Ben Wheatley’s ‘Free Fire’ is a magnificent blood-soaked romp that is equal parts captivating and witty.
Summary
This picture is set in the 1970’s as a group of criminals meet up with an arms dealer. The first group is connected to the IRA and is led by Chris (Cillian Murphy) along with his partner Frank (Micheal Smiley). They, of course, brought back up to the meeting in form of hired guns Stevo (Sam Riley) and Bernie (Enzo Cilenti) on top of a suitcase of cash. The arms dealers are a South African man named Vernon (Sharlto Copley) and Martin (Babou Ceesay) an ex-black panther. Helping to broker this deal for each side are Ord (Armie Hammer) and Justine (Brie Larsen). During the course of the negotiations, a fight breaks between some of the hired guns which manifest into an intense 85-minute shoot-out between the two groups.
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His character is a mix of used car salesman meets psychopath. Vernon tries to pull a fast one during the gun sale by selling the wrong brand of rifles to the IRA. When questioned about this, he immediately flies off the handle and the audience quickly realizes that this deal is doomed even before it starts. His business partner Martin tries to reason with him but even he sees that there's not talking to a crazy person.
Slavery is an issue that continues to be discussed today, and for most Americans, the main reason that sparked the Civil War. Both authors agree that slavery was morally wrong, and it almost brought the Union to its knees while trying to rid the nation of it. However, both authors have very distinct thoughts and reasons for it. While Stanley Elkins’ Slavery has a more personal and opinionated version, James McPherson’s interpretation in Ordeal by Fire is based on facts. McPherson employs the use of graphics and charts to illustrate and quantify the findings about slavery in his book. His writings are based on the economic factors that made slavery the main force for prosperity in the South. Cotton production had become the main source
Fire is a simple human necessity that is capable of sustaining life, but if misused can easily destroy it. Guy Montag a firemen destine to burn books, meets a young girl named Clarisse who changes his view on everything. His character slowly starts to change as he realizes books are in fact pieces of art, doomed to the flames. Montag digs deeper and deeper, until eventually it may tear the society wide apart. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character Montag’s view point of fire progresses from a weapon capable of destroying anything, eventually the fire disinfects Montags head, and in the end causes him to changes completely.
attacking people in the town of Amity. The film is set in 1975 and is
One does need a full knowledge of the slave trade and slavery to know that those coming from the continent of Africa and those born into slavery suffered various forms of psychological rewiring, some positive but most negatively. Yet, it is scarcely asked what the mental state of the White population was. There is this generalized notion of acceptance, however, there must have been ‘something' felt by this ethnicity, or at least by some. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relations between races, specifically the racial attitudes in 18th century Portugal and Brazil. To do so, we will be using Robert Edgar Conrad’s, Children of God’s Fire: A documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil, primary source, Section 5.1, focusing
Breaking news! Recently there has been a fire in the small town of Windrixville, nearly killing four young children and two teenage boys. In this tragic incident, three young men rescued some young children from a burning church. Apparently, the children were playing in the church when it was set on fire. Our three heroes, Johnny Cade, Dallas Winston, and Ponyboy Curtis heard the voices of the kids from inside the church and they knew something had to be done. They were willing to sacrifice their lives for the sake of these children’s lives.
Bradbury uses poetic devices throughout the novel to paint vivid images. Two of these poetic IMAGES are the use of fire and water WHICH portray different meanings. Bradbury refers to fire and its purpose on a number of occasions. To the firemen, fire symbolizes purification through the burning of books. This is ironic since such an act usually denotes destruction. Captain Beatty, chief of the fire department, believes that "fire is bright and fire is clean."(60) This belief develops when he explains to Montag the reasoning behind burning books. The reader is at this time given an image of Beatty, his character, and his way of thinking. In one instance, the flames were used to cleanse the fire department of its evils by its elimination of the chief. In this case, "Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on [Beatty]" until "he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering mannikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn."(119) A picture is created in the mind of the reader showing how Montag finally stands up for what he believes is right. Furthermore, when Montag set his own house ablaze, he undergoes an uncommon emotional experience in which he views the fire as a new starting point. The fire signifies Montag sterilizing his life by burning his house and "he felt himself gush out in the fire, snatch, rend, rip in half with flame, and put away the senseless problem."(116) This captures Montag in a stage of anger and frustration after his wife has left him and his chief is ready to arrest him.
A person's next move can affect them and someone in their life without them even realizing it. So why would they want to make the decision that could result in a sudden death in their family ? It is only right they be held accountable for the steps that lead up to or occurred after, they got entrapped in a life or death situation unless, it happens to be an accident.
The novel’s protagonist is Guy Montag, a “fireman” in an unspecified futuristic society where he and his other fireman start fires, rather than put them out. Which brings situational irony because in our modern world firemen are supposed to extinguish fires not start them. Books are banned and burned upon discove...
London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 7th edition. Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York, NY: Longman, 1999.
“Barn Burning” starts in a courtroom, with a man named Mr Harris defending his case. A boy is observing this, and he considers Mr Harris his and his father’s enemy. Mr Harris claims that the boy’s father continued to allow his hog into his corn. After several times, Mr Harris kept the hog. That night, Mr Harris’ barn burned down. Mr Harris had no proof that the boy’s father burned his barn, but he knew that the boy had witnessed the fire. The boy, Colonel Sartoris Snopes, goes before the judge. However, he is not questioned. Mr Snopes is not found guilty, but he is told to leave the county. Colonel Sartoris is hit and teased over his
Sita, silhouetted against a fiery orange window in a green sari, is about to embrace Radha, her lover (image 1). Against their family’s morals and their country’s traditions, these women are in love. Fire, an Indian film by Mehta Deepa, is a film which deals with the topic of lesbianism in India, and the dominance of males over females. Aesthetically, Fire has a second layer of meaning conveyed through the use of symbolic imagery, light, and colour. This paper will analyze the symbolic emblems, lighting techniques, and colour choices which enhance the major themes in this film.
The mental and physical aspects of the state of consciousness have been explored many times by poets throughout history. It has at times been paired with fire in having different representations that go delve into passion, compulsion, zeal, creativity, and motivation. In a deeper poetic context, a fiery consciousness is one in which there is a spark of awakening that grows to consume everything in comes in contact with. In Adrienne Rich’s poem “Burning Oneself Out,” the thematic context of the poetry explores this idea of a fiery consciousness representing a sense of awakening. The poem draws upon themes of an awakening consciousness, with aspects going into the passing of time, curiosity of the mind,
James Baldwin was an influential activist in the Civil Rights Movement and also became know as one of the most prominent African American intellectuals of twenty centuries. Between Martin Luther King Jr non-violent views on integration and Malcom X radical views, there in middle lies James Baldwin ideals a mix of the two. In his book The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin analyses the position of blacks in America a century after the Emancipation Proclamation which supposedly gave blacks their freedom. He uses the essay “My Dungeon Shook” as a plea to his nephew the importance of acceptance and integration. Through the essay “Down At The Cross” to provides readers with personal experiences about the relationship between religion and race that allowed
Baase, S. (2013) A Gift of Fire. 4th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.