Paper Moon, a 1973 American tragicomedy directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The film Paper Moon dramatically depicts the Great Depression era in the Plains states of America. The artistic cinematography used throughout this film contributes to the overall historic feel. Shot in black and white with the period music, the stark settings help the viewer understand the personalities of the characters and their growing relationship with each other, plot of the movie and its setting. The two main characters of the film, Addie and Moses, in order to survive and fulfill their own desperate situations, take an emotional and physical journey together. The film shows their characters as indulging into each other. At one point it shows the talented nine years old girl who wants to make things good for Moses and for herself. The film portrays the young girl as confident, talented and courageous. Addie, in this film seems to be excellent at judging someone’s character. While on the other hand, Moses portrays a selfish personality, and can do anything if it is in his advantage. In my opinion the girl wants to live and roam around with him but, he sees girl as a big responsibility and leave her at her aunt’s house. It looks like the film was shot in some small towns. A considerable part of the film was shot in hotel where the roots to run are started. In my opinion, although the film was made in 1973 but, it looks like somewhere between 1930 to 1950. The black and white picture shows the old American culture of that time. The costumes and the way people are dressed. In order to support the old picture of the film, Moze’s old Ford convertible plays a great role. The way they act to buy whiskey from the man in wooden crates reveals a difference between Paper Moon and movies made nowadays. They way they buy that old school truck from the group of people by fighting from them was another intense moment in the
By hearing the story of the Amin Family from all of their perspectives really enhances the story form me. It helped show me all the aspects of the story. Many people might thing that Isaac’s perspective, because he suffers the most in jail, is the prominent one, but as the story progresses each of the family members struggle in many different ways and from different distances from their father or husband Isaac. Parviz Isaac’s son, lives in New york, far away from home and is only able to endure this tough time with distant contact from his family. It is interesting to read about Parviz’s perspective because it is different from his other family member’s experience with this unsettling time in all of their lives. In New York, Parviz has to deal with his grief alone, and with no support system. Back at home, Farnaz and Shirin are much closer to Isaac. Everybody knows of Isaac’s arrest and they have to live with the attention that brings to their family. The Revolutionary guards search their house and some of their belongings are taken. Shirin doesn’t have a lot of friends anymore. By knowing all the perspectives of the characters it helps to understand the whole story not just one perspective, this way of writing helped me to fully understand the story and gave me a better experience as a
The narrators of the two short stories, “Araby” and “The Things They Carried” both present their protagonist to feel adoration towards a female. They are very open minded characters with strong personalities. James Joyce had described Magnan’s sister to have a strong effect on his emotions. ”I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration” (Joyce 318). These main characters share similar romantic dreams they both have about the girl they deeply dream of. Joyce and O’Brien both describe how each character faces challenges. O’Brien the soldier and Joyce from the “suburbs” are both young men with the challenge of growing into manhood as they are trying to grow intellectually. Towards the end of the stories O’Brien and Joyce both have destructed dreams that they have to emotionally overcome. The narrators have a fantasy for a girl that is not physically there to love them back. Joyce does not have experience so he thinks of Magnan’s sister as being a “goddess”. “The boy, at last, glimpses reality unadorned; he no longer deceives himself with his usual romanticizing. For the moment, at l...
The narrator of both stories did an outstanding job in setting the scene for the readers. The theme of both stories to me is about lessons learned. In Araby the young unnamed protagonist makes a promise to bring back a gift from a bazaar and was unable to purchase the gift leaving him disappointed and angry. “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Joyce, 1914). To me the young man is angry because of all the trials and tribulations he put himself through to get a gift to impress a young lady who really was not interested in him anyway. And Sammy from A&P although a little older than the unnamed boy from Araby also shared a fixation with a female character. Sammy thought because he quit his job to make a statement to his boss Mr. Lengel that she (Queenie) would be outside waiting for him. “I look around for my girls, but they're gone, of course. There wasn't anybody but some young married screaming with her children about some candy they didn't get by the door of a powder-blue Falcon station wagon” (Updike, 1961). Sammie assumed that this act of solidarity would place him in an advantageous position with the young lady. Sammy who was surely disappointed when his expectations were not met did learn a valuable lesson. According to Sammy “I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter” (Udike,
With the description of Amari’s childhood, she uses imagery to fight through and forget the hellish physical sensations, with sweet mental sensations. It shows how Amari, no matter what she goes through, will never forget her dreamy childhood and use her memories to fight through hard times and keep her going without giving up. It calms the tensions of the issue by droning out the terrible actions and calming everyone with sweet memories of a warm, beautiful childhood. It helps to resolve the conflict because if she never remembered her family, the hard times would be much harder and the idea of freedom would not mean as much to her, causing her to have a small amount of hope and desire to escape and become her own woman.
...as they throw themselves against walls. This rehearsed behavior supports Alexie’s rhetorical agenda. The relationship is superficial and very scientific with very little emotion because they feel obligated to act eccentric so that people actually have a reason to stare. Also, both characters are very intelligent and think of life in a sensible, mathematical way. Jeremiah refers to Mary Lynn as the “constant” in his life. Their ethnicity in conjunction with their rational personalities directly causes their relationship to be very dull and dysfunctional.
The cinematic techniques and postproduction actions can make or break a film. The two films showed in class so far are nearly polar opposites, both showing how a director can achieve or fail to achieve the status of “normal” story telling. The epitome of “normal” story telling and film noir, The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston in 1941, shows how to use camera angles and post production techniques to keep the viewers engaged and on the edge of their seat. On the other hand, Freaks directed by Tod Browning in 1932, is considered a textbook example of how to make a movie confusing for an audience to follow. Both of these films clearly exhibit different cinematic techniques and postproduction edits, that make can either
Movie starts with a mother carrying and feeding her child. And ends with the child and mother walking together. This time gap is demonstrated with periodic evolution of examples and daily schedule of a mother. Interestingly the movie ends with maze and mercury trying to get to the center of it. With several debatable analyses that can be made about this movie a conclusion is not easy to pull out. However this movie tries to express female voice, but in symbolic manner rather then being straightforward and making female characters of the movie dominate to male character. In addition, the symbolic part is difficult to understand and needs several serious discussions to prove a point. A mother in this story representing female voice tries to be dominant throughout the movie which. Her motherhood is the main target and freedom is secondary goal.
Both “Araby” and “Eveline” are characterized by melancholic, even depressive mood. In the first case, the sadness associations are developed by the motifs of darkness and silence that reinforce the boy’s psychological state. The boy says that “All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves” (108) which means that he wants to become invisible, to disappear, and darkness and silence are helpful for him alleviating his pain: “I was thankful that I could see so little” (108). In “Eveline”, the mood is also melancholic and depressive, but this time the feeling of melancholy is combined with nostalgia and a fear of the uncertain future. It reveals itself in Eveline’s memories of her deceased mother, her brothers, her friends, in her looking at the things associated with her previous life: “Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided” (1). And what concerns the tone, in both “Araby” and “Eveline” it may be described as serious though not solemn as the narration lacks too eloquent expressions, and the context concerns more daily routine than some elevated
In James Joyce’s Araby, a young boy finds himself in love with an older girl. The girl, Mangan’s sister, refuses to love him back and instead ignores him. This crushes the boy and makes his hunger for her even more stronger. He sometimes finds himself hopelessly alone in the darkness thinking about her, awaiting for the day she would recognize his devotion to her. “ At night in my bedroom…her image came between me and the page I strove to read (805).” “At last she spoke to me (805).” She asked him if he was going to attend a popular carnival called Araby. Unfortunately, she was unable to go, and it was up to him to bring her something back. This became his journey and adventure that he could not wait for. “I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days (805).” When he finally arrived at Araby he found himself, once again alone in the darkness, due to the fact that it was closing time. Nearly all the stalls were closed down already, except one. When he approached to the open stall to buy a special present for his loved one, he was by the saleswomen’s mean and annoyed tone of voice, when she asked him if he would like to buy anything. “She seem to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty (807).” His only response was a disappointed “No thank you (807).” He was obviously heartbroken and shocked that he was unable to accomplish his task, and make the love of his life love him the same way he loves her. This young boy is introduced to disappointment of disillusionment through the themes of isolation, dark and light images, and hopelessness an decay.
...hut the child out of their lives. Rather than dealing with the mistake or misfortune as a parent should do and stand by their child’s side, both parents ran away and tried to hide from the problem. The feelings of each character were completely forgotten and lost. Each were treated as some sort of object that could be thrown away and replaced. And ultimately, the outcomes in their lives reflected their poor parenting. The choices they made unfortunately came from the lack of skills they were taught when they were young and impressionable. Neither character knows what it is like to be a part of a loving family because they were both used as objects for money or fame. Sadly, the lack of parenting led to the demise of each and we are reminded, from over a hundred years ago as well as today, that successful parenting today will lead to successful adults for the future.
...ith the lack of closure the author has paved many paths, making one unable to give a proper retelling of the play due to various interpretations. The play has also slyly inserted a philosophy on human life, the uncertainty and how it is a major part of human life is portrayed through this play. All these characteristic together make this play a very good play, it makes one want to live forever as to see what future generations would interpret the play as. In conclusion, this text is written to make the readers think and participate as active members in the reading of the play.
This film really focuses on the characters. Their thoughts, anger, distress, and mistakes become part of your mistakes. This deals with a father’s s priority and how he will achieve that priority by using unethical ways like torturing an innocent man. Bringing up child abduction and torture are
The film “Modern Times,” directed by Charlie Chaplin, is set in the mid nineteen thirties. This time frame places the characters in the middle of the Great Depression and the industrial revolution. The film depicts the lifestyle and quality of living for people in this era by showing a factory worker who cannot take the monotony of working on an assembly line. The film follows the factory worker through many of his adventures throughout the film. The film’s main stars are Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard.
As childhood is the first stage in life, in Dubliners, Araby is projected as a short story in which the main character is striving for a love that can only be bought. The young boy symbolizes pure hope. He has exotic dreams to meet and be with this girl that he admires and loves. The pressure to get her attention blinds him and everything comes crashing down as the bazzar closes and he does not get a chance to buy her a gift. He was looking for guidance from his uncle, but his uncle is preoccupied getting drunk. At the bazzar the boy realizes that he has been blinded by love, and that his childhood dreams will never become a reality. In Araby, the epiphany occurs right at the end as he says: “gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Araby 28). These last sentences symbolize how crushed and hopeless he is, as well as his inability to move forward. Mangan’s sister represented ho...
This movie follows the relationship of the two main characters from the time Léon saves Mathilda's life against his better judgment. This event causes both of their lives to take a detour that ends up giving meaning to both of their existences. She is trapped living in a dysfunctional family environment with an abusive father and step-mother, a hateful step-sister and her quite little brother with only a dismal outlook on her future. She is a precocious young girl who's life seems to have several parallels with the Cinderella story. Léon is a stoic, uneducated and an unremorseful killer that is totally unemotional and unattached to the world around him. He becomes the prince that saves her.