Media Term Thursday #25
/Explicit Meaning
The main idea and overall theme of the film – the obvious message being put across irrespective of any minor issues that might be implicit.
For example, the main idea is clearly stated in the first scene of The Notebook (2004) when the main character Noah, an old man, says in voice-over, “I am no one special…but I have succeeded…I have loved another with all my heart and soul and for me that has always been enough.”
Or at the end of Wizard of Oz (1939) when Dorothy returns to Kansas she says to her dog Toto, “There’s no place like home.”
