“The ache for home lives on in all of us. A safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” Home can be a place that someone can go to without having to constantly look over their shoulder wondering if it is their last day. My report examines two themes through four different texts and how they connect. My first theme is the protection of life and the first two texts I have chosen that have strong connections to my theme are the film Crash directed by Paul Haggis and a short film called Lambs directed by Sam Kelly. My second theme is how assumption can ruin one's life and the second two texts I have chosen are a short story called Fat Boy by Owen Marshall and a short documentary called Tamaloa directed by Neti Fa’au. In Lambs …show more content…
In this documentary, Rodney talks about his rugby career and how his relationship with his father affected his way of living. Rodney says that after rugby games he would be criticized and punished by his father because of his performance on the field and because of this, Rodney always felt like he had never been good enough and always had negative thoughts of never being good enough. Rodney explains how rarely his father would compliment him on his games other than one time, saying that he did all right. Rodney said that he did not care if he died at the age of 21 and all the negative thoughts were just constantly on his mind he just wanted nothing to do with it, he had tried to take his life but was luckily saved by his neighbours, he says that his mum and sisters were worried for him, but his father was not too caring of what happened to Rodney saying “if you had the balls to do that to yourself why don’t you use that sort of courage in rugby.” I feel like Rodneys fathers mind is clouded with a lot of With constant thoughts about rugby and not really realizing that he almost lost his son to suicide, and this is where assumption comes along, Rodneys father is assuming that Rodney is only capable of playing rugby and nothing else, he assumes that Rodney does not have feelings and this kind of shaped how Rodney would view himself as a person and a rugby