The Maze Runner and the myth of the #Labyrinth

What if you woke up with a sudden loss of memory and you didn't even remember your name? Who were you then? And, what if you were given the possibility to start a new world? What role would you like to play in it? A doctor, a hunter, a cook, a leader? Or, perhaps , you would prefer to run. To run and save yourself from a destiny that seems unchangeable. So runs, Thomas, the main character from the movie "The maze runner". He runs giving hope to those that are hopeless and refusing to play just a simple role.

 

We, lovers of great movies, have recently dealt with a recurrent theme: the post-apocalyptic world or the dystopian future. This movie, based on James Dashner's best-selling novel, is a modern remake of the Greek myth of the labyrinth with an emphasis on the human nature. The labyrinth stays the same: big, cold, complicated, changing its shape every night, inaccessible to those that are not initiated. But the creature, the Minotaur, is a biomechanical one and it appears everywhere in the labyrinth.

For most of the characters this modern labyrinth becomes a test and it remains essentially a journey towards the human inner sanctuary where the self stands free.

Will Thomas find "Ariadne's thread"? Will he be able to escape the mythical labyrinth, like ancient Daedalus did?

Watch this thrilling movie and you’ll have the answers!