Game Theory in Roger Michell’s Enduring Love

Abstract

Roger Michell’s movie Enduring Love is adapted from Ian McEwan’s novel of the same title. The character motivated and plot motivated mystery draws an interesting and unsettling portrayal of an urban English couple reestablishing their relationship in the aftermath of a disastrous event. This humorous, romantic and intensifying drama depicts variable study of character and a murky fictional tale about friendship, obsession and love. This research article is an attempt to study Roger Michell’s Enduring Love in perspective of game theory. This also explains the post modernity in Ian McEwans’s Enduring Love and the rationality in Roger Michell’s film. The postmodern idea of Enduring Love is that no kind of knowledge has a privileged access to reality and its explanation. It also explains the idea of Game Theory as a whole from different perspectives. Game Theory is one approach to helping one uncover the rules of complex social systems. It shows that complex social systems can be understood as a game, meaning they have rules. ‘Game Theory and Enduring Love’, game is being played by the main character Joe to deal with a stalker and to safeguard his love life.