Analysis Of The Film La Bamba

For my cultural activity, I watched a Spanish-language movie with English subtitles in order to better understand the film. The purpose of this paper is to express my reactions concerning the Puerto Rican film Casi Casi. In summary, Casi Casi is a high school romantic comedy about a boy who runs for Student Council President who is attracted to a girl who also decides to run against him. At the beginning of the film, my initial reaction was that the film was going to be very difficult to view and interpret due to the fact that it was produced in a foreign language that I am not fluent in.

The film Pelo Malo takes place in the city of Caracas, Venezuela and is about a young boy and obsession with straightening his hair. In the movie, the main characters Junior his single mother Marta and baby brother live with in an apartment complex with in the city of Caracas. This movie takes place in 2011, during the time that Hugo Chavez came down with cancer. The film’s primary themes were homophobia, and racism. The movie detailed a young boys struggle for acceptance and love from his mother and his struggle to obtain his desire of straight hair. Throughout the movie, the young child is seen living in an apartment complex that is located within a lower socioeconomic status area. When Marta, was not able to find a baby sitter to watch over her children when she worked she was forced to take the children with her on the bus through the city to her work. One of the places that she was shown to work was in a gated residence where she worked as a security guard for the area. The primary conflict in the movie revolved around the mothers fear that her son was “gay” due to his obsession with straightening his hair and his singing. Due to many of the things that the young boy does in the movie, the mother Marta fears that her child is homosexual and during one particular scene is worried that she was the cause of it. Since during the scene where she is speaking with a doctor about her son, she discussed how it was her fault because she did not ‘touch his thing’ and that she

Ritchie being treated unfair, because of his ethnicity, he was not good enough for an upper-class girl like Donna. But Valens was determined to show Ludwig that he would not ruin his daughter’s life and that he wanted nothing but the best for Donna, so the two continued their relationship behind her parents back. When Keane first met Ritchie he automatically assumed that Ritchie didn’t speak English because he was brown, Keane approached Valens and started speaking in Spanish, little did Keane know that Ritchie did speak a word of Spanish and was born in the United States. This happened quiet a lot to Latino American’s, because they were a different skin color, folk assumed that they didn’t understand or speak English. Lucky enough Valens was an easygoing guy and didn’t make a big deal about the assumption. The unfairness Valens faced was due to the fact that Mexicans were not welcomed in the United States, by the time Ritchie was born times weren’t as tough as they were the years before, and racism was dying slowly, but there was always going to be people who did approve of having Latinos in

In his 2001 film entitled Lantana, director Ray Lawrence provides a dramatic look into the consequences of jealousy and infidelity in relationships. The film focuses primarily on two couples, Leon and Sonja, and John and Valerie, whose relationships are both seemingly in the midst of their own downward spirals. As the story unfolds and the issues affecting each of these relationships are uncovered, the film paints a vivid picture of the different ways that such themes can quickly bring ruin to relationships, and, in the case of some of the film’s characters, lives.

Serpico” is a film that based on the of New York City Police Officer named Frank Serpico and the difficult obstacles he had to face working for the NYPD. Serpico is a “cops cop” that had to deal with persuasive organized corruption, police crime, and ethical dilemmas etc. All these obstacles were hard for Serpico to work with on a daily basis. He refused to take bribes and his co-workers begin distrust him. Serpico informed his superiors about the corruption but they did nothing about it. The superior’s just transferred him from the Bronx. Brooklyn, and Harlem. The higher ups in the police department were more concerned if Serpico spoke to any outside private organizations about the police misconduct.

New Year’s Day, 2009, a man is brutally shot by the BART Police of Oakland, California. Fruitvale Station, written and directed by Ryan Coogler, took audiences by surprise as it resonated with twenty-two year old Oscar Grant, a man who was shot down by the BART Police. This movie takes viewers on an emotional expedition as it takes a peek into the life and death of Oscar Grant and his family. The struggles of originating from an African-American background become apparent as Oscar Grant struggles with steering away from racial stereotypes and the misunderstandings of racial profiling.

In Casarosas’ short film “La Luna”, A young boy learns to find the balance between keeping his family's traditions and learning and discovering new ways to solve problems. In the film, the little boy learns about his family’s job from his father and his grandfather. The film makes it clear that they have been doing their job for a long time and that they each like to do it a particular way. On the boat the little boy receives a hat, the same hat that both his grandfather and father are wearing. They both tell him to wear it the way that they are wearing it but, neither look seems to fit. Then, at the end of the film the little boy discovers himself and, decides to wear it backwards, changing the tradition of how to wear the hat. The family

Casablanca, the crowning achievement of director Michael Curtiz, which was released in 1942, is a film that had to work against the pressing concerns associated with World War II to stay relevant in both cinematic and general audiences. The writing, which was done by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, had to be inspirational yet uncontroversial. With actors like Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund, Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault, and Paul Henreid as the French revolutionary Victor Laszlo, Casablanca has a respectable cast. The movie initially appears to fit the film noir genre because of its smoky backdrops with muted colors,

Fruitvale station, is a story about the real life Oscar Grant, a black man who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer in Oakland. This film follows Grant and his last days before the shooting on New Year’s Day. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale station was his first feature film. Coogler expressed that he was interested in making this film because he wanted people to get to know Grant, get attached, so that when a situation like this occurs again, people will care more about that human life (Wikipedia). In addition, the cast includes Michael B. Jordan (Grant), Octavia Spencer (Wanda Johnson), and Melonie Diaz (Sophina Mesa), amongst a few others. However, there is an underlying concept in this film. This film relates back to Double Consciousness and the internal conflict and struggles within African American men.

Imagine a world that is like a game of dress up. In dress up, you start out with a person, and you are able to choose your preferred gender, eyes, nose, lips, hair, body type and clothes. In other words, in a game like dress up, you can construct an ideally perfect person. Likewise, in the movie Gattaca, in a not too distant future, constructing a person is a reality, and it is not limited to just physical features. Gattaca shows a dystopic society where a birth made from genetic selection is widely common. The science of this idea essentially starts with DNA sequencing. Genetic sequencing is relevant and of interest is because it gives us a better understanding of our genes and the science behind our DNA. DNA sequencing is like a foundation

The film, Run, Lola, Run has very many similar structures to a video game, which is most likely why it has been compared to a video game before. How the film is put together (using sounds/music and different shots of the characters) makes the film sound and look very similar to a video game to the viewers eye. The beginning scene of the film almost seems like a beginning scene of a video game, with the narration introducing what is to come by grabbing the viewer’s attention, as the camera is going through a crowd of people. The film also flashes back and forth in the scene when the two characters are on the phone, to give more explanation to what they are talking about. Video games do this in-between the user playing the game, to show short

The ideas of what a utopian society should look like changes when talking to different people in different parts of the world. More often than not most people would say that violence is not a part of this utopian ideal and that man has found a way to work past that and find a better solution to the violent issues we have seen in the past. Films in a sense are a way for artists to explore these utopian and dystopia ideals and present them to the public as a looking glass into what the world could look like. For many of us we live in a capitalistic society or a society with at least some forms of capitalistic ruling. Film makers in Latin America have used their position to critique and analyze the different forms of capitalism and how the

Some five hundred years ago, ships began transporting millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. This massive population movement helped create the African Diaspora in the New World. Many did not survive the horrible ocean journey. Enslaved Africans represented many different peoples, each with distinct cultures, religions, and languages. Most originated from the coast or the interior of West Africa, between present-day Senegal and Angola. Other enslaved peoples originally came from Madagascar and Tanzania in East Africa

The Charlie Chaplin film, “The Immigrant,” gives an almost comedic account of one man’s life during the great depression. It begins with many men and women on a boat heading to the United States who are hungry, sick, and desperate for money. Gambling and pickpocketing are depicted as ways for people to get any money they can. When the leading role arrives in America, he is still very much hungry and very much broke. When he goes to a restaurant he discovers that the punishments are severe for anyone who cannot pay. Though the tone of this movie was generally comedic, it remained dark and did articulate some of the struggles during the time of the great depression. The reality of the situation was not much different than this, although 10 times

Films from all around the world are filled with life lessons and meaning. They are not only created for entertainment, but sometimes to portray specific morals. This way, they can be enjoyable, in addition to being informative with long lasting effects. Some small things tend to go unnoticed while watching, but when they are seen and analyzed, they can have the greatest impact. The movie Slumdog Millionaire is filled with major social issues, ethics and morals. It has specific goals and purposes for viewers to grasp and think about further. The film depicts a major social issue: economic inequality and power; some of the most prominent examples are the divisions caused by wealth and power, the fact that money does not fix all problems, the tendencies and opportunities of the wealthy, and what extremes people will do for money.