Movie Review : Pay It Forward

The acting gives the story much personality and is really convincing. The most incredibly played character is Oskar, because he is such a complex child and it’s really hard to make him not stereotypical because he has Autism. The actors really made the story come to live.

To change the world is an impossible goal, but to change the world around you is something anyone can do, ultimately leading to a ripple and changing the world further. My involvements in my community, family and job have taught me how to be an asset to society, making a difference in other’s lives.

It realty shouldn't take much put of a person to help others. Although the video didn't show one of life's greatest friend (Karma) which is basically. What goes around comes back around. This would have been a great scene to add in the video. To show the audience that helping others will always return to you. Instead it showed a man that wanted to give to people and did not want anything in return. This video took a total turn that I wasn't expecting. This is a story of a kind and humble man. That wants nothing in return but peace. This message could also be trying to encourage others to become more generous. But we all know in today's society , this is pretty much nonexistence. There is so much violence going on in today's world. So many people want to be the chief and filled with pride. Then there are some that just wants to be heard. But the High Seat is not looking around to see the bigger picture, and how it is affecting families. Plenty countries in this world needs help with educational funding, housing development, and employment opportunities. We all know that the government ,or High Seat has the will to help the countries and communities with their financial struggles. It all starts off with basic foundation of success. No education, no future career goals, no life. Instead very few people are taking matters into their own hands, such as the man in the video. Doesn't really look like he

Renee Zellweger (Roxie Hart) gave a truly believable performance. I really felt her drive to become a performer when watching the movie. Her dance numbers were incredible, and I really did enjoy watching her in the film. Catherine Zeta-Jones was wonderful in her supporting role as the highly successful showgirl turned murderer Velma Kelly. I felt that she earned her Academy Award for this role. Richard Gere gave a strong performance as the ace attorney Billy Flynn.

Pay it Forward is a movie that deals with many controversial topics such as addiction and poverty in a way that explains how we are able to help solve them. The movie starts out with Eugene Simonet assigning his junior high history class an extra credit opportunity. For the extra credit assignment, they must come up with a way to change the world and to put it into action. Most of the children don’t take the assignment seriously, believing that it is impossible. However, Trevor McKinney takes it upon himself to change the world with a plan he calls “Pay It Forward”. His plan goes on to help many people in the United States, including Jerry, a homeless man whom he helps get off drugs, his mother, Arlene, who is an alcoholic, and Mr. Simonet who has issues with his past. Long after the assignment, Trevor believes that his plan for “Pay It Forward” has failed because he could not get enough people to participate. However, a news reporter from Los Angeles tracks the movement to Trevor, who is in Las Vegas.

The film Pay it forward depicts a 7th grade boy, Trevor, who is given an assignment from a social studies teacher. The assignment is to create a way to make the world a better place in which Trevor comes up with paying it forward. To pay I forward Trevor helps one person and challenges them to help 3 more people eventually getting everyone who helps others challenge someone else to pay it forward. Through his mothers’ alcoholism and his teachers’ support Trevor helps people throughout his state to another pay it forward. The film Pay it forward represents sociological perspectives such as Functionalism, conflict perspective, and symbolic interactionism.

Agency - A major theme in this movie is lack of agency, the member of the community can choose almost nothing for themselves, they don’t know any better. Without choices or opportunity people don’t learn for themselves.

To introduce the topic, a brief summary on The Giver is necessary. First of all, The Giver takes place in a future utopian society, in which nobody can see color, pain isn’t felt, all community members have the same clothes, emotions are reduced to nothing, and the weather is always the same. At age 13 in the book and age 18 in the movie, all kids are given a specific job that they will do for the rest of their controlled life, the main character, Jonas, gets chosen for an abnormal job as the receiver of memories. Giver transmits all memories to Jonas, he starts with happy memories and then when the sad or dangerous memories start being transmitted to Jonas, he decides that he needs to do something about the world he

     The actors are believable in their roles. Steven Martin who acts as George Banks is outstanding in his role, he acts very well, so the audience knows his feelings, and feels sorry for him. The stars are not the main reason for me to see the film, but the title is.

Everyone who was in this movie played their part perfect. Leigh Ann was one of the best actors she really showed her feeling in her part. The caring and worried mother of Michael. She shows a lot of effort and doesn't give up until she has gotten what she wanted. She wanted michael to succeed and he did.

Though the starring actors have plenty of box-office power, the acting was mediocre at best. The film should have been called the Charlize Theron movie, because let’s face it; the movie was all about her dramatic portrayal of the evil queen. Theron’s performance was so strong that poor Kristen Stewart just didn’t have a chance. The stunningly gorgeous Theron, made it hard to believe

In this paper, I will compare my real world experiences at local Alcohol Anonymous’ (AA) meetings, which I attended while enrolled in this course with that in the movie, Thanks for Sharing. Both are based on the lives and experiences of recovering addicts of either substance abuse or sexual activity. This paper will cover the stories and lives of the characters involved. Stuart Blumberg directed the movie in 2012. All movie character references in this paper are taken directly from the actual movie.

The director did a fantastic job writing this film. All of the points he wanted to get to the audience, I feel did. The actor, Sean Paul, did a wonderful job impersonating someone with a developmental disability. The director’s goal was to have people that were his targeted audience, try and think about what they take for granted and show that people need love and support just as much as anyone else that is important to them. People never know what other stories other people have and are going through. It is always nice to be kind and to be a supportive human being.

An emotionally stirring movie taking place in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s, “The Help” stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, and Octavia Spencer as three women who share a common motive. This racially tense setting creates the perfect foundation for a drama film such as this. The characters’ personalities in combination with the emotion of the plot develop a socially accurate depiction of the struggles faced by the people of the time. While the racial aspect of the movie is dominant, viewers may also find compassion and friendship within the conversations and encounters of its characters.

I found out that actions have consequences, and not everything is under my control. Until I found out that I couldn't change the world at all, but a seemingly extra-ordinary movie, and a twelve-year-old boy could change the world completely — for the better, and forever—working with nothing but his own altruism, one good idea, and a couple of years, and a big sacrifice.