“His and Her Circumstances,” directed by Anno Hideaki in 1998, is a Japanese romance anime that depicts the growing relationship between a girl named Miyazawa and a boy named Arima, two Japanese high school students. Miyazawa is an honors student who feeds on attention and praise. She pretends to be ‘the perfect student’ on the other hand, Arima excels in everything. He is performing on a higher academic level than Miyazawa and loved by everyone. He was born and raised in a family who all are doctors, including past generations. This ambitious student becomes her temporary rival in the beginning of the series. Arima later finds out that Miyazawa is putting on a façade of being perfect, he blackmails her with a threat that he will expose her …show more content…
Arima eventually stops his blackmailing as they open up to each other, having many similarities, and then quickly growing romantically attached to their friendship. Throughout the show they both shape each other’s personalities and make each other better people.
Most romance anime focus on one person earning the affections of another character, without giving them life goals or a life outside of their romance. This anime breaks those walls and displays a more realistic outlook on their lives, not just focused on their romance alone. Miyazawa struggles to be in the top of her class, and the perfect example for all of the students, she spends her time mostly studying and aiming to get into a great college. On the contrary, Arima carries the pressure of being perfect in order to
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Their grades start to drop a little as they spend more time with each other, rather than studying constantly, and the principal becomes dissatisfied with their performance. Finally he summons them to his office. There is a serious atmosphere in the room when Arima and Miyazawa arrive there. The principal is seated at his desk and other teachers are standing behind the principal who are all not colored in. A banging of a drum can be heard when a camera close up of principal is shown, and pans out. The lighting in the room is equivalent to a ‘lomo’ effect, the room is bright but the edges of the frame is surrounded by a faint black. This makes the room look closed in and smaller than it seems. Slow piano music begins to play as the principal discusses to the two how their relationship is holding them both back on their studies and tries to persuade them to break up. Arima and Miyazawa hold their ground and vow to the principal that they can keep up with their studies and be together at the same time. In Japan, grades in high school are very crucial to determine a student’s future and how successful they will become. Students must be able to take a college exam test which they are allowed to take only once in that year. This test will determine which colleges a student would be able to get into, whether it be
Aza is in a relationship with Daisy, both positive and negative. To demonstrate this, in the opening scene, Aza and Daisy are sitting at a lunch table, eating lunch, but as everyone joins in the conversation, Aza’s ever-going spiral tightens, bringing her into the world of c. diff, (stands for Clostridium difficile, an infection that affects your colon) which is the
Sankofa filmed and directed by Hallie Gerima in 1993 explores the past in which African Americans were brought over as slaves and what they endured while there. In the movie, the main character Mona who is also portrayed as Shola, goes to Ghana for a photoshoot where she encounters the “village protector” Sankofa. Sankofa sees Mona and notices she is very first worldly, she’s wearing makeup and a blonde wig. While noting that she has lost her roots he approaches her to remind her to remember where she came from. Soon after she is jolted into a spiritual time travel back to the past where she experiences the life of those who lived in Ghana at the time of slavery. Mona who then takes on the role of Shola is taken though the experiences of traveling to the states, being branded, and mistreated by the master. Once at the plantation she takes us on a journey through the life of the individuals on the plantation as well as well as her own.
History usually forces itself into the present in Juan Jose Campanella’s film “El Secreto De Sus Ojos” (The Secret in Their Eyes). Although it was filmed in 2009, the story is an attempted memorization of the violent reality in 1970-1980s Argentina, an era in which the country was rapidly sinking into military rule-ship. Campanella offers flashbacks into Argentina’s dark days, a period where violence homicide, rape and injustices ruled. Through memory, the film narrate a era in which it was impossible to be an innocent person as the innocents were falsely accused, tortured and even murdered for crimes they never committed, all these for the whims of those in power. Even though, the film is set in the 1970s, it does not call immediate attention to the animosity, the hopeless feeling and the constant struggle between the desire to forget vs. the attempts to remember the chaos and confusion of these years. However, through the use of memory Campanella allow the views to portray an almost perfect picture of what happened in Argentina.
..., the society begins to see love as a goal. Romantic love becomes a noble trait and just quest if one wishes to embark on it.
Within the German Democratic Republic, there was a secret police force known as the Stasi, which was responsible for state surveillance, attempting to permeate every facet of life. Agents within and informants tied to the Stasi were both feared and hated, as there was no true semblance of privacy for most citizens. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the movie The Lives of Others follows one particular Stasi agent as he carries out his mission to spy on a well-known writer and his lover. As the film progresses, the audience is able to see the moral transformation of Stasi Captain Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler primarily through the director 's use of the script, colors and lighting, and music.
After a more detailed examination of the stories, however, it becomes evident that each individual is striving to find love. Though love is a universal goal, each person's criteria for a meaningful, fulfilling and loving relationship varies. This is clearly demonstrated by the different situations in which the characters find themselves. The conventional, stereotypical, and almost cliché demonstration of love can be seen in stories A & D, where the characters simply "fall in love and get married".
In the novel Life of a Sensuous Woman, Ihara Saikaku depicts the journey of a woman who, due to voraciously indulging in the ever-seeking pleasure of the Ukiyo lifestyle, finds herself in an inexorable decline in social status and life fulfillment. Saikaku, utilizing characters, plot, and water imagery, transforms Life of a Sensuous Woman into a satirically critical commentary of the Ukiyo lifestyle: proposing that it creates a superficial, unequal, and hypocritical society.
... influential on a person’s life may be the reason why it is so widely used as that subject or theme of every kind of art. Romance, which is the emotional attachment between to people who love each other, is a common way that artist can visually demonstrate love in their artwork. Although the materials and colors have a lot to do with the visual aspect of demonstrating love in art work, the aspect of love that art work shows as well as the history behind the piece its self can cause the artwork to not only be about love, but also about the romance in love. Many would agree that LOVE and The Kiss both demonstrate love, however, The Kiss is more romantic out of the two.
I started to struggle academically as well as athletically, when my closet cousin, Alex Wolfe, committed suicide last year. I felt like I didn't care anymore and I was mad at the world. I was also mad at the school, so therefor, I didn't want do anything for it. I had an eye opening dream one night that involved Alex and I woke up the next morning and made a decision. I knew that I had overcame many obstacles and trials so I knew I had the guts to overcome this as well. I knew Alex would want me to excel instead of fall behind, so I did it. I went into every class that day with the perspective that I was going to do my very best in whatever I do. That same thing went for practices and games. I now regularly stay in that mindset and it helps
Conrad suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress disorder and Survivor’s guilt. In the beginning, we see that he was losing appetite, as he did not want to eat the French toast. He was re-experiencing flashbacks and nightmares of the boating accident throughout the movie. He had diminished interest in activities like he left the swimming team, which he really loved. He showed the symptoms of avoidance, did not talk much at the dining table with his family, was in his room most of the time, and he stopped hanging out with friends.
No matter where in the world you are, stories and tales of life and love stimulate different emotions from the bottom of someone’s heart. Various situations of love cause people to feel happiness, sorrow, and even pity. Some stories are realistic, but others are too exaggerated to be real. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is well known by children and adults alike. Although this story is fictional, the tragic love of the two main characters is looked upon many. Though being well known, there is much strife and dispute. One of those arguable views is whether or not the play is an Aristotelian tragedy, or just tragic itself. But Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is indeed an Aristotelian tragedy by the accuracy of the imitation of reality, flaw of the tragic heroes, and the importance of the inferior characters.
The world before her is a film of hope and dreams for Indian women. We examine two girls with different paths but one goal in common, empowerment. This term conveys a wide range of interpretations and definitions one of them being power over oneself. Both Prachi and Ruhi manifest a will for female empowerment but both have distinct views on how this is achieved. Prachi believes the way to achieve empowerment is through her mind and strength, while she still confines to tradition views of Indian culture. Ruhi desires to achieve female empowerment by exposing her beauty in a non-conservative way while maintaining her Indian identity.
“The Tale of Genji” written by Murasaki Shikibu originated in Japan and was written by a Heian court lady within the early 11th century. The original copy of this literature no longer exists. Up until this Japanese literature was written most of the collection of poetry consisted of borrowed Kanji script from China. The Heian society was utilized in this Tale. The literature included a depiction of the lifestyle of the high courtiers during the Heian period. The Heian courtiers didn’t know a lot about the world outside of the capital. Most of them rarely ever travelled. This work of literature reflects the life of the son of an ancient Japanese emperor Kiritsubo. Genji is removed from the line of succession by the emperor. The literature then
...t on that special day. Here the persona contradicts herself by saying she falls in love forever however this is followed by only twice a year. Here we see that maybe this lifestyle of falling in and out of love is normal for her. Maybe this is because she is scared to enter a real relationship because of hurt, pain or abuse which is shown and experienced in ‘A kind of love, some say’. This also shows us that when we open ourselves up to love we open ourselves up to hurt and pain.
Today, romance is one of the most popular genres to watch on television. Unlike most, romance is a genre where the plot revolves around the love between two main characters as they experience the highs and lows of love. “Common themes that revolve around romantic movies are kissing, love at first sight, tragic love, destructive love, and sentimental love” (Taylor). These themes appear in many historical films and the pattern still continues in modern films as well. Watching romantic movies has a giant negative influence on the viewer's analysis of what love and relationships should really be like. These films give the wrong impression of reality when it comes to dating, marriage, having children, and even how to manage a relationship in the first place. Even though romantic movies are commonly watched, there are many effects on personal real-life relationships after watching these types of films.