The Message in Film The Room Introduction: The Room is a thirteen-minute colour film shot in 1991, on location on the rough suburbs of New York City. The film is directed by Jeff Balsmeyer, produced by William H Watkins and Jeff Balsmeyer and written by Jeff Balsmeyer and Nathaniel Kahn. It is difficult to put this film into one specific genre as it covers a variety of genres. It is a domestic family drama, which explores the lifestyle of a dysfunctional family struggling to cope with violence, poverty, obsessional behaviour and mental illness, however the moving image text concludes in a happy way, but there is a slight amount of taboo language used. This moving image text should be targeted at those who are fifteen and above, for the reason that the serious issues covered in the film may worry the younger audience. Title ===== The title of the film "The Room" is a definite article, which singles the room in question out from any other room. The bluntness of the title grabs attention. The title withholds information leaving the imagination to run free, intensifying the excitement, but creating uncertainty altogether, which builds up the tension. I associate the film with being imprisoned in a small enclosed space for an immense amount of time. The film could be a dream or a nightmare, it could also be telling somebody's thoughts, fears or a memory. It seems to be multi-layered. Brief Storyline The film begins with a small tour of the rough neighbourhood; we are able to hear the everyday atmospheric sounds of the area. We are then shown some "normal" families in contrast to the family in questio... ... middle of paper ... ...n happen to any family, and that we should appreciate what we already have. I felt it was similar to some other films I have previously viewed such as: Matilda, The Sixth Sense and The Pagemaster. Mental illness plays an important role in this film, and I didn't realise how serious the illness could be until I saw this film, which boldly attacks how the family are affected by it. It is possible that Jeff Balsmeyer, the director of the film may have come from or knows a similar family like the one the film is based on, because not only did he direct, but produce and write the script for the film, or he may just feel very strongly about the issues involved. To watch the film, it is best to be in a serious frame of mind, and to be open minded and optimistic, because there is a lot of new themes revealed to you
The movie, Awakenings, begins by showing a little boy, Leonard Lowe, playing in the park with his friends. Those same friends join Leonard as they go to school. While at school, Leonard begins to show signs that he is having difficulty writing. His teacher, looks through his notebook and notices that his writing has suddenly gotten worse. His teacher then notifies Mrs. Lowe of her findings. It is evident that Leonard’s right hand has curled to the point that he can no longer use it to write (Sacks & Zaillian, 1990).
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raises about art. And this is for the best; after all, the film is a comedy.
After watching the movie, Living Out Loud, I was fairly surprised about the sociological issues I found myself pointing out through out the whole film. Every since I have been a sociology major student I find myself pointing out these issues more often than ever before. The basic summary of plot of this film centers on the life of Judith Moore and he attempted at finding out who she is after a divorce from a 16 year old marriage. With the assistance of a club singer named Liz and the elevator operator man from her Fifth Avenue apartment, Patt, Judith tries to pick up the pieces of her life and to become something more in life. As Judith strives to find herself, she must adjust to her newly single lifestyle for being a middle-aged woman and overcome certain obstacles in order to be happy again. One of the problems in todays’ world is defining one’s self in our society without having to give some sort or explanation of why or who you’re with. How can you still be your own individualistic self
How Tension and Suspense Is Built Up In The Red Room There are many different ways in which HG Wells builds up tension and. suspense in The Red Room. One way in which he does this is through the use of language in the process. One of the main effective uses of language in The Red Room is the use of personification; "made the shadows cower" and quiver. The shadow embeds fear into the reader, as they wonder if the shadow is alive, which creates tension as the reader wonders what.
Even though there is a great amount of audience participation, one really has to turn your attention to the actors in the movie. It takes a special kind of person to really understand the movie they are in.
It is a common mis-conception that films are merely entertainment, and serve no other purpose than to provide for the viewer a two-hour escape from reality. This is a serious under-estimation of the power, purpose, and potential of film, because film, upon reflection, revea...
Lehman, Peter and Luhr, William. Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
This movie is beautiful to watch, yet difficult. It is raw, yet the cinematography is breath...
The Room is considered one of the worst movies ever produced, and this is true in many aspects. Tommy Wiseau, who is the rhetor of this movie, was criticized for numerous crucial errors in the plot. One error in this movie is the way Wiseau establishes the friendship among the male characters. Wiseau settles to use football in order for the audience to understand their friendship. Moreover, the purpose of football is to portray the closeness between Johnny and Mark as it is important in leading to the plot’s key conflict. Nevertheless, Wiseau’s implementations of football into the plot is responsible for the movie’s “badness.” For instance, the male characters arrive at Johnny’s house wearing formal suits in preparation for Johnny’s wedding.
Children's literature the movie" STUART LITTLE” Three scenes i.e. when Stuart meets a girl of exactly his height for the first time, on the way home from school in his miniature red sports car an injured bird Margalo falls into the car when Falcon swoops very suddenly out of the sky after Margalo has fallen into Stuart’s car and continues to chase them until they get safely home, the disturbing scenes graphic description of how Falcons kill their prey, that is by dropping them from a great height and a little later Stuart Little is dropped from a very tall building, picked from the Columbia Pictures presentation Stuart little, produced by Jason Clark, with Jeff Franklin and Steve Waterman present the demonstrated overt values in the film, taken home by the children are that friendship and loyalty can triumph over evil. Another message is that you can achieve what you want to, no matter what the obstacles. “You are as big as you feel.” The issues of lying and stealing are addressed, although simplistically determined without real consequences. The children feel like a different speci...
...the predominant theme of disorientation and lack of understanding throughout the film. The audience is never clear of if the scene happening is authentic or if there is a false reality.
One can learn from Tony’s mistakes. One can learn that family comes first. Society can also learn that taking shortcuts in life sometimes lead to a dead ends with no u-turns. This film showcases the time line of how a drug lord could rise to power from nothing. This film also shows how that same power one gets from becoming a drug lord could be taken at any time. Studying how to analyze a movie has definitely changed my perspective on how I view movies. I actually look at all the detailing in movies. I look at the camera angles and how they affect the scene. I even start to question why the director did not use a different angle for certain shots. By using film theories and criticism one can generate enough ideas in order to understand the movie better. When a film is being captured the director focuses on certain angles and lights to get the meaning of the scene to the audience. Just like everything in life has a meaning, everything in film also has a comparison meaning. This course has widen my intellect on how movies affect our societies. Movies can play a major role in how we act or how laws are even created. Movies has the same power as music. I say movies has the same power because one can look at a movie and want to become whatever he or she saw in the movie. One major skills that I developed in this course is being able to focus. Before this course, I could not focus on anything at all. I was the type to focus on three or
Movies take us inside the skin of people quite different from ourselves and to places different from our routine surroundings. As humans, we always seek enlargement of our being and wanted to be more than ourselves. Each one of us, by nature, sees the world with a perspective and selectivity different from others. But, we want to see the world through other’s eyes; imagine with other’s imaginations; feel with other’s hearts, at a same time as with our own. Movies offer us a window onto the wider world, broadening our perspective and opening our eyes to new wonders.