The protagonists and social conflicts in the film The Visitor presented living experience to explore that are different to my personal history. The four actors in the film are all unique from one another, but they possess a universal understanding and awareness that are not different from the life that I know. Walter Vale is a single white male, a widowed and a father who is at the end of his professional career as an academic professor. Walter adult son lives in London and he pretends to be happy with his work, but the truth is he felt unsatisfied, this was expressed at the end of the film. You also saw in the beginning of the movie Walter also didn’t enjoy his piano lessons he took from an elderly woman. Walter found meaning in life the …show more content…
Walter is the gem through which intersectionality at the micro-level may be recognized. Walter is conscious of the injustices and critical perpetuated by his country’s unfair immigration policies which allows innocent people to be detained and deported. Walter was aware that as a white man the unintentional mistreatment that could be done through the lack of knowledge of Tarek, Zainab and Mouna’s experiences. Through Walter the viewer can see how political oppression affects innocent people like Tarek. Walter was willing to support and advocate for Tarek against the unjust and racist injustices of the immigration policies in America. This was remarkable when you consider the privilege of white men like Walter, their class, age and education and social status. As the film develops, I was moved by Walter taking lessons from Tarek, on learning to play the djembe and he was impress and successful in his public performances on the instrument. Walter’s piano teacher response to him firing her in the beginning of the film taught him that it is very difficult for people of his age with little experience to achieve success in learning how to play a new instrument. Walter had an encounter with a student who, submits a late paper and asks for it to be accepted, heartlessly Walter refused to accept. At that moment, Walter was witnessed by the viewer to be insensitive and cold. It’s not until the end of the film, the
Dr. Strangelove is one of the many masterpieces made by the great Stanley Kubrick. The movie was made in 1964 at the Shepperton Studios in London, UK. The time the movie was made is of great importance, in fact, it was made only two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kubrick pictures, in an extremely comical yet somewhat serious way, what the world would look like after one of the two forces (U.S vs. USSR) was triggered in initializing nuclear warfare.
The movie Arrival is full of complexities, and different ways to interpret the deeper meaning behind the movie. In analyzing this text, at first it seems to be a slow sci-fi drama, however, there is a lot brewing just below the surface. The main character discovers how to be content, and to live and enjoy each moment. This can be seen and proved through multiple elements. The cinematography, composition, and lighting of the movie Arrival can be combined and analyzed to showcase the belief that all people should enjoy the present, and live in the moment.
Harold Crick is an IRS auditor who lives an extremely predictable lifestyle dictated by routine and numbers. In the beginning of the film “Stranger than Fiction” Harold is depicted as boring, routine, and shows signs of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with his endless counting of everything he sees. He lives his life to the minimum as he has no wife, social life, no real friends, and in fact, his wristwatch seems to be his only friend as he depends on timing everything down to the second, to save time. Harold continues to live every day just like the last, simply slaving through the rest of the workweek, until he hears a mysterious voice, an omniscient voice, narrating his every move day in and out. Karen Eiffel “Kay” is an esteemed novelist known for writing amazing tragedies. She has been working on her latest work but is suffering from writer’s block, and can’t figure out how exactly she wants to kill her main character, Harold Crick. During her narrations she announces Harold’s “sudden imminent death”, and he hears this with an overwhelming fear of what this means for him. The “sudden imminent death “creates an issue of time sensitivity for Harold, and is a huge part of Stranger than Fiction’s theme. Harold was completely content with his mundane life full of routine based tasks all programmed by his wristwatch. The issue of when he will die is a huge motivator for both Harold and Karen as she needs to find that perfect ending for her book. The plots are difficult
No other options are left for the American army, running from the British along side the Delaware River, fighting against deserters, disease, famine, and their major lack of artillery was no help to the cause. On the 25th of December in 1776, George Washington led his army across the Delaware River in New Jersey. In a desperate attempt to win a battle, and help motivate people to rejoin the revolution, Washington devised a plan to attack the Hessians at Trenton on Christmas night. He declared that it was victory or death, they were either going to win the battle, or they were going to die, but retreat was not an option.
Walter becomes the central focus of the play because it is through him that everyone learns a valuable lesson. He must suffer through this horrible event in order to
A turning point for Walter was the discovery of a short story by James Baldwin about the black urban experience. It gave him permission to write about his own experience. Somehow he always goes back to the most turbulent periods of his own life. Walter writes books about the troubled boy once he was, and for the boy who lives still inside
According to Philip Emeagwali, “The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.” In my own words this quote addresses that hardships creep around every corner and if you face them determinedly you will end up stronger in the future. This quote relates to the novel The Outsiders by informing people that tough moments in life are hard to overcome. Just like Ponyboy has to learn to overcome the death of his best friend, Johnny. The main theme that S.E. Hinton tries to convey through the novel is: hardships lurk wherever you let them. She implies that you should stay strong and courageous through tough times.
In the film, Walter goes against the notion of Friere’s ‘oppressor.’ Walter is conscious of his privilege and uses it to humanize Tarek, Zainab and Mouna. At no time does he regard them as ‘enemies’, but just the opposite, as those that he can learn and become enriched by. Conversely, Tarek’s captors and detainers unilaterally take away all his rights and access to legal representation, have SELF-AWARENESS THOUGH FILM 6. him incarcerated and dehumanized, perceived as an ‘enemy’, and shipped out of the country.
Walter is one of the characters who influence the plot the most. He lies and is always arguing with someone. For example, when George asked Walter if he has been to New York. Walter said, “Plenty of times” when he really hasn’t been at all. Also, Walter insults George by saying “Why all you college boys wear them fagg***- looking white shoes?”. This says Walter doesn’t really care about other people’s feelings. Also, his actions,” (An irritable mimic)
It appears he wants to be rich, or giving; but what he is really pursuing is being seen as a giver. Therefore, he will never become rich or benevolent, because he has too goals that can not both be accomplished together. Walter wishes to be man of the house, and to have everyone thank him. His self-image is built on the belief that if he can not be the best among his family, he has lost. If Beneatha becomes a doctor, he can no longer claim to be bread winner of the house; and because Mama has money, he has to compete with her, too. For Walter, if you are not the master of the house that people revere, you are
The film, the Untouchables, was directed by Brian De Palma. It was set in the prohibition era, which was right at the start of the 1920’s. Prohibition can be described as a law that made selling and manufacturing alcohol illegal. By putting this law into effect, it actually increased the amount of crime and violence throughout cities in the US. This was ultimately due to the rise in organized crime, also known as gangs. In the movie specifically, it was centered around the rise of the Mafia in Chicago. By looking at the production of the movie, we can see how during prohibition, the Mafia controls everything and the violence ultimately it leads to.
The way I see is that Americans are truly the villain in The Host. Americans do illegal, dangerous actions in Korean, which causes the monster, so Koreans did not like and support how the US operates in their country. For example, in the opening scene, an American ordered his Korean subordinate to dump all the dusty bottle into Han river. It is so crazy and irresponsible. Through the rest of the movie, there is an American doctor with a cross-eyed. That character looks like an idiot, and by extension make the country he represents look idiotic too. Finally, when the US Military in the film decided to use Agent Yellow to cleansing the area and to kill the monster. Koreans organized demonstrations to against the release of Agent Yellow by the
Walter was in an endless loop of doing the same thing over and over every day. His life was meaningless, he lied to himself that he was doing something significant and that he was to busy for anything else. He was so lost that no piano teacher could fix the
The film “The Prestige” is one of many masterful Nolan films that walks the line between being a meta film about the film industry, and being focused on immersing the audience in the actual content of the film. At a close inspection, comparisons to the film industry can be seen, but they are not so obvious to distract the audience from the central conflicts that are at the forefront of the film. The subject of the film could most easily be defined as surrounding the topics of obsession or fame. More specifically, the obsession of fame, and the illusion of happiness that fame projects. The main characters of the movie both urn for the fame of being the world’s most successful entertainer, even if for different reasons.
One of example of discrimination in the film comes from Tarek’s arrest. The NYPD assume that Tarek has jumped the turnstop while entering the subway even though he paid. When Tarek tries to tell the police that he paid for the subway ride he is ignored. Even when Walter tries to stick up for Tarek and possibly use his own white privilege to tell the police that Tarek paid he is silenced. Ethnocentrism is also displayed once Tarek is placed in the detention center because in the waiting room of the detention center is a picture of the statue of liberty, representing freedom and justice. It seems a bit ironic that a symbol for freedom and opportunity are painted on the inside of a detention center for immigrants pending deportation.