Choose a single scene from the film and conduct a mise-en-scene analysis. This should reference camera angles, shots, and movements, as well as any characters, settings, symbols/motifs, special effects, and other elements that help to “set” the scene and make it a significant one. Analyzing Na Young's immigration to Canada. In these scenes in Past Lives, directed by Celine Song, the audience is introduced fairly quickly to the main characters, Na Young and Hae Sung. Hae Sung was Na Young's best friend, and later first love, in their homeland South Korea. Nora Moon was known as Na Young in South Korea, but as seen in this scene, she quickly migrated to Canada with her family in search of better opportunities. By doing this, she was exposed to a more open society and even said to her friends the reason as to why she was leaving South Korea was that “Koreans do not win the Nobel Prize.” Additionally, while immigrating, Young left significant loved ones and essentially her entire life as she knew it behind. …show more content…
Even in her last scene with Hae Sung back in South Korea, the camera used a long shot view to capture both of the young kids' perspectives on the situation, walking away from each other for what could have been the last time. If we continue to go further into the analysis of the immigration scenes, a worm's eye view angle was used on Na Young and her family as they arrived at Pearson Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, signifying how big and unknown this new country is to them, and how their new lives are just getting
As we grow up one of the most important things we wish to discover is who we are as a person. Thus our understanding of our identity is vital in order to find our place in the world and is emphasised significantly in or modern culture. However trying to discover your sense of self can be a difficult time for any adolescence. Yet it can become even more complicated and stressful when you have to compete with drastically different cultural expectations. This is apparent in the children born to Asian Migrants in Australia; Author Alice Pung makes this abundantly clear in her memoir Unpolished Gem. This essay will explore how Pung has incorporated her struggle not only for own identity, but the strain of having to juggle the cultural expectations of her Asian family that she was raised with and the Australian culture she must live in, into her story.
The deeply rooted history of a Confucian paradigm in Korea has for long limited women’s roles and rights. In the male-dominated and patriarchal society, women’s roles remained in the domestic sphere, where they were required to be submissive. However, with the introduction of westernization and modernity in the 1920s, modern generation was rapidly incorporated into colonial modernity. Korean women began to “redefine the Korean female identity” by displaying the “new woman” characteristics, in which some literate women initiated to “enhance their education, determine their own physical appearance, and contribute to the debate about changing gender roles and expectations”(Yoo, p.59) Fearing the threat of the emergence of the “new women” with the potential disturbance to the hegemony, Japanese colonial authorities as well as nationalist reformers veered the direction where the new ideologies of womanhood with modern sensibilities, also contained them within traditional gender boundaries, such as in education and social spheres(Yoo, 60). Park Kyung Won, the main female character in the film Blue Swallow, also lived during this era of the “new women” as well as restrictions under the Japanese colonial rule. In the film Blue Swallow, while her father encouraged her to stay at home for her to fit into the role of the traditional women, Park works as a taxi driver and eventually studies abroad to attend Tachikawa Flight academy, where she becomes the first civilian Korean female pilot. She displays the “new women” image, in which like the other “new women”, she does not conform to the traditional norms of a woman and strives in redefining the Korean female identity. However, her engagement in male-dominated education and profession, “ma...
Indigenous political issues were a main reason of the film being shot. Just into the film, Nona says that the sisters should claim land on their ancestry `Nora Island' where the Japanese have developed. The message was displayed humorously by Nona about dispossession. This is an important point to be addressed to the public. Only recently, more of us know that it is more than just dispossession issues the indigenous people have.
Inauspiciously, the film starts with a conversation set in the 1990s as Noni; the British scholar presents a stunning rendition Nina in flair competition. Flash-forwarded to the present day; Noni has packaged herself into a lubricious amalgam unendingly decked out with a stripper gear as well as a purplish weave. Although her inauguration album is yet to be dropped, Nina has already shown several hits besides her rapper boyfriend who is Kid
For this assignment we were asked to review a movie. I choose to analyze the movie Fried Green Tomatoes from 1991. This movie has many lessons hidden inside, but also has a story of a story. It starts off with a woman named Evelyn Couch going to visit her husband’s bitter aunt, and turns into the daily visits to another member of that house. This woman’s name is Ninny Threadgood, and she always has wonderful stories to tell Evelyn. At first, she seems unsure of this elderly woman’s presence, but opens up quickly. These two ladies have a connection, and Evelynn’s prospective of life soon changes. Ninny tells her stories all along, but in the end it reveals that Ninny was really talking about her life in the past. Evelyn was going through a rough patch in her life, and visiting this woman was all she needed to make some changes. She changed her diet, knocked out a wall in the house, stood up for herself, and changed her
Looking back and forth on her childhood and adolescence in Puerto Rico and New Jersey, it is narrated in a contemporary voice, but also in part her childhood voice. The movie and memories focus on the influence of her father, even from a distance, and the role of women in society.
The Girl with Seven Names is an incredible memoir filled with suspense, drama, and bravery from a young girl who couldn’t even keep her name but overcame every obstacle in her path. After escaping North Korea, crossing China, and finally reaching South Korea, Hyeonseo Lee tells us her passionate story about every experience leading up to her arrival in South Korea, hunger, cold, fear, threats, and other complicated events took place in Lee’s Journey to obtain the freedom she deserved. As a North Korean defector, Hyeonseo Lee delivers an ambitious and powerful story about her escape from North Korea and the struggles to adapt into a completely different society.
In other words, Latimer believes that by acknowledging one aspect of their being (their Japanese self), does not mean that Naoe, Murasaki, and Keiko are giving up their Canadian identity. Instead, they have managed to reach an equilibrium between the two cultures, forming a new way of being for themselves.
Harriet E. Wilson is an African American woman who based her story, Our Nig, on her own personal accounts during her enslavement. Our Nig is a unique story because it gives another perspective of different forms of slavery (i.e., Northern indentured servants) and sheds light on the hardships faced by female indentured servants. However, there are many other reasons why Our Nig is distinctive, including its compelling story, its analyses that give a detailed breakdown, its interesting language of the period, and ability to produce a reaction from oneself.
At the dinner table, I mentioned to my family that I would be commandeering the main TV to watch one of my plethora of recorded movies, “North by Northwest.” My grandparents were both positive on the film – occasionally a good sign – so I dove into my next Hitchcock picture with their blessing. Their recommendation was well bestowed.
The National Junior Honor Society is a very respected and prestigious organization that I would be glad to be a part of. The students involved exemplify scholarship, leadership, service, character, and knowledge. All of which are traits that are incredibly important in my own life. I feel that each student with the privilege to commit to this foundation should devote some time and effort to those qualities.
What is the age most people become responsible? What does the the word responsible even mean? The definition of, responsibility according to “Dictionary.com” is “the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something”. All that means is that you are able to take accountability for your actions, good or bad, and have to deal with the consequences. Once you have the ability to own up to your actions, is when you are able to be called responsible. So that is why the age at which people become responsible should be around 18 years old.
By chronicling the journey of this immensely talented young girl, the documentary explores the current issues of immigration and homelessness in America in a strikingly personal way.
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.
Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights novel expresses our world in a fictional way. Northern Lights is mostly considered as a novel for children. Therefore, the main focus of this essay is how the twelve years old orphan girl 'Lyra' grows up from childhood to adulthood and from innocence to experience due to her missing friend Roger and the mystery of 'Dust'. In order to support the ideas, this essay will mention growing up as a common theme in literature and how does it affect the protagonist's journey that leads her to develop from childhood to adulthood and from innocence to experience as well as providing some critics regarding this novel.