The movie “Keith” was released in theatres on April 11 in 2008. It was directed by Todd Kessler. Kessler teamed up with David Zabel on doing the screenplay. The story was written by Ron Carlson. The main characters, Natalie and Keith, are played by Elisabeth Harnois and Jesse McCartney. The movie shows how one person can affect another’s life immensely in such an abbreviated amount of time.
Keith is a mysterious teenager. He is unpredictable and difficult to follow. Natalie is a control-freak that does nothing but practice tennis, do her school work, study, and do productive things. She does not have much time for anything other than stuff that helps her future. At first, Natalie is not a big fan of Keith. He confuses her too much. The things
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He asks her why she wants to attend Duke University. She asks him where he is going to college and he tells her he is not and she judges him much like expected. Keith sees Natalie and RAff flirting and kissing and gets jealous. The next day he asks her about Raff calling Raff her boyfriend and judges her for choosing him. Keith knows the buttons to push to get Natalie to hang out with him and he pushes them. “What’s the rush? We’re here in a yellow truck, a road in front of us, and nothing but opportunities?” becomes their phrase. They both say it to each other later on in the film. Keith constantly nags her about being a control-freak rule follower. She quickly learns that there is something different and mysterious about Keith and it drives her crazy that she cannot figure him out and he has her figured out. Natalie finds herself, as time goes by, thinking about Keith more. She catches herself looking at Keith while talking to Raff to the point where Raff asks Natalie about him. When her mom asks her about Raff she accidentally says Keith instead of saying Raff. Slowly, she thinks about Keith more and more as he finds different excuses for them to spend time with each other. She even began cancelling plans with Raff to spend time with
“It was the best, worst thing to happen to me.” claims Ian Keith Tyson of his military career. Mr. Tyson is a veteran Marine who served in both Operation Iraqi Freedom (later renamed Operation New Dawn) and the war in Afghanistan from the years 2009-2011. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 31st,1985, he eventually enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 24. After interviewing with each individual branch, he decided that the Marines simply fit. This was a decision that would permanently alter his life, for the better.
This brief essay examines racism in the 1974 motion picture Conrack. The movie is an adaptation of Pat Conroy's autobiography, The Water Is Wide. The main character, Conrack, a young white male teacher portrayed by Jon Voight, is assigned to teach students from poor black families on a small island off the coast of South Carolina. The small community has little contact with the outside world and develops its own language. He finds the students essentially illiterate and their education neglected by state authorities. Poverty and their race cause neglect of their educational needs. The black school principal has convinced the students they are stupid and lazy. Conroy begins teaching the students useful, essential life skills. The community has no interest in learning about anything away from the island. The community has lived in fear of a nearby river because none can swim. While trying to improve the students' level of knowledge and their enthusiasm for
Several Years after their marriage, cousin Mattie Silver is asked to relieve Zeena, who is constantly ill, of her house hold duties. Ethan finds himself falling in love with Mattie, drawn to her youthful energy, as, “ The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, gave life and elasticity to Mattie.” Ethan is attracted to Mattie because she is the opposite of Zeena, while Mattie is young, happy, healthy, and beautiful like the summer, Zeena is seven years older than Ethan, bitter, ugly and sickly cold like the winter. Zeena’s strong dominating personality undermines Ethan, while Mattie’s feminine, lively youth makes Ethan fell like a “real man.” Ethan and Mattie finally express their feeling for each other while Zeena is visiting the doctor, and are forced to face the painful reality that their dreams of being together can not come true.
High school sophomore, Samantha Baker woke up on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, hoping for an overnight transformation. While on the phone with her best friend, she stares at herself in the mirror, praying she had grown a few inches and a set of boobs. Much to avail, she has not and her day goes on just like every other one. She has the added pressure of being a bridesmaid for her older sister Ginny’s wedding, the next day. After being felt up by Grandmother Baker, Samantha deals with the ridicule and torment of her annoying little brother and takes the bus to school. During her study hall class she takes a silly quiz another friend had given her. The quiz ends up in the hands of her crush, Jake Ryan! The anxiety sets in.
A certain level of maturity is essential in order to acknowledge and strengthen the graces given by the Holy Spirit. In the movie Hancock, directed by Peter Berg, the main character went through the process of maturity in which he recognized and strengthens the graces that were given to him. Hancock is an immortal being who is destined to save the world; he demonstrated four of the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. The first special gift that grows in Hancock’s understanding is where he eventually admits his faults while he was staying in jail. Second, the gift of right judgment was shown when Hancock chose the right thing by not escaping from prison even though he had the chance to. Third, Hancock presented the gift of courage when he saved
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.
Natalie is an immigrant from Russia during the time of the rise of communism and the creation of the Soviet Union. When she was a child, Bolshevik secret police agents broke into her home, murdered her father, and raped her mother. Natalie describes the experience as such “... the Bolshevik secret police came for innocent Nikolai Siminov, and dragged him outside screaming. They kicked him and punched him while my mother and I watched through the window. When that bored them, they threw him in a car and came back in and raped my mother while I hid in the closet listening to it all.” (Conroy 68). Realizing that Russia was not safe for them, Natalie and her mother changed their names and fled to America. While Natalie’s story is just an anecdotal experience of typical Soviet life, it is clear to the reader that such cruelties are not uncommon in the Soviet Union. Natalie finished the remainder of her childhood in America and started working in a government position in the US war department. This is how she becomes acquainted with the character of Steve Burke. As noted by several of the characters within the government office in which Natalie works, Natalie is a beautiful young woman. Burke summarizes her qualities when he says “She was tall, dark haired, lithe, intelligent, wide-eyed, lovely, educated, and doubtless unattainable” (Conroy 10). Natalie and Burke eventually fall in love, which is one of the central events in the
Karissa is a 28 years old female Caucasian. Karissa is single at this moment. Karissa prefers to dress like a man, also she has visible tattoos in her arms. Karissa declares to be lesbian and her last girlfriend died in a motorcycle accident five years ago since them, Karissa has not been able to be with another couple seriously. Karissa and family lives in Village of Central Square , NY; which is a small town in upstate NY. Karissa is living with his brother Steven which is a strong support for her. Working in the restaurant Karissa was surrounded by her family, her mother Robin, aunt Tricia, aunt Cheri, stepfather Terry, and father Ray. There was a continuous involvement of the family in Karissa’s addiction, but nothing serious. Karissa
The film We Need to Talk about Kevin opens with vibrant images of what looks to be bright red jelly being thrown around in a festival on the street. There is a woman smiling, laughing, happy to be there and be free. This woman is Eva Khatchadourian, the mother of the film’s namesake, Kevin, and depicts a vastly different contrast to the rest of the film, as we follow the story of Kevin and his likely mental illness through the eyes of Eva. There may be brief light moments of happiness in the rest of the film, but never again like the happiness Eva experienced before Kevin’s birth, as raising him proves to be a challenge from day one.
The boys in his class on the other hand face many struggles. Neil, is a young man who has an extremely controlling father. His father has been
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin offers an intense story that offers an intense character in Kevin himself. There’s a lot of aspects of this film that makes it unique such as the plot, character design, and the theme of parenthood. This film shows how a relationship between son and mother that is not the best, and shows how it turns out to be a blood shed film at the end when we see a high school massacre. The plot of the movie is set as Kevin being difficult from when he was a child. Eva, who is Kevin’s mother, has trouble bonding with her son, who appears to behave in a certain behavior that he thinks will torment her the most. The design of the characters really incorporates a deep color of red. It appears when we see Eva and Franklin conceiving Kevin is compared to spawning of the devil. Red is present when we see it on Kevin’s clothes as a
The movie “Freedom Writers” relates to the chapter one A Nation at Risk, by giving examples of the Six risk behaviors in students. The one being Behavior that contributes to unintentional and intentional injuries. The movie takes place in a high school that is know for their racial street gangs. The students repeated say in the beginning of the school they will protect their own race. The students would plan to take action against other gang groups if they wrong them at school or on the streets. One of the students at the school would carry a gun in school and had the intended to use when a school wide fight broke out. One of the students at that school was shot and killed in the crossfire. 82% of 15 to 19 deaths are killed with a firearm.
School of Rock is a comedy about a struggling rock ‘n’ roll musician, Dewey Finn played by Jack Black, who gets kicked out his garage band and poses as his friend Ned to get a substitute teaching job at a prestigious prep school. With no educational background, Dewey or Mr. S as his known by his 4th grade class, begins teaching his students about rock ‘n’ roll. After learning that a handful of them are musically talented, he forms a rock band gives each of his students a part to play.
Being John Malkovich is a film that very closely relates to many questions of philosophy. The main character, Craig Schwartz, was originally a puppeteer but due to the economy was forced to leave his job and become a file clerk in Manhattan. When beginning his new job, he is told that his company's office is on the seventh and a half floor of the building. While one the seventh and a half floor Craig finds a small door that is a portal into the body of John Malkovich. This portal opens all sorts of philosophical questions. The philosophical question nature of self come into play in this film. The questions such as What makes us us? and Why do we do the things we do? are present throughout the film.
On April 4, 1965, Robert Downey Jr. was born in New York. At a very young age he began acting. In the 1980s he started his appearances on Saturday Night Live. Given the amazing life he was offered, he struggled trying to pursue his dreams. Although he had a great life a head of him, it was slowly deteriorating at the same time, as he struggled with the use of drugs.