In 2000 the M. Knight Shyamalan movie Unbreakable, movie-goers were introduced to something unique at that time, the origin story of the superhero and his villain. Unlike other origin stories of the time that focused on a superhero learning to use their powers, facing supervillains or world-ending threats, Unbreakable follows both hero and villain as they struggle to learn their place in society, who they truly are. David Dunn, the sole survivor of a train crash that killed 131 people, presumably the hero and Elijah Price the comic obsessed, cripple. Having led a life immersed in comic books, Elijah is convinced David is something extraordinary, devoting his time to helping David realize his potential, Elijah is unwittingly pushed into discovering his own identity. Was Elijah born destined to fulfill a predetermined role in society or was the role he ultimately fulfilled the result of the environment in which he lived? …show more content…
Meaning that regardless of the environment we are born into or the circumstances of our upbringing we are each born with specific ideas or philosophies that we will hold true throughout our life. For example, thoughts of racial superiority would not be a learned trait but rather thoughts that you were born with; one does not become a racist through their environment, rather they are born that way. The British philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, on the other hand, underlined the role of experience as being the source of behavioral development. Locke held that the human mind at birth is a complete, but receptive blank slate upon which experience imprints