There is truth in the phrase “hurting people hurt people.” A cycle of causing pain and receiving it is one that can only be broken by rising above the desire for revenge and living your life to the fullest. In the films THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (2001) and SCARLET STREET (Fritz Lang, 1945) we see a cycle of a different kind: dissatisfaction leads to more dissatisfactions. In THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE, the audience is given the sense that perhaps the series of events that lead tho the main character’s was no fault of his own, however, knowing that the Coen’s influence was SCARLET STREET, one might argue that the main character in THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE was in full control of the situation. Both films had deceptively mild characters who’s actions seemed completely abnormal for a simple man. THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE is about Ed Crane, a simple barber who decides to break out of his boring cycle of life by becoming a dry cleaner. This decision leads to a series of events that cause Ed to lose not only himself, but everyone around him. In SCARLET STREET, Christopher Cross is a dull cashier and part-time painter who falls in love with a slothful woman who uses his affections for her own gain. Once again, a single decision …show more content…
In SCARLET STREET, Johnny is accused of a stabbing that Christopher Cross committed while Ed’s wife in THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE is accused for a stabbing in place of her husband. Although placed at various points of the film, the parallels show that audience that sometimes the wrong people die and that the protagonist is not always innocent. There are several smaller parallels that could be named, such as the theme of drunk mistakes, tempers leading to downfall and car crashes, but it all would lead the conclusion that the Coens are vert studious filmmakers who enjoy inserting the things that shaped their own careers into their artistic
Ultimately, mans inhumanity against man was a big part between the novel "Night" and the film The Stanford Experiment maintaining status quo to treat them horridly. Deprivation of basic needs makes people go and do things they shouldn't. Lastly separation of power makes people feel superior to others. To conclude over all mans inhumanity against man is occurred when there is given too much
What the film is saying is to be human you must be able to empathise
experiences with revenge what his actions caused. It shows that getting revenge is never the
Charlie loses some of his innocence when he witnesses his sister being hit. While watching a movie with his sister and her boyfriend when his sister “leaned into him for about four movie scenes”(11). He started to cry and she said “You see, Even Charlie stood up to his bully You see” (11). He got very angry and hit her across the face. Charlie got shocked at him because “he was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until he hit my sister and stopped crying”(11). Charlie learns sweet and kind people until pushed good people can do bad things.
A person with dishonor can cause a honorable person pain. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, he had a way of making his work memorable. The contrast between the tragic hero Brutus and the independent Caesar led to the theme of dishonor.
In each of the two literary works, a main character undertakes a physical as well as a psychological journey. In Invisible Man, the unnamed narrator is thrust into a world of prejudice and risk. Initially he is rewarded with a scholarship for giving a modest speech about African Americans’ role in society just after being forced to humiliation in a blindfolded, intra-racial brawl for entertainment. However, the narrator finds after going to college that an overabundance of misfortune manages to inflict him. He muses that he “had kept unswervingly to the path placed before [him], had tried to be exactly what [he] was expected to be, had done exactly what [he] was expected to do – yet, instead of winning the expected reward, here [he] was stumbling along” (Ellison 167). The narrator goes from the black college in the South to Harlem, New York, where he has difficulty staying afloat. The narrator barely gets a job, nearly dies in an explosion, and is constantly mistaken for others or ignored altogether, which exacerbates his already troublesome situation. In
The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter are both stories that take place in early Massachusetts. The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, and The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, have many similarities among them including setting, theme, and the conflicts within them. Though there are many similarities, these literary works are certainly different. Both convey a common theme, but develop it into a totally different story than the other. The themes of sin and guilt are what give these stories some of their similarities. The time period in which The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter were written, also contribute to the themes as well as their storylines. Both Hester Prynne and John Proctor acted immorally and committed adultery. Though
We know that people react differently than others, like the man who left early compared to all of the other men. Though the experiment only lasted less than a weeks’ time, it showed us that we cannot perform these kind of studies without someone on the outside looking in. It was a tough environment for all of the people involved. From Zimbardo right down to the prisoners, it was a tough time. They hadn’t even started to see the changes in themselves being so wrapped up in the study. People will react to certain situations how they seem fit, even when they don’t realize that they are hurting the people around them at the time. I don’t think that any of the guards made it their intention to hurt anyone, they just hadn’t realized it at the time that what they were doing was wrong. We cannot treat each other as less than human beings. Thanks to Christina Maslach, the project was ended early. Without her having seen what she had, who knows how much worse it would have been for everyone involved. We are all human, and no one deserves to be treated as anything less than so; prisoner or
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Most people do not know the limits of their actions, until they are faced with an injustice. Actions taken by one person may well be different from those of another. Human reactions are as unique as individuals themselves. Why do some people take matters of revenge or injustice into their own hands while others are content to let justice take its course? An individual’s morals, background, the reward at stake, and how personal the situation may be, all contribute to how far a person is willing to go to right a wrong. Where is the line drawn? Are there limits that a person would self-impose to right a wrong?
Scarlet Letter and The Crucible the use of relationships between a man and a woman are
...ence” is an example of one that is much more than that. Without relating this movie to current political events, the movie might not have resonated with the viewers as deeply as it did. Americans continue to see these types of violent movies for enjoyment; this enjoyment extends beyond the movie theater when the audience can leave with new perspectives. Movies live on through daily conversations, books, and the internet; however, this could only occur if we are able to relate the movie’s message back to something in our lives. People receive messages best when they willingly accept it and Cronenberg claims that Americans willingly accept movie violence because we all have a personal history of violence; that “it's wired into our DNA” (Interview). Without sermonizing, he shows us why we desire what is publicly reprehensible and how we are able to make peace with it.
depiction of man at his worst. The sad truth is that events of this nature have
When you read a book or watch a movie, you want it to capture your attention immediately. Revenge is one of those themes that can easily be used grasp the audience. It is always an exhilarating theme to read about because it can bring out so much in a character. It will often be used to bring out the worst in people. It can make people go mad, and in fact it can completely consume them. It can bring people to an extreme point in life, and this is what makes it so fascinating. In the movie, Straw Dogs, the protagonist, Dustin Hoffman, goes to such an extreme. After Hoffman’s wife is taken advantage of, he begins to slip into the abyss of madness. He wants revenge, and then it escalates quickly into a bloody battle. Older novelists also often used revenge to show the extremes of people’s personality.
“We fight each other for territory; we kill each other over race, pride, and respect. We fight for what is ours. They think they’re winning by jumping me now, but soon they’re all going down, war has been declared.” Abuse, Pain, Violence, Racism and Hate fill the streets of Long Beach, California. Asians, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics filled Wilson High School; these students from different ethnic backgrounds faced gang problems from day to night. This movie contains five messages: people shouldn’t be judgmental because being open-minded allows people to know others, having compassion for a person can help people change their views in life, being a racist can only create hate, having the power of the human will/goodness to benefit humanity will cause a person to succeed at any cost and becoming educated helps bring out the intelligence of people.