Film Field of Dreams Executive Review: The Movie Review

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Executive review: The objective of this paper is to provide an in-depth analysis of the film 'Field of Dreams' [1989], taking into consideration such intrinsic aspects of the film as the plot; characterizations; contextualization and storyline; moods and particularly evident ideological perspectives.

The plot within Field of Dreams begins to take shape when, due to instruction given unto him by a mysterious, heavenly voice one day, Ray Kinsella [Costner], a struggling Iowa farmer, begins to turn one of his cornfields [virtually the exclusive source of his income] into a baseball diamond. The characters he meets and the experiences he subsequently has, the eventual result of his accomplishment (s) and the ultimately reconciling and redeeming conclusion collectively converge to make for a movie that, in spite of having various fictional and illogical inclinations, depicts a pot that is fundamentally logical moralistic.

The film, directed by Phil Alden Robinson and released in 1989 [and with Kevin Costner [playing Ray Kinsella], Amy Madigan [playing Anni Kinsella] and Ray Liotta [playing Shoeless Joe Jackson] in lead roles] revolves around a plot that, in spite of having uncharacteristically simplistic tenets, happens to come forth in as much as a rather touching movie that draws the emotionally draws viewer (s) into the particularly respective characterization (s) of various sentiments.

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Primarily focusing upon baseball as ideological firmament for the plot, the movie depicts a message that is far more intricate than the apparent straightforwardness that is evident within the introductory scenes, especially when Kinsella [Costner], begins to hear the strangely overpowering estranged voice asserting that 'If you build it, he will come'. The most forthright perspective that typically springs forth as a result of this message is that of a farmer who might be being granted heavenly salvation from his financial woes.

The conspicuousness of calm assertion, moreover, when Kinsella recounts the incident to his wife [Anni Kinsella: If you build what, who will come? Kevin Costner (Ray Kinsella): He didn't say] further builds upon the possibility of this being a movie built upon religiously constructed preconceptions. It is only after Kinsella has a vision of baseball field and realizes that he is meant to build a baseball field, that the ideological depth of the plot is partially unveiled, and this building of expectation [within the viewer (s)] tends to be one of the stronger points of the movie.

The subsequently recurrent appearance of the apparition of Shoeless Joe Jackson [a legendary, long-dead baseball player played by….....

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