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.