This movie is a foreign film that is based on two boys that are best friends, or so viewers believe. The movie is set in Mexico during some tough times for majority of everyone in the poverty communities. There are boys Julio and Tenoch and viewers see through the voice over narrative that these boys come from two different backgrounds. Julio is from a middle-class family and he is not as privilege as Tenoch. Tenoch, on the other hand is a wealthy kid with powerful parents. There backgrounds have played a major role in their friendship, and it will take a turn for the worst by the end of the movie. In this movie, there are a couple of twist and turns, but most of the movie is predictable. The sounds helped give insight and understanding to …show more content…
each character’s circumstance. Different elements of sound allow viewers to hear and see the characters in different circumstances.
Few of the background noise was people and different things surrounding the characters. For instance, at the beginning of the movie while Tenoch and his girlfriend was having sexual intercourse outside his window sirens are sounding. When Julio and Tenoch are saying good bye to their girlfriends at the airport, the audience can hear the sound of multiple people talking, is another example. Nearly all of the movie is shot outside in different parts of Mexico because of that viewers hear different sounds. For example, when Julio and Tenoch were driving in the beginning of the movie, there were multiply sirens going off, honking, and traffic. Another instance, is during the Tenoch’s cousin’s wedding. At the wedding the Mariachi band, horses, and people conversating. The sound heard through the entire movie is the voice over narration. The voice over narration would come in certain scenes and give background knowledge on characters and share information that the other characters would not know. For example, the narrator was giving telling how Julio lights a match after using Tenoch’ bathroom, and how Tenoch use his foot to lift the toilet seat at Julio’s house. Another example is when he is telling facts about each character; like Tenoch father is a political figure, Secretary of State, and Julio mother always work for everything they have. Through these different sounds the audience can understand the characters, setting, and different events that have happened in the
movie. Each of these sounds shows how different each character is and how they live. Julio and his girlfriend having sex and in the background sirens are being heard. Those sirens let viewers to see that he was living in a lower-class community. While Tenoch on the other hand lived in this mansion with severs, maids, and butlers. When Julio, Tenoch, and a friend of theirs went outside to smoke, all that is heard is the sound of dogs barking in the distance, and that shows they are on secluded property and are in a good neighborhood. Another example is Luisa, she lives next to a train station. Therefore, there is people all round and that street must be busy, but the director showed that in her house viewer hear nothing. That shows the emptiness she felt, but it also showed that she was missing life and it was happening all around her. These sound, even though they are seen as insignificant, allows viewers to see their lives and understand why they act a certain way. Sounds give a different view point on each character and their situations. Some of the sounds heard were either indoor or outside. While the main sound heard throughout the movie was the narrator, voice over, which helped to shed some light on how the characters lived, what they were going through, and some of the things the characters did not say. Overall this movie allowed me to look for understanding another way.
This movie is about two best friends named Simon Birch and Joseph Wenteworth. Simon BIrch is a dwarf who has parents that don’t appreciate him so he leans on his best friend and his loving mom. Joe grew up all his life without a dad, and always wondered who it was and wanted to find him. Together they go on life’s journey leaning on each other for help and comfort. Joe’s mother had many men who tried to impress her and most of all win over Joe, which none of them did until Ben arrived. Ben didn’t win over Joe right away but with time and certain circumstances he finally won Joe’s heart. Joe’s mom treated Simon like her second son, and Simon loved her as a mother and maybe a little more. Joe and Simon did many things together, one of which is baseball. Simon had a great love for baseball even though he didn’t play much. Little did he know, this sport would take the life of loving Rebecca Weneworth, Joe’s mother. After
The protagonist both struggled in their childhood. In addition, both protagonists grew up in families with parents, who were not keen about their children’s life, for instance, Sonia’s parents used to fight all the time, while Martinez parents were uncaring and abusive. Sonia’s relationship with her mother was not that good and this applies to Martinez too. Both protagonists came in terms with their upbringing and had to work hard to change their life situations. In both stories, the theme of poverty is evident in both the
It is very common to hear natural speech in narrative movies. At the beginning of the movie the sound was totally natural the birds whistle and the sound of the garbage car; not only in the beginning it was a part where the leave in a tree house and the sound of the water river and the animal were very natural. Then she starts narrative what she had in her mind every time that they were running away from the authority because they killed many people, which under her voice the listener hear xylophone. The author use non degetic sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action which is narrator's speech. Badlands is a perfect example because the girl every time narrated her feeling and even more some
Enrique grows up pretty much an orphan living with his grandmother while his sister is put in a nice caring home. He is constantly being switched around from family to family and due to his drug problems, he is finally kicked out by his aunt for stealing her jewelry to pay off a dealer. The rich get richer and the poor stay the same is something that Enrique came to understand. He knew that in order to get out of this corrupt society he ...
The 2004 Salvadoran film Voces Inocentes, directed by Luis Mandoki is truely deserving of its nomination to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is set in El Salvador in 1986 with a civil war ravaging the main character’s home town of Cuscatancingo. There are many themes in this film including dictatorships and totalitarian governments in Latin America and US involvement in Latin American conflict. However there is one theme that is represented time and time again throughout the film. This is the theme that children are innocent and just until someone teaches them to do wrong and become unjust. This exemplified in many scenes in the film, but there is one scene in particularly emphasizes this.
The use of sound helped to create a story behind the scenes. The sounds of Drum’s gunfire and Ouiser’s dog barking create a humorous event outside of the set. This scene of family/neighborhood craziness is relatable to any audience member in some way and helped the audience to connect with the characters. The use of the radio at the beginning and end of each scene helped to establish a mood and in some cases a time change. It also worked as a signal to the audience when a scene was beginning or
This movie was a tale of an immigrant seeking money and power who untimely set up his own demise. The producers did a good job at pointing out certain features that let you into the life of an organized crime leader. He tells of his humble beginnings and shows you in details how he rose to the top. The producer had a point to make and I took that point as being you can never get and stay someone good while being bad. The sound effects and graphics also makes this movie. They show just enough to intrigue you but yet not to completely make you sick to your stomach. The music is very telling and
This movie is based on changing the lives of Mexican Americans by making a stand and challenging the authority. Even when the cops were against them the whole time and even with the brutal beatings they received within one of the walk out, they held on. They stuck to their guns and they proved their point. The main character was threatened by the school administrators, she was told if she went through with the walkout she would be expelled. While they wanted everyone who was going to graduate to simply look the other way, the students risked it all and gave it their all to make their voices
Initially the audience is witness to how particular sound techniques shape this film. For instance, one of the main details that the audience hears is the song that the murderer whistles. Due to the marvel of sound the audience can pick out that the whistling is related to the murderer. Along with the blind man who figured this mystery out, the audience could only put these two together with this sound technique. The director shows the audience how such a simple part of every day sound can be so important to solving such a terrible crime.
Also, as immigrant this affects Zainab and Mauna, because it allows them to see the injustice and the oppression in immigration system. The film illustrates how society labels illegal immigrants as outside the norm, marginalized Tarek. Immigrant are being deported and exposed to the injustice system.
This movie takes place in Los Angeles and is about racial conflicts within a group of people which occur in a series of events. Since there are a wide variety of characters in this movie, it can be confusing to the viewer. In the plot, Graham is an African-American detective whose younger brother is a criminal. His mother cares more about his brother than Graham and she wants Graham to bring his brother back home, which in turn hurts Graham. Graham?s partner Ria is a Hispanic woman who comes to find that her and Graham?s ethnicities conflict when she had sex with him. Rick is the Los Angeles district attorney who is also op...
Y tu mama tambien by Alfonso Cuaron is the movie evaluated in the next paragraphs. The movie is starred by Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, and the Spanish Maribel Verdu. The movie starts with the typical two best friends Julio (Garcia Bernal) and Tenoch (Luna) whose girlfriends are about to depart for summer vacations. As they leave the airport, after their take off they continue to their own world of irreverence and over stimulated hormones. So despite of their promise of the loyalty sworn to their women, they go on to look for other girls to spend the night. After many attempts they get nothing, but then they meet Luisa (Verdu). Julio and Tenoch then invite Luisa to a virgin beach off the Pacific Ocean (which they actually made up). So that is how the long road trip starts, where friendship, innocence, and sexuality go into a sentimental melee. It is here where our protagonists realize that lies hurt, but sometimes the truth hurts even more.
The film follows the stories of Anthony, Bianca, Daisy, Emily, and Francisco as their family’s attempt to improve the quality of their education. It was assumed
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This movie follows the relationship of the two main characters from the time Léon saves Mathilda's life against his better judgment. This event causes both of their lives to take a detour that ends up giving meaning to both of their existences. She is trapped living in a dysfunctional family environment with an abusive father and step-mother, a hateful step-sister and her quite little brother with only a dismal outlook on her future. She is a precocious young girl who's life seems to have several parallels with the Cinderella story. Léon is a stoic, uneducated and an unremorseful killer that is totally unemotional and unattached to the world around him. He becomes the prince that saves her.