Is the hero’s journey ethical? by Koh, Jia Ling.

“…In this essay, ethics does not concern itself with power or knowledge or even morality; rather, it is ethics as defined by Emmanuel Levinas to be the first principle of being—to be responsible for the Other that is not myself. …”
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The holocaust and interlocution between continuous and discontinuous history/time : cinematic responsibility after 9/11. by Goh, Wee Kiat.

“…Films like Mark Herman’s The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2008) and Stephen Daldry’s The Reader (2008), with their unresolved conclusions, disallow viewers to gain closure. According to Emmanuel Levinas, this lack of closure causes the viewer to keep revisiting and bearing responsibility to the film, though it is a thing of the past. …”
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Cinematic responsibility after 9/11. by Goh, Wee Kiat.

“…Films like Mark Herman’s The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2008) and Stephen Daldry’s The Reader (2008), with their unresolved conclusions, fail to allow viewers to gain a catharsis. According to Emmanuel Levinas’ concept of displacement of time, the film ends, becomes a thing of the past, the failure of catharsis causes the viewer to return to it, to keep bearing responsibility to the film, while moving to the future. …”
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