Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Chungking Express


In the 1st part of the film, the first characters we are introduced to are the Cop 223, and the woman in the blonde wig. The woman in the blonde wig murdered some people. When I saw the woman in the blonde wig, I thought she was american but she is asian. I realized she was asian when she spoke Chinese. Cop 223 buys lots of pineapples. He is considered about the woman he just broke up with. Cop 223 meets an older woman and Cop 633 meets a young woman in 2 different parts in the movie. In the 2nd half of the film, he meets a young woman, Faye that works at a snack bar. Faye always likes to go into cop 633 in the apartment and clean his room. Cop 633 is childlike in the movie. The similarity that Cop 223 and Cop 633 share is that they both broke up their loves. The characters in the first and second halves are connected because they both meet other women and the woman in the blonde wig and Faye are the other women that they met.

Jesus Camp


This movie is a documentary film where kids go to camp to learn about Christianity. Some people in this movie believe in differently than mainstream Christians. Before the kids went to camp, they were praying with three flags that shows American, Christian, and Jerusalem. They believe in creationism and that all the answers to questions can be found in Bible. Some sad moments were when the counselors had to make the children cry for their sins. When the head counselor talked to the kids about "Harry Potter" in the movie, she said that they can't use warlocks (witches) as their hero. The kids in the movie were pretending to talk to President Bush. When the kids got to Washington D.C., they prayed outside of the White House before the end of the movie.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

M


This film is the director, Fritz Lang's first film to use sound. There was no music in this movie "M" except for the whistling "In the Hall of the mountain king" that comes from Hans Beckert. That sound felt like he is going to murder someone. Hans Beckert murders a lot of girls and Elsie Beckman was the 9th to be killed in the beginning of the movie. The music let the viewer know that something bad will happen in the movie. The sound I hear in the movie is when Elsie Beckman sings the awful song for the game when people get out after she says "He will chop you up". This also lets the viewer know that something bad will happen in the movie like murder. The last sound in the film that I heard was Elsie's mother saying "This won't bring back our children". I say the rating system was 2/5 because of the murder that Hans Beckert committed.