35 Shots of Rum Lionel it is time to move on 35 Shots of Rum directed by Claire Denis taken in Paris, France 2008. This film on transitioning to a state of being beyond conception also, helping to realize that moving on a part of life. Lionel and Josephine are father and daughter that are moving towards the realization that moving on is the best action for the future. Lionel has protective instincts over his daughter and watches her closely. Lionel has his own way of communicating in situations having trouble expressing facially as well as verbally. His ancestors were originally from Africa a place often known for its individualistic culture. “This could be part of the cause of Lionel's expressing things it was sinful to confide in others and therefore, he might be more individualistically minded but also collectivistically minded because they focused on families.” (Collectivist and individualist cultures.) Claire Denis expounds on the subject “Lionel had a fear that he was the only person to keep her safe because he had no one else.” (Claire Denis and Robert Davis). He had to protect her until someone came that could protect her too. Lionel getting older needs to move on from Josephine's help at home in so letting her experience life creating new memories. He has raised her well enough to know when to stop a situation. He must trust her to make decisions and remember all she has learned from him. Josephine and Lionel both buy rice pots at the beginning of the film. He brings his out and shows it to her while she being happy says it's nice and it's great you remembere... ... middle of paper ... ...and that Lionel did well with raising her. He can move on and is able to drink all he wants now. Josephine and Lionel have closed this chapter in their lives and opened one that has them moving on. They still have all their memories from the past that they will cherish forever. Works Cited Works Cited Denis, Claire and Nyman, Andrew (Interviewer). "An Interview with Claire Denis." in: Reverse Shot. No. 25, 2009. (English). Denis, Claire and Robert Davis (Interviewer). "Interview: Claire Denis on 35 Shots of Rum" in: Daily Plastic. March 10, 2009. (English). Lee, Kevin. "Spectacularly intimate: an interview with Claire Denis." In: Mubi.com April 2009. (English). “Nightshift (album).” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 23 Sep. 2013. Web. 9 Mar. 2014.
Lionel was always messing around and never made his father proud. When he saw his dad he was shaking his head at him. “If I had known my dad was going to die I would have made a special effort to decrease the number of times
As Herie and Skinner state “Beverage Alcohol can be described as a depressant drug which diminishes the activity in parts of the brain and spinal cord in accordance with the amount of alcohol in a person’s bloodstream” (Herie & Skinner, pg. 42). With its long history and unique properties such as the cure of all diseases “prolongs life, clears away ill humours, revives the heart and maintains youth”, alcohol is often related to tradition and expressions; many of these traditions are adaptation from earlier times where it was believed alcohol reflected water of life (Herie & Skinner, 2010). This is quite evident in Days of Wine and Roses where Joe is first seen drinking because “it was part of his job” and because “he had to because of everyone
What is alcohol? Where does it even come from? Is it bad? What effect does it have on the body? What are the benefits? These popular questions are the focal points of this discussion. The moral and religious debate of whether or not alcohol is wrong to consume is not in the scope of this conversation. Alcohol is a widely used substance by many people, and I intend to take an objective, factual, and practical approach to this topic.
“But we danced to the point of exhaustion and it gave me the opportunity to look at him properly for the first time. His eyes weren’t a bluey green or hazelly green or of a mixed colour. They were just green.” (54). It is evident in these quotations that Josephine realises that she does not know Jacob Coote as well as she thought she did. Upon their first encounter several years back, Josephine had stereotyped Jacob as a troublemaker and a crook, which later on in the novel becomes a joke between them. This stereotypical event has been used by several films in the film industry; a man and a woman meet and they end up quarrelling and hold grudges against one another until the man saves the woman from danger and they fall in love and they get married.
Film Society of Lincoln Center , ND/NF Q&A: "Stories We Tell", Sarah Polley, online video, May 10 2013, viewed May 5 2014,
...ceptance to her roots and traditions grew more as she learned. This brings a new perspective in Lisa’s life and with this last piece of recognition she is able to see a clear image of herself as a new person that she wants to see.
Three Cups of Tea is a book written by Greg Mortenson and Oliver Relin. It centers on Mortenson’s journey to build schools in Pakistan. When Mortenson ended up in Korphe after an attempt on the climb of K2, Mortenson was in the care of Haji Ali. Mortenson promised to build a school in Korphe after learning that Korphe did not have a school. Since then, Haji Ali became a large influence in Mortenson’s life and his mission in the Korphe school.
Drinking: A Love Story (1996) is a memoir by Caroline Knapp where she shares her experience of gradually becoming an alcoholic. She found drinking to be the most important relationship in her life; she loved how it made her feel, how it coped with her fears and worries. She chronicles some of the effort and self-realization required for recovery from this addiction, but her primary focus is on the charm, seductiveness, and destructiveness that she was able to find in two decades as an alcoholic, hopelessly in love with liquor. Her relationship with alcohol started in early teenage years and progressed through young adulthood, until she finally checked herself into a rehabilitation center at the age of thirty-four.
She lays out the most common argument in where the genealogy of cocktail arose, citing the first printed mention of 1806 with the all familiar composition. However, she draws our attention back to the earliest mixed drink of grog, as well as the wildly popular Punch of 1672, if not 1632. Why would we not believe that a punch, comprised of water, rum, lime juice and sugar, counted as a cocktail? Or the forty-four combinations of rum with other ingredients written in 1759 by Isreal Acrelius in his book? Though she offers the easily found information such as the first finding of print mention, Kimball opens the discussion of cocktail history to question what we classify as a cocktail – is it any mix of liquor with something else or must it be as the first description to be concluded as
Another way these characters avoid living their life is by drinking continuously, in a way to make the time pass by faster and forget. ?Haven?t you had enough? She loses count after 10 cocktails,? (pg.11) proving to the audience her own self denial, and how she wastes every day. Unfortunately, there are many, who in society today, do the same thing to get out of a situation they?re trying to hide or a difficult time they?re going through. This relates back to their affair which they?re obviously hiding and trying to get through this time in their life.
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Willy’s need for the “drug” reassures himself that everything will turn out okay and that his family will be happy once again like it was in the past.
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