Explanatory Essay: Maze Runner

         It is impossible for humans in our current society to live in one specific place. People think it as oppressive and gloomy. They enjoy their life moving in, and traveling different areas. However, in movies, the setting of the world can be different. Maze Runner is an example of such a movie. The setting, maze, is a very important element of the whole movie because it guides viewers a general structure of the plot, and  is effectively related with the characters.

 

        The reason for the maze to be important in this movie is that it can guide  a general structure of the plot for the viewer. The base is a place where runners, who lost their memory, live in the movie. Blocking this base, there stands the maze, which is the path characters need to escape. The whole plot of this movie advances along this maze. The door for the outside world opens every morning, and closes every night. If they can't return back to their base and get lost in the maze, they are attacked by monsters inside. When viewers follow the steps the runners make to escape the maze, they can get a grasp on the plot of the story. In this way, the entire part of the movie closely relates to the maze which explains just the reason for its importance.

 

          Another reason for choosing this movie is that the movie characters show cooperation in order to escape the maze. In the movie, the characters each have their own special abilites. At first, the runners, who are sent by the mystrious group, Wicked, were all in the mode of combat. This resulted a lot of casualties. Finally as time passes, runners begin to feel the necessity of the ability of other runners. Their abilities as a whole could provide a key for escaping the maze. In other words, the maze in the movie plays an important role in binding the runners. This point literally shows how characters and places are correlated in the movie.

 

           Maze Runner could not have its uniqueness if not set in the maze. Through the maze, viewers can get a grasp of the plot, and movie characters are binded closely. While the setting and the plot is based on imaginary scenes, every human hopes for miracles and fantasies when they are exhausted in real life. This is the reason why people watch movies, films to forget their  common life and envy hero,heroines.