Movie Reflection: The Fisher King The movie The Fisher King, is about a radio personality named Jack, who feels at fault for a terrible event that occurred over a year ago. Jack attempts to redeem himself by helping a deranged homeless man who suffered from the terrible event and while he seeks forgiveness. The movie begins with Jack hosting his radio show in the studio. The lighting in the studio almost makes it look like it is a prison, making the audience think that the radio studio is Jack’s prison and that he is trapped in that lifestyle. Jack unknowingly answers a caller’s call that would cause this terrible event to occur. The caller’s name was Edwin, who was a regular caller to Jack’s show, and sought advice about a girl that he …show more content…
Jack tried anything that would make himself feel better, because he was selfish. Nothing that Jack tried worked, until he helped Parry with the girl, Lydia, which he was in love with. Everything was going smooth until Parry returned to his catatonic state after a date with Lydia. With this occurring Jack thought that there was nothing else he could do for him so him being as selfish as he was, he returned to his previous lifestyle. Only to realize that he can’t avoid the life that Parry showed him. After visiting Parry in a mental hospital and after arguing to himself about whether or not he should steal the Holy Grail from a rich guy’s house, he decides to go through with Parry’s mission. In the end, Jack retrieves the Holy Grail, and gives it to Parry in order to get Parry out of his stupor. At the end of the movie, Jack is pretty happy with how his life turned out. In my opinion, this movie is not just one genre, but a mixture of several different genres combined, romantic, comedy, horror, with a main focus on fantasy. Whether or not the movie accomplished each individual task like it could have is a matter of personal opinion. I think that was able to make its point show through, even though they had a lot of cheesy, typical fillers throughout the movie. What I didn’t like in the movie was the fact that every time something happened to Jack, that he always tried to cover it up with something else, only proving how
Jack gets mad at Ralph. Because he blamed by Ralph and he is always a lot of set up. This makes her get bored and go away from Ralph. Jack felt that he more deserves to be a leader. Then, this separate do not make him doubt at all. It is because Jack has an ability of hunting to survive on the island. In addition, there are other kids who follow him and accompanied him to keep each other. it make him sure for what he has decided. It show by Jack's speech when he says that Ralph was not the one leader who deserved,
Antwone Fisher’s life was full of trials and tribulations that led him to a life of insatiable anger. This cycle of rage would continue throughout Anwone’s life until he began to learn how to manage it. With the help of Dr. Davenport’s counseling, Antwone was able to find closure and live a life free of burden, uncertainty, and regret.
The client is a 26 year old, single, male, African American. He is an active duty ship’s serviceman seaman serving in the United States Navy, aboard the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3). Seaman (SN) Fisher is residing on board the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) that is permanently stationed at San Diego Naval Base, 32nd Street in California. SN Fisher was given orders to report to Navy Mental Health Services Department on base as Involuntary Command Referral for diagnosis and treatments, to get an evaluation and expert psychiatric recommendation about whether the service member is mentally fit to stay in the United States Navy. SN Fisher is unwilling to begin counseling,
He had no choice. He had to accept that he was in a life and death situation. The White Rose could have taken him any moment and he had to be prepared to fight. The White Rose propose for wanting Jack is for their pleasure of spectators spectating a traditional fight where only one representative will survive. Throughout all the training and school work , he was forced to take his situation more into profundity.
There are no adults on the island. No one to make them feel safe when there is an unknown creature that feeds off fear. Jack takes that fear and causes a decline in the society of the boys on the island. First of all, he is stubborn. Jack is also immature and reckless. Thirdly, he is power-hungry. Lastly, Jack is driven by fear.
The book Big Fish and its movie adaptation shows the importance of how different factors help to improve the story. This book tells of the legendary stories of Edward Bloom, narrated by his son, William. The tales of Edward Bloom seem fictitious and far too amusing to be real. His son is determined to find the truth in his father's stories in order to understand who his father truly was behind his fantastic stories. The movie does not fail in its interpretation of the novel, in fact the movie could very well be even better. The addition of new scenes and the focus on Edward's love life help the movie tell the story in it's own way, showcasing the brilliance of the art of cinematography. Although the movie takes a different approach from the
Over the years, many social scientists have offered a number of theories to explain personality trait and development. But while this debate continues, one aspect of personality development continues to engender a great deal of controversy: personality pathology. This area of concentration seems to have garnered more attention in recent years, as experts scramble to offer explanations and analysis for what appears to be a general decline in the moral fabric of American society, fueled by what appears to be a general coarsening of civility among certain segments of our population. Are more people simply being born with personality disorders that ultimately lead them down this path? Not so according to the basic principles of the
But Jack cannot change the past. Rather, he must reflect on it as it really happened, allowing those reflections to guide his future conduct and to enrich his relationships with those whom he has helped or hurt. By the end of the story, instead of running from his past, Jack has begun to make restoration for its mistakes by finally marrying his beloved Anne and opening his home to Elliot Burden, the man he long believed to be his father. Jack’s contemplation of the past leads him not to despair, but to a deeper understanding of and compassion for the human race.
In the opening scene of “The Fisher King”, Jack Lucas is in his radio station running his show. He receives calls from various people and responds to them with mocking and condescending remarks. Despite his remarks, there is no actual shot of Jack’s face, only extreme close up shots and his silhouette in the darkness suggesting that Jack has no real identity. Coupled with his insistence that “yuppies” are “evil” and his lack of respect for other people this develops the idea that Jack cannot relate with other people and is isolated from the rest of society. The constant use of spiral shots also reveals the time he spends doing this and shows he is consumed in his current ways. He is so consumed he does not realize he’s trapped and there is
The film Antwone Fisher is an autobiographical drama based on the true story of Antwone Fisher’s problematic days growing up. Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is a sailor in the U.S. Navy with an explosive attitude, whom is ordered to see a naval psychiatrist, Dr. Jerome Davenport (Denzel Washington), about his volatile temper. Slowly Fisher begins to reveal the emotional problems that ultimately trigger this rage. The viewer learns that Antwone’s father was killed and his mother, subsequently ended up arrested and giving birth to Antwone in prison. Soon after, Antwone was sent to a foster home managed by Mr. And Mrs. Tate (Ellis Williams and
The movie Antwone Fisher (2002) illustrates the main character as a 24-year-old African American male from Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Fisher is physically in good condition yet he seems mentally and emotionally troubled. He is often distant amongst his peers, quick-tempered, violent and defensive. He is a six-year Navy officer who has been involved in several fights with his shipmates. Due to frequent violent conflicts, Antwone was demoted to seaman and required to attend three counseling sessions with the U.S. Navy psychiatrist, Dr. Jerome Davenport. During the first session, Antwone mentioned that he was “from under a rock” and that he had no family (Antwone Fisher, 2002). It was revealed that Mr. Fisher’s experienced a distressing childhood
The action really starts when Jack starts seeing things himself. For example the ballroom/bar being filled with people and alcohol. The people he sees are ghosts of the hotel's previous victims, such as Delbert Grady, who has become the bartender, and is more than happy to give Jack a drink or two. He does, however, tell Jack that people are worried that
At the start of the book Jack is clearly still confined by society’s rules and still wants to be seen as good. We know this as in the scene where he catches a pig he struggles
First of all, when Jack was around the age of 10, and moved to his new house across town, he was being constantly bullied by another kid in the same neighborhood after Laohu, the tiger, broke one of the kid’s toys. He was obviously upset one day at dinner as the kid, Mark, had been popular at school and was constantly bullying him.Consequently, he decided to lash out at his mother, whom he blamed for his
The film, "Blackfish", claims that the collection and separation of orcas is cruelty towards the whales. As evidence, Blackfish shows a first-hand account from one of the men who had been retrieving the whales about the process. A short video plays: the orca "collectors" whooping and flying across the water in their small boat while bombs sounded behind them. While explaining the process of netting and separating the whales according to age, the speaker, John Crowe, cries over the cruelty of separating the young ones from their parents, equating it to "taking a little kid away from its mother". He also states that the actions he had performed, while employed by SeaWorld, had been illegal. The first-hand account from one of these catchers lends itself to the credibility of Crowe's claims. The upbeat music and audio of the catcher video highlights these men as cruel, antagonistic, and driven by a harmful masculinity. When Crowe cries, it implies the argument that even among the people committing the acts, many knew it was wrong. Lastly, introducing legality issues introduces logic to the argument against taking orcas from the wild and keeping them in captivity. This makes the audience feel contempt for the retrieval process of orcas and those hired by SeaWorld to retrieve them, but also a black-and-white outlook against SeaWorld. The combination of using emotion and logic makes the argument strong, painting SeaWorld and the collectors as remorseless, money-hungry, and