Joe Frady: A Symbol of the Times

Throughout the 1970's, there was an expanding subculture in the American society, which disapproved of the government and questioned their actual motivations. In the 1974 film The Parallax View, the audience was able to relate to the main protagonist Joe Frady and his struggles because they had similar thoughts and feelings which Frady personified towards the government. Frady symbolizes the sense of alienation, the feeling of powerlessness, and the evasiveness of the truth, which were growing sentiments within this society at that time.
Throughout the film, Frady becomes more and more s…