Tambien la lluvia!

This movie had moved me so much! The people who were creating the film in the movie learned a valuable lesson of never taking advantage of people and appreciating everything that they have. I find this a movie that everyone should see and I pray for those people in Bolivia. Watching those people suffering and fighting strong for water made me be so thankful for all the water that I have and that there is no limit to the amount of water. The people creating the film were only paying the workers 2 dollars a day which is nowhere near enough to survive in any culture. When the director thought he was going to get away with it, he sees that one of his main characters are suffering greatly and is also the leader of the Water Wars. The films team gets caught up in the war and need to leave because its so dangerous!
I was most shocked when the government told the people they were not allowed to even take the falling rain hence the name "Even the Rain". It seems as if the government has taken over everything and people are dying of lack of water left and right. It pained me to see the people suffering and then turning around seeing people wasting such things as water. I was glad to see the producer had a change of heart and had helped a woman make it to the hospital and he said I have money so I am able to get thru the wars no problem. He had helped the woman make it to her daughter who was shot in the leg. I was moved also when he said that even after he was going to go home, he was going to make sure her family was going to be ok! People have change of hearts in times of dispare..some for good, some for bad!

Gomorrah!!!

This film had given me mixed emotions on whether I liked it. I was confused after the film had finished but after we talked about it in class, I realized how real this movie actually was. This was more of a reality than I had ever expected or even seen in any film. Watching this film was as if I walked right into the gang part of Italy and it was still carrying on from what it was doing and my presence had no impact on it. As if I was a fly on the wall, watching and understanding everything that was going on. This film made me feel no sympathy for anyone in it because I had not gotten to know anyone who was in this movie. There was no plot to this, only getting to see parts of different people in the film was the reason I was not sad to see the people from the Chinese culture get into and accident or when the gang was in the hospital deciding who was responsible for killing their gang friend. What did shock me a little was when the kids said that now he was part of a gang, then his friend that used to be is not his enemy. This movie was like war. Walking in and seeing people that used to be friends now killing and stealing from them was a little uneasy for me, but as I said before, I didn’t get to know each of the characters long enough to even care what was really going on. I try to pay attention to every movie that I watch but with this one, there was not much detail. There were kid’s getting into trouble that got them killed and choices made by gangs to kill certain people because they felt it was their responsibility to get the person.

Cabin in the Woods

In my opinion, this movie is very unique. The previews make this movie seem like you typical horror movie with young adults being eaten by zombies. This may be true, but what we didn't see was that all of this is being controlled. This was what was very unappealing to me was that yes in a way, these kids chose their fate, by the stuff they messed with in the cellar, but the people behind everything controlled it all just to keep the world going. When the people behind all of this is saying that these young adults are being punished for being young, really pissed me off because who are they to decide that these people had to sacrifice their lives? Who are they to decide that the world keeps going? I very much enjoyed the end, because the people who were supposed to sacrifice their lives, got their revenge and took matters into their own hands. They had decided that the world was going to end and that it was time that the world was going to change. People may not think that this movie has any religion behind it, but the fact that the people in the control room, making the young adults die for the sake of humanity seems as if the role of "God" is being played.In my opinion, the sake of ending a few lives so the rest of the world can live, is not very ethical to me, especially the big celebration that the people have in the control room when they think that have succeeded.

Sympathy for Lady V

I have seen quite a few Korean movies all either being sad and romantic or scary. This is the first violent korean movie I've ever seen and I am not sure on how i feel about it. After watching the movie and hearing another students paper on violence, I would have to agree with what she said about "It's our job to creat life but not to destry it." The only difference that this student and I have are that I believe in God and she does not. My belief is that God is supposed to decide when a life is to end and how it is supposed to end. At the end of the movie when the main character asked the parents of the kidnapped/murdered children if they wanted the murderer to be delt with by the police or by them. I had a small hope for the murderer that some would say he be delt with the police but sadly I was wrong. I don't believe that violence is the answer to solve ANYTHING! I am not a fan of violence in movies and I dont quite belive our children should be seeing it. I only feel as iof violence should be put in a movie to renact something in the past. Examples of this are WW2, Vietnam War, Holocoust, ect. There are some parts of the movie that I did like so im not 100% against this. I enjoyed the mother/ daughter relationship and the letter that the daughter had written to her mother. The girl's mother admits that she gave her up and throughout the entire movie you can just see the bond being built, especially when the mother is hugging her daughter and apologizes 3 times. I was born to a young mother and was almost given up. Today our bond is now stronger that ever. Seeing this type of bond being built during all the violence is very powerful!

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta!!! A movie about terrorism where there is revenge, death, and blood. What nobody expects is a love story behind all this. That is what took me by surprise the most, the small love story in the midst of all this death and terrorism. I feel like there was just enough romance for this movie, if more was given..... this movie would have been to much. Another part of the movie that surprised me was when V never revealed his identity behind his mask.....that is what makes this movie not your typical movie. Most movies would have had more love, possible love scene, and would have revealed his identity!! When we finished the movie I wasn't sure if I was mad or glad that V didn't reveal his identity...but now that I think about it, I am glad he didn't because i get to keep his mask image in my head rather than what he really looks like! Overall I just have to say that this movie was very interesting. There were times when I thought one part was real and it was actually V...for example when Evey was in prison, I thought that she was either going to die or V was going to rescue her, I never thought V was putting her through all that just because she told V that she did not want to be afraid anymore!

Fight Club

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Fight!!!!!!!!

In the movie "Fight Club" we take a man that has two different personalities played by two different actors. Taking two aesthetics from this movie will give you all an idea of my opinion for this for this movie. First, lets take the actors, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt playing the main character Tyler Durden and Helena Bonham Carter who plays Marla Singer. In my opinion these three actors played there part very well. Edward Norton playing the personality of the average man who hates his job and lives off of the fact that all of his furniture is ordered. Brad Pitt who plays the dangerous side and has the "I don't give a shit attitude" in which i thought suited him very well as a person when this movie was made. Finally we have Helena Carter who plays the insane Marla Singer. She is a sex loving, pill popping, crazy lady of the movie who falls in love with the main character. While watching this movie i was so rapped up in it that i figured that is how the characters are in real life. That is when I know good acting was being portrayed.
The other aesthetic I wanted to look at was the "mise-en-scene", the everything else other than the actors. It was a very dark setting which seemed to me as if society was very depressed. People got pleasure out of fighting, bleeding, and destroying the society. This group of people that grew from one person to many very quickly seemed to be out to change and start a new society. My favorite part of this movie was at the end with the blowing up of the credit card companies. Getting people out of debt and clearing their name seems to be a good way to me to brighten things up in a messed up society. The only question that this movie left me was how was he able to destroy his crazy side of his personality by blowing up his own head, without killing himself?

Pan's Labyrth

I have sort of a hobby for learning Spanish and about the Spanish culture. When i found out this movie was in Spanish and originated in Spain, I was more than interested. When I first started watching the movie, I thought this was a kid's fairytale movie with talk of the little girl seeing a fairy in the beginning. As the movie progressed, I realized that a company like Disney would never produce a movie with such violence and blood that took place. I found this movie very fascinating because there was a lot of the dream world mixed with reality. For example, when the Faun gave the little girl the plant that wanted to be human. The little girl took care of it and somehow it made her pregnant mother better. Another example was when the little girl used chalk to draw a door to the dream world from the reality world. This movie had me really entranced and also left me with a happy ending feeling. Yes the girl dies in the reality world and leaving her baby brother behind, but she was more than alive in the dream world which i consider heaven. I have heard the idea that when you die, you make your own paradise and I felt that this was the paradise that the Faun helped her into. After watching this movie and seeing the behind the scene footage, i realized there was a lot that I didn't notice. For example, I never realized that the faun and its horns played a major role in symbols throughout the movie. Some symbols were the shape of the tree where the toad lived, the headboard of the bed and the railing of the stairway. Also realizing many of the feminine symbols such as the moon, the baby, the blood in the book and from the mother, I felt that this movie was very feminine. Only having a few symbols of man such as the watch, the guns, and the war, is the reason i find this movie very feminine.

Hunger

Of all the movies we have watched, I felt as if this movie, Hunger, was by far the movie that affected me the most. I had left class early this day because I felt sick to my stomach as soon as the movie was over. Thinking about this movie for days after watching it and knowing that it was based off a true story was what kept me thinking about it. The idea that men would stay in their own cells with their own shit on the walls, not clean themselves or shave, and starve themselves just to gain a political status just made me disgusted. Some of the aesthetics that stood out the most to me was the color and the sound. The sound of the men beating on their shields and beating the men at the same time caught my attention the most. All the noise made the beating sound so much more brutal. As if the entire world was supposed to hear these men being beaten. As for the color, there were lots of browns, grey, whites, and very dark shades of colors. All these colors making the movie a very depressing movie with the thought of death on my mind. The color red also portrayed a sign of pain with the bloody knuckles on Lohan and the bleeding sores all over Sands' body. The blood being a sign of pain and suffering that went on during this Hunger Strike. I was pretty shocked to find out that this strike lasted 7 months and 9 men had died.