Outlander story
Outlander is a 2008 science fiction-action film starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, and Ron Perlman, and written and directed by Howard McCain. Synopsis: A human-looking alien hero crashes his spaceship in Early Middle Ages Norway, and sets about to help a small community defend themselves from a fearsome alien creature. The plot is loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
20 total · 7 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with the death of one's entire family | major | The hero of the story Kainan recurringly struggled with the loss of his wife and young son to the Moorwens. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The story follows the humanoid alien Kainan as he crashes in Early Middle Ages Norway and helps a local community slay a fearsome alien creature. |
| father and daughter | major | The story explores the relationship between Freya and her father, King Rolhgar. |
| human vs. monster | major | It was up to Kainan and his party to dispatch the fearsome, grotesque, man-eating, alien creatures known as Moorwens. |
| life in medieval Europe | major | The viewer is shown a Hollywood view of what life might have been like in a Viking age Norwegian village. |
| monster | major | Fearsome, grotesque, alien creatures, known as Moorwens, were hunting people down and eating them. |
| romantic love | major | Freya became increasingly attracted to Kainan, and in the end they fell in love and became husband and wife. |
| beating one's self up | minor | Kainan blamed himself for failing to save his wife and young son from the Moorwens, even though there was nothing he could have realistically done to change their fate. |
| coping with the death of a friend | minor | Kainan pointedly grieved for his fallen comrade, Boromir. |
| father and son | minor | In a flashback scene, Kainan bid farewell to his young son, not knowing it would be the last time he say the boy alive. |