The Movie ' Happy New Year Serena '

The film Sunset Boulevard (1950), directed by Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond exemplified a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) by being demanding, intense and unstable. These behaviors that are consistent with the elements of abnormality include suffering, social discomfort, dangerousness, and irrationality and unpredictability. The first element that is consistent with Norma Desmond’s character is suffering. Desmond being one of the greatest movie stars in history suffers as she experiences the fall from stardom. She also suffers from identity disturbance as she reaches an unstable self-image notion. In one scene when Desmond recognizes for a moment about her age, she claims, “Look at me. Look at my hands, look at my face, look under my

The film Pleasantville shows the changes in American society over the past 50 years by placing two teenagers into the Pleasantville show, which was from the 50’s. The movie depicts how there is no longer the “American Dream” and no longer a perfect way of life and the changes the world has made. The world that the teenagers come from is filled with sex, drugs, money, and is very different from the way the world was in which the Pleasantville Show took place in. Morals and values have changed in the people and in society that the teenagers came from and shows it would be impossible to return back to the kind of life style the world had in the 50’s.

“You couldn't buy her, though, that's what's killing you, isn't it? That's it, Steff. She thinks you're shit. And deep down, you know she's right.” When you watch “ Pretty In Pink” by John Hughes a comedy, romance, and drama film taking place in the 80’s, where there are heartbreaks and reconciliations. The screenplay for the 1986 movie was written by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch. A teenager Andie Walsh, Molly Ringwald, must choose between her childhood sweetheart Duckie, Jon Cryer, and a rich boy Blane McDonnagh, Andrew McCarthy. The film “ Pretty In Pink” won the BMI Film Music Award in 1987 a year after the movie was released.

Max just nods, like she doesn’t believe her, but she wants to. “Where are we going?”

Joan Crawford was a fantastic actor, wildly famous, and extremely wealthy as far as everyone knew, but what you didn’t see behind the curtains was a person with too many issues known only by a few close people, such as her daughter. Christiana Crawford, Joan’s daughter, wrote a book about her childhood experience and then created it into a movie for everyone to understand why her mother was crazy. In the movie Mommie Dearest her psychological disorders shinned through, rather than her fame and fortune. Some specific personality disorders can easily be identified in some scenes from the movie such as: obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), borderline disorder, narcissistic disorder, and bipolar disorder.

Within the film A Better Life there are many examples of situations that are seen as subjects which many people do not openly talk about. Circumstances such as illegal immigration and how people who do chose to enter the United States through backdoor channels can actually be a benefit to society and raise productive members of society. Furthermore, the movie depicts an illegal, Carlos Galindo and his struggles of maintaining a job, being a single parent, and at the same time evading detection from United States immigration officers. This struggle of trying to provide for his son Luis and make sure he maintains the correct direction which he is following to be a successful member of society is plagued by Luis’s friend, Facundo and his girlfriend, Ruthie Valdez. Both of Luis’s friends are on the track of being stuck inside of a Hispanic gang. This rips Luis in half due to his proper upbringing by his father Carlos. This paper will document multiple occurrences from the film and analyze the cultural significance for each event.

The film Girl Interrupted, directed by James Mangold, was originally an autobiography written by Susanna Kaysen. Girl Interrupted is about Susanna Kaysen, the eighteen year old, who was sent to a psychiatric facility, called Claymoore.Susanna was sent to Claymoore due to her attempt to commit suicide by taking a bottle of vodka and aspirin. Susanna meets a diverse group of other psychiatric patients on the women's ward, consisting Georgina, who is a pathological liar, Daisy, who is bulimic,Polly, a burnt victim, Lisa,a sociopath, who influences Susanna to rebel against receiving treatment.

The story of the Lovings is one fraught with social change. The Lovings were the mixed-race couple that brought their case to the Supreme Court and legalized interracial marriage throughout the U.S. While not described explicitly within the film, the social change that the case brought about was sizable­– legalizing interracial marriage was a huge step towards racial equality. While even today, racial equality has not yet been achieved, the social change that has occurred from the time of this film to modern day is drastic. This becomes evident in the street interviews with the people in the film, The Loving Story, a documentary that follows the historic court case of the Lovings, compared to modern vocalizations of racism, which are much

The film Amelie provides multiple examples of individuals sacrificing, and applying Campbell 's moral objective to their own lives. One of the people from the film that follow the objective is Dominique Bretodeau. When he was a young boy, he lost his treasure box. Directly after it was returned to him from a stranger, he began to tear up over the lost memories that the box contained. He then confides in people at the bar that he has not spoken to his daughter in years, and because of this does not know his grandson. This simple act of kindness was enough to make Bretodeau sacrifice his pride enough to reconcile with his daughter and grandson. He had no idea if his family was going to open their arms, or push him away for being away for so long. This failed to stop Bretodeau. This journey of becoming a hero was a spiritual one. Most of the conflict happened within his own heart. A small act of thoughtfulness helped a man choose to create a better life for him, and his estranged family.

A: Yeah, I think so. B: Where do you want to go?

Lights, Camera, Action! Everybody knows and loves Noah and Allie. All you have to say is their names or quote one line, “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird,” and the shrieking girls go ‘OH MY GOD! I love the Notebook!’ The whole movie is about their love. Nobody who’s seen the movie would fail to know the names of these lead characters, but most of them could not tell you the name of Noah’s best friend or the name of Allies cousin whom she’s visiting. These characters are crucial to the story and an important part of these characters’ lives and back-ground for the movies purpose, but most people fail to see here significance. The same goes for a leader or leadership position. It’s easy to see the people in the spotlight, front and center, but it’s when you finally look in the shadows that you realize more is happening than what you saw at first glance.

After watching the “Happy” film, you look at yourself and how you view the meaning happy. You begin asking yourself questions to find an answer after analyzing your life, Am I truly happy? Why am I or am I not happy? Everyone in the documentary shared what made them happy and some had nothing but didn’t care because they were surrounded by family and friends, which showed that’s all they needed.

The film “It’s a Girl” is about gendercide in India and China. Gendercide is when cultures either abort, kill, abandon, or neglect girls because of preferences to have sons. Cultures where this is common favor males over females because males bring strength and wealth to the family or provide care for their elderly parents. Boys also take the family name and pass it on to their children. Another reason that males are favored is because of marriage traditions. A marriage tradition called dowry is where the bride’s family pays the groom’s family in property and other wealth. Families do not want to have daughters because they will lose their wealth and their little girl to the husband’s family. India and China are both countries where gendercide is a widespread problem and they both have different policies and cultures that attribute to gendercide. India’s culture attributes to gendercide and the government does have laws in place to prevent it, but the laws are not enforced. However, China has the One-Child policy which is the reason for gendercide in the country.

Serena muttered a few inaudible words before nodding “Okay, if you want Holby to lose its best Consultant, then so be it,” as she stood up to leave Ric grasped her hand only for her to pull away and glare. This act of heroism had annoyed her greatly that she almost felt he should take the wrap for being an idiot; the other part of her was beyond angry that arguing would have seemed pointless. Furthermore, she felt it was something they would have to discuss in private and when they did row, they both could go to town and really rock the boat.

S: Well, we have to define 2 main points: the first one is where to go and