of the house, where memories, ideas, and even fears are stored. This is why she also states that is a place where supernatural being like ghosts, spirits, and demons, because they are "fears" in our life, as they are part of the other, and we don't normally associate with anything supernatural in the first place. So, when the author personified the house as an actual character, and will STILL able to make this connection with all of the past authors I referenced and still be able to make pretty good sense of all of

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