Ahmad Young English 1101 Final: Film Analysis December 9, 2014 The Village The emotional thriller, The Village, is about an isolated town that bases their lives around the 19th century, Amish country. The village has highly secured borders and outside the borders “those we don’t speak of” live and it’s an unspoken truce that the other won’t cross the borders. But the town soon turns upside down when Lucious Hunt breaches the borders to find medicine after the death of Edwards’s son. The writers and producers of this movie express symbolism of the fear of the unknown, the loss of innocence, and through the use of colors. Unaware to their knowledge the townspeople are prisoners in their own community by their own fear, but there was never anything to actually fear. The elders use the idea of “those we don’t speak of” to keep everyone ‘in line’ and to make sure that everyone is doing what they want them to do. Because of crime and evil in the world, a group of individuals (the Elders) decided to create their own little …show more content…
In one of the scenes Lucious confesses his love to Ivy then scene then goes to a lone rocking chair not moving. When Noah finds out that Lucious plans to marry Ivy, overcome with intense emotions he repeatedly stabs Lucious. The rocking chair symbolizes the sadness after a lost or death (before and after Lucious gets stabbed, after the wedding ceremony when they find the animals, and when Mr. Walker finds out Ivy was blind). The moral of the movie is that people should cherish innocence and peace a lot more than they do, and that’s what the village was created to do. The elders did this in order to escape from the traumas that happened to them in the outside world. The downside to this is that no matter what kind of environment you put humans in, it’s their nature to be selfish and wicked. No matter how hard we try to change society, again and again
“The Intoucables” is a French comedy movie filmed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache in 2011. The plot of this film is based on a true story in between a wealthy disabled old man, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, and his caretaker Abdel Sellou (In the film, Abdel’s character is named as Driss). The story of Philippe and Driss is inspiring. As a student who is learning to be a qualified volunteer, I think there are several things that we can learn from the experience of these two men. Thus, in this paper, I am going to explore what abilities should a good volunteer have, referring to the process of Driss taking care of Philippe.
there is a deeper reason. One possibility is that the people of this village of
For example, the Boston marathon bombing and the Columbine shooting are events that led to the senseless killings of many. Due to the social pressure the assassins felt, innocent people were killed at random. Much like “The Lottery,” life is a gamble and each day proposes a new threat. There are humans in the world who are ruthless just like the villagers in the story. The villagers grew up familiar to this style of tradition, which controls the value placed on another’s life. The lifestyle we are accustomed to influences our beliefs just like the villager’s tradition influenced
exchanging greetings and bits of gossips. This scenario illustrates the inhabitants as friendly and kind to each other. However, the setting is also ironic, for it highlights the hypocrisy, brutality, and perhaps inherent evil of human nature of this town after centuries of supposed civilization.
It gives insight into the fact that they do this ritual because their ancestors believed that by sacrificing someone every year their crops would be plentiful. Some of the towns are thinking about stopping it and that’s why the old man says that they are fools because he thinks their crops won’t grow and they will have no food for their livestock or money from selling them. Most people in the town now probably don’t even know the saying anymore or don’t even believe in it, but they counting to kill people for that initial reason.
Traditions demonstrate a set of social norms that have been followed and adapted to for an elongated amount of time. In each of the plots, Medea, The Piano, and The Age of Innocence, the standard set by society was broken and the consequences imposed took form in varying degrees and shapes of violence. Whether it was outright murder as in Medea, or a more subtle but intense struggle as in The Age of Innocence, these consequences serve as the community's opinion of this breach of its expectations for its members.
From the beginning of the story the village is described in a dull and bland manner. The village was described to be made up of only twen...
The film, Out in the Night documents a 2006 case in which a group of young African American lesbians were accused of gang assault and attempted murder. The film portrays how unconscious bias, institutional discrimination and racism contributed to the convictions of seven African American lesbian women. Three of the women pleaded guilty to avoid going to trial, but four did not. Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, Venice Brown, and Terrain Dandridge maintained their innocence and each were charged with several years in prison. I cried through out the documentary because it dawned on me that it’s not safe for women, especially gay women of color. The four-minute incident occurred in Greenwich Village where Dwayne Buckle sexually and physically harassed
We crave the feeling of belonging but there isn’t just a negative side like the previous representation. There is a positive side - where you’re not alone and given time you will discover a place to belong. The film ’Chocolat’ explores the potential of the individual to enrich and challenge a group. In the village of Lasquenet the people ‘know their place’ and their traditions. However change begins when, Vianne and Anouk, the outsiders arrive at village in red cloaks against the grey landscape establishing them as a threat. This is represented by an aerial shot coming in from a distance to focus on the village.
Throughout the story, Jackson shows, with the use of symbolism and foreshadowing, that blindly following a tradition can have horrific consequences. All the objects connect with the ending. Since the villagers unquestionably accepted the tradition, they have allowed murder to become embedded in their town.
The village of West/East egg is full of people who are selfish, shallow and discontent with the lives they are living; this group represents the corruption that materialism can bring
To start, Shirley Jackson speaks about the importance of the black box and the relevance it has on the townspeople. The black box is seen as a symbol of fear and subserv...
Furthermore, understanding the fact of how the villagers in that village practiced and participated in such a barbaric ritual and archaic event were not accepted by people. In addition, people who read the story commented that the modest people of the Midwest are superstitious and backward. Here, Jackson conveyed successfully with her subtle writing style that something is about to happen. She also used a third person point of view when writing this short story. The third person point of view permitted the author to keep the outcome of the story an exposure. This therefore led to the reader to consider everything is well but actually there is something wrong somewhere. Furthermore, what could be seen from the story is people were different compared to present, there is a huge difference in cultural practices. Therefore the actions of the story go in the opposite direction of people’s opinion in the present in terms of value of life, violence and the development of respect in a family.
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
Literary elements are demonstrated throughout the story and further improve our understanding of the central idea. The setting is important to the central idea because it shows the reader the type of society being described in the story. The language is also important to the central idea because it contains metaphors which further prove that the people are afraid of going against tradition because they are scared of being the target of violence. The conflict contributes to the central idea as well, because there are many examples of the society going against character, Mrs. Hutchinson, for not respecting the traditions put in place. The central idea is important to our understanding of the story because it sums up the main objective and furthers our