Viewing the film The Cider House Rules, I found myself experiencing a multitude of unpleasant feelings and reactions that I found difficult to analyze. I found myself reacting with a deep inner uneasiness during many of the scenes. The responses that were most prominent during this film were empathy, sadness, frustration and loathing. Through the viewing of the movie and the deep analyzation afterwards, I was able to accomplish the task of removing my own prejudices towards the circumstances and achieve clarity. I found Dr. Larch to be arrogant in the beginning when he was talking about the mothers and his interactions with them. He seemed to discount them and did not offer any solace to them, which I found sad. I fell into a false analogy in this instance because I failed to see the true meaning of what he was accomplishing. After applying my critical thinking skills, I realized that I was involving my past and experiences as a young, unwed …show more content…
She made me angry and her accent made it worse. She was sweet as molasses, but poured on a rotten tomato. I most definitely was falling into some reckless stereotyping of this character. This was a much simpler pitfall for me to recognize. Poor innocent Homer finally got free of his obligations and able to see the world. Even after I realized I was stereotyping her as a ditzy southern bell who was bored and lonely, I looked deeper. As I did, I realized she actually was all those things. Her husband had gone off to war and she did not waste any time having sex with Homer. She did court him for a short time but she was going after him and she got what she wanted. She blamed her husband for leaving her even though he knew she got bored and lonely, as if to say it was somehow acceptable for her to cheat. In the scenes where she counseled Rose and cared for her afterwards, she demonstrated compassion and
[2] Missing is a rather confusing film to follow at first. Admittedly, I had to view it a few times to understand what was happening. Perhaps the initial feeling after seeing this film is confusion. However, after having watched it a second, fourth, eighth time, what I really felt was anger. Each time I watched the film, the anger and disgust would grow, so much so that it pained me to watch it again. However, in identifying the cause of my anger, I began to realize many things.
In week one, I immediately found myself interested and alert as I tried to absorb as much as possible from Examined Life. It was difficult to find a balance between taking as many good notes as possible, with making sure not to miss anything these eight philosophers had to say. I took to heart many of the thoughts and ideas that were shared throughout the film. The first that struck a cord with me was that it is not necessary to find meaning. At first that sounds contrary to philosophy at its core, because I find that is usually what we ponder; the meaning of whatever it is we are thinking, doing, or discussing. I realized that sometimes it is fine for things to just be, and not know why. Much of the film has to do with how we think, and what we do in private. Collectively, through these moral and ethical acts (or lack of them) we can impact the public. Also by sharing these thoughts and concepts with the public in the documentary, it can affect our thoughts and actions in our private lives; I know it has at least for myself.
However, three ethical decisions that this learning will make after viewing the film is to always assist individual to the best of your ability, despite personal issues with loved ones or friends; next, always report crimes, no matter the consequence they may have; and last but not least, stand up for what’s right, even if it leads to misfortune. The pros of each of these decisions is peace within yourself. However, one of the cons is dealing with negative pressures. For example, when you report a crime, you may be summoned to court, and have to deal with the negative criticism.
After completing this assignment, I am amazed on how much of a better understanding I have on these concepts. Not only am I able to connect them with situations in daily life, but even to the extent at which I can relate them to circumstances in a movie. The two topics that I chose to explore further and relate to the movie and each other were conflict and politeness theory. Not only did I realize my ability to connect such topics to fulfill this assignment, but I somehow feel that my future experiences watching movies or paying attention to others daily behaviors will be more analytical after completing this assignment.
deceitful and Homer is a sexist who holds a double standard of morality for men
Cathy Ames despises drinking alcohol because of the feeling the beverage gives her. A reaction overcomes her “which neither she or [others]” can control (9...
Although, it is proven difficult to completely change your point of view from the society you are brought up in. The characters in this film go through a lot of self-reevaluation to find their place in society, as well as a reevaluation of their initial prejudicial
First of all, in The Simpsons, the scene where we get into the actual plot of the story opens with Marge and Lisa walking into a department store that sells dolls. The gender stereotype that girls are only interested in playing with dolls is reinforced here as a huge selection of Malibu Stacy dolls is on display with a throng of screeching, bloodthirsty girls tearing the store apart. Lisa says, “I’m warning you mom, I might get a little crazy.” and immediately knocks down a girl and snatches another in a choke-hold to be the first in line for the new Malibu Stacy doll. In the very next scene we have the whole family in the car with Homer driving. He is baking a cupcake with an easy-bake-oven that he bought from the mall. Marge advises him that he should not be doing that. The stereotype here is that men are more impulsive as demonstrated by Homer and his baking while driving without any concern of his or his family’s safety; and that women like to play it safe and think before acting as demonstrated by Marge. Another noteworthy observation is the fact that Homer completes his gender stereotype as the bread-winner of the family. He works at the Nuclear power plant while Marge plays the role of the proud homemaker who is rarely seen outside the home and who has little friends. Homer on the other hand, is not confined to his domestic role and his frequently shown at Moe’s Tavern with his friends, at work, or doing something that is stupid and dangerous. This enforces the stereotype that women have few friends and stay close to domestic life whereas men have lots of friends, are more independent, and bring home the bacon. Moreover, Bart and Lisa are in accordance with their gender stereotypes as well. For instance, in the backseat, Ba...
This Analysis Paper is an analysis of social problems an issues presented in the film. The film under analysis in this paper is "What 's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993). The topics used as a lens for analysis are family, social roles, deviance, and social groups. This paper will present numerous examples of these social issue topics as they are displayed in the film.
I liked that Dr. Stanpole is honest with Gene because he can see what will happen in the soon future. I especially liked how he talks about Finny’s death. However, I disliked that Finny dies because I would have liked to have seen what happens with him.
The film that I have chosen to analyze is “The Purge”. “The Purge” is a 2013 American horror film directed by James DeMonaco. It was released on June 7, 2013, to mixed reviews. I will be analyzing “The Purge” by looking at conflict theory, class division, the importance of the ethnicity of each individual character, and the government’s overall political and economic agenda. In brief, I believe that Purge night takes place because of Conflict theory, due to political and economic agendas.
Constantly throughout the documentary Gameau subtly targets the audience’s emotional appeals in order to position his audience in a way to endorse his views on the sugar issue. Various facts are verbally stated about day to day items shown in each household throughout the documentary in order to target the audience’s values of food and sugar. Through doing this Gameau is using the power of language to manipulate the audience to take notice of the issue as it is connecting with them through their values. Along with emotional appeal, emotive language is also used by Gameau. His choice to use this emotive language allowed him to use powerful words to evoke strong emotions from the audience to manipulate their views on the issue of sugar. Throughout That Sugar Film, Gameau includes multiple words such as ‘disgusting’ and ‘outrageous’ to describe what sugar is doing to our bodies and to stimulate strong emotional feelings towards the subject within the audience. Apart from Gameau using emotive language and appeal as a power of language in order to persuade his audience, he is able to effectively use attacks and inclusive language as
Lisa a smart and opinionated girl who is charming, vulnerable, wise and adorable, and adds a bit of comedic relief to the show. Mia Thermopolis, on the other hand, is also similar, she is a geek in both appearance and personality, and hence I decided to adopt some of her traits such as her appearance and personality into developing my character. Since much of the characters in Dags are melodramatic and viewed from Gillian’s perspective, I decided to mirror this by exaggerating Monica’s physicality, emotions, and expressions and making them heightened and as melodramatic as I
Through many examples Homer indicates to us the standards of those times. Major examples about what is valued in a wife are encapsulated in book 6 (about Nausikaa). Homer uses this short story to present a standard from which we can evaluate Penelope's performance. In making a comparison we see that Penelope never stood idle and helpless. She continued to perform the duties expected of her, while her husband was missing.
One can learn from Tony’s mistakes. One can learn that family comes first. Society can also learn that taking shortcuts in life sometimes lead to a dead ends with no u-turns. This film showcases the time line of how a drug lord could rise to power from nothing. This film also shows how that same power one gets from becoming a drug lord could be taken at any time. Studying how to analyze a movie has definitely changed my perspective on how I view movies. I actually look at all the detailing in movies. I look at the camera angles and how they affect the scene. I even start to question why the director did not use a different angle for certain shots. By using film theories and criticism one can generate enough ideas in order to understand the movie better. When a film is being captured the director focuses on certain angles and lights to get the meaning of the scene to the audience. Just like everything in life has a meaning, everything in film also has a comparison meaning. This course has widen my intellect on how movies affect our societies. Movies can play a major role in how we act or how laws are even created. Movies has the same power as music. I say movies has the same power because one can look at a movie and want to become whatever he or she saw in the movie. One major skills that I developed in this course is being able to focus. Before this course, I could not focus on anything at all. I was the type to focus on three or