Tuesday, December 23, 2008

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.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Peter and the wolf


This movie is a short film. It was a non-fearful boy who has 2 bird friends which is the bird and the duck. The cat belonged to Peter and the grandfather for years. His grandfather never wanted Peter to go to the meadow because the wolf would come out from the forest. But what the grandfather said was true because first, the wolf tried to kill the cat but when the duck was going to Peter, the duck was eaten alive by the wolf. Peter was shocked that the duck died. After Peter caught the wolf, the hunters tried to shoot it but misses and the grandfather was thank goodness not dead. When Peter and his grandfather bought the wolf to the village to make it be killed, Peter decided to free the wolf but the grandfather was not happy so the wolf left and that's the end of the film. The story and movie is different but a little similar to the story, there was no narrations, and no speaking, but there is music and sounds. I give this rating a 5/5 because it was based on a story Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev.

Good Will Hunting


One of the film's theme is Trust. Trust is when people care about someone and are able to share their thoughts on topics. Will didn't build trust when he was younger because he was being picked on by his family. As an adult, he still doesn't have trust with many people. His friends are the only people that he trusts. His friends get into trouble a lot, they come from South Boston which is a bad part of town. In the beginning, his relationship with Sean was annoying for Sean because Will didn't share a lot and was silent all day. Sean share about his wife dying by cancer. Will said Sean married the wrong wife because he thought she was mean to Sean. At the end, of the movie, Will gives Sean a letter that says that Will is going to California to meet Skylar. Skylar is Will's girlfriend. Will said that he doesn't love her because he didn't want to get hurt.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Casablanca


I believe that Rick and Ilsa love each other sometimes because they might have not met for a long time until she came to Casablanca and sees Rick working there. The scene that makes me believe this is about the memories of Rick with Ilsa in Paris because in that past, they were having a good time, they get along, and talk sometime. At the end of the movie, Rick made Victor take Ilsa his true love and goes to the airplane straight to America. He even almost got arrested but not at all so Rick said "This is the beginning of our beautiful friendship. I believe it would be a better movie if Rick and Ilsa got together forever because of their enchanting life when they first saw each other and the time they talked.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Do the Right Thing


"Do the Right Thing" is about if the main character Mookie (Spike Lee) does the right thing when it comes to treating other people the right way/ People who have racism is a bad thing because they feel like that they are different in worst than others. People who are racists feel that they are better than other people. Mookie is a pizza delivery person who gets upset sometimes because he wants more money, he has a family, at the end, he destroys the pizza place. Everybody in real life who see's violence in Spike Lee's movie has to find out if he did the right thing or not. The restaurant owner Sal was not a happy person to the blacks, he hates musics, he wants silent, some customers were bad to him because they don't follow the rules. The pictures that Sal hangs up are white people including John Travolta. Everybody wants Sal to put up pictures of blacks like at the end, Smiley went to his place and put up the picture of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X on Sal's wall. I believe Sal should put up black people on the wall so the blacks won't be angry.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Rushmore: Max Fischer


I like Max Fischer a little because of all the different qualities he has. Sometimes he is romantic and sometimes he is selfish. He is in love with the teacher and this makes him act romantic. He made a play about the army at the end of the movie so he can make everybody appreciate him and he even made some friends. The things I hate about Max was that he broke one law which is breaking the brakes in Mr. Blume's car, he is mean, and he did some mean things in the movie. He even lied to everybody in the movie. The good thing was that Max later in the movie became friendly again with Mr. Blume, he is good at making plays, but the bad thing is that he is a worst student because in Rushmore, he failed alot of subjects. I don't quite want to become Max Fischer's friend because Max can lie to me and sometimes be mean.