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But has it become too cliche to think of what unites us? Here we are, somewhere on the lifeline between birth and death. Where we are all subject to the whims of the same sky and plant our feet on the same earth. Where we fall in love and give birth and grow old and allow the cycle to begin again. Every story merely explores some question of what it means to be alive.
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“Beowulf,” “The Odyssey,” “Avatar: The Last Airbender” — what do these legendary works all have in common? That’s right, they follow Joseph Campbell’s good ol’ hero’s journey, or monomyth. Unless you are a comparative literature major, you may not have not given serious thought to this pattern since high school English class.
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“The Hero’s Journey” is one of Joseph Campbell’s most famous publications and pioneering concepts, an exploration into the foundations for all mythological storytelling. In his new film “Finding Joe,” Director Patrick Takaya Solomon manages to lazily and ineffectively explore the idea of the archetypal hero. Solomon presents the concept as
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