The Moviegoer and Wise Blood

Dr. Talmage warned me in my sociology class to watch for similarities between The Moviegoer and the movie we watched in class recently, Wise Blood. Everything from the characters to the meaning of the story is very similar between the two. The most important similarity I saw betweean them both is the ideal of the malaise and people being put into "boxes." Bolling and Motes from Wise Blood always have people trying to them into these categories or roles in life, when both characters just don't belong. Bolling and Motes don't fit into society; they both embark on a sort of search in order to find themselves. Both stories even have a little bit of a lighthearted touch to it. The difference between the two is that Binx ends his search and finds a place for himself in the world. Motes on the other hand ends his search by finding peace for his life in death.

I posted on Lane's blog

-Susan Berner