Gifted is a heart-warming film that goes through the emotion spectrum, keeping you smiling through the tears. The film tells a story about a young girl, Mary, who is gifted at math. She lives with her uncle, Frank, who wants her to live her life like a normal kid so, he sends her to a typical elementary school rather than continuing to homeschool her. However many people don't agree with Frank`s choice to not enrolling Mary in a gifted program and with how Frank raises Mary. This turns into a custody battle between Mary`s grandmother, Evelyn, and Frank. Gifted is a wonderful movie and exceeds in plot, character/ actor choice, setting, originality, and accuracy. The movie starts out with Frank and Mary fighting about going to school, which …show more content…
The only other movie that reminded me of this film was Little Man Tate. That movie was also about a gifted child and his mother had the same worry that Frank did. They both wanted their kids to enjoy life like a kid. However the overall story of Little Man Tate takes a completely different turn than Gifted does. The movie, Gifted, was also very accurate in general. Especially with the custody court case that it follows. Through a lot of the movie, Frank and Evelyn are in court arguing about Mary`s well being and who should decisions for her. It follows a typical custody court schedule of witnesses, home visits, plea deals and so on. The script even include court jargon. The accuracy of the movie helps create a relatable and believe storyline. Overall, I loved the movie. It made me feel happy yet sad at the same time. I would recommend this movie to everyone who wants to see a very heart felt story of an extraordinary little girl who ends of getting the best of both …show more content…
It is a local Colorado magazine and so, I was able to connect more with the audience and be able to relate to them within my critical review. The Westword is not a very formal magazine. The Westword Is mainly viewed online and the majority of it audience is male (64.9%) and is around the ages 21 to 49 (78.4%). The Westword appeals to people looking for an opinion and information on music, movies, restaurants and so much more. Therefore I chose to review a movie that was recently in theaters. My tone and style will be fairly informal and laid back as if I am telling a friend about the movie. This is because I am trying to appeal to a younger audience much like my peers. You can see this throughout my review, when I use informal words or ways to describe the film. For example, in my first sentence “Gifted is a heart-warming film that goes through the emotion spectrum, keeping you smiling through the tears.” A writer for the Denver Post or any other more formal magazine would not talk like this in their
I think it did a great job of showing how a family can come to view addictive and abnormal behavior as normal. I would recommend this movie to friends. I feel that it gives great insight into the dynamics of how the disease of alcoholism can trickle down the family tree affecting everyone it touches in such profound ways. Other than the lack of physical abuse I could see myself playing most of the roles the kids did as far as lost child and hero, I remember trying to fulfill most of those roles when I was younger trying anything from trying harder in school to trying to do chores to perfection in the hopes that I could through my works keep my parents from drinking. Thankfully as I got older I came to understand that their drinking was their illness not mine and until they decided they had enough I could do nothing to help them, but love and pray for
I thought Sling Blade was written and filmed well. It did get slow in parts, but overall it kept my attention. I picked up on minute details that on a regular basis I wouldn’t have. This paper made me see the underlying aspects such as the music, lighting, and script. It made me pay attention to what the characters were saying and how they were relating. I now look at film in a new light. I don’t just watch the surface. I dig deeper and watch for everything.
The movie is, most likely, done well enough to intrigue its intended audience. It captured the theme and story line of the book. It falls short, though, when compared to the beautiful, sensitive and contemplative prose of Natalie Babbitt. One could only hope that a viewing of the film will lead the watcher to try the book and be delighted all the more.
The movie starts off by introducing a little boy named Matt. We find out that Matt is completely deaf. His grandfather doesn’t take the new lightly and is slightly in denial on the fact that his grandson is deaf. The baby’s mother talks about deaf schools and teaching the boy sign language. The grandfather doesn’t believe in those kind of institutions and believes his grandson would learn how to communicate through Oral education; teaching him how to read lips. The movie fast-forwards into the little boy’s life in elementary school. He’s put into a special-education class, when he’s clearly fine; his only problem is that’s he’s deaf. After watching this scene in the movie, it had me thinking. Not only was this little boy being singled out for one small difference than others, but he was seen as dumber than others because of it. Although this happened years ago, this reminds me of society today. Often time’s people treat others that don’t blend in, differently. People also believe they’re much better than others who have a form of disability, when in fact this is not true. Throughout his childhood he’s often bullied by other kids for being deaf. His grandfather starts to teach him how to talk by making him feel his vocal cords as he speaks. He also encourages him to join the wrestling team. It was difficult for him to adjust to the team because he would hav...
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
In Conclusion, people can live a normal life with mental disabilities thanks to various treatment options and support systems. A mental disability does not have to define who a person is, there many people leading successful lives with these disabilities and its is possible to prosper and live a healthy life. These movies help raise awareness by bringing the issues to a widespread audience and encouraging them to seek help. It also shows that mental illness does not have to derail their lives. These movies do an excellent job in advocating for those who have had to live with the stigmas that come along with being diagnosed with a mental illness.
Each boy gets nurtured and find outs what is it that they want in life eventually finding it one way or another.
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...amily she finds the true meaning of being brave and saves her family (“Brave”). I like this kind of movie instead of a man being the brave and independent one now the woman is. These are the kind of fairy tales that need to be told so that women do not feel the need to be weak and dependent on other people. If fairy tales slowly become more realistic then I think they are a good thing but teaching women to not be strong or if their not a size 0 and gorgeous, well that in my eyes is not okay.
Honestly I thought that the movie had such a simple story but at the same time it is so complex. The way it was delivered it was amazing, it's such a moving film. The actor’s were amazing, there isn’t anything I would want to change about this film. I would 100% recommend this movie to anyone, its so inspiring and it really makes you think.
All in all, after watching the movie, I know how to be thankful, the point of persistence and the precious friendship, I have learnt some important things that I didn’t know before. And the best thing is I'm still young enough, I also can fix my behavior and gain experiences.
This book is a great book and it touches ones heart in ways you couldn't imagine. I seriously love this book because I love romantic stories and it's just so cute. The movie is good but the book is better.
Firstly., the ambiguous relationship between adolescence and gifted underachievers has to be considered. John Doe is 15years old and is in mid adolescent years, this is arguably one of the main determining factors that contribute to John Doe’s underachievement. Research suggests that between the ages of 10 to 14 years there is a decline in academic achievement, (Compton, M.F, 1982). Adolescence is a critical time for youth development; it is transitional phase that poses a great challenge for all students. The emergence of identity, relationship needs, the need to achieve and autonomy play an important part in student learning during the period of adolescence. However, it is arguably a more challenging time for gifted students.
Gifted education defined can be a broad topic with a number of different branches to spiral down if you’re not careful. So how can we narrow our search for information and come to some conclusion on where we are today and where we might be tomorrow? First, what is giftedness? The Virginia Beach School system defines giftedness as: “Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.” This is the same definition as the federal government’s definition of giftedness. This definition does provide us with a good baseline for educators to focus efforts, however the application and the execution of programs based on this definition will determine on a state level who will receive the gifted based education. The American “No Child Left Behind” legislation, is putting an emphasis on minimum standards, which in turn is not challenging our gifted students. This also leaves us in a position where some students who normally would not be identified as gifted are then put into gifted programs and receiving services that they do not necessarily need. The current system would lead us to believe that Virginia Beach has a broad definition or liberal view of giftedness. This is true on how we define giftedness but defining and executing the programs need to go hand in hand, the ying and yang per say. The execution and the availability of gifted programs and services are also very broad based on the federal definition. Giftednes...
Forrest Gump was born with a relatively low IQ of only 75, right below the average. He was too young to do anything about it, but his mother insisted and helped him to get into a regular school, instead of schools for special kids, allowing him to have the chance to study with normal kids. This portrays the idea that with strong parental support, everyone has an equal opportunity to be educated and to achieve their own best level.