“I believe that racism,hatred and evil can be healed with music” this quote means that anything you use can be solved towards the problem even if it's racism and hatred and or evil can be solved.So in this world anything is possible even the impossible can be possible. The film about” swing kids”is about nazi in germany during world II.A couple of german friends who go against the nazis by dancing swing,One of the friends join hitler youth and his friend joins as well with him.The plan was during the day they are hitler youth and during the night they are swing dancers.After there was a couple of changes,The main character which is peter keeps thinking and believing in what he always did but on the other hand his best friend not so much.Peter friend thomas,He starts believing the propaganda and becomes a nazi.More things started changing as in peter friend committed suicide because he couldn't take it.After everything that happen ,peter stayed the same then he was captured by thomas.Something that thomas did not do was kill peter.The story shows how situations can change people's point of views and how nazis changed them into something different. “Swing kids” has several strengths and weaknesses,One strength of the film is when all three characters has a different story to tell.The director put them to have different
In the movie Krush Groove there were several different hip-hop artists. The movie was focused around Russell Simmons and Run-DMC. The movie showed the struggle of early hip-hop artist trying to make it. The movie showed how Def Jam was started and all the different artist and individuals who helped get Def Jam where it is today. When the movie started it showed Run DMC performing “King of Rock” in the studio. This set the tone by showing you who these individuals are and what they are setting out to do. Jam Master Jay was also in this movie and he mixed the records for Run DMC. Kurtis Blow was another artist that was in the movie. Kurtis Blow performed several times in the movie. The one that stood out to me was when he performed “If I Ruled
Peter is the main character and protagonist of this movie. He was forced join HJ after attempting to steal a radio. This was his suffering. This was also the death of his beliefs. Peter always had to hide his beliefs from the HJ leaders. The final scene shows his self-emptying. In this scene, he goes against Nazi rules and attends a swing dance at the Bismarck. The Nazis come in and assault every person there. He even fights with Thomas, his former best friend. He is then taken by the Nazis to a work camp. He rides away yelling "Swing Heil!" This shows his love and passion for his beliefs.
The sub genre “Hood Movies” was first introduced in American movies where most of the movies exposed problems with/by/from black protagonists. The movies from this genre are mostly debunkers portraying problems like drug abuse, racial discrimination with blacks, gang rapes, street gangs, hip hop music, Maras, shattered familial problems, illegal immigration, poverty and etc. Most of the films from this genre, typically have a very similar story line like “An urban Black youth facing problems either with poverty or immediate danger in the neighborhood.” This quality present in any movie depicts Hood Films.
Poor Kids is a documentary that highlights a major issue the United States is suffering from. This issue is known as poverty, more specifically, childhood poverty. This documentary views the world through the eyes of children that are subjected to lives of poverty due to the poor financial state that their parents are in. Life is very rough for these children and they must live their everyday lives with little to none of the luxuries most people take for granted. Poor Kids sheds light on the painful fact that there are children that starve every day in the United States.
The film Swing Kids, directed by Thomas Carter, is set in Germany just before the outbreak of World War II. The story focuses on a group of friends, Peter, Thomas, and Arvid, all who share a passion for the underground movement of swing music. Swing music was seen as symbol of rebellion among the youth of Germany at the time because it was heavily frowned upon by the Nazis. The Nazis believed that German people who listened to a type of music created by African Americans and widely played by Jewish people were traitors to their country. This was due to the Nazis adoption of the Aryan ideal of the ‘super race’ which meant you must have had at least three generations free of non Aryan heritage. Those who opposed the ideal and those who did not fit in with it were considered impure and detrimental to the rise of Germany. The Aryan ideal was tied into the extreme anti semitism shown to the Jewish people, who were used as scapegoats by the Nazis for Germany’s problems and their downfall after after World War I. The Nazis hold over Germany relied on people obeying them unquestioningly, whether through fear or reverence. Many people simply followed the Nazi policies to stay out of trouble and avoid persecution, whether the agreed with the policies they were following or not because the need for security was more important to people. The film Swing Kids indicates examples of how the youth in Germany both worshipped the Nazis and feared them. Those searching for power admired them and wanted to be part of the movement, and those who were possible targets of the Nazis lived in fear of them.
Karl Stern is an artistic, lanky, beat up, Jewish fourteen year-old boy whose only refuge is drawing cartoons for his younger sister and himself. All that changes in an instant when he meets the boxer, Max Schmeling in his father’s art gallery. In exchange for a painting, Karl will receive lessons from the world renowned fighter and national German hero. Suddenly he has a purpose: train to become a boxing legend. As the years go by and he gets stronger, both physically and emotionally, so does the hatred for the Jews in Germany. This new generation of anti-Semitism starts when Karl gets expelled from school and grows until his family is forced to live in Mr. Stern’s gallery. Though the Stern’s have never set foot into a synagogue and do not consider themselves “Jewish”, they are still subjects to this kind of anti-Semitism. They try to make the best of it, but Karl can see how much it affects his family. His mother is getting moodier by the day, his sister, Hildy, hates herself because of her dark hair and “Jewish” nose and his father is printing illegal documents for some secret buyers. On Kristallnacht the gallery is broken into and the family is torn apart. Karl must now comfort his sister and search for his injured father and his mother. With the help of some of exceptional people, he manages to get over these many obstacles and make his way to America.
The movie The Breakfast Club is a perfect example of peer relationships in the adolescent society. It shows the viewer some of the main stereotypes of students in high school you have a jock, a nerd, the weirdo, a rebel, and a prep. Over the course of a Saturday detention the different types of peers learn a lot about one another by hearing what each one has done to get into Saturday detention as well as why they chose to do it.
In Swing Kids, one follows the lives of a few so called “Swing-Boys,” as they dance to a type of music (i.e. Swing) banned by the Nazi’s. Later on one sees these boys join the Hilterjugend, which is an academy where young boys are trained to be a police force and to follow the polices set by the Führer. This trained paramilitary force exhibits the characteristic excessive use of force when they raid a popular dancing club in the ending. In this scene, the members of ...
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.
The entire movie is littered with anxiety. The movie makes you anxious as to what may happen next. This primary example is the scene where Skeeter ask Aibileen to tell her personal stories for the book Skeeter is writing. This rose a very serious anxiety in both women. Skeeter also found other maids to also share their personal stories. This scenario caused extreme anxiety because in that day and time if you were to publish or talk about what the maids have to endure, you could be prosecuted or maybe even killed.
Director Mark Herman presents a narrative film that attests to the brutal, thought-provoking Nazi regime, in war-torn Europe. It is obvious that with Herman’s relatively clean representation of this era, he felt it was most important to resonate with the audience in a profound and philosophical manner rather than in a ruthlessness infuriating way. Despite scenes that are more graphic than others, the films objective was not to recap on the awful brutality that took place in camps such as the one in the movie. The audience’s focus was meant to be on the experience and life of a fun-loving German boy named Bruno. Surrounding this eight-year-old boy was conspicuous Nazi influences. Bruno is just an example of a young child among many others oblivious of buildings draped in flags, and Jewis...
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started” (Henry Ward Beecher). Peter Muller, the main character in the film Swing Kids, directed by Thomas Carter, is an exemplary human by this measure. Swing Kids explores how the Nazi powers in World War II Germany force teenagers to make decisions between right and easy. Three friends whose hobbies include listening to swing music and practicing American slang are torn apart over the Hitler Youth Group (HJ’s). While debating over the morality of his father, Peter changes from a gentle caring friend and son to facing internal conflict about whether or not to obey the Nazis, until he has epiphanies about the actions of
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
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 safe to say that Disney movies are not before anyone’s time. They have been passed down from generation to generation and still have a positive impact on pop culture today. The values of Disney movies though have always been the same. That is to follow your dreams and good things will come. The only problem is what they teach you about the journey and the people you meet on the way there. Women aren’t given the most respectful depictions in Disney films and that hasn’t been a problem through the years because their films still sell. Children don’t know the difference between being a damsel and a heroine, or how the hero always gets what he wants. Given the right distraction, parents are none the wiser about these hidden personas that their children are being exposed to. Ironically enough, these stories originated from a darker perspective. Both Disney and German fairytales focus on stories about a character that come from rags to riches because it inspires people. At a time when Germany needed hero’s and magic, these fairytales gave people of older and younger ages hope for better times. Disney on the other hand targeted the younger female viewers. Fairy tale films made in the GDR have a surprising number were adaptations of the Brother Grimms’ fairy tales (Fritzsche, 4). At first, the fairy tale genre as a whole and particularly the Grimms’ tales were designated as “folklore,” which reinforced the values of the ruling classes. It was until the first congress of Soviet writers in August 1934 when Maxim Gorky rehabilitated the genre as a folktale that encouraged class struggle (Fritzsche, 5). Although the fairy tales were seen as East German cultural heritage during the country’s formalism debates, the Gri...