This is a movie about a professional killer, or "Cleaner", named Léon played by Jean Reno, and his unlikely interaction with a 12-year old girl, Mathilda played by Natalie Portman. Mathilda's family is murdered by corrupt Drug Enforcement Agents (DEA) lead by Agent Stansfield played by Gary Oldman. Agent Stansfield, is portrayed as a drug addict, mentally unstable and an overtly violent and corrupt law enforcement team leader. This movie follows the relationship of the two main characters from the time Léon saves Mathilda's life against his better judgment. This event causes both of their lives to take a detour that ends up giving meaning to both of their existences. She is trapped living in a dysfunctional family environment with an abusive father and step-mother, a hateful step-sister and her quite little brother with only a dismal outlook on her future. She is a precocious young girl who's life seems to have several parallels with the Cinderella story. Léon is a stoic, uneducated and an unremorseful killer that is totally unemotional and unattached to the world around him. He becomes the prince that saves her. Mathilda lives on the same floor in an apartment building that Léon lives. When Mathilda's abusive father steals from a drug dealer, Stansfield, who is also the DEA agent, Mathilda's entire family is murdered in a very brutal assault at their apartment by the DEA /drug dealer team. Mathilda was not at home at the time but witnesses the results of the massacre as the team is still in the apartment searching for the drugs. She cleverly pretends to ignore the carnage in her own apartment as she passes by it and approaches Léon's apartment door. She begs him to open the door in a quiet, panicked voice several times as ... ... middle of paper ... ...ing his team members Tony hesitates to reveal Léon's location. He is torn between his loyalty to Léon and the risk of angering the psychotic DEA agent that will surely kill him. According to the book, The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics, German philosopher Immanuel Kant "...would condemn an act of using someone as a tool...". He believed that everyone should be treated as they would want to be treated. Although Tony's culture and chosen profession may be considered deviod of morals to the standard public, he did have a moral code about giving up a fellow mob member. His choice to reveal Léon's location was not an easy decision. Kant also believed that "humans usually know what they should to do, and that sometimes it's the opposite of what they want to do: Our moral conflicts are generally between our duty and our inclination..." (Rosenstand, 2012).
...inds love along the way. She makes rash decisions in bad situations, faces the truth that she has been avoiding, and finds her place in the world. While her journey takes some unexpected twists, Lily learns to make the best of what she has, and go for what she wants. She learns to move on from the past, and make a brighter future. But most importantly, Lily learns to accept that life is unpredictable and that by doing her best Lily is living life the way she wants to.
A hit was put out on Taylor and Zavala by leaders of the Mexican drug cartel because they were becoming a nuisance. This hit was carried out by the same Latino gang members who had previously done a drive-by shooting of a rival gang. The officers were enticed towards their imminent deaths with a car chase which was set up by the Latino gang members. This chase led them towards an apartment complex which was rigged with many gang members and artillery to ensure that neither Taylor nor Zavala would survive. The two were ambushed but decided that gunning their way out was their best option. When the officers made it to an alley they were met by another Latino gang member who fired at Taylor and Zavala, hitting Taylor once in the chest before being shot and killed by Zavala. Zavala went to aid Taylor who appeared to be quickly dying and called out for help. Before police back up arrived the original Latino gang members found Zavala in the...
To be a True Blue Aussie you have to have a mate because “You've to have a mate,” as verbalized by poet Dave Butler in 2013. For in Aussie culture, a mate is a person whose actions speak louder than their words. In Australia, being a mate is a value that is held in the highest respect.
As the formula for the tale of Cinderella goes, the story’s exposition establishes that the mother of Cinderella will remain absent for the whole of the story. Death or other mysterious reasons causes this absence and, as a result, Cinderella, the name often given to the main character of this story, experiences mistreatment following the removal of her mother. The introduction of a new mother serves as the cause of the misfortune, with the children of this new mother aiding in cause of misery. Cinderella hears about the royal ball hosted by the king for the purpose of finding a princess for the king’s son. This event acts as the means of escape from her wretched circumstances. However, Cinderella can’t find success or confidence to go without the aid of a guardian or helper. The mother’s spirit takes the form of several helpers, in particular a cow or bull. The cow and the bull guardians can have different means as a result of the change in gender and serve different purposes.
...Leòn serves both as an artistic stroke and an underlining of the stories message. The tale of Ponce de Leòn's futile search for the fountain of youth is well known, and this allusion hammers down the nail of pain and loss that alcoholism has brought Merrill.
The main protagonist of the film, Scotty Smalls, is introduced as a straight-A, friendless young boy who has just moved into a new neighborhood in new state. While
In this essay I will be looking at the topic of the countercultural movement of the 1960’s through counterculture film. The 1960’s were an extremely interesting time in history not only in the United States but all over the western world, as we saw the rise of the counterculture generation. The counter was a group of movements focused on achieving personal and cultural liberation and was embraced in many different ways by the decade’s young people. I have chosen this topic as the 60’s stand out for me as a revolutionary and often misrepresented period in history. The films I have chosen to look at are The Baader Meinhof Complex from director Uli Edel, Woodstock from Michael Wadleigh, Pirate Radio from Richard Curtis, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas from director Terry Gilliam. I chose to analyse these films as I believe they clearly demonstrate the social and political issues of the 1960’s and societies response to them.
This novel went into how she and her father both were similar in how they expressed and experienced their own identification in gender roles. Either it being shown in their own way or even it is being through one another, they did not realize how close they were until she understood herself at the end. This then became the opening to them discusses their life experiences that involved identifying with another gender, which made them gain a better understanding about each other. The reason why the readers gain this perspective was how she used this graphic novel technique to become concise and obtain a mutual understanding in what she was expressing and explaining throughout the novel. With this mutual understanding of how she made this graphic novel, then the readers can focus more on how in the beginning they thought they were very different people, but later on grew to understand that both choose different gender roles. This gave them many similar outcomes, which help them grow even closer than they were before. With that Bechdel stated at the end, “ He did hurtle into the sea, of course. But in the tricky reserved narrative that impels our entwined stories, he was there to catch me when I leapt.”, which suggest that even if he is gone in real life he is still a part of her life’s
...uch beauty, the maiden is chosen, married, and loved by the hero. This process leads not only to beauty by means of passivity, but also to security and happiness. Assertion equates not only with beauty, but ugliness and misfortune as well. Boys in turn develop a sense of responsibility and see themselves in the dominant role. In other words, they must save the day by getting the girl and then of course spreading wealth. For the young girls of the fairy tale audience to acknowledge that they must act out roles similar to the behavior of the heroines in the three tales under examination, thus guaranteeing eternal wealth and happiness. Boys will see the same roles played out and revert to the breadwinning hero role. Lessons portrayed throughout the story are epitomized by Marcia Lieberman to support the notion of love, success, and failure.
The movie’s plot is twisted and sneaky. The opening scene starts with character Marion Crane, a real estate secretary. She is in a hotel with, Sam Loomis, her boyfriend. Sam owes debt, and Marion wants to bail him out of debt so they can get married. She goes to the office where she works, where a client leaves 40,000 in cash. Marion then takes the money to California to give the money to her boyfriend. Marion gets nervous and soon pulls over. A police comes
She argues with her mother and she thinks she is jealous of her. The start of the plot is not very dramatic, rather it is more like an introduction. We get a good description of the story’s protagonist, Connie, at the beginning of the story and throughout. She is familiar, the typical American teenager, who dreams, fantasizes and has difficulty differentiating the real world from fairytales. Kozikowsky compares the story to the popular Disney tale “Cinderella” (1999).
The film tells the disconcerting story of a young girl who finds a magical realm. Ofelia was a young girl caught up in the fantasies of her fairy-tale books. The film, directed by Guillermo Del Toro, presents the reader with the journey that Ofelia took in attempting to complete the three tasks given to her by the faun, which she discovered when wandering through a labyrinth.
The film documents a society in Libria in which the Tetragrammaton Council, headed by the “father”, controls the government. The government has created a drug called Prozium that inhibits the ability to feel emotions, and every individual must take it every day. If they fail to do so, they are subjected to death or imprisonment. Preston, one of the movies main characters, is a cleric.
Mathilda was born in a clerk’s family, but the natural charm and mesmerizing beauty she had, made her always think she should belong in an upper class family. She suffered as if she had been wealthy before. She lived in her own imaginary world where the real life does not match with the ideal life she thinks that she deserves. She was married to a clerk of Board of Education, Mr. Loisel. She was unhappy with her financial condition, she hated that she can’t have the fine jewellery or the fine clothings. In the book we see
This film really focuses on the characters. Their thoughts, anger, distress, and mistakes become part of your mistakes. This deals with a father’s s priority and how he will achieve that priority by using unethical ways like torturing an innocent man. Bringing up child abduction and torture are