Movie Analysis: The Attic by Satyajit Ray

“Here’s Johnny!” A famous line from The Shining, when Jack Torrance goes mad and is hacking at the bathroom door with an axe to mutilate his wife, Wendy and son, Danny into many little bloody pieces for disobeying him. The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson, quits his job as a school teacher and takes a job as caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado during the winter, hoping to cure his writer 's block. He moves in along with his wife, Wendy portrayed by Shelley Duvall, and his telepathic son, Danny played by Danny Lloyd. Danny is later told that he has an special telepathic ability called shining, hence the title.

The Shining house the author illustrates the idea of rivalry between old and the new and the human backlash to everyday change. Both sides of the story have very substantial perception of what they hope to be done which leads to an intense and dubious conflict between the two groups The main character, Mary, is caught in an argument drives her into making a forced opinion that everyone will have to confront at some point of their life. In the short story “The Shining Houses” by Alice Munro the author demonstrates how a person is facing with making a agreement in a complex and conforming situation, the choice made helps reveal his or her individuality with ignorant judgment.

The film, The House I live In, opened my eyes to the severity of unfair law enforcement and the depths of the battle with war on drugs. Theoretically, the more people are being arrested for drugs, the cheaper, purer, and more available the drugs become. Making these arrests are not helping get the drugs off the streets, it is only opening up more opportunities for other people to pick up the business.

The Australian Film ‘The Castle’ released in 1997 explores the life of the Kerrigans, a typical Australian working class family. However, their home is placed in an unusual spot; right next to Melbourne’s busiest airport. I believe that the Kerrigans are positioned by the film as being powerless. My first argument is that the Values, attitudes and beliefs that the Kerrigans follow are not really up to date. They do not have a sense of how the legal system works which adds to their powerless theme. Secondly, the Kerrigans think that it is very easy to stop a big business from taking some land. And finally; the Kerrigans have no real education so they don’t turn out to look formal at a court, they dress as if they are true Australians; Shorts and a T-shirt.

In 1971 on June 17, President Richard Nixon delivered a special message to the Congress on drug abuse prevention and control. During the presentation, Nixon made it clear that the United States was at war with this idea of drug abuse. What baffled Americans then, and still baffles Americans today, is that we are at war with our own nation with drugs; it is not some foreign affair like the media tends to focus on with Mexico. Nixon stated that at the time of his speech, what was implemented to control drug abuse was not working…“The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency. I intend to take every step necessary to deal with this emergency, including asking the Congress for an amendment to my 1972 budget to provide an

While neither parent regards schooling with much importance, they emphasize both reading and mathematics. The Walls’ children go in and out of public schools, yet they are able to maintain a reading skill that was well above average. Since all three kids were able to read books before the age of five, proving that the ability to read is valued in the family, “We might enroll...ever surrounded us” (20-21). In addition, the children are taught unconventional skills that would help them survive in their difficult lives. For example, Rex teaches Jeannette to shoot a pistol so she would be able to protect herself. Rex stresses subjects like engineering and astronomy, while Rose Mary teaches the children about nature and appreciating

The focus of this story is laid upon the child who is kept in the damp room without windows in a basement. He is filthy and devoid of any sunlight in the room being removed from any social contact. On the contrary, some of the citizens come and peer at the child to see who brings them a sort of joy and comfort in their lives. “Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children...depend wholly on this child’s abominable misery” (Guin 3). While adults accept the situation with the child, little children come feeling rage and shock as well as considering how to help the imprisoned. At this stage, they feel despair and compassion to him; however, they can not exchange their beautiful life for the sake of one child.

Normally I’m the one to go run and see the film before I finish reading the book, like lots of other people. The Glass Castle the movie was mesmerizing; it’s showed the struggles that Jeanette and her family dealt with growing up in poverty. The movie also captures the main idea that no matter where you come from you can do anything you put your mind to. While reading “The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls the mind creates its own movie of how things are supposed to play out. However the movie seemed to be rushed. Many important scenes that Jeanette described great imagery were crammed into one another. Jeanette’s father, Rex Walls was exactly how I expected him to be. Rosemary, Jeanette’s mom was down played in the movie. The movie’s

In the novel “The House On Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros shows the themes identity, family, and the house, through Esmeralda’s experiences. She demonstrates the theme of identity by telling the story of Esperanza, the main character, and how she finds out what identifies her from others. Cisneros reveals that Esperanza’s family helps her feel like she belongs to the house on Mango Street and not left out. The house is an important theme of the novel because it helps Esperanza to look back and have a past that she is proud of by living in that house and overcoming many hardships. The themes in the novel “The House On Mango Street,” are identity, family, and the house.

2. What is the nature of the conflict between Esperanza and Ramon early in the film? Is Esperanza and Ramon's behavior toward each other different in public and private? Why/how?

“Barn Burning” represents a view into coming-of-age. The child Sartoris Snopes, who is 10 years of age, is faced with life lessons of right or wrong related to becoming a man. Impressionable Sartoris is subject to his father’s violent ways, nevertheless has as well established a sense of justice. His father tries to instill in him you stand by your family regardless the nature of actions. Sartoris is sequentially faced with the decision of loyalty to his father by lying for his father in court or his own finer judgment of sound and moral behavior when he alerts the de Spains of his father intention to burn their barn.

Daughters of the Dust, was a movie about traditions, and the history of the women in a black family carrying these traditions. The movie starts in 1902, in an island where a family has lived for generations, since the slavery times. Part of this family, wants to leave the Island, but another part wants to preserve the traditions staying in the island. So the whole movie is about the struggle of the members of this family, in relation to leaving or not leaving the Island. The oldest women of this family, is the wisest of that family; she carries the traditions deep in her heart. Another woman, she is in her forty or so, and has two daughters, she is the other side of the coin. She

Short stories for the most part conclude with a complicated idea that most of the time it is up to the reader to figure out. To figure out the deeper meaning. Reading between the lines. Assume the worst or best for this main character. And the goal for the author is of course for the reader to take this underlying message and apply it to their own life. To take is into consideration. The most influenced and persuaded open minded victims at times are youngins. Student in academic culture, trying to learn to better their lives, we welcome those who leave an impression on us to learn from them.He is limiting himself to what he can do he is not caring enough to search or accept motivation around him that he spends his nights drinking and smoking as his wife says he has no friends. The only reason that he was talking to robert while his wife was asleep seems to be because he was either simply under the influence. The closing of the eyes relating to the communion in a cathedral as people kneel put their hands together and pray to a greater existence. Through his story he presents himself as cynical toward his wife and the blindman as the night continues and considers his conversation with robert on cathedrals.

The House I Live In approaches America’s war on drugs from multiple fronts, including the perspectives of inmates, law enforcement, federal judges, family members, etc. According to the film, the war on drugs has produced “more than 45 million arrests, $1 trillion dollars in government spending, and America’s role as the world’s largest jailer” (Jarecki 2013). Not only did the film examine these effects of the war on drugs, but it also observed the devastation to numerous individuals and families, the political and monetary motives of the drug war, and its failure but persistence throughout the modern era. As a talking point of modern politics, politicians typically need to take a “tough on crime” stance in order to get elected to office.

Paradise Now is a 2-hour film released in 2005, it depicts a perspective alternative in a highly controversial topic of suicide bombers or also known as a ‘martyr’. The movie takes place in Palestine during the Israeli occupation and illustrates the mundane life and frustration felt by the main characters Said and Khaled due to the oppression experienced during the conflict. A key feature that is also portrayed is the reasoning, and almost justification of an attack on that level. However, the perpatrators can be seen showing feelings of hesitance and even inquisitiveness in relation to the afterlife that they are promised and whether violent resistance is the last option. This paper, will discuss how “Paradise Now” provoked my views and