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Paranormal Activity

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The film Paranormal Activity is a very popular first part to a series that devolped in 2007. The Paranormal Activity franchise has had a major effect on the population. The film is mentioned in comedy skits and everyday television on a regular basis. The reason this film is iconic is because the western population can relate to it on a personal level. In the very beginning of the movie the camera angles start out just like any other homemade film. The movie is filmed this way to draw in the viewers and to make them relate more to the story from the start. The camera angles makes the movie come off as ameture or something that any body could mimic. It creates the idea that this kind of thing could happen to anyone. The same goes for the …show more content…

The film could easily be a real couple filming their lives. However, Katie has a dark past with ghosts and once the weird occurances start happening Katie and Micah start having relationship troubles pretty quickly. The main charcaters are Katie and Micah they are a young couple who are engaged to be engaged. They seem to have a pretty nice relationship, always joking. The movie does not really show anything bad between them at first, excpet for the fact that Micah likes to push the envelope a lot. Katie does not respond well to Micahs advances to investigate. Micah seems to be taking it kind of jokingly at first. The entire movie is just as much about the hauntings as it is about their relationship falling apart. Katie has always felt a prescense her entire life shes always felt like something was haunting her. The demons presence in her life has come and gone over the course of her life. Once she had been living with her boyfriend, Micah, for about a year the hauntings start to become very violent. Katie seems to be friendly, but someone who is very easily scared. When their life gets worse she starts to change a lot. During the movie Katie is shown slowly fading away while the demon overcomes her

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