When I watch a thriller movie, I hope to have some extreme feelings of emotions, particularly suspense, excitement, and anticipation. These emotions are key characteristics of a successful thriller movie. When I found the movie I Have your Children, formerly titled Amber Alert, as it is posted under on Netflix, I was very intrigued. The title sounded very interesting. In criminology, an Amber Alert is a term used when a child is abducted and their life is in danger. Being this movie was called Amber Alert, I figured it would be realistic and action packed, with a lot of police activity. However, this movie did not live up to the standards I set for it. I Have Your Children, directed by Philippe Gagnon, was an unrealistic thriller movie with a predictable story line that felt me feeling anything but thrilled.
As the movie progressed, it became less realistic. Calum McGill (Kyle Mac) is a twenty-year old man diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (Gagnon). Calum’s mother, Julia (Sarah Dodd), was
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Throughout the entirety of the movie, Trish Marshall (Mary Krohnert), an employee for the insurance company whose daughter, Everly, was held hostage on the bus (Gagnon). Trish kept popping into scenes and every time she was on the phone with her boss convincing him to pay the ransom (Gagnon). Because of having Trish on the phone every time she appeared, it made it obvious that the ransom was eventually going to come from the insurance company. The genre of this movie is a thriller; however, it did not feel much like a thriller having been so predictable. The only thrill that I got from the movie was in the first half-hour of watching this ninety-one minute long movie. During those first thirty minutes, half of it shows a bride who is about the jump off a building because her husband said the wrong name at the altar. For the most part, once Calum kidnaps the students and drives the bus into the warehouse, the thrill is
To try to satisfy his craving for power and jealousy, he spreads rumours about the cone-gatherers, and in particular Calum. Before he spoke to Effie Morton about the ‘sightings’, he debates whether he really should spread rumours about them. He does speak to Effie Morton, who is the cook-housekeeper of Lady Runcie-Campbell’s mansion. He tells her that Calum is a pervert who exposes himself in the forest for his own pleasure. An example of this found in chapter 4, “now when he was ...
Steinbeck shows Cals isolation from love and its aggressive results when Cal angrily throws stones at his mothers house. When Cal first learns of his supposedly dead mothers existence he is outraged and goes to seek her. When he is not allowed to see her he violently throws stones and yells "Why can’t a kid see his own mother?" and "Why cant I see my mother". This is the first of several violent actions taken by Cal in an effort to be redeemed by his parents affections. His actions, although violent, are a symbol of his not being loved and the isolation he feels towards his family. In the scene where Cal tries to confer with his mother it is also learned that his mother does not want to have any contact with her children.
Throughout the film, we learn that each woman has setbacks within her household. One sister has a terrible drinking problem and ultimately loses her job due to excessive drinking and tardiness. The second sister has had several pregnancies that each result in miscarriages due to high stress. As a therapist, there are several different elements to review.
When John Grady tells his friend, Rawlins, about his first meeting with Alejandra, the author uses Rawlins to point out some important traits in John Grady: his stubbornness, his disregard for the conflicts that his actions might cause, and his need to be “in love,” even if his feelings aren’t reciprocated.... ... middle of paper ... ... Even after John Grady has been jailed, wounded and betrayed, he cannot give up his romanticism. McCarthy’s novel is not about a boy trying to find his place in society, but about a boy trying to find himself and who he really is apart from society.
...y away from women, Norman seems to lusts after Marion, and “Mother” did not approve of it. Of course at the end of the film we discover that the mother is actually also Norman, who “transforms” into his mother whenever he experiences sexual desire for other women. Norman’s mother’s personality that consumed him would kill those who threatened to come between them. After listening to the manner in which Norman’s mother spoke to her son, Marion can't believe that Norman is traumatized so harshly by his mother and suggests he should break away from her. She overstepped her boundaries when she suggested Norman place his mom in an asylum. Marion insists that he can free himself from the traps that he feels have possessed him. The fact that Norman lusted Marion and Marion threatened the relationship between him and “mother’s” served purpose enough for her murder.
"Anxieties regarding the threat of crime against children often take on panic-like proportions. In the USA, where FBI statistics indicate that fewer than 100 children a year are kidnapped by strangers, the public concern with child abduction is pervasive. [...] The same inflated sense of danger prevails in the UK. Many parents do not believe that, over the years, the number of children murdered by strangers has remained fairly static. On average it has been five per year. A few highly publicized child murders have helped shaped the impression of such tragedies 'could happen to every child'" (Furedi 24).
The prominent theme in the thriller movie, Psycho and the short story, "The Devil and Tom Walker", is that greed has its consequences with the suspenseful and uneasy atmosphere which was developed by the high, overwrought emotion.
The main character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, is brought to a state mental institution from a state prison to be studied to see if he has a mental illness. McMurphy has a history of serving time in prison for assault, and seems to take no responsibility for his actions. McMurphy is very outgoing, loud, rugged, a leader, and a rebel. McMurphy also seems to get pleasure out of fighting the system. McMurphy relishes in challenging the authority of Nurse Ratchett who seems to have a strong hold over the other patients in the ward. He enters into a power struggle with Nurse Ratchett when he finds out that he cannot leave the hospital until the staff, which primarily means her, considers him cured.
Early in the film , a psychologist is called in to treat the troubled child :and she calmed the mother with a statement to the effect that, “ These things come and go but they are unexplainable”. This juncture of the film is a starting point for one of the central themes of the film which is : how a fragile family unit is besieged by unusual forces both natural and supernatural which breaks and possesses and unites with the morally challenged father while the mother and the child through their innocence, love, and honesty triumph over these forces.
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
One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a movie that portrays a life story of a criminal named McMurphy who is sent to a mental institution because he believes that he himself is insane. While McMurphy is in the mental ward, he encounters other patients and changes their perception of the “real” world. Before McMurphy came to the mental ward, it was a place filled with strict rules and orders that patients had to follow; these rules were created by the head nurse, Nurse Ratched. However, once McMurphy was in the ward, everything, including the atmosphere, changed. He was the first patient to disobey Nurse Ratched. Unlike other patients who continuously obeyed Nurse Ratched, McMurphy and another patient named Charlie Cheswick decided to rebel
... story as it shows the grandmother and her family’s lives have no importance until their encounter with the Misfit. Furthermore, O’Connor develops both her main characters, the grandmother and the Misfit, primarily through the structure of her disarrayed and segmented storyline with the intention of exposing her theme to her audience.
Jennifer Egan’s use of structural classifications about Charlie’s role within her family displays the reason for Charlie’s
This film, directed by David O. Russell, takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where former teacher Pat Solitano Jr. (Bradley Cooper) is released after 8 months of hospitalization by his mother Delores (2012). Due to living with bipolar disorder with mood swings, Pat has anger outburst if not managed properly. After finding his wife cheating and after brutally beating the man with her, Pat was committed where he was closely watched and given treatment such as medication (that could be spit out easily). With the court’s
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