Movie Analysis: The Little Kids

In the film Babies Thomas Balmès elegantly and wordlessly captures the first year of life through the eyes of four unique cultures. This film follows four babies Panijao from Namibia, Mari from Japan, Hattie from the United States, and Bayarjargal from Mongolia. The main purpose of the film is to show how the four cultures differ in their behaviors with infants. One of the striking differences is the role the parents play in the documentary and how they interact with their newborn infants. In contrast, the film also shows the similarities in infancy even in vastly different environments and cultures.

It is the summer of 1970 in Northern Ohio. The Hadley family is the wealthiest family out of all the families that populates the city of Toledo. They all live in a subdivision called Old Timbers Valley with mother, Lydia, father, George, and Peter and Wendy. The Darling family lives in a sky blue house on top of clouds, the Tremaine family lives in the old, enchanted house, and Old Man Geppetto lives in an Old-Italian village home. Unlike the others, the Hadley’s house is future realistic, full of technology. From lights turning on and off as one walks, stoves making food, sinks washing dishes, a nursey that illuminates the children’s imagination, and so many more laborless enhancements. The children’s nursey is called the Veldt, which can

This structure is commonly seen in any film or television production, as using the structure makes sure that the narrative is continuing to move forward, and is developing. The film plot line I will be studying and making an analysis on is The Lost Boys.

Kids for Cash documentary gives an eyebrow raising gesture throughout the film, while unveiling details of stories told by juveniles. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan sentenced more than two thousand or more juveniles during their terms. Ciavarella and Conahan inherited money through sentencing juveniles to privately owned youth detention centers. Many kids and parents would be affected by their sentencing terms. The Juvenile Law Center received numerous complaints and dug further into cases handled by Ciavarella and Conahan. Which lead to them filing a class action lawsuit against the judges and others involved. The judges were finally put on the radar and exposed to the F.B.I. and I.R.S. Ciavarella and Conahan were being investigated

2. I picked this film because of the strong message it is meant to put across, considering that Lee wanted the world to acknowledge that while society had experienced significant progress up to the turn of the century, people still had a long way to go in order for the world to be a morally acceptable place. Reading more information about the girls killed during the 1963 Baptist Church bombing really shocked me and made me want to discuss this film.

The inclusion of queer identities into mainstream cultural productions involve the cultural subordination of homosexuality to heterosexuality through the reconstitution of queerness in a hetero image. The Kids Are All Right and The Fosters contribute to this discourse of subordination by projecting heterosexual gender roles onto an otherwise queer relationship. Difference of heterosexual gender roles are conceived of a male/female binary. Where Nic and Jules, and Stef and Lena act out heterosexual roles of masculine and feminine, their relationships replicate heterosexual patterns and become structured in normative heterosexual terms (Hammock 2009). This differential is grafted into the character’s same-sex relationships in both productions,

“Little Miss Sunshine” is a comedy-drama film about a 7 year old girl named Olive Hoover, whose dream is to be entered into the finals of a pageant called Little Miss Sunshine and her journey to achieving her dream with the help of her dysfunctional family. Moreover, when she discovers that she’s been qualified for the “Little Miss Sunshine” Pageant that is being held in Redondo Beach, California in 2 days her family face many difficulties. However, even through the various difficulties that arise as they still want to support Olive in accomplishing her dream. Thus, they go on on an adventurous 800-mile road trip in their old yellow Volkswagen Type 2. Despite the many bumps, and setbacks along the road despite they still work together into finally reaching to the pageant almost on time.

Traumatic experiences, difficult home lives, and the effect of drugs can leave a significant imprint on the rest of an individual’s life. The context which individuals are surrounded by during their developmental years has a significant impact on their mental health and development. In the documentary, The Bad Kids this idea is depicted through the portrayal of adolescence and early adulthood periods of the individuals at Black Rock Continuation High School. The film portrays the lives of at risk teens, who are given a second chance to get their life on track and earn a high school diploma. However, there are complications and set-backs that are holding them back from accomplishing their goals.

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The movie, The Breakfast Club, is a movie about five students who get Saturday school and become friends as a result of it. The characters were: Allison, the quiet girl who would sit in the back and refuse to talk; John, the troublemaker who always talked back to the teachers; Claire, the popular girl who always got what she wanted; Brian, the nerdy student who only cared about having good grades; Andrew, the wrestler who was only focused impressing his father. While watching the movie, I mainly related to Brian. He is pressured to have good grades by his parents and is labeled as the nerd because of it. I am also pressured to have good grades; however, I am labeled as the smart kid in many different classes, but I’m not classified as a nerd.

A modern example of a Shakespearean comedy is the movie, “The Parent Trap” (1998). A quick summary of the movie is that there are two identical twins who meet at a camp. Their parents are divorced. The dad, Nick, and one of the twins, Hallie, live in America, while the mom, Elizabeth, and the other twin, Annie live in London. The twins meet at a camp, and later on they decide to switch places so that Hallie can go meet her mother in London, and Annie can go meet her father in California.

“Everybody loves babies”, a trademark quote from the documentary movie “Babies” features an insight on the many reasons babies are loved. Although many documentaries are narrated, director Thomas Balmès uses a different approach by eliminating a voiceover. By manifesting this film without narration, he focuses on a learning technique all babies go through in their early stages of life. Aiming for viewers to learn from observation, as babies do, we are left to focus on the babies, their environment and interactions. Through subtitles, this film reveals the different locations the footage of the four newborns are from. By viewing the babies different upbringings from different cultures, we learn how the various lifestyles of each culture impacts a child’s development. The babies are Hattie from California, Mari from Japan, Bayar from Mongolia, and Ponijao from Namibia.The film shows the infancy and toddlerhood period of the babies as well as their development physically, cognitively, and socially.

In the film Babies, 4 infants are being observed for the first two years of their lives. Each babies comes from different culture, which shows how the various customs can impact the child’s development. Ponijao is the youngest one in his family and lives in a village in Opuwo Namibia. Bayar lives in Bayanchandmachi, Mongolia. Mari is the first child of a couple who lives in Tokyo Japan, and Hattie lives in Sans Francisco California. The film shows the babies develop cognitively, physically and socially-emotionally, during the infancy and toddler years. The Infancy and toddlerhood period is from birth to 2 years. “This period brings dramatic changes in the body and brain that support the emergence of a wide array of motor, perceptual, and intellectual capacities” (Berk & Meyers, 2016, p.6).

When you go to see a musical for free because their box office numbers are down, you have to adjust your expectations a little. I know that. But Tuck Everlasting was one of my favorite stories growing up. The book, the movie… the idea of a little girl whose curiosity and excitement for life could light up the never-ending world of four adults always struck a chord with me, and I was beside myself with excitement to see how such a whimsical tale could be brought to the stage. For the sake of this essay, I’m going to phrase my opinions in a brash, confident way that make me seem like much more of a know-it-all about this show than I, in fact, am.