Dear Frankie (2004), directed by Shona Auerbach, is a tear-jerking film focused on a young, deaf boy’s struggle in a single parent family. Frankie has never met is father but believes that he is writing to him on the ARCCA boat. When the boat docks where Frankie lives, he wants to meet his father. His mother, who has been lying about his father being on the boat, finds a stranger to pretend to be his father for a day. In the end, the stranger becomes attached to the family which suggests that a relationship might spring up later. The real father, who abused Frankie and his mother Lizzie, dies without seeing Frankie one final time. Frankie eventually learns that the stranger is not his real father but likes him anyways. In this essay, I will …show more content…
It is shown multiple times when Frankie sees one in a fish tank, draws them on his wall, and gives a wooden one to the stranger. There are many different reasons that the seahorse was used. One reason is because the male seahorse carries and delivers the seahorse babies instead of the female. This is exactly opposite of Frankie’s family because Frankie’s true father was abusive and uncaring. Seahorses also mate for live so it is ironic that it is a symbol for Frankie since his parents are divorced. I think the seahorse is the perfect symbol of what Frankie is looking for when he is trying to find is father. The seahorse reflects culture because a lot of children are growing up in single family homes and want a strong father figure to support them. Another theme in this movie is the abusive father that broke a good family is half. Frankie’s father, Danny, has caused nothing but pain for Lizzie and Frankie. He is the reason that Frankie is deaf and also makes Lizzie and her family move constantly so that he won’t find them. Danny has a very short temper and is the only person in the film that curses. In the short amount of time that he was featured in the film, I formed a very strong hatred towards him. I think this theme helps viewers understand the emotions, such as pain, that are felt in homes where domestic violence occurs. The final major theme in this movie was truth. The whole story is based around Frankie finding out that his real father is not the stranger that he met and that his dad is not a good man. His mother lies to him constantly by pretending to be his father so that Frankie won’t find out the truth. At some point during the movie, Frankie does find out that his father isn’t the stranger but plays along with it because he wishes that the stranger was it real dad. I think this movie is meant to show that truth is not always the easiest option by showing a situation where being lied to is
The film West Side takes place in New York City where a Polish- American gang, referred to as the Jets, competes against a Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, to own the neighborhood streets. The central theme of this film is passionate love that defies friendships, family and other factors. To add to that, the dominating genre of the film is a musical involving drama and romance.
Gimme Shelter is a documentary film that captures the events of the Rolling Stones Tour and the concert at Altamont in 1969. The Rolling-Stones are a very popular band that helped define Rock n Roll music for generations. Member Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have been an inspiration and adapted into other films, characters and performances for actors and filmmakers over the last few decades. Gimme Shelter has been known to be one of the greatest rock n roll documentaries ever made. The events that occurred during the Rolling-Stones tour in 1970 made headlines and showed the world the impact and chaos music can cause when a murder occurred during the events at the concert at Altamont. Gimme Shelter was an opening track on the bands 1969 album
“There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!” (Sunset Boulevard). The film Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder focuses on a struggling screen writer who is hired to rewrite a silent film star’s script leading to a dysfunctional and fatal relationship. Sunset Boulevard is heavily influenced by the history of cinema starting from the 1930s to 1950 when the film was released.
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
The film “Goodfellas,” directed by Martin Scorsese, is loosely based on the true story of mobster Henry Hill’s career with the mafia. The main characters in this movie are Henry Hill, played by Ray Liota, who was part of the mafia, James Conway who was a stickup/hit man, played by Robert De Niro, and Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci, who was another gangster. At the beginning of the film a young Hill is seen admiring the gangsters who spend time across the street at one of their establishments. Hill can be heard talking about how much he admired gangsters, and that all he ever wanted to be was a gangster. Throughout the movie the audience gets a sense of what life as a gangster in the criminal underworld might have been like.
1. I think the place of the movie is very important because even though World War 2 was happening it wasn't happening everywhere. I think that the setting of the movie was supposed to mean something to people of other countries, especially in America. If it had been set in America, it wouldn't have made much sense or as much as an impact because World War 2 wasn't a huge thing to Americans yet. The culture was also so different as well and I think it makes people look at that differently as well.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
Early in the film , a psychologist is called in to treat the troubled child :and she calmed the mother with a statement to the effect that, “ These things come and go but they are unexplainable”. This juncture of the film is a starting point for one of the central themes of the film which is : how a fragile family unit is besieged by unusual forces both natural and supernatural which breaks and possesses and unites with the morally challenged father while the mother and the child through their innocence, love, and honesty triumph over these forces.
One of the more prevalent themes of this movie is racism, and how prejudicial mindsets ultimately lead to one’s own demise. The movie outlines how racism, among other things, can adversely affect someone’s judgment. After the father died, we see how the family gradually deteriorates financially as well as emotionally after Derek (the older brother played by Edward Norton) turns to a neo Nazi gang for an outlet, which eventually influences his younger brother Danny (played by Edward Furlong) to follow down ...
I will be analyzing the movie trailer developed for the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower. This movie is placed in present time, in the United States of America, in a medium sized city. Charlie, the main character, is an incoming freshman in High school who has no friends and ultimately is an outcast or “wallflower” in the beginning of the movie. We are introduced to his new found friends Sam and Patrick, two upperclassmen that “take Charlie in” and invite him to partake in their fun and carefree lifestyle that has labeled them the “misfit toys” in their world. Charlie struggles to adapt to the social structures of High School and his new friends at first but slowly develops into the individual he never knew he could be. Charlie becomes infatuated with Sam, his beautiful exotic new friend. When his new comrades are threatened, due to their adversity, by the “in” crowd, Charlie finds that he is braver than he had ever anticipated. The point of the story is not to learn how to become accepted, but to learn to accept yourself.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a film based on Stephen Chbosky’s own best-selling novel. This coming-of-age, modern-day classic, captures the dizzying highs and crashing lows of teenage life. An introvert freshmen, Charlie (Logan Lerman), is taken under the wings of two high school seniors, Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller), who show him the real world.
Gran Torino is a suspense film directed by Clint Eastwood, which portrays the relationship between a 78-year-old Koran war veteran and his neighbors who are from Laos. The main character, Walt is a racist who still has memories from the horrors of war and has a dislike for anyone, including his own family. After his young neighbor Thao is coerced by his cousin’s gang into stealing Walt’s prized Gran Torino, a unusual relationship forms between the pair. Walt starts to respect Thao and his culture while fulfilling a fatherly role that Thao is lacking. Eventually, Walt has to confront the gang knowing that the confrontation will end in his death. Apart from the stereotypical, get off my lawn quote, this film depicts the relationship of family concerning the care for older adults, the struggle with despair and meaning later in life, and the morality of a good death. This paper will address each of these themes.
The Great Expectations film is attention grabbing and makes the audience not want to take their eyes off the screen. I enjoyed the film because of how they gave hints on who each character is so you will get the idea of who they are and the plot. This was an exceptional film because of the interesting story line and there are many cliffhangers that make the audience wanting to see more.
Gone Girl, a book written by Gillian Flynn, is a compelling mystery and drama focused on the disappearance of a woman named Amy. Two years later this thrilling novel was turned into a nail biting , suspenseful film, directed by David Fincher. Rather you read the book or not, this movie is worth the hype and experience on a Saturday evening. One particular scene, involves Amy (played by Rosamund Pike) changing her identity and going into hiding, at a motel. She develops habits to disguise herself after being plastered on television, billboards, and magazines. Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, both acted amazingly, capturing the roller coaster mentality and reality of these two characters. The production of this film was astounding; creating a visual image through the sound track alone.
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) is an American action and thriller movie directed by Renny Harlin. At the beginning, the plot portrays the lead role, Samantha Caine, as a school teacher in a small town in Pennsylvania. Samantha lives with her boyfriend and her daughter, and remembers nothing about her past life. During the Christmas holidays, the heroine meets with an accident and consequently starts to get flashes of her past life. As the actress decides to discover her forgotten life, she unveils an extremely contradicting personality from her past, Charly. As Samantha uncovers Charly, she is confused whether to remain in her present life or go back to her past life. The main theme of the movie is the dual identity of Samantha/Charly, as the