Happy Feet is a very emotional and, in my eyes, a very dark movie. It teaches children how to cope with being different. Some very difficult topics are brought up in this movie, self-concept, values, and goals. These topics can be very difficult for a child to understand.
The topic most touched on in this movie is on self-concept. From the beginning of the movie, it shows the male penguins and the female penguins singing to each other to find their mates. They are very particular with their songs they sing to each other and who they ended up with. A lot of the males wanted to be with Norma Jean. Normal Jean, is seen as the most amazing penguin. She’s beautiful and has and an amazing voice. Self concept is the way you perceive yourself and Norma Jean has a very high self concept. She won’t be with just any penguin. After many males have tried to win her over, she meets Memphis and they fall in love. They have a baby and name him Mumble. Mumble doesn’t have a very high self concept because he is the only penguin that can’t sing to save his life. He can dance though. Mumble is also very proud of the fact that he can dance. He
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Finding your song and the one that you love are the long term goals in “Happy Feet”. The long term goal in this movie is to find your heart song. Since Mumble can not sing he need help to win over Gloria. He gets help from the Amigos. Ramon sings for Mumble in an attempt to get Gloria to fall for Mumble. Short term goals help you achieve your long term goals. Mumble’s short term goal was to find the aliens and ask them where all of the fish had been taken. He gets the help of Lovelace who had the plastic rings of a sixpack entangled around his neck. While looking for the aliene Lovelace almost dies because of the plastic around his neck but mumble saves him. After he is unable to find the aliens he goes back to the colony. Here he finally realizes that in order to win Gloria he has to be
These two characters showed significant psychological work in hopes of changing their “problematic” social identity. Both of these characters were conscious of the stigmas that surrounded their identities, each, however, had distinct ways in which they dealt with those stigmas and changing their meanings as they grew older. Many would say that the way in which they were able to transform their identities meant either embracing it or denying one’s own identity fully as the film progressed and new societal pressures arose.
The documentary ‘Happy’ was probably one of the best documentaries I have ever watched. It is a documentary on what truly makes people around the world happy. The movie takes you through true stories of the lives of all kinds of people with different life situations within the entire world. Through each individual story it shows how even though they may have gone or are going through tough situations, they still remain happy with life itself.
This movie explores issues of greed, human relationships, betrayal and redemption, personal innocence and responsibility as well as the effects on the human mind
This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well
One of the women made the comment that Mrs. Wright used to be pretty and happy, when she was Minnie Foster not Minnie Wright. This is just the beginning of realizing that she was just pushed to far into depression and couldn't live up to John Wright's expectations anymore. The Wrights had no children and Mrs. Wright was alone in the house all day long. The women perceive John Wright to be a controlling husband who in fact probably wouldn't have children and this may have upset Mrs. Wright. They eventually find vacant bird cage and ponder upon what happened to the bird, realizing Mrs. Wright was lonely they figured she loved the bird and it kept her company. The women make reference to the fact that Mrs. Wright was kind of like a bird herself, and that she changed so much since she married John Wright. They begin looking for stuff to bring her and they find the bird dead and they realize someone had wrung its neck. This is when they realize Mrs. Wright was in fact pushed to far, John Wright had wrung her bird's neck and in return Minnie Wright wrung his.
When they arrive at the toy store, Sylvia struggles with the "new" class consciousness that is surfacing in her by attacking the values of high-end consumerism. While Sugar, Rosie, and Big Butt are having
A Cold Little Bird is told through the point of view of the father, Martin. Martin is portrayed as a loving father figure who cares about the well-being of all his family members. When his eldest son shuts he and his wife out, Martin is at first perplexed. He even goes so far as to view Jonah’s coldness as a challenge (Marcus 1). The longer Martin lets
Although this film is disadvantaging to many people, it is also very beneficial. I think people that come from the lower class or an abusive household can really benefit from this film. The main point of this film is to show people that you can achieve anything you want to do no matter what background you come from, and although it might be hard because of economical/ personal issues you are not less of a person than anyone and you can still be successful. I love the idea of success because it doesn’t really have a set definition. You don’t necessarily need money to be/feel successful. You can work at Subway and still be successful while a twelve time Oscar winning actor can be successful. You sort of carve out your own success and make your own definition for it. This movie will also teach people that they are not on their own. Although you might think nobody is there for you, when you enter a room you don’t know what everyone is thinking or how everyone feels; you might now even know everyone. It is kind of like when you’re putting together a puzzle, you put certain pieces together and you get closer to finishing and you just need to keep trying to solve the puzzle because if you give up you just wasted your money on a puzzle
The main issue that the movie raises is the idea that being subjected to peer pressure and malicious parenting
In the introduction of the film, the narrator was talking about how a bird struggles for survival when losing a parent. The bird loses an extra care taker, making life’s survival rate decrease. The bird's loss of a parent is the archetypal symbol in this story because Nicholas Nickleby losses his father after the bird story is read in the introductory. Nicholas and his family's life situation becomes more difficult economically because of the lack of income. The death of a parent is brought up several times throughout the story like Smike's tragic story. Smike had the most difficult life out of all the death of a parent situation because he grew up never knowing either of his parents. A child struggles to grow up with only one parent, but having no parents to be raised by is twice as hard. Smike was never raised by anyone except Mr. Squeers, who raised him as a slave. Also, Anne Hathaway's character lives with only her father because she lost her mother very young. She struggles to earn money for her and her father’s living up until she loses him as well. At the end of the story, Kate and Nicholas Nickleby marry their significant other. The man marrying them says that growing up without a parent is always difficult, but sharing and creating new blood for someone else rebuts a family, making a stronger bond. This wraps up the archetypal symbols seen throughout the entire film from the scene of the bird losing a parent in the beginning of the film to the
The film is about the issue of Indigenous hope amongst disadvantaged. It tells the story of two young indigenous Australian Samson and Delilah, who live in the central Australian desert in a small independent village. They live in a run-down shelter that do not go school or go to work. Delilah spends the days caring for her elderly grandmother, helping her produce for her artwork. Samson is addicted to petrol-sniffing. He spends his days listening to
The main character Fred Flinstone is the head of the family. He is the one who earns the money to support the family. His wife Wilma takes care of things such as house work and raising the children. Finally, my peers as a child also had a large influence on me. Because other children my age were also being raised with gender roles, when they came to school or over to my house to play, the toys they brought would be results of gender roles. When we interacted socially we would play with trucks and army men. Parents would not give their sons dolls or dress-up games, because they were trying to teach us to become the stereotypical adult male. As you can see, my childhood dreams were greatly influenced by my family, media and peers in a way that is a direct result of gender roles.
In the end, I think that The Pursuit of Happyness is a pretty inspiring film. It presents to us the struggles that many face, especially in the poorer parts of the world. It shows us that we can achieve anything as long us we put our minds to it. It is an eye-opener that tells us we should do the best in everything we do. After all, we are the masters of our own lives, in a final analysis.
In the book “Uncle Tom’s Children” by Richard Wright, many topics are covered through it’s different stories, such as racism, prejudice, law and order, etc. The topic of Child Psychology is highly displayed in the two of the stories, which are “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” and “Big Boy Leaves Home”. Child Psychology is a branch of Psychology that focuses on the study of the mental and social developments of children. As the events of the stories unfold, we are able to see how the main characters’ personalities and mental states change, which involves beliefs, attitude, actions, change of heart, etc. In the stories, the personalities of the main characters change due to the experiences they go through and the situations that they are
In conclusion, “The Pursuit Of Happyness” is not only a movie but it is a real situation in our life that in pursuing our dreams we must have gone through difficulties and sacrifice is needed for the dream to come true. We must always keep in mind that there is no shortcut to success and even it does, it is just temporary. Like a quote says, “No pain, no