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Joseph Campbell has spent his outstanding life finding and mapping out the myths from all over the world that seemed to be built from the same “elementary ideas.” Gradually, all there is, is one story being told and retold in all sorts of different languages, times, names, and costumes, all stories are the same, which he named “The hero’s Journey,” or the “monomyth.” Campbell had written a book called The hero with a thousand faces which gathered the themes behind countless hero stories into one universal structure.
There’s something inherently thrilling about watching the hero of an action movie defy the conventional rules which govern our mundane world. Whether it’s sliding down an elevator shaft, fighting a dozen men at once, or jumping off a cliff and grabbing onto a passing helicopter, we’re always ready to suspend our disbelief and live vicariously through these men of action. But our suspension of disbelief can only be stretched so far, and Transporter 2 stretches it way beyond the point of breaking.
