...Friendly, filled him with guilt because he was involved in the murder. Later in the film, Terry met the murdered man’s church-girl sister, Edie Doyle, and they began a relationship. She tried to convince him to work against his mob. However, Terry only turned against the mob after Johnny Friendly ordered the gang to kill his brother, Charley. Soon Terry testified publicly and became an outsider on the docks, but in the end, he achieved victory over Johnny Friendly after beating him in a dramatic fight on the docks. Before Terry made a name for himself, his egocentrism held him back. Because of his egocentrism, his arguments were unsound and it got him nowhere. His arguments flawed compared to the other characters in the film such as Edie Doyle. Edie’s arguments were sound. Her arguments were effective because during the film she found a way to persuade her father to let her stay in New York. So as a result, in On the Waterfront, Edie Doyle’s arguments regarding the murder case are sound, but Terry’s are flawed. One of Edie’s sound arguments was presented in the scene where she was with her father in their apartment. When Edie arrived back home, her father was packing her suitcase and preparing her trip back to St. Anne where her college was located. During the scene, her father talked about the sacrifices he had made for her so could have a good education and get a decent career. In response to her father’s argument, she says: I don't want you to think I'm not grateful for...
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...portrayed in J.C Burke’s novel ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ and in Kate Wood’s film ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ In ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ J.C Burke expresses the challenges or obstacles that one faces when undergoing a transition through Tom’s first person narration, as feelings of guilt and denial can obstruct an individual’s ability to manage new phases of life. The Brennan family was forced...
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...SOC215 November 14, 2013 Film Response to Smoke Signals The film Smoke Signals is about two young Native American men, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who venture off their reservation in Idaho to go to Phoenix, Arizona to pick up the ashes of Victor’s dead father. The film opens with a house fire on the Fourth of July, 1976. Infant Thomas is saved from the fire by Victor’s father, Arnold, but is also left parentless when his parents aren’t so lucky. Twelve years later, Victor’s drunk and abusive father abandons his family and leaves the reservation. Twenty years later, Victor learns of his father’s death and decides that he should go retrieve his father’s ashes in Phoenix. Knowing that Victor does not have the funds needed for the trip, Thomas offers to pay for it as long as he can come along. After arriving in Phoenix, Victor learns of one of his father’s secrets. He learns that it was his father that accidently started the fire that killed both of Thomas’ parents and that is was that guilt that resulted in much of his father’s drinking and him leaving the reservation and his family. Both men come home with a better understanding of their pasts and Victor is finally able to come to terms with his father’s mistakes and absence. One of the first lines is a great example of an illusion in this film. During Thomas’ voice-over during the house fire he says, “A fire rose up like General George Armstrong Custer and swallowed up my mother and father.” The writers are referring...
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...“Doubt” measures up to the definition. It provokes questions on morality without allowing the viewer to be entirely sure of what is exactly going on. It makes you wonder if you should empathize with the characters and their hopelessness to find truth and certainty, or if there is a completely different story beyond what the viewer sees. This inquisitive story hinges on suspicions of a kindhearted priest, Father Flynn, fostered by a stern nun, Sister Aloysius, who serves as principal of a catholic elementary school in the Bronx. Trouble begins to stir as Sister Aloysius accepts Donald Miller, their first black male student. The film revolves around two main characters, Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius, as well as supporting characters, Sister James. Sister Aloysius, principal of the St. Nicholas school, is a rational nun who is more devoted to discipline and stability, than her faith. Father Flynn, a compassionate priest, is plagued with guilt and doubt within his personal life. Sister James, a young first year eighth grade teacher, is always hopeful and innocent. The film takes place during the social transitional time of 1964, just one year following the death of President John F. Kennedy. During this time period, there were a lot of social and political changes occurring. One major change that occurs is the highly controversial Civil Rights Act, whose goal was to end all forms of discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. There was also much controversy...
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...Where images are seen as too sickening to watch they serve to open the audience’s eyes into a more direct sense of agony. The film begins with the image centralized in a beautiful brown horse then switching visuals to a pregnant woman. This horse symbolizes freedom and high energy as you would expect in a horse making the viewer believe that the world was meant to be in a perfect world or a utopia. Now the pregnant woman represents a picture that is full of life where people are supposed to be cheerful and raise a family. However, the visual is quickly referred to a man being shot and killed to death. Ironically, these two juxtaposing images show somebody giving life, then someone taking away a life. By having these two contrasting images indicate that this society isn’t fortunate enough to live in a world where everyone is joyful. Life cannot exist where it is taken away so quickly without...
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...Film Review: Hamlet (2009) Gregory Doran I had not expected to laugh at Hamlet, as much as I did at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2009 production of Hamlet. Director, Gregory Doran, does the play an informative justice and favourable effort at guiding the perspective of the audience into focus of certain character’s monologue. This, along with the strings of time being interwoven with the set designs and costumes, adds many more layers than other works by the Royal Shakespeare Company. With these layers and additions, Gregory Doran creates an emphatic and enthusiastic version of Hamlet that, although most modern, can be viewed as the most popular of the few. It had been unusual to me to see such stars as David Tennant and Patrick Stewart bolstering as their respective Hamlet and Claudius. To start, Tennant I found to be the utmost enrapturing version of Hamlet I had witnessed. Tennant uses his limber body to express his emotional responses in every frame he exists within. In (Hamlet, 1.2.4) before and after he discovers news of his Father’s Ghost, Tennant expresses rage, sadness, excitement and doubt, within a few minutes of dialogue. It is here, where you the viewer, are first gazed upon by the nature of the actor, and the rawness you are intended to feel. I compare the eye contact to the effect of being a member of the audience in a stage play. It resembles the notion that a character that addresses outward from the stage, into the crowd, that said character is speaking...
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...The “Why We Fight” film by Jarecki talked about the American militarism by not only speaking about the causes of wars, but also all the behind scenes of the doings including video clips of the public responding to the big question; “Why does the United States fight?”. Jarecki incorporates not only the past debacles, but also the ones that affect us to this day; by doing this he creates a panoramic view of the development of a three-legged complex that began after WWII. He begins with the infamous 1961 farewell speech that Eisenhower gave warning us against the development of the “military-industrial complex”, by doing this he creates the base of his argument and an image of the connections between the people involved in our forces. Jarecki...
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...Aar-Paar is a 1954 Bollywood film by Guru Dutt. I would categorize this film mainly as a Romantic genre because the main plot surrounds Kaalu trying to attain the love of Nikki and gaining the acceptance from her father to marry her. There are various subgenres and themes found throughout the film. One subgenre would be the dichotomy between the rich and the poor as Nikki’s father refuses to accept Kaalu because he is poor. Furthermore, this film also presents the theme of ‘Good versus Evil’ as Kaalu tries to escape the smuggling activities of the Captain. Consequently there are few elements of an action film such as a car race near the end of the movie. Thus, I would classify Aar-Paar as a Romantic film with Action as a subgenre and consisting of underlying themes such as ‘Rich versus Poor’ and ‘Good versus Evil’. Moreover, these genres and themes can be portrayed through the archetypes, stereotypes and songs throughout the film. The three songs that I will analyze from Aar-Paar are “Babuji Dheere Chalna”, “Sun Sun Sun Sun Zaalima”, and “Ja Ja Ja Ja Bewafa”. In observing the various genres and themes within this film, there are many archetypes and stereotypes. Nikki’s father, Laaji, represents the archetype of a ‘despotic’ father as he bans Kaalu from meeting Nikki. However, he eventually gives-in at the end and accepts Kaalu. On the other hand, Kaalu represents the archetype of a ‘Noble’ hero. He has certain goals in the film such as winning the heroine’s heart and achieving...
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...Text Response Practice –On the water front ‘Terry Malloy’s redemption lies in his willingness to sacrifice personal security to facilitate the long term security of a community.’ Discuss this statement On the Waterfront demonstrates that it is possible for a man to redeem himself through personal sacrifice to atone for his sins. In his 1954 film Elia Kazan creates a character in Terry whose initial motivation is personal and family based, and it is only near the end of the film that Terry becomes aware that he can be a hero for the longshoremen and the entire community. He must grow and develop as a hero of almost mythic stature before the audience, so that they are attracted in the outcome of his struggles. Terry Malloy is guilty of treachery as he lured the unsuspecting Joey Doyle on to the rooftop where he was murdered by Johnny Friendly’s thugs. Terry was an unwitting accomplice, believing naively that the men were just going to ‘rough him up’. It is evident from early in the film that Terry feels guilt for his involvement and is becoming increasingly uncomfortable with his relationship with Friendly. It is Edie Doyle who seems to best illustrate the concept of placing the wellbeing of others before her own personal security. She ventures into the harsh male domain of the docks, inspires Father Barry to organize a clandestine meeting in the church and makes herself vulnerable as the only woman who attends that meeting. She is ferocious in her pursuit...
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...“ The universe depends on everything fitting just right.” (Hushpuppy from Beasts in the Southern WIld). This quote represents the theme and connection of the film, “ Beasts in the Southern Wild, “ with the novel, “ Their Eyes Were Watching God. In both, the protagonist go through tough experiences and have a strong connection with nature. The movie, “ Beasts in the Southern Wild,” released in 2012 directed by Benh Zeitlin is about a young girl named Hushpuppy who lives in a peculiar isolated area which they call the “Bathtub.” Hushpuppy lives with her crazy, sick father which is her only parent figure in the film, and with a community full of brave and wild people. In the film, Hushpuppy and her community face a storm which ends up exposing...
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...Inherit the Wind is an excellent film created after the play of the same name based on the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. While based on an actual court case and displaying identical ideas throughout the film, Inherit the Wind is a completely fictional story. It begins with a school teacher named Bert Cates, having been arrested for teaching evolution to his sophomore science class. Bert was not at all sorry for defying the law prohibiting that sort of teaching. He was standing by his idea that any man should have the right to think what they want, and never actually dispelling any ideas of Christian creation or claiming evolution to be fact, but theory. Then Rachel Brown, Bert’s girlfriend and the daughter of Reverend Brown visits Bert in jail. Rachel is greatly conflicted between the opposing beliefs of her boyfriend and her father, who happens to be a known spiritual leader in the town of Hillsboro where the story takes place. Rachel knew her father never favored Bert and once he hears about the teacher filling students’ ears with what he considers “Atheistic filth”, she would be torn between supporting either of the men she loved. Rachel preemptively tried to convince Bert to plead guilty to no avail. Soon after, to Bert’s surprise, word gets around that Matthew Harrison Brady, three-time presidential candidate, and leader of the crusade against evolution, has volunteered to be the prosecuting attorney against him. Here the film starts to paint a picture of the ensuing...
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... The scholarly literature has shown that Black men academically underperform all groups throughout the educational pipeline (Hood, 1992; Jackson, 2003; Polite, 1994; Watson & Hodges, 1991). Jameson (1991) explains that film can be a useful vehicle for unveiling harsh realities about the lived experiences of sundry people. In Boyz N The Hood (1991), John Singleton offers an alarming account of the survived experiences of Black people, particularly Black men, in a poverty-ravaged South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. At the center of the film’s narrative is the relationship and interactions between three young Black males: Tre Styles, Darrin “Doughboy” Baker, and Ricky Baker. The audience sees how racism, indifference, rampant violence, and the increasing disintegration of the Black family in South Central Los Angeles militate against the coming of age of these three Black males. As a contribution to the scholarly discourse on Boyz N The Hood, this paper provides an examination of how structural dimensions of the setting in which the film is set (South Central Los Angeles) have a damaging impact on the progression of these Black males. The structural frame championed by Bolman and Deal (2008) serves as the dominant lens through which this film is analyzed. John Singleton's movie Boyz N The Hood is the story of three young men who are forced to deal with the reality of life in South Central, Los Angeles. Singleton uses this setting to illustrate the obstacles facing...
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... When attention is given, it is aggressive and rejecting. Obviously, uninvolved parenting is not an ideal parenting style. Teens can have many psychological problems including exhibiting criminal behavior, emotionally withdrawn, and use recreational and prescription drugs. Adolescents that are raised in this style can have many issues such as poor peer interactions, low self-esteem, and self-regulation. (Cherry, 2014) John Bender and Allison Reynolds parents portray the neglectful parenting style. In the film, John explains in a play-type manner, his normal interactions with his father. It depicts their aggression towards each other. When his parents show him attention, they are either hostile or insulting. His father could also represent an authoritarian style. When he punishes John, it is harsh and severe. Allison’s parents are the epitome of neglectful parents. When she is dropped off at the school, her mom/dad just left without saying a word to her. She states in the film that they ignore her. She doesn’t talk about her parents much, but from that one statement, it says it all. Her parents are either wrapped in themselves or just simply gave up parenting...
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...Carroll’s story to the silver screen in 1951 in its animated film Alice in Wonderland. With its expertise in animation Disney was able to take Carroll’s narrative to the level of the fantastic that the author had envisioned when composing Alice. Within the confines of the scene between Alice and the Caterpillar, Disney did much to keep close to the text and images of the interaction inside the book. Although the outline of the caterpillar scene is in line with Carroll’s...
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...Film review - ‘The Savages’ (Director: Tamara Jenkins, 2007) ‘The Savages’ tells the story of two middle-aged siblings, Wendy and John, estranged from their father Lenny for many years, who are suddenly faced with his physical and cognitive decline in older age. The film explores the different responses of the two siblings to this enforced caring relationship in light of the revelations about their father’s abusive relationship to them both as children. ‘The Savages’ opens in a retirement village in Sun City, Arizona, where Lenny Savage, is living with his partner Doris, who is assisted by Eduardo, in her with her daily living. When Lenny fails to flush the toilet after Eduardo asks him to do so, and writes insults on the wall with his faeces, concerns are aroused. Doris dies and her family call Wendy, to inform her of the crisis. John and Wendy are engrossed in their own lives on the east coast of the USA where John is a professor of drama and Wendy a playwright whose finances are somewhat precarious. Neither have settled relationships and both seem to struggle with a life outside of their work. As they meet in Arizona to visit Lenny, they learn that he has no legal right to live in his Doris’ home and in addition to the faecal smearing there have been fainting episodes,resulting in his hospitalisation for tests. John and Wendy visit Lenny and find him restrained in bed because he was attempting to pull out his intravenous drip and to get up from bed despite being unsteady...
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