Development of Humanity in Carl in Jim Carrey's Yes Man

Abstract

The present thesis explores the sense of humanism in Peyton Reed's film, Yes Man. The entire film demonetizes that the spirit of society survives on the sense of humanity. Reed has reflected this vision of humanism in the form of quest where friendship, mutual cooperation, knowledge and understanding are reflected. In Yes Man Reed rises ahead to the evolution of universal humanist culture to be enriched by the contribution of every great thinker of society which uplifts for the betterment and pragmatic sense of social interaction. In the film Carl, the protagonist who remains in thoughts of greed and selfishness attends the yes conference and ultimately realizes the extreme sense of eternal humanist by abandoning all the context of pure humanism. Yes Man views that one shouldn't be confined in materialistic gain which proves that sense of self sacrifice and indifference to the luxurious materialistic achievement only can help to attain the higher and noble realization of humanism. Besides, Reed claims that universal love and brotherhood, mutual cooperation and quest to wisdom lead to depth of humanitarian realization in the film.