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“The Kids Are All Right” is in a way a typical suburban family comedy-drama or dramedy film. The family starts out happy in a transitional period with the oldest kid about to go off to college and the youngest trying to figure out who they are. One big departure from this archetypal dramedy is that the plot centers on the kids finding their sperm donner and how the parents deal with it. Without any context, due to heteronormativity, most mainstream movie goers are generally very likely to assume this was a heterosexual parental unit. In this film, that is not the case. The parents in questioned are a same-sex married couple, lesbian couple to be more precise. This story was meant to be a very personal movie co-written by the director. This …show more content…
Cholodenko actually based this movie on snippets of her life and experiences she’s had. The first drafts of this film started back in 2004, Cholodenko at the time was single and started to see all her friends get married and have kids, including some lesbian couples who used sperm donners both friends and anonymous. When she moved out to Los Angeles later that year, things changed. Cholodenko met Wendy Melvoin, whom she eventually married, and Stuart Blumberg, whom she co-wrote the film with. Due to these events, eventually the story that was originally going to feature a family’s white-water rafting trip morphed into the simple and grounded yet powerful story that ended up in the …show more content…
In 2010 when it came out, same-sex marriage wasn’t legal in all 50 states, it was a hot-button issue for the whole country. Over 50 percent of the nation said they were for legalization making it a perfect time for this movie. From the first showing at Sundance, it was clear that the critics loved it. It got universal acclaim for the unconventional yet conventional story and the performances from the whole cast. Review aggregator sights prove this. Metacritic has it rated as 86 out of 100 and categorized in “universal acclaim.” It’s certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 93% of 205 critics giving it a positive review. In all, it was called "Worthwhile as both a well-acted ensemble piece and as a smart, warm statement on family values, The Kids Are All Right is remarkable." It even did well in the award season. It was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards and won two Golden Gobes: Annette Bening for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and Best Motion Picture Musical or
"Kids for Cash" is a documentary about a scandal that happened in 2008. The outrage was about the bribes being given to judges in the judicial system at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Mark Ciavarella, who was elected and then re-elected for two 10-year terms as a juvenile court judge, and Michael Conahan, a senior judge, were suspected of accepting money from Robert Mericle, the builder of two private juvenile facilities, in order to make a profit out of the incarcerated teens. The judges would punish the teenagers that would be brought to their courts more harshly in order to increase the number of convicts in the juvenile facilities. According to CNN, "minors charged with nonviolent crimes were often given harsher sentences than what probation officers recommended, court documents say" (Chen, 2009).
...ow well they played the part and told the story. Of course, like other directors Lisa Cholodenko wanted recognizable actors in order to achieve a more grand recognition for her work.
Worried about being the perfect mother, wife, and balancing her job with family life at home.
The popular dancing movie, Footloose, was directed by Herbert Ross in 1984. Craig Brewer, produced a remake of Footloose in 2011. Both of the original Footloose and the remake, have multiple differences that split them apart. Although they follow the same theme, the sequence of events that took place happened in different orders and well as some characters were not present in the remake as they were in the original. The acting, dancing, and setting were varied slightly but it followed the same trend as the original. Directors Herbert Ross and Craig Brewer, directed the same film, while Craig Brewer made the film more modern, while keeping the film following the same trend.
I have chosen to review the film Boyhood written by Richard Linklater that took twelve years to film. In the movie Boyhood, it illustrates the life of a boy named Mason Jr. through the many stages of his childhood to adolescence to becoming an adult. The movie follows Mason Jr.’s life through his years of kindergarten, middle school, high school, and to college. Through these milestones in his life encounters society with socialization, culture and norms that are exhibited through his family, friends, and others. With factors of social classes, and gender that influence Mason Jr. as he grows and fits into the society that is formed. From the events and milestones in Boyhood, it is able to show human behaviour in society from our
Justice has began to commence for many of Canada’s Indigenous people now that considerably one of our Nation’s darkest secrets has been spilled. The Residential School system was a collection of 132 church-run, government-funded boarding schools that was legally required for all Indigenous Canadian children. Canadian Residential Schools ran up until 1996 and, for decades, the secrets from within the walls of the institutions have been hidden. But now, the truth has finally come to light.
For this assignment, the movie “The Help” was chosen to review and analyze because it presents a story of fighting injustice through diverse ways. The three main characters of the movie are Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a young white woman, Aibileen Clark, and Minny Jackson, two colored maids. Throughout the story, we follow these three women as they are brought together to record colored maids’ stories about their experiences working for the white families of Jackson. The movie explores the social inequalities such as racism and segregation between African Americans and whites during the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.
What if I told you that I know the outcome of your life and where you will end up before you even know it? Wouldn’t you be scared? See for a regular person who has a supporting family around them this question will almost feel almost like a death sentence. Nobody wants anyone to judge them before they even go through life on what they will end up being.
Today television shows are widely praised for their portrayal of different characters sexuality. On Modern Family a same-sex couple’s life is shown through their relations with their family and raising a child. There’s also shows aimed at young adults that are receiving attention for their depiction of gay or lesbian characters such as Glee and Pretty Little Liars. Even the Disney Channel has shown a same-sex couple on the show Good Luck Charlie (with some backlash claiming that since Disney is intended for children that they should seek merely to entertain and not to push an agenda). On the contrary to this argument is the idea, that same-sex couples are becoming more and more normal thus they should make it recognizable to children.
In 1987, there was a Syphilis outbreak in a small town Alabama, Tuskegee. Ms. Evers went to seek out African Males that had this disease and did not. They were seeking treatment for this disease, but then the government ran out of money and the only way they can get treatment if they studied. They named this project “The Tuskegee Study of African American Man with Syphilis”, so they can find out where it originated and what will it do to them if go untreated for several months.
The Importance of Being Earnest film produced in 2002 compares to the original version reveal different changes. The change modify the motion which the author would like to transmit in the original document. The important changes are the modification of some stage of direction. The actors changed some stages of direction and created their own. The second change is skipping of some sequences. The actor of the film choose to ignore some sequences which were in the original version. Moreover, the actors added some stages which were not in the preview version. The other point is the incapacity of transmitting all the motion which we can perceive in the reading. Finally, the actors did not show enthusiasm in their performance as we can feel it in
The film Babies is a film that follows four babies from San Francisco, Tokyo, Mongolia, and Namibia through their first year of life. The film has no talking or narrative. In many scenes, you don’t even see adults. This helps you get to see a baby’s perspective on the world. This movie showed how different cultures are when it comes to raising children.
It is just one scene where the children come to the realization that parents are people too. When the coworker/suspected boyfriend of Samantha played by Kristin Chenoweth, drops in on the family kidnapping is an example of this. Another is the scene where the parents are discussing what went wrong in their relationship after the family puppet therapy session. The kids seem to over hear this dialogue between their parents and realize that they are not super heroes they are people.
If I meet the wrong person or being forced to do something, I should reject and leave immediately. This movie brings a lot of thinking about sexuality, sexual orientation and gender issues, and it does influence audiences in many different
...f this film include sexual content, violence and graphic details. But, when viewing this film we have to be aware of this and only let children see this movie if the adults feel that it will not affect them in any way, such as making them feel that this behavior is appropriate or any other thing that might be in their minds.