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Activity Paper 3: Choose and watch a movie focused on sexuality- submit a report including an overview of how the movie portrayed sexuality, how it was connected to the Heterosexual Questionnaire & your observations or reactions
For this discussion I choose a short film Why Does God hate me? directed by Joel Ashton MaCathy. This film consist of both comedy and drama and it was released on 21 August, 2011. It is a coming of age story of a 14 years old boy named Matt who is Gay but his parents are totally against homosexuals and abortion.
The movie started out with a lot of people protesting about hate agent abortion and homosexuality. Matt’s parents were at that protest with Matt when he was only 1 or 2 years old. Matt’s parents
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He realized the way he is, is the way how it is meant to be. If he lives with his parents he will not be able to become his realself. So he decided to move to San Francisco where his older brother lived. He knew his brother always did what he felt was right and if he tells his brother what he feels he would understand him more than his parents would. His parents always tried to put this in his brain since he was a child that being homosexual and having an abortion is a sin. God hate the people who do any of these things.
I have seen many movies on this topic before but I found this one really emotional. Along with being funny many parts of this movie were also very educational. This movie had a many lessons hidden in it but one of the main one was that we should be accepting of what others are like and we should not be telling them to change their way of life just because we cannot accept them they way they are.
The type of sexual orientation a person has is not something that the person decidies at some point on their life it is something they are born with. There were many parts of the movie in which Matt’s friend tried helping him change the way he thought. She stopped him from looking at other guys, she even got him out of his gym class when he had to wrestle in there by injuring his leg. She always tried to keep him away from boys and prayed for him everyday but nothing seemed to help Matt. His parents brought him to a
First, Matt grows up by accepting his identity. In this book Matt faces a bunch of problems that have to deal with him being a clone. Everybody besides a select few, discriminate against him for
The movie has good representations of the collectivism point of view like what ants always talked about the betterment for their colony rather than for individuals. In the movie, equal chances
I choose some take away messages from different sections throughout the film. I will use the information from the video and apply it to my everyday tasks in my future classroom. Starting from the beginning of the film with the “Difficult Times to Processing” section it allows me to understand students with learning disabilities have twice as much to process, question and answer so they need more time. The “Risk Taking” section taught me how students with learning disabilities like reassurance and do not like surprises. If I have a student with a
My views on this heart moving film would be never to give up in life, and with the right amount of determination you can succeed anything. The film tells us the simple, but moving story with a skilled storyteller's voice. The great importance of their
I was very bothered by the comments Anita Bryant made during a televised speech that was shown in the film. She was an orange juice sales woman who was working to repeal laws that protect homosexual human rights; specifically in employment and housing. She described homosexuality as “tearing down the foundation of the family unit” and compared gays to prostitutes and thieves. She tried to convince the public that the traditional family was being threatened and that practicing or accepting homosexuality was blasphemy.
From the film one can learn the importance of taking chances and making choices. The film also teaches us about disobedience. Are desobidance puts us at risk, but is important to do what we feel is right. The film also teaches the harsh reality's of war and how it can cause men to do terrible
While Celia, his care taker, went to work, Matt would sit in his room and read his book to his toys. He would quickly realize how lonely his home was and when the kids of the Alacran House appeared at his window, he was very excited. He broke the window and climbed out, injuring himself. He was willing to be friends with anyone that he trusted all of them until they began treating like an animal when they realized he was a clone. He searched for true friends, but many saw Matt as a lab project. People wanted to get rid of him except Maria, Celia, Tam Lin, and El Patron, so Matt was determined to show others he was more than just a clone. He wanted to be respected and treated like a human being, but to reach his goals he runs into many obstacles that lead to unexpected
My reflections after viewing this film, moved towards thinking about our current situation of not allowing people of the LGBT community get married. The opinions and bigotry that are still instilled in our society. For those that say that we have moved past our prejudiced views as a society in the United States; I would say that they are wrong. The Loving story was significant in so many ways towards moving our world into a better place for all. The education and consciousness of accepting all people will be key in future of struggle for equality in this country and around the
Matt is a middle class man who becomes obsessed with the need to get revenge on his son’s death. His son Frank is killed by a man named Richard. He is the husband and dads father of the women his son is in love with. This is what leads Matt into killing someone he wants pay back for his son death. Matt kills because he loves.
In the movie ,The human experience, is 3 differents experiences from homeless to abused children and many african people being sick. The experience the young man went through can really change how someone feels and change their mind set. This helps society a little by seeing other peoples point of view and how their is people who have it worst and we should value life and how we need to find who we are. We find healing and forgiveness by loving our self by valuing life how it is and making the best of it. We need to find our self to forgive and to heal to know that life is a treasure. We do mistakes and learn but sometimes we should have our feet in the ground and appreciate everything we have and the people that surround us because everyone is valuable.
Although this film is disadvantaging to many people, it is also very beneficial. I think people that come from the lower class or an abusive household can really benefit from this film. The main point of this film is to show people that you can achieve anything you want to do no matter what background you come from, and although it might be hard because of economical/ personal issues you are not less of a person than anyone and you can still be successful. I love the idea of success because it doesn’t really have a set definition. You don’t necessarily need money to be/feel successful. You can work at Subway and still be successful while a twelve time Oscar winning actor can be successful. You sort of carve out your own success and make your own definition for it. This movie will also teach people that they are not on their own. Although you might think nobody is there for you, when you enter a room you don’t know what everyone is thinking or how everyone feels; you might now even know everyone. It is kind of like when you’re putting together a puzzle, you put certain pieces together and you get closer to finishing and you just need to keep trying to solve the puzzle because if you give up you just wasted your money on a puzzle
With reference to relevant cultural theories analyse the representation of sexuality in a film/television text of your choice.
Even though the film was meant to funny, it did make me think about different cultural preduice and obstacles interacial relationships may face. Over all I enjoyed the film it poked fun at racial prejudice and brought some good topics to the table. However, I wish they would have take the opportunity to have gone deeper into racism and brought it out into the open for people to
The historical events that have occurred in the world have shaped the nation, and the culture. These events have been studied, and have been created into historical films. Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ is one historical film that has been created to depict the crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus’ resurrection is a historical event that has been studied, and is studied by Christians all over the world.
Overall I thought this was a really good movie. I thought it taught you a lot about diversity, women’s rights, poverty and peace. The movie was a very touching and inspiring movie; there is also a lot of emotion due to what they had to deal with on an everyday basis. To me the movie and their stories really teach you that you should be aware of your surroundings and to be helpful in your