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While watching the movie "Paper Planes" it is rather obvious the director of the movie, Robert Connelly, has some very strong views about certain issues. He has strong views about winning or losing, and it is clear that he thinks it is more about having fun than winning. Connelly has views on other issues as well, such as problems between fathers and sons. There are also some themes in the movie about moving on with past and focusing on the present and the future. He uses various techniques to prove his points to the viewers. One of these is to have two characters, one that has the same concerns as him, and is likeable, and the other who is the exact opposite, and is dislikeable. These make it clear to the viewer that he has strong views.

Paul Haggis directed an Oscar winning film in 2004 called “Crash”, this movie basically talks about racism and the impact it has on the lives of people in Los Angeles. This movie got a good response from the viewers, as it concentrated on some real harsh realities of racism and asked some hard questions which are generally avoided in movies. This movie clearly promotes the a very delicate issue, and hence requires some detailed assessment. I personally feel the movie was good and it portrayed some very common events of racism, I think “Crash” shows realities, but in a not-so-realistic way.

“No wire hangers!” What would be a normal thing to find in an average persons home is not accepted in Joan Crawford’s home. This posses the question why in the movie Mommie Dearest does Mrs. Crawford have a dilemma with wire hangers in her closet? Why does she have so many mental complications in general? Although to the public, Joan seems like a striving successful actress she obviously has some underlying issues. She has developed her personality disorders her whole life, but how she got them is a mystery. Most people develop personality disorders from their parents or how they are raised. This is most likely the case with Joan Crawford, but no one really knows since she is diseased. Joan has four major personality disorders within the movie; Obsessive-compulsive, Bipolar, Borderline, and Narcissistic personality disorder.

The Black Balloon directed by first time feature film director, Elissa Down, is a clever combination of two types of story, the coming of age romantic comedy, and a family drama with disability. The film was released in Australian cinemas on 6 March 2008. The Black Balloon is a movie about Thomas Mollison whom is about to turn 16. His family have just moved into a new home in New South Wales in the early 1990s. It begins with Charlie, his autistic brother, banging a wooden spoon on the grass with their new neighbours staring and pointing. His dad 's in the army, his mother is pregnant, and Charlie his brother is autistic as well as suffering from an attention deficit disorder. Thomas is anxious because he has to start at a new school, and all he wants is to do is fit in and be considered in the same way as everyone else. Thomas is devoted to his brother and shows affection, but often feels isolated, as it seems as if his mother gives his brother more attention. Thomas finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted to Jackie, a girl in his swim class things become complicated. The purpose of the movie, The Black Balloon is a movie about a family struggling to cope with autism and learning to accept autism and people for who they are.

Communication is important in our lives as it enables us to interact with one another, and allows us to form and build upon relationships with other people. However, when communication is not effective or colored by personal biases, it may lead to conflict. In the movie Crash, the characters are faced with a number of social issues, born from their inability to communicate with one another as well as their perceived notions of racial and cultural biases. Through the interactions between the characters this film allows us to understand how interpersonal communication affects individuals be it with strangers, friends, or family.

Throughout time, the progression and evolution of snowboarding has increased greatly. It has gone from non existence in the late 1970’s, to one of the most watched action sports in a matter of thirty-five years. The upward takeoff and popularity of snowboarding relies on two people, Jake Burton and Shaun White. Jake Burton back in 1977 had the vision for what snowboarding would be, but Shaun White had what it took to manifest that vision. Evidence has shown that time brings change in sports, history has repeated itself with snowboarding, this history reflects the time & changes that has occurred in America.

Shaun was born with a congenital heart defect. Before the age of 5, he had two open heart cardiac surgeries. Shaun first learned how to skateboard before he learned how to snowboard. He learned how to skateboard before he learned how to snowboard. He learned how to skateboard when he went to the local YMCA that was closest to his house. His big brother Jesse was going to learn Skateboarding there so Shaun decided to follow him to the YMCA and join the class too and learn. He finally learned how to snowboard when he was 6 years old. His mother thought he was going tho fast and she was scared something bad might happen to him. He had already suffered through his years of being a baby and she was scared something might happen to her youngest son again. Cathy was scared there might be a second chance of losing Shaun. Shaun's mom told him to find something else to do, something that wasn't dangerous. She wanted him to find something to do as his career in life, but his career turned out to be snowboarding.

Kevin Pearce is an advocate and educator for people working to improve the health and functioning of their brains, and a former professional snowboarder. After having a disastrous accident, he sustained a traumatic brain injury and is working towards making it through his healing process. The traumatic brain injury resulted in an altered state of consciousness. This altered state of consciousness has led to a decrease in Kevin’s ability to function socially. Before the injury, Kevin was practicing to compete in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. His accident occurred just a little over a month before the Olympics were to start. Many different people are helping Kevin to get better. His family, friends, doctors, and fellow snowboarders were all around as Kevin Pearce tried to overcome this event that would have a huge impact on his career that he loved and the rest of his life overall.

“Iron Road” has successfully shown why Chinese workers came to Canada in the 1880s as well as the challenges they confronted. Most of the film’s storyline occurs in China, where it uses the point of view of a Chinese peasant called Little Tiger, to display the daily struggles of the Chinese. The setting is full of war and destruction, thus destroying many farms resulting in famine and poverty. This has resulted in peasants having insufficient funds to support themselves and making them live in unsanitary living spaces. As a result, this gave the workers more reason to move to Canada as there was also better income and resources there. However, once they arrived in Canada, they discover that the conditions there weren’t as good as they thought. Although they had a better income than they did in China, there was a lot of discrimination, dangerous working conditions and horrible living spaces. There was worse pay for the Chinese workers and they had to do the most life-threatening jobs like working with explosives as well as working on the side of a cliff with no harnesses. Throughout the film, “Iron Road” has used the setting, characters and point of view of a Chinese peasant to show that there were horrible conditions and chaos in China, as well as the racism, dangerous working conditions and poor living space the peasants faced in Canada.

Seeking redemption is not always easy, but hard work, time, and effort will assure that redemption is achieved. During Paul Haggis’ drama film Crash, there were several scenes that showed racial tension and redemption in a Los Angeles neighborhood. It is never easy for someone to redeem forgiveness from someone they have harmed recently, but it is all about the effort one puts to change into a better person they want to be. Even though some may never forgive someone who has done them wrong no matter the circumstances, it takes determination, commitment, and time to achieve redemption, because you have to acknowledge the harm you caused the people around you, it is one-hundred percent your decision whether you go through with it, and if you want to be forgiven.

The documentary follows U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce and shows his journey after an extreme sports injury. An escalating competition between Kevin and his rival Shaun White in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics leaves Shaun on top of an Olympic podium and Kevin in a coma following a training accident in Park City, Utah. Kevin's family flies to his side and helps him rebuild his life as a brain injury survivor. But when he insists he wants to return to the sport he still loves, his family intervenes with his brother David speaking for all of them when he says, “I just don’t want you to die.” Kevin’s doctors caution him that even a small blow to the head could be enough to kill him.

The movie “Crash” - from director and producer Paul Haggis - pictures one day in the lives of various characters in Los Angeles, all of them from different social and racial backgrounds but nevertheless connected and intertwined throughout the story. The movie’s story is being told in a mostly chronological way, except that it puts one scene to the very beginning of the film and then cuts back to the day prior, indicated by the visual text “yesterday”. In this first sequence, detectives Graham Waters and his partner Ria have been rearended when they arrive at a crime scene, leading to a fight between Hispanic Ria and the accident responsible, furious Chinese Kim Lee, involving race-related insults towards each other. Breaking through the

Bowling For Columbine is a documentary that was produced by Michael Moore which focusses primarily on the relationship between the crime rates throughout various regions. After learning that Canada and the United States had a very similar ratio when it came to households and guns, Michael was intrigued that Canada had a substantially lower rate of gun related crimes. This documentary became a tool for Michael to delve into the questions that were raised; although he was unable to extract a specific answer as to why Canada had a lower rate of gun related crime, he was still able to create some life altering changes.

Crash is the movie that was released in 2004. This movie begins by saying “it is the sense of touch…we miss so much that we crash into each other, so we can feel something.” These two words touch and feel had huge meaningful in this movie. The word touch was used to show the connection and feel which conjures a sense of motion. The touch in this movie brings a lot of issues which provides the movie main theme. Before I explore the theme, I will tell my readers what are the themes. The themes are; traditional gender roles, Gender roles, Hope, Faith, and love, Finding the light while we are facing the shadow, and the social construct vs nature characters.

The movie Falling Down portrays many examples of the movie reflecting, influencing, and changing society. The movie reflects society's many flaws such as inflation of prices and unneeded budget spending. The movie also influences others to point out society’s flaws by using force. Finally, the movie changes society by showing the movie in the point of view of a person that is classified as a realist.