Talking about Mise-en-scene is also
talking about how a movie influences the audience. John Gibs (2002) stated on
his book Mise-en-scene: Film Style and Interpretaion when watching a
movie, the audience shown what the audience can see and how they invited to see
it. And it called as Mise-en-scene. However, to connect a whole part of film,
mise-en-scene has some elements. Those are setting, costume & make-up,
lighting, actor-act, and blocking,
In a movie entitled Road to
Perdition (2002), I would like to take Actor-act element. Michael Sullivan or
called as Mike as a main character of this film acts as a gangster who works
for John Rooney almost his whole life. John Rooney loves Mike more than he
loves his son, Conner. But, unfortunately, an incident makes the relationship
between them being deteriorated. A film about relationship, love, and revenge,
connect each other. Because this plot is flashback, I will describe how Mike’s
character is. He has some characteristic; those are brave, loyal, mature, and
slow. Thus, psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud is the best choice to
analyse Mike’s id and ego.
Md. Mahroof Hossain (2011) on his
journal Psychoanalytic Theory used in English Literature: A Decriptive Study
stated that psychoanalysis is one of the modern theories that used in English
literature. The relationship between literature and psychoanalysis are always
deployed by academic field of literary criticism or literary theory. Thereby,
this psychological literary approach then takes the
mental structure of the characters (id, ego, and superego) represented by Mike
in Road to Perdition (2002).
First, there is id. It operates at an unconscious level and focuses
solely on instinctual drives and desires. Freud divided two biological instincts into two parts, Eros and
Thanatos. When human have instinct to survive that drive them to engage
life-sustaining activities, it called as Eros. But, when human have instinct of death that drives destructive, aggressive, and violent behaviour, it called as Thanatos.
And Mike’s id is Eros, because he knows that he wanted for murder, he decide to
go far away bring his son, Michael Sullivan Jr.
Second, there is ego. According to Freud, ego mediates the demands of the id, superego,
and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id’s
desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain. Mike’s
problem solving is run to Perdition and protect both of him or his son from
some dangerous outside—precisely Harlen Maguire, a murderer as a journalist and
attacks from the other John’s gangsters.
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