The Drawer Boy Introduction This movie review examines and studies The Drawer Boy, a theatrical film produced by playwright and actor Michael Healey, based on the historical show, The Farm House. The film’s setup is in a country farmhouse in Clinton, Southwestern Ontario. Michael Healey narrates the experience of actor Miles, a young actor who narrates the fictitious element in the life experiences of two elderly farmers who are World War II veterans. Miles is driven by a course to know the reason why the two farmers live as they are by recording their stories. The film offers a thematic experience of affectionate friendship towards maintaining friendship and companionship. Therefore, Healey succeeds in highlighting the importance of film narration …show more content…
Angus suffers from memory problems and only remembers things in the present. His memory challenges come to effect when Miles arrives at their door (Ferley 5). He returns back into the house leaving Miles outside the door and forgets about him even when Morgan enquires about the visitor. Consequently, at the farm Miles faces considerable farm life challenges and at one point he runs over Morgan’s arm with the tractor. Angus runs into the house aiming to offer first aid assistance, but forgets his main agenda and returns forgetting about the accident. Morgan requests him to retrieve a wet towel but comes with a spoonful of water instead, on several occasions (Ferley 5). Nevertheless, Morgan shows tolerance and compassion towards Angus, as a symbol of true friendship and …show more content…
Through Miles, Angus recovers some of his architectural drawings and part of his memory. While Angus insists on knowing about the death of their loved ones, Morgan reveals that the story was a lie and far from the truth. This clearly indicates the engagement of fantasy in order to portray reality. Morgan confessed he was the source of Angus’ mental problem and was destined to keep their friendship and companionship strong, therefore choosing to use lies to cover up the
The climax of the story is when Miles is shot by the Bonewoman. The reader comes to realize that Miles’ choice to live life on the safe side was a mistake:
He demonstrates his aunt’s willingness to help writing: “‘I know that things are bad between you and your mom right now, and I just want you to know that I am on your side.’” Her generosity made a great impression on Andrews. He extends this thought further when he writes “‘And in the meantime, if you ever need to get away, my house is always open to you. And to Darian, too.’” The trust his aunt placed in him influenced him hugely in his life. He continues to impress this point recording: “I was grateful but shocked. She and Mom were really close, and for Susan to go behind Mom’s back like that was huge.” He used emotional change in order to exhibit how moved he was by the support he received from his family members even if it was only one ally who was on his side from the start. This abundant amount of assistance from his aunt causes the audience to empathize by relating personal experiences from their own families to the
Labor trafficking is another form of human trafficking. Labor trafficking happens when employers take advantages of the social problems, economic problems, and health problems of their employees. The story of “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse” is just one of the many stories about labor trafficking. For more than 30 years, a group of men with intellectual disabilities were working under deplorable conditions. Not to mention that these men receiving a minimum pay of $65 each month for 30 years. I feel angry to see how unethical owners of business take advantage of vulnerable workers, but what makes me feel really annoyed is the fact that they use people with disabilities. People with disabilities have less opportunity to defend themselves. I honestly
When being introduced to the characters, sometimes we learn about their appearance, personalities, profession, or history. Miles is a single man who does not have a successful love life. His first love, Carla Carpenter, was a distant girl (by choice) who ended up marrying Miles’ brother Dale. When Anna Thea Hayworth came along, Miles seems to fancy her but never did anything about it. He has nicknamed her Thanatopsis, but she married Wayne Workman, Staggerford’s principal. Miles does not get along with Wayne, probably due to his liking of Anna Thea. As for nonromantic relationships, Miles has is a friendship with the librarian Imogene Kite. Miles describes her as “too tall and bloodless to be attractive” (Hassler 29). On impulse, Miles kisses Imogene for no reason; this proves that Miles is desperate, lonely, and incapable of having clear feelings.
Oral’s family owns a farm and needs a new cover of paint. Emmett agrees to paint the barn and heads over to Oral’s house. There Emmett meets Ivy, Oral’s sister. Emmett fell in love with Ivy at the moment he laid his eyes upon her. Day and night at the Lish’s house, Emmett dreamt and thought of Ivy. He was always unlucky with women, but this time he thinks that he is lucky, thinking, “I could paint her...”. With new found love there was nothing Emmett could not do well. He was filled with “power and sureness”. Emmett put all his effort into painting the barn. He later told Mr. Lish that he would paint the barn for free if he could take Ivy out. During the trip Emmett tells Ivy that he wants to “paint” her, even saying “I’m an artist.” Emmett later finds out that Ivy is two-timing him with Arod Johnson, whom he had met during his trip with Ivy. With grief and anger, Emmett takes up his brush and paints a picture of Ivy on the barn, leaving a permanent picture of Ivy. At this point Emmett now realizes and admits that he is an artist. Through his love of Ivy he wants to paint her. When Ivy doubts a sign and house painter, Emmett reassures her with “I’m and artist.” Emmett finally admits what he did not want to admit in the beginning and breaks out of his
Curtis experiences a vast amount of different tragedies in his nightmares. In his first dream that he endured, a storm came and the rain was thick, black and resembled motor oil. In Curtis’s second dream, his dog turns on him when the storm makes the dog go crazy and attack him. When Curtis wakes up his arm is in pain throughout the day from where his dog supposedly attacked him. The third dream Curtis and his daughter Hannah are driving through the storm and the rain is so thick that he can barely see out of his windshield. Someone is standing in the middle of the road and when Curtis swerves off the road to avoid hitting them, him and Hannah wreck and someone breaks open the window of the truck and steals Hannah away. Curtis tries to fight back but is unsuccessful when one of the figures in his dream begins choking him. In the fourth dream, Curtis walks into the living room where Hannah is staring out the window, he looks and someone is standing there looking in and then tries to break into the house. Curtis and Hannah hide behind the furniture and the furniture begins to float and Curtis loses oxygen and can no longer breathe. The fifth dream Curtis’s wife Samantha wakes up to Curtis struggling, seizing, and bleeding from his mouth. Curtis explains that his dream was about his good friend Dewart attacking him with a pickaxe. Curtis’s sixth dream he walks into the kitchen where Samantha is standing looking
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
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In the 1967 film, The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols, a recently graduated college student, Benjamin Braddock, played by Dustin Hoffman, is struggling to figure out what to do with his life now that he has graduated. In the 1977 film, Annie Hall, directed by Woody Allen, Alvy Singer, played by Allen, is followed through his relationship with Annie Hall, played by Diane Keaton. Both films represent the direction of modern films in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The films of these decades were geared towards youth and young adult culture. The cinematic thematic elements of the relationship between Alvy and Annie is an example of the 1960’s and 1970’s film era and the character of Benjamin Braddock reflects the same film era characteristics. The
Family life was hard and time-consuming, during the 1930’s. Loretta Lynn, born the first child of her seven siblings in 1932. Her parents, Ted and Clara Webb, raised the family in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. During this time, Loretta and her family budgeted tightly, sharing the countries financial crisis. Centered around Butcher Holler, Kentucky, the movie depicted insights what coal mining families experienced do the little they had. The movie showed many houses made of wood and mud. This parallel Loretta states “it was a very nice and insolated house, but annual repairs were mandatory” (Loretta Lynn 34). This financial struggle pointed to the “coal mining operation; affected by the British companies invested coal in the Unites States companies” (European Union para. 1). Not receiving a higher pay due the massive production of coal mining, families were tight resource users. Even the film portrayed a scene shows the Webb family getting brand new pairs of shoes and the excitement they had. One song that Loretta wrote, she said they only got one pair of shoes a year. Kids went the summer without shoes, and getting new ones when winter approached. However, even though the Webb...
Does the American Dream belong to every one or does it exclude some individuals? The American Dream is a very powerful force that molds America. It has existed for many generations but has it changed over time? The foundation of the Dream tends to stay the same that is the pursuit of happiness, hope, freedom, justice and equality. The concepts within the American Dream should alter to fit the changes of society. The breakthroughs and obstacles that America overcomes should shift the American Dream. Society may see the American Dream as a dangerous power causing them to be scared to challenge the concepts of the traditional American Dream. Will society become dysfunctional if someone challenges the American Dream or will it make our country stronger and more diverse?
The film O brother, where art thou? is set in the Great Depression of the 1930’s and emphasizes the struggle between the upper and lower classes by using a variety of cinematic devices. Through the use of these cinematic devices and comedic relief the realities of the Depression are viewed without creating a stark, melancholy, documentary-styled film. Examples in this film of these cinematic devices used to show these realities include:
... through her hug, squeezing the life out of him because of her own fears of the supposed ghosts. Miles response is so ambiguous it leaves the reader with only theories with no way of knowing for a fact what really happened.
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