Theme Of Love In City Lights

1. What are the main themes, politically and socially, that are portrayed in the film?

1. Describe in your own words the events, actions and characters depicted in the animated sequence, the use of both on-screen and camera movement, and the general colour scheme. What might these elements be suggesting to us about the content, mood and themes for the rest of the film?

In Sixteen Candles and The breakfast club we see so much in common as well as differences present. These 2 John Hughes movies were a big hit in the Directors career, as well as Pretty in Pink but we are not discussing that movie. In these movies we see a lot of themes crossed over that are explored in many different ways. One of the main characters for both these movies was Molly Ringwald; we really showed and expressed these ideals of her characters perfectly. There were many themes that we can compare and contrast these movies. The 4 main themes that I believe really made impacts on these shows are: rich vs. poor, popular or unpopular, changing to fit the ‘norm’, and Common similarities between social classes. Hughes is an amazing director that really captures these moments in each theme; he captures them and presents them at the most unexpected times in the movies that fit perfectly.

In the opening scenario, a character named Dora, from a Brazilian film by the name of “Central Station”, is

Father Comes Home from the Wars and the Royale are two productions that had a common theme which was freedom. Throughout both of the productions, they were numerous of racism moments that led the characters to find a ticket to freedom. Freedom was the main theme in the production because the main characters had a difficult time stepping out of their comfort zones due to the lack of confidence they had and both of the theaters had the proper lights and props to represent the characters.

The themes of desire and identity are commonly seen throughout films and novels through different storylines. However in some stories these themes have a particular significance in the texts influencing the way the story is portrayed, and the way the audience understands the messages trying to come across. Some of the films that hold these themes of desire and identity are The Talented Mr Ripley, Mean Girls, Wolf of Wall Street, and Catch me if you can.

In the film Central Station (Central do Brasil), Walter Salles presents the characters as on a journey to self-discovery. It is a film about identity. Central Station is a melodrama of transformation based on an anomalous-duo comprising of Dora, a jaded retired schoolteacher, and Josué, a nine year-old boy, who embark on a cross-country journey in search of the boy’s father upon the unfortunate death of his mother. The film presents its analysts with many possible interpretations and significations due to its combination of different themes, visual allusions and narrative elements. Central do Brasil film can be interpreted in three ways: as an extended metaphor on the writing process and a narration of personal stories and experiences, as a figurative journey of Brazilian search for its identity depicted in Dora’s transformation and Josué’s quest for his roots, and as a theological allegory inviting a “theological reading of humans struggling to maintain a relationship to an absent God” (Bowman 1). Through a detailed analysis film’s content, production, and reception, this paper interprets Central do Brasil as an allegory representing the pursuit for identity and transformation.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, a novel written by Khaled Hosseini, tells the life story of two girls growing up in Afghanistan. It begins with Mariam’s point of view, then switches to Laila, and eventually the two cross paths and have a major impact on each others lives. There were a lot of social and cultural issues going on during this time that changed the course of story several times. One idea that stayed constant was the significance of love. Both girls learned to love others and eventually each other in the midst of all the chaos. It helped them develop into the characters that they are by the end of the novel. A major theme that is constantly displayed through Laila and Mariam journeys is the concept of love.

The key themes and issues can be a criticism of the Australian society’s actions against Aboriginals. It can be about prejudice, simplistic generalization, racism, race supremacy and assimilation. For the most part, the film’s theme and key issues circles around how the Lost Generation of Aboriginal children were treated through the film, how they were neglected, threatened, spoken of and forced into the Australian society as servants and maids.

contest. Parallels can be drawn to many of the other themes of the film from this

Benigni takes advantage of the lighting in the scene to help support the theme of love in the film. One example of how the lighting was used to express Dora’s love for Guido was when the two of them were in the hotel while Dora was with Rodolfo. As her family was speaking Dora was in darker lighting which showed that she was not happy and did not want to be there, but once she realised that Guido was there the lighting on her became brighter, expressing how happy she is to know that he was with her.

For the bulk of the mid- to late-20th Century, Eileen Chang’s name and literary prowess fell into obscurity as a result of events related to the Cultural Revolution and her own reclusion. In C.T. Hsia’s A History of Modern Chinese Fiction, he praised Chang for her use of "rich imagery" and "profound exploration of human nature.” In his book, he also claimed Chang to be “the best and most important writer” of mid-twentieth century China. Hsia’s remarks and Ang Lee’s film adaptation of her novella, Lust, Caution, have helped to bring Chang’s name back onto the literary scene.

1. What is the true subject or the theme of the film, and What kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which themes contributed most to addressing the theme of the film?

The novel's main character is Florentino Ariza, an obsessive young man who falls madly in love with a young girl named Fermina Daza. After a brief affair in which they see each other only in passing, Florentino gets rejected by Fermina. Florentino literally becomes sick and when his mother, Transito Ariza, finds his son in a pool of vomit, she reminds

According to Marshall Berman, Modernity is a term of art used in the Humanities and Social Sciences to designate both a historical period as well as the ensemble of a particular socio cultural norms attitudes and practices that arose in post medieval Europe and have developed since in various ways and at various times around the world. (Berman 2010, 15-36)