joseph hillis miller

This research uses the theory of Joseph Hillis Miller, a contemporary theorist of narrative, to study several theories about the functions of the beginning in the cinematic narrative in the movie Passengers, made by Bahram Beizai. The questions of this research are as follows: firstly, with the centrality of the three functions that Miller provides for the narrative, how can the beginning be made in the film Passengers based on the views of the cinematic narration of Michael Tierno, Laura Schellhart, Charlie Moritz and Edward Forster analyzed? And secondly, the three functions of the narrative in the view of Joseph Hillis Miller, about the beginning in the narration of the film Passengers, can be explained in what detail? The aim of this research is to show how conflicting functions of narration in movies start their narrative and move them forward. The result of this article shows that the film Passengers reveals the critical function in opposition to the creative function of the narrative from Hillis Miller's point of view. That is, it opposes the dominant culture that regards death and the end as superior to life and continuation and guards this culture and insists on a culture based on the preservation of life to the extent that either all the movie characters and audience firmly believe in the authenticity of this alternative culture, which emphasizes the superior intrinsic aspect of life against the apparent inferior aspect of death.