An Analysis Of The Film Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

Have you ever really wanted one thing in life? I mean like you really wanted it. What would you have done to get this thing that you really wanted. This happens to many people throughout the story of the “Jake Reinvented”. All though there are many themes throughout this book, I think one of the very important or I guess main theme in this book is that some people will do anything to get what they want. They will even give up something that they really love or are good at. They will lose friends, get in trouble and even get sent to some other town to get what it is that they want.

Dr. Strangelove is one of the many masterpieces made by the great Stanley Kubrick. The movie was made in 1964 at the Shepperton Studios in London, UK. The time the movie was made is of great importance, in fact, it was made only two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kubrick pictures, in an extremely comical yet somewhat serious way, what the world would look like after one of the two forces (U.S vs. USSR) was triggered in initializing nuclear warfare.

This shows the deep roots of collectivism in this dystopian society. As he becomes more individualized he finds a lover, the Golden one, and escape into the dark forest. There they both find an old house filled with books and ancient advanced technology. There they both find the concept of ego, the concept of self. He realizes that happiness is found through accomplishing his own purpose in life. Following his own passions and ambitions make him happy. This is illustrated in the following quote “I owe nothing to my brothers… And to earn my love, my brothers must do more to have been

As the lost boys continue through there long hike through deserts and jungles they tell themselves that they will survive and by the end, their spirits are as high as ever. There he kept their minds off the horrors going on around them like their friends starving or them themselves starving. When their village was being attacked our main character never gave up hope that him and his family could be reunited and would be together in a good home again. He never did find his family ut his hope that he would find them kept him

In life, heroes are everywhere. They fight crime, save lives, and basically just do good deeds. Heroes follow their journey, which, when written, is actually very cliché. A hero follows a set of events in their journey that are rarely changed. In this essay, two hero’s are examined, Santiago from The Alchemist, and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. These two stories seem very different, but in the end, are actually very similar. When examined closely, one may find that their journeys are very similar, following the events of a hero’s journey. This seemingly simple set of events is found in almost every heroic story. First is the problem. The hero is in a not quite perfect way of life, and needs to fix it. Then there is the refusal, the hero is called up to fixed the problem, but refuses for whatever personal reason. Then they are forced to go, and meet a mentor. This mentor gives them the wisdom that they need to get through the journey. It may even be what the hero is striving to be. Then they cross the threshold from their ordinary world to the new special world. The fifth and sixth parts can be interchangeable. Trials and allies/enemies, either can come first. Then they reach what they have been striving for, the liar, the cave, the final destination as a normal person. Once the hero reaches this part, they will be forever changed. At some point in this final destination, they will be killed and reborn, whether it is metaphorical or literal. After this they will fight

Instead of taking part in those acts of survival, the boy and the man use each other's presence to continue with the grueling journey in search of civilization and humanity. The man and the boy held on to the hope they will travel south and live a normal life, escaping their current state of living. Their ambition and belief allow them to go through every day confident that, things will change for the better. The Man encourages his son through their journey on into the unknown and tells him that for him to survive he must travel south, do what they had done throughout their endeavors, and 'find the good guys'. This is a repetitive phrase throughout that novel that means the boy should meet up without individuals similar to them who haven’t resorted to cannibalism and dehumanization because catastrophe has struck, there is distrust in the natural world, fear, and alienation. But the reassurance the father gives his son to helps him continue the journey and strengthen their bond. The boy also symbolizes strength and dreams, the reason the man is alive is that of the boy. He helps him dream of the future. The boy’s curiosity helps the man remember good memories of his childhood, and he

Have you ever noticed a similar pattern in the outcome of a variety of literary works? A hero's journey is a journey that the hero of the story takes and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed. Many authors, such as John Updike, Sylvia Plath, and Alice Walker, show this ideal through some of their literary works. Although they may seem different, they all have a hero trying to settle a conflict in order to reach their main goal. In each of these stories, we are able to see a change in character by the protagonist. Authors such as Updike, Plath, and Walker, use literary devices such as imagery, setting, and allusion in their stories to show a journey that a their main character is taking. The hero of

Oskar spends much of his life attempting to find some restitution about the loss of his father. In the story, Ruth tells Mr. Black and Oskar many facts about the Empire State Building in New York City: “That gave me heavy boots because it reminded me of the lock that I still hadn’t found, and how until I found it, I didn’t love dad enough” (Foer 251). Oskar’s feeling of grief and guilt about his dad’s death bothers him; he feels in order to actually love his dad and get rid of his lament to receive closure, he must find the lock. Due to the disappointment of discovering that the lock has no connection to his father, Oskar has to invent closure to end feeling “heavy boots” by creating a fantasy world in which he and his father are safe. The book’s final pages are a flip book of photos of a man, possibly his father, falling to his death from the World Trade Center. Oskar reverses the photos so that when you flip them, the man falls up. He creates a fictional story in which his Dad is still alive. Even though the quest doesn't give Oskar the closure he expected, it does help him appreciate the time he did have with his Dad.

The film, the Untouchables, was directed by Brian De Palma. It was set in the prohibition era, which was right at the start of the 1920’s. Prohibition can be described as a law that made selling and manufacturing alcohol illegal. By putting this law into effect, it actually increased the amount of crime and violence throughout cities in the US. This was ultimately due to the rise in organized crime, also known as gangs. In the movie specifically, it was centered around the rise of the Mafia in Chicago. By looking at the production of the movie, we can see how during prohibition, the Mafia controls everything and the violence ultimately it leads to.

Oskar uses his quest as a coping mechanism and as a way of preserving the memory of his

If he had never broken the vase that lead to him finding the envelope, he could not have started his journey. Oskar had initially noticed the vase on the top shelf of his fathers closet and tried to get it down and “the next thing was that everything was on the floor … including the vase.”(37) Oskar had accidentally broken the vase, but he found the key when he did, which was the reason for him spending 6 months around New York City looking for what the key opened. With each house that Oskar visits his curiosity gets the best of him as he wanders around looking at all the things in each person’s home. Oskar had been visiting Mr. Black and asked where the wash room was and “before [he] went back down, [he] snooped around a little.”(160) Through his curious nature he finally met the man who was renting his grandmothers spare room, who later turned out to be his grandfather. Oskar always thought the renter was made up by his grandmother who was lonely, but Oskar had found him one day while in her apartment: “I thought, The renter! … He’s real!” (236) If it weren’t for Oskar’s natural curiosity, he wouldn’t have found the key, where it belonged or the renter. Oskar is a boy who want’s to know

In my opinion, this is clearly an anti-war film. An anti-war film is showing a horrible effect of war such as major destructive, injury of civilians, death, and how it affects people negatively. When Seita finds out that his mother is burned, the camera stares at the burned body for a while, forcing us to look at the casualty of war. I can’t imagine how’s in Seita’s mind, seeing his mother this way and need to figure out what to do next. This film represents the struggles of civilians with the war going on, it’s not just Seita and Seiko that get the impact.

I believe that the underlying message touches on self-discovery and finding yourself. Hedwig’s mother says early on before the operation that Hedwig (Hansel at the time) if Hedwig wanted to walk away then she must leave something behind. “To be free one must give up a part of oneself.” Though Hedwig’s mother was talking about the sex change operation, it is a metaphor for life as well. If we want to grow as a person, then we must leave some part of ourselves behind. Through the entirety of our lives we grow and change, especially early on in life. We can’t keep the baggage that we pick up throughout life. Sometimes we need to leave it behind and keep moving forward. The entire play Hedwig describes how she has gone through her life trying to

“Incredibly close” is used to describe how close Oskar was to finding what the key he found in his father’s closet belong to. Soon after Oskar finds the key he is in a way forced by his Asperger's syndrome to find who or what the key belongs to because he cannot handle anything not having an answer. The envelope he found the key in had the name Black written on it, so Oskar made it his mission to find every person with the last name Black in New York and go visit them to inquire about key. The first place Oskar ended up going was to the house of Abby Black, who similar to him was going through a tough time. He asked her about the key, but she said it was not hers and did not know what it belonged to. He talks to her in order to comfort her and as he is doing this William Black walks by. This is not significant at the time but it is later learned that the key does indeed belong to William

The Intouchables Is a film about an unlikely friendship between Philippe, a highly affluent quadriplegic, and Driss, a Senegalese immigrant who lands a job as Philippe’s live-in caregiver. The characters friendship arises despite the vast class chasm between them. I think the film title is aptly suited, the Philippe and Driss’s friendship seem almost unrealistic given class differences, the age gap between them, opposite personal interests, and differences in physical capabilities, however, none of these differences act as barriers to the development of their friendship.