Long Story Short Robert de Geus LOGLINE: Forced out of his home, a millennial struggles with becoming self-sufficient and the insidious morals of Los Angeles. PILOT LOGLINE: Settling into his mundane life in Downtown Los Angeles, a young man discovers a helpless dog on the streets and attempts to find it’s owners. PITCH: Ben, an isolated and lonely young adult, ventures to Los Angeles in the hopes of finding companionship in an oft detached and duplicitous world. After leaving the comfort of his home town, he begins his pilgrimage to a more independent (self sufficient) and adult life. In the midst of dealing with his father’s illness, Ben is forced upon a journey of self discovery, including being alone for the first time in his life, seeing the corrupt morals of corporations, letting go of childhood dreams, not looking back on his path to adult life, unspoken white privilege, microaggressions, and escaping to nature. Soon after his escape, he discovers his father is going into surgery. We watch him grapple with the thought of his father's mortality. In a last minute burst of fear Ben drives back home to see his father for what might be the last time. With our current political climate we’ve seen a rise in conscious comedy with shows like Master of None, The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight. While these shows may not be the same format, they all deal with social issues in our community and have been critically commended across the board. Clearly there’s an appetite
Although The Braddock’s feel that what they are doing to there son is perfectly fine, they fail to see the damage they are causing. Sheltering Ben did not save him from the outside, it only created more problems that made him fearful, putting him in a state of confusion now that he is expected to live in the real
In this film Ben feels lost, he doesn’t have a plan for his future or any motivation to make one now that he is out of college. Ben is also stressed because now he has to decide and provide for himself. He is now an adult and can no longer sit back depend on his parents to provide money and a goal for him. Understanding this has made me set an ultimate goal for my future and has also encouraged me to mentally prepare to live life with out as much dependence on my parents. College is a place where young adults are sent off to grow academically and as an independent individual. However, college should not be our final goal. After college it is necessary to still have goals and not give up. What Ben does not understand is that even though his goal was to excel in college and make his parents proud, now he must move on and make wise decisions that enhance, not hurt, what he can make of his
Soon ben learn all the tricks for sneaking out of the ghetto. So he can find food for his family . Later he use his blond hair and blue eye to blend in into the polish population .With the help of ben’s aunt she help him without any suspicion .Then later on ben learn that all of eastern europe thousands of people also
When he gets off the plane at the beginning of the movie, he is moving in the opposite direction of everyone else. This indicates the fact that Ben feels isolated from society and has not yet found his role in it. Everyone around Ben has such high hopes for his future, but he does not seem to care about it. Instead, he is going through life the opposite way of others after graduating from college by lounging by the pool all day and being involved with a married woman. Ben is very weak and indecisive and cannot seem to figure out what he wants to do with his life since graduating. All of the choices that Ben makes seem to be very irrational and not very thought out. For example, he drops everything and goes to Berkeley in hopes of marrying Elaine after only going on one date together. Also, he brushes off advice concerning his future like when the guy at his party tells him that he should invest in plastics. However, he seems to have no interest in becoming successful or going to graduate school as he appears to be lost and traveling in the wrong
Ben escapes the swarm of family and friends. He feels very overwhelmed and confined downstairs. His bedroom serves as his time and place for isolation. This shows that the parents are not really concerned about his feelings or opinions. Ben does not share the same opinions about his future as his parents have in mind. He is basically showcased as a scholar than a regular human being with a desire for acceptance.
With her husband's outrages and seclusion, she did her best by taken care of the situation with care and calmness, especially in front of her children. Surely, when alone, she would breakdown from the pressure, sadness and changes. A family that would once take walks together on Sundays now had to deal with the father's outrages and drinking problems. Ben, the narrator, was only eight years old at the time and even his young fragile mind noticed that his life would forever be different.
For example, the text states, “ Ben soon learned tricks for sneaking out of the ghetto to find food for his family.” This shows that he is caring for his family. If he didn’t return to care for them, the probably would have died. In addition, the text also states, ”A few months after joining the partisans, Ben received word that his family was in trouble. He rushed back to Warsaw and was shocked by what he found in the ghetto.’’
Ben Posner is at the top of his scientific career when a change in CEOs drastically affects his lifestyle. Before anyone realizes, Ben is using alcohol to cope with his problems. This downward spiral finds him homeless and eventually rescued by the woman he has secretly loved. Together they begin to patch his life back together, only to face a charge of
At the beginning of this chapter, Ben makes numerous comments from his childhood that reflect what he was like as a young boy. When he speaks about his mother asking him, "DO you have a brain," it allowed me to understand the frequency of this statement throughout his life. I also thought his comment about finding a way not to pick up the target showed he and his brother were being lazy, and when he commented he could shoot better than Curtis, it showed he had an enormous amount of pride at that age. Of course, the main inspiration of the chapter was when his mother said, "You need to use the brains God gave you and learn to think beyond the can!" This was moving, however, we all need to analyze outside of the moment and seek the end result.
The narrator becomes sadder as Ben transform from a human to an ape, and finally a sea turtle. She is aware that Ben is somewhere inside the ape. At first she wanted to
Ben believes that his parenting and ideology are right throughout the film and the idea is also in tandem with the children, who grew up outside the traditional American society for the greater part of their lives. Ben does not feel constrained by the remarks his sister makes and the attempting social control but rather defies her by pouring the children wine.
In the opening moments of the film, Ben looks bored and lonely with his life. We first see him on the airplane, and then a moment of silence begins when we hear the line, “Hello darkness, my old friend.” While riding the conveyer belt after getting off the airplane, Ben seems to be lacking happiness. He has a hole in his heart and the only way to fill this hole would be for him to choose his own path in life and start pursuing it, not follow in his parent’s footsteps and do what they want him to do. Ever since graduating from college, Ben
Being the only male in the household sometimes made him feel like an outsider which cause him to have self-identity problems. Ben was just confused on life at the moment, with no male role model in his life things sometimes were difficult to process. His first girlfriend was back and town in which brought back old feelings because she was the exact same person from when he first met her.
In the film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Ben faces and overcomes obstacles that transform him into the prominent individual he stands for today. Obstacles one faces will either build a person or break them. In relation to Ben Carson’s life, these obstacles he has thus far overcome could be clearly noted to have a significantly positive change and meaning in his life. A few of these many remarkable obstacles take place at different moments in his life including his education, university and internship years, and his adulthood. Ben Carson has a potential within him of a great student but does not realize it until it reaches the extent that others bully him in school.
This film is what we would classify as a “lesson movie.” Ben’s character is confronted in the very beginning with divorce papers he won’t sign. However as the audience we know that by the end of the film his character will develop to a place where he is