Spring Breakers and American Honey Spring Breakers and American Honey are two films released in the 2000s that focus on teenagers and their lives in a seemingly provocative and edgy way. Spring Breakers follows four college girls, Faith, Cotty, Candy, and Brit, who embark on a journey to Florida for Spring Break. These girls go to drastic lengths to ensure the success of their trip which is full of partying, drugs, and violence. American Honey is the story of Star a teenage girl who joins a band of misfits who travel across the country selling magazines in order to escape her tumultuous home life. These two respective films share several commonalities but also diverge on several different issues. Both films have some of the cinematic tendencies used to depict certain scenes, and the types of scenes that …show more content…
The end goal for the main characters of both movies is to escape from the lives they find themselves in every day. In American Honey, Star leaves her home and two younger siblings behind in order to join a group of door to door sales people. Even though Star appears to be the primary caregiver of her siblings and she has never met any of the sales group before, Star is so keen on getting out of her home that she says yes without much thought. The four women from Spring Breakers are frantic to get out of their college town and head to Panama City Beach for Spring Break. When faced with the set back of not having enough money, three of the four girls seem to not hesitate at all to make the decision to rob a chicken shack, both breaking the law and terrorizing a restaurant full of people. All five of these characters demonstrate their desperation and absolute need for something different than what their lives currently offer them. These characters show that they are willing to behave recklessly, and they don’t seem to give much thought to the consequences of their
of the American Dream. They travel west hoping to escape less than perfect lives and pursue success in
Does lust lead to hardship and emptiness? In this paper (do you mean "this paper" or "John Updike's 'A&P'?) Sammy has a sexual appetite that causes him problems. His worship of a woman's (careful with placement of possessive apostrophe) body causes him to misplace his values and center only on one value. This value is his lustful pleasure he gets when he sees three girls in their skimpy swimsuits. The pleasure he receives outweighs the consequence of emptiness he finally feels after he defends those girls and they do not respond to his pleasurable feelings. Updike in his short story "A&P" uses characterization to illustrate that heroics based upon animalistic sexual appetite, which objectifies women, will lead to a hard and unsuccessful life.
The movie “Mean Girls” is based on a real story in high school social groups. Cady Heron was a new girl in high school. She has been homeschooled in Africa for her whole life, so she wanted to learn how people in school behave and socialize. It was difficult for Cady to adjust in the new school environment. Initially, Cady had difficulties finding a friend in the school. Her first day in school, she eats her meal in the restroom until she meets Janis and Damien. They encourage Cady to be a friend with one of the most popular group at school called the “Plastic”. Every girl in school envy them and with they would be a member of the group. Regina is the head of the group, and she does anything in her power to get what she wishes, and Gretchen and Karen are her followers. Most of the girls at school are obsessed with the idea of joining Regina’s group because they are royalty in the high school. Since Cady is a pretty girl, the Plastic group was threatened by her and wanted her to join them so that they can control her and the boys who pay attention to Cady. Cady joints them and they will succeed to changer her thoughts and actions. Consequently, she starts acting like them and hide her friendship with Janis and Damien who
I have elected to analyze seven poems spoken by a child to its parent. Despite a wide variety of sentiments, all share one theme: the deep and complicated love between child and parent.
A teen sex comedy is a comedy with a target audience age of about fifteen to twenty-five. It is a comedy that relates to its target audience and deals with its problems. The movie takes place in either a school or function that deals with people in this target audience. The film shows all of the aspects of this age groups life showing confrontations with sex, drugs, parties, police, parents and friends. “American Pie” is the most frank and vulgar when showing sexual tension, questions about sex and sex in general. Movies like this have been around for a while, but never one so frank and vulgar. Not every movie shows a guy chug back on semen filled beer, which they refer to as the “Pale Ale.”
Together, these friends learn that growing up is never as easy as it seems in the movies. Blindly testing the waters towards young adulthood, the astute teens shed their childlike innocence and endure the compromise of morality that accompanies so-called maturity.
The idea of the American Dream still has truth in today's time, even if it is wealth, love, or
To Kill a Mockingbird "I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them." – Miss Maudie The quote above states that Atticus Finch was a man who did unpleasant things, but this quote is false. Miss Maudie had every good intention when she told Jem and Scout this and her point was taken in the way she intended it to be taken by the children. Her point could have been better worded if the portion that reads "our unpleasant jobs" were replaced with "what is right." Atticus did unpleasant things only because he knew that they were the right thing to do. Miss Maudie told the children about their father in this way only to avoid saying that the rest of the town was wrong.
With “Spring Breakers” Korine has gained much experience and it stands as his most accomplished work. Unfortunately by distributing this film with a poster and trailer that acted as a parody of the easy-selling films of Hollywood he gained a lot of criticism and hate. Instead of seeing the marketing as a parody the public took it seriously and assumed that this was a mother teen movie with elaborate action scenes. Most of these people go to the theatre looking for something to watch, not something to think about. The general public just isn’t used to his nihilistic
Written by Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet follows the life of Henry Lee, a young Chinese-American boy living in Seattle in the 1940’s during World War II, and his reflections on his youth later, in the 1980’s. The novel illustrates the theme that loyalty is important in times of hardship. Henry deals with both loyalty and the absence of it as he copes with his broken relationship with his father, his forbidden, but strong friendship with a Japanese girl, Keiko, and his awkward connection with his son.
A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry. The primary focus of the play is the American Dream. The American Dream is one’s conception of a better life. Each of the main characters in the play has their own idea of what they consider to be a better life. A Raisin in the Sun emphasizes the importance of dreams regardless of the various oppressive struggles of life.
In 2014, imagination and hallucination seem common for some who use drugs. Whether a person is watching a television show, video, or movie, drugs seem to have an impact on some of the characters. It is rumored that the author of Alice in Wonderland used the drug opiate. Perhaps, the influence of drugs contributed to the adventures Alice experienced in the book. In this paper, I will share three scenes that were very vivid to me. Then I will try to show how imagination, drugs, and hallucination may have enhanced the story.
Alice in Wonderland (AIWS) also known as Todd Syndrome is a disease that affects the brain, it causes the senses to be interfered with and everything seems different. Alice in Wonderland syndrome is caused by migraines and too much electricity in the body(Discovery Fit and Health Writers, WHAT IS ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROME?, howstuffworks.com). John Todd named the disease after the book Alice in Wonderland written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll. Some experts say that Lewis Carroll had Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. The book is said to represent the symptoms that Carroll was experiencing while having the hallucinations. In the book Carroll makes Alice drink and eat some food and she grows larger than normal and shrinks smaller than the drink she was drinking(Betty, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, bbc.com).
As I watched the movie, I realize it is about young poor children in Mississippi who wanted to obtain the significance of their family’s rotation of addiction, violence, and abuse. The young girl, Kari, whom is trying her best to get out of all the drama that is going on but as she tries she afflicts the family. In this film, we see lesbianism, breast cancer, murder, alcoholism, gambling verbal and physical cruelty, and men continuously cheating on women. The protagonist of the story, Kari, she has a lesbian sister (Leigh) and young basketball star cousin (Sammy). Kari and Leigh’s parents and close associates are all struggling — with cash,
The April Theses were a series of directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his return to Petrograd, Russia from his exile in Switzerland. The Theses’ were mainly written toward Bolsheviks in Russia and returning to Russia from exile. Lenin denounced liberals and social democrats in the Provisional Government, he also told Bolsheviks to not cooperate with the government. He called for new communists policies and told the soviets to take power. In the next few months, the April Theses influenced the July Days and October Revolution and were identified as Leninism.