Welcome To Cinemyth
Cinema as Modern Myth
I’m launching Cinemyth to explore the symbolic structures, archetypes, and ritual language hiding in plain sight—across the stories we love, and the ones we can’t quite explain.
Cinemyth isn’t a film theory.
It’s not a ranking system.
It’s not about deciding which movies matter more than others.
It’s not academic.
It’s not about “right” interpretations.
It’s not about why the latest Marvel movie doesn’t work.
(Though, let’s be honest…sometimes it might come up. 🤷♂️)
Cinemyth is a lens—one I’ve found myself coming back to over and over, especially when a film hits me on a level I can’t quite explain.
It’s that feeling when a movie stops behaving like entertainment and starts to feel like a story you already knew.
A moment where silence, music, timing, framing, or color carries more weight than dialogue. Where a character doesn’t arc—they endure.
It’s hard to explain what that feels like until you’ve felt it.
For me (and a lot of us), Star Wars—the original trilogy—was that first mythic hit. And it wasn’t just the special effects. It wasn’t the dialogue or the acting.
It was something else.
Something in the music, the structure, and the way the story felt inevitable.
The way it echoed a truth that we didn’t know we knew.
The Flags I’m Planting
Not all great films are mythic—and not all mythic stories are great. But when both line up, something almost spiritual happens.
The best stories don’t always give us character arcs. Sometimes they give us mythic constants—fixed points around which the world turns.
Genre doesn’t matter. Myth hides in westerns, rom-coms, detective shows, and sports movies alike.
This won’t be academic. It will be symbolic, entertaining, and hopefully enlightening.
You don’t need to agree with everything here—this is an exploration, a view through a particular lens.
I don’t have a fixed schedule—these essays take time. They live somewhere between film appreciation, film criticism and archetypal reflection. Some will come quickly. Others will arrive when they’re ready.
All content will be free. Always. But if the work resonates with you and you’d like to support it, paid subscriptions are open as a gesture of thanks.
Who Am I?
I’m not a critic. I’m not film school trained. I don’t pretend to be definitive. But I am serious about tracking how meaning works in cinema—not just on the surface, but in its bones.
I’m just someone who kept watching movies and eventually realized:
Some of them aren’t just stories.
They’re something deep, fundamental, and always resurfacing.
If that sounds like something you’ve felt too—then welcome to The Rock Cinemyth.
If this resonated or sparked something familiar consider subscribing to Cinemyth.
All essays are free, and each one explores the symbolic structure behind the stories we love.