Frank: Who’s inside that head? ‘Frank’ directed by Lenny Abrahamson premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2014. ‘Frank’ is the comedy – drama film about the indie pop band named ‘The Soronprfbs’ The band has the enigmatic ‘Frank’ (Michael Fassbender), the man who wears BIG FAKE HEAD all the time, as a vocalist and songwriter. After meeting by an incident, Jon Burroughs (Domhnall Gleeson), a wannabe musician and songwriter, joined the band immediately as a keyboard player and found himself can do more for the fame of this eccentric band. Frank (2014) is the Irish-UK film inspired from Chris Sievey (1995-2010), the vocalist whose outsider spirit and big fake head. The name of his character was Frank Sidebottom. He became one of …show more content…
The audience will follow him everywhere. Like some parts Chris Sievey’s real life, Jon keep asking himself the same question about Frank. Both his curiosity and his ambition to be famous can lead Jon to start many things about the band. The movie use only Jon’s point of view to show the story. It’s obvious that every scene in this film always have Jon there. So, this is the only Jon memory and others are probably different. Who will know? Jon is not only a narrator. He plays the important variable roles that will control the way of this story. Probably, every change started when he came in. It clearly presented John’s personality, but the audience knows so little about other band members. You will know Frank that he has a mental illness and Don, the manager, also used to have that kind of illness. Even Clara, the Theremin player, that you will see how freak she is but you will never know where she comes from and why she have been like that. Besides, you will never know Nana, the drummer, and Baraque, the guitar player, that much …show more content…
Most people will find themselves wondering that ‘Will Frank take off that big head?’ The movie perfectly accomplished in making the audience thinks the same way as Jon at the first. It can’t help that in Jon’s eyesight members of the band are totally freak and it makes the audience think similarly. Only little thing, I quite disappointed is the way this film presented places. I didn’t feel that they moved to those places for real. Probably, the director needs to focus on the character and story line more than the place, but it make every place is so plain and useless. They moved, moved and moved, but you will not feel any places much. On the other hand, it might be good if you want to concentrate to the situation only. If anyone thinks it will be a cliché, you’d better think about it again. No-No-No, it’s not a plot twist as well. Actually, the movie is brilliant to gradually make it so sensitive, burst and bring it back in the right time. It will not get 100% perfection, but it’s a memorable one because I believe it can make the audience feel its core. By the way, the story is suitable for everyone, except children (some issues might be hard to understand and, of course, freak). In short, ‘Frank’ is a weird, clever, unforgettable and heartfelt story,
John's life seemed to be one major drama after another; he didn't have a good male role model as a kid, and it seems he never was able to get on track. What was amazing about his life was the number of problems that he seemed to get into and how he wriggled out of them (with the help of a friendly person who just happened to meet him) only to run into more problems.
I feel that Jon first started his journey to rehabilitation during 1989, when he first became interested in the St. Martin de Porres Lay Dominican Chapter, he made his final commitment in 1991. By taking part in baptisms, helping officiate Mass, praying with inmates and later becoming a Lay Preacher, Jon became a spiritual leader for all inmates on death row. “It wasn’t just a ‘Jailhouse religion,’” Bishop Edmond Carmody (a friend and Priest at Ellis), testified of Jon’s conversion. “It was genuine. He came to Mass regularly and participated.” Jon not only joined a religion, he lived it. He renounced his former way of living, asked God for
You know that, I can't so much as drink a damn glass of water around a midget or a piece of antique furniture". What a way to describe an issue that he (Doyle) has. The music score for this movie in my opinion is on point. The instramental that is played when Karl goes looking for Frank is somewhat soothing yet edgy as it makes you feel as though something is going to
Jon is lost in time. If he wanted to change it, he wouldn't be able to make decisions past the fact that himself in the future
Frank’s need for stimulation could clearly be seen as an adolescent when he, after running away and surviving on cashing fraudulent checks, desired to partake in even more daring crimes as a result of the mere exposure effect in which the thrill of committing these crimes without any repercussion led to his increasing preference for them. In a way, the deceptive fraudulent checks that Frank created were directly representative of his deceptive nature since they could not easily be validated and had to travel weeks across the country. Frank’s desire to partake in increasing risky crimes during his merge led to the furthering development of his antisocial personality disorder as he took on greater impulsive acts of social deviance such as impersonating a Pan Am pilot and forging Pan Am payroll checks for over two million dollars. Utilizing his superficial charm, pathological lying, and lack of empathy Frank impressed and exploited people to feed his id-driven desire to commit more impulsive, daring crimes. The thrill of living on the edge of getting caught by the FBI, reached a turning point when Frank confidently impersonated the alias of a secret service agent and lied to avoid getting caught by Carl Hanratty, the lead investigator for his case. Realizing, he had just walked past the chief FBI
It is shown that John changes in the end with his conservations with Virgil;“John shook his head. ‘Haven’t you figured it out yet, Virgil? There are no such things as dead ends. Only people who find dead ends. I sometimes wonder if that’s the only thing I have to teach”(Taylor 337).
She roller skates in houses, has parties, and much, much, more. John has definitely evolved the most, though. In the beginning, he was obnoxious and didn’t know when enough was enough. He always crossed the line. Now, after his adventures with Mr. Pignati, he is a little bit more careful and has learned not to be a troublemaker.
Overall I found the movie to be quite interesting and exciting at times but a bit slow in others. The story itself was very clear to me and didn’t cause any confusion. It had a good flow also, just as you were on the verge of falling into boredom with a scene they switched it up on you to keep you
When Frank took off his mask, it showed a boy from Donnie’s school (which we find out in the end) with one eye gone and blood stained down his face. Donnie ask him what happened eye, he didn’t really give him an answer but told him about Time Travel instead. My point is before the ending when everything went to bad, Donnie’s girlfriend got ran over by a car and who was the driver? None other than Frank, but Frank came out just a regular guy, a scared guy that didn’t mean to hurt Donnie’s girlfriend. Donnie being who he is and was angry that his girfriend was dead, so he shot Frank straight in the eye which killed him. Donnie recognized Frank once he came of his car because of his costume. At that moment I wonder wow, how did this happen. How can a regular guy like Frank be the demonic rabbit guide that has been around Donnie? More confusion comes and this movie keeps me thinking. My mind goes on over drive wondering how can this be? How can Frank be the person behind the mask, when he was just a regular guy that Donnie murdered for killing his girlfriend? That is the question that is the most confusing to me and no matter how much I think, no real answer comes out. I think that’s what writer-director Richard Kelly wanted, he wanted to boggle our mind and really make us think. We are viewers who have seen Donnie Darko will
But Jon must follow his gut feeling and go where his feels is right. Jon starts to head east and comes across obstacles that could interfere with his journey “I do not know the customs of rivers—we are the People of the Hills. I tried to guide my raft with the pole but it spun around.”
The movie “Catch Me If You Can” does a fantastic job of attracting the audience attention to the real life story of Frank William Abaganale Jr., who became one of the greatest con-artist that managed to falsely pose as a co-pilot, a doctor & a prosecutor, after turning to a life of crime. In order, to survive on his own, he became an expert check forger who succeeds to rob millions from the U.S. banks. FBI agent, Carl Hanratty specializes in bank fraud, becomes in charge of capturing Frank Abaganale Jr. for his check fraud crimes, but it’s a struggle to capture frank due to his ability to impersonate different professional. The emotion between Frank Abangle Jr. & Carl Hanratty brings a sense of realism that transfer the message of broken families
Jon’s decision to join the Night’s Watch is a sacrifice. The Night’s Watch is populated by mainly criminals and other lowly men. Even though Jon was a bastard, he was a bastard of a rich and powerful family, and as a result he could have lived a very comfortable life doing something else. Jon believed he would be more effective as a Night’s Watch man, and put his beliefs before his personal comfort. When faced with a chance to kill a Wilding woman, he refuses to kill her since she is a woman.
Still, it is obvious that Jon still feels love. He even still feels love for Janey. His reaction in chapter three at the interview, when he is told that he is giving people cancer, is how we can tell. He begins to heave into emotional imbalance as he shouts out that he just wants to be left alone. That is exactly what ends up happening. He leaves to be alone. His emotions of having just been
The Talented Mr Ripley, a film directed by Anthony Minghella, based off a book by Patricia Highsmith, delves into the world of a psychotic young man named Thomas Ripley. Through the film Tom murders three people and usurps the identity of Dickie Greenleaf, a wealthy socialite. Desire is a core theme in this film, causing this character to act irrationally and impulsively, obviously shown in this film through when Tom steals Dickie’s identity after murdering him and mooches off Dickie’s allowance his father pays out. This was caused by Tom’s huge desire to live in a social class way above his own, surrounded by wealth and popularity. This theft of identity caused by the character’s un-satisfaction with his own/real life, directly relates to another film ‘Catch me if you Can’, where the main protagonist Frank Abagnale poses as multiple identities such as a Pan Am Pilot, a paediatrician, and an attorney. We can see similarities with Tom and Frank’s decisions caused by their strong desire for a higher status and a wealthy
I no longer know where The Room ends and I begin. It is, without question, the worst film ever made. But this comment is in no way meant to be discouraging. Because while The Room is the worst movie ever made it is also the greatest way to spend a blisteringly fast 100 minutes in the dark. Simply put, 'The Room' will change your life. It's not just the dreadful acting or the sub-normal screenplay or the bewildering direction or the musical score so soaked in melodrama that you will throw up on yourself or the lunatic-making cinematography; no, there is something so magically wrong with this movie that it can only be the product of divine intervention. If you took the greatest filmmakers in history and gave them all the task of purposefully creating a film as spectacularly horrible as this not one of them, with all their knowledge and skill, could make anything that could even be considered as a contender. Not one line or scene would rival any moment in The Room. The centerpiece of this filmic holocaust is Mr. Tommy Wiseau himself. Without him, it would still be the worst movie ever made, but with him it is the greatest worst movie ever made. Tommy has been described as a Cajun, a Croatian cyborg, possibly from Belgium, clearly a product of Denmark, or maybe even not from this world or dimension. All of these things are true at any one moment. He is a tantalizing mystery stuffed inside an enigma wrapped in bacon and smothered in cheese. You will fall in love with this man