Since its release in 2000, the movie la comunidad has been very controversial. Some critics have said that this movie is a critical take on the globalization and the changes that the Spanish Society has undergone; whereas others said the opposite. When examined deeply, it can be seen that la comunidad is critical of both globalization and socialism. Therefore, I believe, this movie was a great example of the representation of the clash between the ideologies that Spain had during its socialist era and the ideologies that Spain had under the influence of globalization with the makers favoring the latter. First, I would like to begin with giving a short synopsis of the movie. In la comunidad, Julia is a real estate agent and everything begins by her showing an apartment in a rather old building to her …show more content…
This is most evident when the floor between where 4th and 5th floors of the building. The apartment where Julia shows to her clients and spends the night after is fully modern. It seems like the previous owner, the engineer, has spent a lot of money to renovate the old apartment with new furniture and appliances. This way, the modernized apartment symbolizes the newly modernized Spain with its democracy and freedoms. However, even with the new improvements, the history of Spain catches up when the ceiling leaks. When Julia and her boyfriend is on the waterbed, the ceiling cracks, leaking all the filth, bugs, and garbage that the upper floor has. Although it is a genuinely disgusting part of the movie, this scene also shows how critical of socialist the makers were. The old man is his old apartment, with his old garbage, and his old money. However, this does not stay in that old floor, it leaks to the new apartment similar to how the past of Spain will not be gone real quick. However, the new Spain is not really as pure as the driven
As the Latin American nations set out to construct a new government and society in the 1800´s, two opposing models aroused regarding which one would best benefit the countries. ¨Civilization vs. Barbarism¨ by Domingo Sarmiento, a recognized Argentinean revolutionary, contrasts Jose Marti´s ¨Our America¨ ideology which critiques U.S. capitalism and focuses on developing a good government based on the needs of the nations and each nation´s autochthony. Contrastingly, Sarmiento, guided by his beliefs in democratic principles, declares his preference towards the European urbanized way of life as the key to progress and stability for the nations. Despite the differences in the models proposed by Marti and Sarmiento for the New Nations to follow,
Time and rules have been transforming countries in many ways; especially, in the 1850’s and the 1920’s, when liberals were firmly in control across Latin American region. Liberalism can be defined as a dominant political philosophy in which almost every Latin American country was affected. A sense of progress over tradition, reason over faith, and free market over government control. Although each country was different, all liberals pursued similar policies. They emphasize on legal equality for all citizens, progress, free trade, anti-slavery, and removing power from church. Liberals declared promising changes for Latin American’s future. But Latin America had a stronger hierarchical society with more labor systems, nothing compare to the United States societies. Liberals weren’t good for Latin America. What I mean by “good” is the creation of a turning point or some type of contribution towards success. I define “good” as beneficial or helpful. The Latin American economy was stagnant between 1820 and 1850 because of independence wars, transportation and the recreation of facilities. I describe this era as, “the era when Latin America when off road”.
En la pagina ciento en el libro de Paso A Paso, hay una pintura de Botero, la familia social política. El título es ?La familia presidencial?, pintado en 1967. La pintura representa a una familia presidencial faimily quiénes parecen cerdos. Las siete personas en la pintura son todas gordos, el gato son gordo también. Esta vida política del satire. Una mujer gorda en el centro con un bolso y una ropa animal en un brazo. El sacerdote y el comandante están detrás de la mujer con el bolso y en el primero plano está una serpiente.
In Martinique, almost everyone works in a sugar cane field. They cut sugar cane in the overseer’s fields, which barely provides money to live off. Their poor condition can be picked up in one scene, when during the play, one child broke the precious sugar bowl of Ma.Tine. As a result, she beats Jose because it was the only bowl they had. Ma.Tine, a grandmother of Jose is hard-working and God fearing woman. She never allows Jose to work in a cane field because she believed that one day their poor condition will be over and Jose will provide them a good life. So, the only way to come out of their difficult situation was to do well in the school for Jose. This is exactly what Jose does; he studies hard and takes an exam, which awarded him a license to attend a school in Fort-de-France.
The film “Camila” was produced in 1984 and directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg (1922-1955). Based on the true story of Camila O’Gorman, an Argentine woman who falls in love with a priest in 1840’s Buenos Aires, this story dealt with the terrifying reign of Juan Manuel de Rosas. Camila is from an influential family and is betrothed to a Rosas loyalist. She is passionate and daring, just like her grandmother, and reads books that have been censored by the ruthless Rosas. When she falls in love with Father Ladislao, the two flee Buenos Aires and assume new identities as school teachers in a small village. During a party, a priest from Ladislao’s old church recognizes Ladislao and turns them both in. They are both executed by firing squad even though Camila is pregnant.
The House on Mango Street is the new house that Esperanza Cordero and her family move into. The importance of this house is in the way Esperanza connects her own identity to it.
The documentary, South of the Border, informs its viewers about the conflict between South American leaders and the institutions of the United States, mainly the government and media. The events shown and narrated through the film may be interpreted with the use of sociological theories, which is the main purpose of this film analysis. This paper aims to explain the causes of the realities presented through concepts and theories from the field of Sociology.
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.
Marxism in media criticism deals with socioeconomics and examines class system in relation to historical materialism. This methodology is used analyze and critique the development of capitalism and the role of laborer and in their economic struggles. Marxist political economy is relationships between people and classes through the patterns of media ownership for profit-motives and how it influences media business practices. An example of this is how we consume media. Both entertainment and media industries are making billions off our consumption of what we read, view, listening to and downloading. The analyses of mass media examines the relations of production under multinational capitalism. These patterns of media ownership are concentration, meaning small concentration of small industries owners that dominate their field. Conglomeration, accumulating multiple companies through mergers and takeovers. Integration, is how a business is put together by vertical and horizontal integration. Multinationalism, which is corporation’s being in multiple countries distributing products
...d not from the base of society but from its summit: the schism between criollos and Spaniards. The inferior status of the criollos -in politics, the administration, and the military, not in the sphere of wealth - did not conform to the status of the kingdom of New Spain within the empire. New Spain was a kingdom like no other kingdoms, but the criollos were not treated as equal to their kinsmen born in Spain. This allied to the revolt of the landless peasants was the cause of the wars of independence" (Paz, 17) "In the economic sphere, Spain removed from Mexico more riches than she returned" " (Paz,17).
In T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain Kyra’s generally apathetic in her personal life, but her world turns upside down after the dramatic loss of her beloved pets as she tries to prevent more loss. From a property moving machine to a wistful sentimental, Kyra’s work suffered from her grieving state. While showing a house far from the hustle and bustle of city life and even apart from the suburbs she was, “not herself at all…she had never felt this way about a house before…cushioned from the hot, dry, hard-driving world…she began to feel it was hers”(110). The distance of this house from the dangers of the city and even Arroyo Blanco make Kyra wistful towards owning this behemoth of a house. In trying to protect what she has left Kyra endangers her relationships.
Por los pocos años, España es una de los países Europeos (tal como Portugal, Italia y Grecia) que han sufriendo con la crisis económica que han afectado millones de personas. Sin embargo, España es el país que tiene la tasa significativamente altura de desempleo entre los jóvenes. Mientras desempleo juvenil es considerado de ser una de consecuencias de la crisis económica, esta problema ha convertido a ser una de las más importantes preocupaciones para la sociedad español de hoy y especialmente a los jóvenes españoles que no ha conseguido un trabajo y tuvo que trasladarse al extranjero (Entrevistador, 2014). Aunque la tasa de desempleo ha disminuido a hasta el 55,06% aún hay más de 800.000 jóvenes sin trabajo y que han optado a continuar con sus estudios o han ido el extranjero (Cuesto, 2014).
The author states, “The next morning, I found Mom in the kitchen with a chisel and hammer, chipping away at the kitchen counter… She stepped back and surveyed the half-demolished counter the way someone stands back to study a newly hung photograph” (Cervantes, 1 and 5). If we weren’t able to look at the story through the narrator’s eyes, we wouldn’t have seen these words with negative connotations to describe her “fixing” the counter, as well as the simile of comparing the destruction to hanging a photograph. The uneasy way the author starts off the story helps foreshadow at what will happen next, and the possible start-up of tension in the conflict. Then, the reader learns that the girl’s mother is leaving for Costa Rica, and from this scenario, we get to see a lot of insight from the first-person perspective: “Mom was always bugging me to make friends, which I didn't see the point of, considering we moved every few months, And we moved for all sorts of reasons: closer to the university for her, better school for me, quieter, prettier, bigger, smaller” (Cervantes, 31). From this excerpt, the reader can see different types of word choice that bring about a negative outlook, such as the word “bugging”, and uses a long list to describe the different places they moved to make the tone sound hopeless and despairing.
Después de este momento, ocurre un cambio en sus conceptos estéticos: piensa en las maneras de combinar un espíritu universal con uno nacional.