Viewing the film The Cider House Rules, I found myself experiencing a multitude of unpleasant feelings and reactions that I found difficult to analyze. I found myself reacting with a deep inner uneasiness during many of the scenes. The responses that were most prominent during this film were empathy, sadness, frustration and loathing. Through the viewing of the movie and the deep analyzation afterwards, I was able to accomplish the task of removing my own prejudices towards the circumstances and achieve clarity. I found Dr. Larch to be arrogant in the beginning when he was talking about the mothers and his interactions with them. He seemed to discount them and did not offer any solace to them, which I found sad. I fell into a false analogy in this instance because I failed to see the true meaning of what he was accomplishing. After applying my critical thinking skills, I realized that I was involving my past and experiences as a young, unwed …show more content…
mother and the loneliness and shame that I sometimes felt during my pregnancy. These were strong but misguided emotions because in the movie the doctor’s focus was on the children. Dr. Larch truly cared about the children and did not want to see unwanted children born into the world. I did find it a contradiction in his character that he clearly loved and nurtured the children in his orphanage. I questioned why he would so willingly perform abortions. Why would he abort a child he could find a home for and offer love and compassion to in the meantime? The topic of abortion brings up feelings of uncertainty and anxiety for me. I work with socioeconomically challenged elementary aged children and I see value in all of them, but I sometimes wonder if their own parents do. These feelings transferred from my real life, influenced my perspective when watching the movie, I felt I might have overgeneralized the reasons that the mothers were aborting their babies. I was frustrated and wanted to know what had brought them to the point where they would need an abortion. I longed for more information but this story would not give me that. Candy was a selfish person, who could charm a sweet, sheltered young man to do just about anything.
She made me angry and her accent made it worse. She was sweet as molasses, but poured on a rotten tomato. I most definitely was falling into some reckless stereotyping of this character. This was a much simpler pitfall for me to recognize. Poor innocent Homer finally got free of his obligations and able to see the world. Even after I realized I was stereotyping her as a ditzy southern bell who was bored and lonely, I looked deeper. As I did, I realized she actually was all those things. Her husband had gone off to war and she did not waste any time having sex with Homer. She did court him for a short time but she was going after him and she got what she wanted. She blamed her husband for leaving her even though he knew she got bored and lonely, as if to say it was somehow acceptable for her to cheat. In the scenes where she counseled Rose and cared for her afterwards, she demonstrated compassion and
kindness. The character and situation that brought up feelings of loathing and disgust for me were Mr. Rose impregnating his daughter. He was the chief worker at the farm and he used it to get his way with workers and regrettably, his daughter. He seemed evil and arrogant during the scene when the angry worker throws the cigarette into the vat of cider. At that point, in the movie, he was just a bully and I judged him to be trying to be the supervisor. I fell into an irrational appeal type of thinking because I felt he was a poor worker that was just trying to do his job when in fact he really was an evil, sick person and that can be a dangerous mistake. I made excuses for his poor behavior (before the rape was disclosed). The worker that he fought never returned the next apple season, so I presumed he just quit. After his daughter, Rose revealed to Candy that she was pregnant and that her father had raped her, his true character was revealed wholly. I see the danger in this line of thinking in the movie and in real life situations. An additional situation in the film, which I found myself reacting to was the treatment of the sickly little boy, named Fuzzy. It seemed apparent that he had severe asthma and Dr. Larch and his staff monitored his condition and gave him extra care. I fell into a poverty of aspect in my perspective of this situation because I just could not understand why they did not take him to a hospital. My reaction when his illness would flare up was that the doctor was afraid to take him somewhere else because he was playing God. He had mentioned early in the movie that he enjoyed the feeling that brought about and that was a very negative attribute. I realized after further thought on this subject that possibly during that period in history, maybe they were doing what was necessary for Fuzzy. On further reflection, I realized that I did not like Dr. Larch’s character. As a result, I had jumped to conclusions and was looking through a narrow lens.
The only real way to truly understand a story is to understand all aspects of a story and their meanings. The same goes for movies, as they are all just stories being acted out. In Thomas Foster's book, “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, Foster explains in detail the numerous ingredients of a story. He discusses almost everything that can be found in any given piece of literature. The devices discussed in Foster's book can be found in most movies as well, including in Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic, “Pulp Fiction”. This movie is a complicated tale that follows numerous characters involved in intertwining stories. Tarantino utilizes many devices to make “Pulp Fiction” into an excellent film. In this essay, I will demonstrate how several literary devices described in Foster's book are put to use in Tarantino’s film, “Pulp Fiction”, including quests, archetypes, food, and violence.
I liked that Dr. Stanpole is honest with Gene because he can see what will happen in the soon future. I especially liked how he talks about Finny’s death. However, I disliked that Finny dies because I would have liked to have seen what happens with him.
[2] Missing is a rather confusing film to follow at first. Admittedly, I had to view it a few times to understand what was happening. Perhaps the initial feeling after seeing this film is confusion. However, after having watched it a second, fourth, eighth time, what I really felt was anger. Each time I watched the film, the anger and disgust would grow, so much so that it pained me to watch it again. However, in identifying the cause of my anger, I began to realize many things.
After completing this assignment, I am amazed on how much of a better understanding I have on these concepts. Not only am I able to connect them with situations in daily life, but even to the extent at which I can relate them to circumstances in a movie. The two topics that I chose to explore further and relate to the movie and each other were conflict and politeness theory. Not only did I realize my ability to connect such topics to fulfill this assignment, but I somehow feel that my future experiences watching movies or paying attention to others daily behaviors will be more analytical after completing this assignment.
In week one, I immediately found myself interested and alert as I tried to absorb as much as possible from Examined Life. It was difficult to find a balance between taking as many good notes as possible, with making sure not to miss anything these eight philosophers had to say. I took to heart many of the thoughts and ideas that were shared throughout the film. The first that struck a cord with me was that it is not necessary to find meaning. At first that sounds contrary to philosophy at its core, because I find that is usually what we ponder; the meaning of whatever it is we are thinking, doing, or discussing. I realized that sometimes it is fine for things to just be, and not know why. Much of the film has to do with how we think, and what we do in private. Collectively, through these moral and ethical acts (or lack of them) we can impact the public. Also by sharing these thoughts and concepts with the public in the documentary, it can affect our thoughts and actions in our private lives; I know it has at least for myself.
Imagine, a little boy sitting at home alone, hungry and scared because he doesn’t know where his parents are. Millions of children live this scenario every day because they have parents who abuse alcohol. Alcohol abuse is an addiction that affects everyone in the drinker’s life. Many examples of this are shown in The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls and her siblings are heavily impacted by their father’s drinking habit and are constantly forced to take care of themselves. Having a parent with a harmful history of alcohol abuse increases the risk of child maltreatment greatly, alcohol use disorder creates many problems especially when children are involved so government should step in and remove children from that environment.
Lisa a smart and opinionated girl who is charming, vulnerable, wise and adorable, and adds a bit of comedic relief to the show. Mia Thermopolis, on the other hand, is also similar, she is a geek in both appearance and personality, and hence I decided to adopt some of her traits such as her appearance and personality into developing my character. Since much of the characters in Dags are melodramatic and viewed from Gillian’s perspective, I decided to mirror this by exaggerating Monica’s physicality, emotions, and expressions and making them heightened and as melodramatic as I
However, three ethical decisions that this learning will make after viewing the film is to always assist individual to the best of your ability, despite personal issues with loved ones or friends; next, always report crimes, no matter the consequence they may have; and last but not least, stand up for what’s right, even if it leads to misfortune. The pros of each of these decisions is peace within yourself. However, one of the cons is dealing with negative pressures. For example, when you report a crime, you may be summoned to court, and have to deal with the negative criticism.
Constantly throughout the documentary Gameau subtly targets the audience’s emotional appeals in order to position his audience in a way to endorse his views on the sugar issue. Various facts are verbally stated about day to day items shown in each household throughout the documentary in order to target the audience’s values of food and sugar. Through doing this Gameau is using the power of language to manipulate the audience to take notice of the issue as it is connecting with them through their values. Along with emotional appeal, emotive language is also used by Gameau. His choice to use this emotive language allowed him to use powerful words to evoke strong emotions from the audience to manipulate their views on the issue of sugar. Throughout That Sugar Film, Gameau includes multiple words such as ‘disgusting’ and ‘outrageous’ to describe what sugar is doing to our bodies and to stimulate strong emotional feelings towards the subject within the audience. Apart from Gameau using emotive language and appeal as a power of language in order to persuade his audience, he is able to effectively use attacks and inclusive language as
Through many examples Homer indicates to us the standards of those times. Major examples about what is valued in a wife are encapsulated in book 6 (about Nausikaa). Homer uses this short story to present a standard from which we can evaluate Penelope's performance. In making a comparison we see that Penelope never stood idle and helpless. She continued to perform the duties expected of her, while her husband was missing.
deceitful and Homer is a sexist who holds a double standard of morality for men
Cathy Ames despises drinking alcohol because of the feeling the beverage gives her. A reaction overcomes her “which neither she or [others]” can control (9...
Although, it is proven difficult to completely change your point of view from the society you are brought up in. The characters in this film go through a lot of self-reevaluation to find their place in society, as well as a reevaluation of their initial prejudicial
One can learn from Tony’s mistakes. One can learn that family comes first. Society can also learn that taking shortcuts in life sometimes lead to a dead ends with no u-turns. This film showcases the time line of how a drug lord could rise to power from nothing. This film also shows how that same power one gets from becoming a drug lord could be taken at any time. Studying how to analyze a movie has definitely changed my perspective on how I view movies. I actually look at all the detailing in movies. I look at the camera angles and how they affect the scene. I even start to question why the director did not use a different angle for certain shots. By using film theories and criticism one can generate enough ideas in order to understand the movie better. When a film is being captured the director focuses on certain angles and lights to get the meaning of the scene to the audience. Just like everything in life has a meaning, everything in film also has a comparison meaning. This course has widen my intellect on how movies affect our societies. Movies can play a major role in how we act or how laws are even created. Movies has the same power as music. I say movies has the same power because one can look at a movie and want to become whatever he or she saw in the movie. One major skills that I developed in this course is being able to focus. Before this course, I could not focus on anything at all. I was the type to focus on three or
The film that I have chosen to analyze is “The Purge”. “The Purge” is a 2013 American horror film directed by James DeMonaco. It was released on June 7, 2013, to mixed reviews. I will be analyzing “The Purge” by looking at conflict theory, class division, the importance of the ethnicity of each individual character, and the government’s overall political and economic agenda. In brief, I believe that Purge night takes place because of Conflict theory, due to political and economic agendas.