Ahmad AlKhaled
Released in 2009, “The Secret in Their Eyes” is a thriller that follows the investigation of a murder by court investigator Benjamín Espósito, as well as his relationship with his superior, Irene Mendéz-Hastings. The investigation is made difficult by Espósito’s antagonist, Romano, and by the lack of evidence. Following the murderer’s imprisonment, Romano releases him and gets him work in a government agency. The drama of the film rises when Espósito’s partner, Sandoval, is murdered by Romano’s men. Espósito leaves the city for province to escape Romano’s wrath. He returns 25 years later, now retired and writing a book, ready to tell the story of the case. In the process, he will discover the truth about the killer’s fate, and will renew his relationship with Hastings. The film’s complexity and the director’s cinematic choices transformed this film into a great success, marked by the winning of an Oscar for the best foreign language film in 2009.
In the film, Espósito’s efforts of brining the murderer, Isidoro Gomez, to justice are made useless by Romano, a representative of the repressive government, who wants to use him as a weapon against the rebels. Espósito cannot forget the past however and , 25 years later, while writing the story of the case, he finds the husband of the victim, Ricardo Morales, now entering the old age, without any direction in life, and without any emotional support. He seems hopeless and lonely, and the memories of his dead wife still hunt him. However, gathering pieces of information, and acting on instinct, Espósito returns to Morales’s ranch and finds Gomez imprisoned in a cage, where he had been for the past 25 years. This ending is satisfactory for the audience who sees the crime ...
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...home and abroad. Most people who like thrillers find this story interesting because of the clever plot, but also because of the humanity of the characters. My brother, whom I convinced to watch the film with me, confessed that he was impressed by the acting, particularly that of the lead actor. Moreover, he found the lead actors charming and perfectly suited for the roles. He was intrigued by the murder plot and enjoyed the ending, which brought to a conclusion both the murder story, and the love story. However, he was also in doubt that authorities would allow a convicted prisoner to escape and would give him a job. This made him look for more information afterwards, which may have been a secondary aim of the film. Overall, the film is a pleasant experience which in addition, makes one think, thus allowing him to immerse, for two hours, in the Argentine culture.
...ecome stronger when he finds out that his daughter, Justina, is no longer around. While he is drunk he mistakenly kills his bird, Rita, because it reminded him of the guilt build in. “Though tragic, this death too lends itself to rebirth.” With guilt off his shoulders he is finally to get on with the rest of his life. Regret have taken both of Esperanze and Rafael’s life. For Esperanze, she feels guilty for being raped and never telling anyone. For Rafael, he feels guilty for not being able to live his life because his mother is all he cares about. When the two come together, they are unable to forgive themselves and start their new lives together. For all of these characters, they all had to get over guilt or regret that has helped shaped the person they were. But being able to forgive one other is the only way for them to shape their life into something better.
The narrator murders an old man who he is meant to be taking care of. He claims to have nothing against the man and says that he loves him. Regardless of this, he finds the mans filmy, vulture-like eye to be disturbing and thinks this is a valid enough reason to kill him. Montresor feels insulted by his colleague, Fortunado and believes that it is now his duty to end his life. Both claim to not have anything against his victim other than one small detail, being either and eye or an insult, and feel that they are justified in wanting them dead.They both meticulously plan out what they are going to do to their victim long before they carry out their actions. Neither the old man or Fortunado had any idea that their murderer had any reason to want them dead and had no way of anticipating what was doing to happen to them. The narrator smothers the old man with his mattress, chops up his body, and stuffs him in the floorboards. Montresor leads a very d...
Angel Vargas is the first character to die in The House on Mango Street, and Esperanza does not take his death to heart. She compares him to a falling doughnut: it is a death that causes no noise from him or from the community, and it has no emotional resonance for her. When her grandfather dies, however, Esperanza must look at death more seriously. Angel’s death does not lead Esperanza to imagine what it would be like if one of her siblings were to die, but when her grandfather dies, she tries to put herself in her father’s shoes and imagine how she would feel if he died. When Esperanza’s Aunt Lupe dies in the following chapter, Esperanza does not need to feel empathy. She feels both sad and responsible for her aunt’s death. This escalation
.... The action flows so seamlessly between the two elements that they often seem like aligned narratives rather than a mise-en-abîme. This flawlessness is used as a great outcome, further emphasizing that human cruelty is nothing new. It's easy to forget that Atuey, Columbus, Las Casas, Montesinos, etc. are actors playing roles-within-roles because they seem just as "real" as Costa, Sebastian and Daniel. The film's entire cast is incredible, but the star was Juan Carlos Aduviri, he gave both Atuey and Daniel distinct identities with a few common traits. Daniel and Atuey are both forthright rebels, but they have dissimilarities and (including living centuries apart). As an activist for morality and equality who believes in speaking truth to power, I found Even the Rain especially impactful. This film is certain to inspire many of us to keep fighting for what is right.
Esperanza, the most liberated of the sisters, devoted her life to make other people’s lives better. She became a reporter and later on died while covering the Gulf Crisis. She returned home, to her family as a spirit. At first, she spoke through La Llorona, a messenger who informed La Loca that her sister has died. All her family members saw her. She appeared to her mother as a little girl who had a nightmare and went near to her mother for comfort. Caridad had conversations with her about politics and La Loca talked to her by the river behind their home.
After reading and unpacking the novel, Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, I do not believe that Richard Wright is correct in his assessments. Considering the historical time period and context of his assessment, one can notice somewhat of an envious tone from Mr. Wright. He proclaims that "Her dialogue manages to catch the psychological movements of the Negro folk-mind in their pure simplicity, but that’s as far as it goes". He then goes on to further confirm his envy by accusing Ms. Hurston of deliberately trying to make the "white folks" laugh by belittling the intellectual integrity of the characters within her novel. Furthermore, he states that "The sensory sweep of her novel carries no theme, no message, no thought".
The film “Camila” was produced in 1984 and directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg (1922-1955). Based on the true story of Camila O’Gorman, an Argentine woman who falls in love with a priest in 1840’s Buenos Aires, this story dealt with the terrifying reign of Juan Manuel de Rosas. Camila is from an influential family and is betrothed to a Rosas loyalist. She is passionate and daring, just like her grandmother, and reads books that have been censored by the ruthless Rosas. When she falls in love with Father Ladislao, the two flee Buenos Aires and assume new identities as school teachers in a small village. During a party, a priest from Ladislao’s old church recognizes Ladislao and turns them both in. They are both executed by firing squad even though Camila is pregnant.
In the House on Mango Street, Esperanza is very close to her neighbors and family members. Throughout Esperanza’s life, she has experienced death of a close friend or family. The first death Esperanza experienced was when one of her neighbors, Angel Vargas, died. Esperanza did not take Angel’s death too serious, but it made her
In the editorial cartoon, Our Eyes Secure Your Safety, is dealing with giving up rights and freedoms. The cartoonist has presented the perspective that rejecting collectivism can be ineffective, which is shown by people walking around surrounded by video surveillance. The author uses irony of large eyes in the sky with big bold letters that states the quote our eyes secure individuals' safety to show the ideas presented on portraying negative notion on the subject of which is surrendering our rights and freedoms for more collective security; he/she also stresses the idea of individualism. The individualist view of a society without high government involvement was furthermore illustrated in the source by the idea of all the eyes, gloominess
In one particular scene, director was truly a great one, featuring special focus on his dad life and the Colorado River. It was so cool to highlights of the movie by one of his favorite poem written by his dad when he was born, the Important Place. Also, this film was a good length, not excessively long but long enough to tell the story. This is really important today there were no such unwanted scene in the film, which literary the most closely and accurately delivered. In my opinion, this film is forced to possess the characters of a great aspect, and turns to make for quite the adventurous. There was no special character encounter rather than his dad, learned something from the secret Colorado River. Another great aspect of the film was the special footage that were introduce in this film was an enjoyable aspect to be a good documentary film, and that’s how this film is different from the rest.
...all want to believe that the crime was truly “foretold”, and that nothing could have been done to change that, each one of the characters share in a part of Santiago Nasar’s death. Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes about the true selfishness and ignorance that people have today. Everyone waits for someone else to step in and take the lead so something dreadful can be prevented or stopped. What people still do not notice is that if everyone was to stand back and wait for others, who is going to be the one who decides to do something? People don’t care who gets hurt, as long as it’s not themselves, like Angela Vicario, while other try to reassure themselves by thinking that they did all that they could, like Colonel Lazaro Aponte and Clotilde Armenta. And finally, some people try to fight for something necessary, but lose track of what they set out for in the first place.
... They didn’t seem to be my feet anymore. And the garden that had been such a good place to play didn’t seem mine either” (Cisneros 98). The play place that was once so innocent and is now a junkyard that reciprocates Esperanza’s innocence that slowly turns into reality. She is growing up. Additionally, she gains enough confidence and maturity to make her own life decisions. This is shown when she makes the important decision of where she wants her life to take her. “I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain” (Cisneros 88). This shows Esperanza’s maturity to make her own life choices by herself. She is finally confident and independent enough to know where she wants her life to take her. Esperanza finally completes her evolution from young and immature to adult-like and confident.
After a rocky start to her directing career with Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola finds her groove in her second feature film Lost in Translation. Written and directed by Coppola, the film sets off to explore the unusual relationship between two jet-lagged strangers searching for clarity in their lives. The simple bond that ensues entices the audience with its relatable and genuine emotions. Too often, Hollywood seems to tell the audience what to feel, instead of using film properly to show emotions. Both the young and the old are captured by this candid and unexpected story of friendship.
Juan, at first, allows Francisco to push him around hoping that the justice system would take action, yet when Francisco goes as far as to ransack Moreira’s house, take Vicenta, her child, and her father into custody, and take away everything he owned; Moreria allows his thirst for vengeance to take charge.
“He Has His Mother’s Eyes” is a very sad and emotional message yet so powerful. This Particular ad is meant to provoke people 's thoughts and raise awareness all around the world; certain people may not have experienced such things but that does not mean it should be ignored. Child abuse is increasing by the year, which is why there is now a series of ads created by the powerful human rights organization Amnesty International to help stop abusive acts in general.