127 Hours Theory

Essay Outline Alone: Being Disconnected Solitary confinement, isolation(Appositive), which disconnects a person from relationships with others has recently being condemned as inhumane in the treatment of criminals within the prison system. Such solitary confinement leads to disruptive thinking, an inability to have a clear flow of thoughts resulting in irreversible psychological effects in as little as fifteen days. This kind of isolation amounts to psychological torture and can lead to suicide as life loses all meaning. This essay will explore the idea of extreme loneliness and isolation in three pieces of writing, Night by Elie Wiesel, I Am Legend by Robert Matheson, and The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty. These authors explore the idea of

Cutting into the philosophical world of one of my favorite movies The Island. You will be shocked as we analyze the relation this modern movie has with Plato’s Allegory of the cave. Two very different stories clash as one if you look at it correctly.

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

It is easy to get caught up in one’s own world when life picks up the pace and everything seems hectic; along the way decisions are made unconsciously to let go of people who were once held dear. It is easy to be torn between what appears to be important and what is trivial. Amidst the mess that is life, various things contend for one’s attention, and what really matters might not be so clear. In “The Last Rung on the Ladder” the guilt that consumes the narrator over his sister’s suicide becomes an essential part of his identity even as he tries to adjust to her loss. In “Sanctuary” Jim Hammer is in the very first stages of realizing he is guilty of his friend’s death, and the responsibility has not yet taken its toll on him. The history and experiences of one’s identity affect the way an individual reacts to guilt, if one has never understood the impact that relationships have upon past and present selves then it is difficult to fully digest the impact of his/her actions.

To ease one’s pain, humans will do anything to escape the negative emotions they feel, even if it is not healthy. In the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, he effectively shows how Saul faces a journey of undoing years of isolation after his traditions and values are ignored by St. Jeromes, a residential school. This experience causes him a large amount of emotional pain. Therefore, Saul copes with his problems by escaping reality itself so he does not need to dwell on his negative emotions.

In Without Apology, filmmaker Susan Hamovitch made me experience a wide range of emotions as I learned more and more about her brother Alan. Within the first minutes of the film, I began to feel despondent. It was difficult for me to wrap my head around the idea that in 1958 the advice given to Alan’s parents by the best medical professionals was to place their child in an institution and forget about him. From the moment they left Alan at Letchworth Village the family seldom spoke his name. Therefore, when Susan said “I didn’t see him as a real person” I thought how difficult it most have been for her to go on this journey. It was towards the end of the film that I started to feel hopeful. This journey that Susan decided to embark, which began by her going to a support group, then visiting Alan at Letchworth, and reading Alan’s records, was very inspiring. For me, the film evoked these feelings as sadness as well as feelings of joy. I knew that it was a real life story and if this was the experience of one family who knows how many more families went through the same or a similar situation and were broken up. By the end of the film I was hopeful because of many reasons. Alan was not alone in this world. There was someone that cared about him enough to have the courage to expose her most protected secret.

The movie I watched was 13th by Ava Duvernay produced by Kandoo Films and Forward Movement in 2016. Ava Duvernay is an American director, film maker and film distributor who has directed, co-directed and created since 2008. Some of her famous works are Selma, A Wrinkle in Time, and 13th (Wikipedia). Ava Duvernay says that some of her reasons for creating this film was because of her childhood and the image she had of what a police officer is. She also talks about her discovery of ALEC and the motivation it gave her to research more into that organization and also the topic. The main purpose of the movie was to raise awareness of the reality of slavery and massincarserations of the black population in the American society. There are any things we still don't know about slavery and massincarseration of blacks. This movie serves as a means of explaining the various things and truths we don't know about slavery and also the 13th amendment.

Bart Layton built this doc not from one perspective, but from a collection of them. Some stories, like “The Imposter” need a panoptic approach to connect the audience to the film. The themes of manipulation, identity and love are the main themes conveyed by Layton. These themes are communicated through sounds and visual imagery.

The protagonist has been given characteristics such as backwoods cluelessness and inner yearning that he finds difficult to understand and articulate. The story is centered on the theme of helplessness before the hand of fate and individual restrained efforts to overcome the inability to defend one’s

This essay will explore the function of the narrative which helps the readers to perceive the meaning of the narrative. It will do so in terms of the point of view, narrative voice as well as the structure of the narrative. Furthermore, the setting of the story will be another focus which exploits the generic convention which reflects the social anxiety behind the story at the time. I

The film is important and gives the viewer a chance to experience Gibbon’s work on a personal level. He uses his life experience as material for his films while remaining professional. Even though the film might be viewed as an autobiography, Gibbons introduces extremely personal confessions into it that make it a unique type of psychodrama. A series of events unfolds with Gibbons narrating how he descended to destructive behavior. It is clear that he has had a hard

He brought nothing more than a few necessities to last the afternoon, because he only planned to spend a few hours exploring. After being trapped for several hours, Aron was in an altered state of consciousness. He suffered from a large amount of blood loss, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, starvation, and dehydration. By the second day, he was very low on food and only had about three hundred milliliters of water left. The two symbols that represent the theme of death is the Raven and the boulder.

The Shining is a 1981 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the book of the same name written by Stephen King. The film’s central plot is the story of a family of three that moves to a secluded hotel in the mountains, where their patriarch turns insane and tries to murder his wife and child with an axe. This essay is about the role that gender plays in the experience of watching the film adaptation of The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick. There are innumerable ways an audience member may respond when watching a film; they may laugh, they may cry, they may be frightened, they may think deep thoughts, they may be bored, etc.

Ever since the advent of celluloid films, horror movies have always held a fascination for viewers. Just why do people pay good money to be scared out of their wits? Apart from its entertainment value, the horror movie satisfies certain primordial needs in man. Through the horror movies, one is able to come to grips with one's personal demons, fear of death and other irrational phobias and in the process achieve a catharsis. Far from being morbid, such movies actually affirm life for the movie-goer, for he is able to emerge from the dark into the light, both literally and figuratively, having explored the world beyond our normal perception as well as the deep recesses of the human soul and say, "It's good to be alive."

Experiences encompassed in times of struggle can lead to a new transformative perspective of one’s relationship with self and the world. William Shakespeare’s last play “The Tempest” (1610), canvasses loss catalysing rediscovering the importance of life resulting in a greater understanding of how our flaws compromise our humanity. Prospero, the usurped Duke of Milan, shows this to be true, moving from a mindset focused on vengeance to a profound discovery of self. Similarly, in “Man’s Search for Meaning” (1946), fulfillment with discovering how we choose to cope and find meaning/purpose in life through unrelenting struggle is illustrated. The three-part non-fiction told by psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, depicts his ordeal inside of concentration camps during the Second World War, elaborating on finding true meaning in life even under the most horrific circumstances. Frankl shares his process of discovery demonstrating his ability to overcome the most overwhelming experience leading to doorway of meaning, purpose and happiness.