Thursday, April 16, 2009

A Streetcar Named Desire

We watched movie " A Streetcar Named Desire" on the class, the movie's plot mainly talked about the issue of Blanche, Stella and Stanley, which happened in New Orleans in the 1950s. I think the most impressive scene gave me was that Stanley was so mad that he hit Stella under unclear mind; however, after a little while, he regretted, he went outside to find her, while he was yelling, in order to she can forgive him. Why did this scene give me a big impression? I think that Stanley changed his attitude so soon, because he always gives people a rude feeling, but this time it reflected a side of a man's frangibility. Although this is an old movie, it gave me fresh, surprised feelings, so that's why I like it.
I think the most sympathetic character is Blanche, even though sometimes she was vain and a little conceit, she just had one relative-Stella to rely on. Then, she was expecting to marry to Mitch; because of Stanley's clag, Mitch was angry with her,so they didn't get married. Last, she was raped by Stanley, and getting insane. She had a really bad fate, so I think that she needs to be sympathetic. On the contrary, Stanley must be the least sympathetic character. He gave me first vision was that he was a really good guy, but he was not. He did a lot of bad things, he lied, he raped, he fought, he swore, etc. Therefore, I was a little shocked about the end, but I like it.

At last, I want to talk a little about our presentation. We finished our second presentation last week, which was very successful and creative. Each group did a good job, and some of them made a lot of creative imitations. I am glad that I could be with Marcela as a group, she is so smart, she did a lot of job when we were preparing our presentation. Anyway, we really did a nice job. We will have one more presentation, I hope we can have a perfect presentation as conclusion.


Thursday, April 9, 2009

movies


Are movies an art-form, or a form of entertainment? I think both could be, because movies have many categories, like comedy, Dracula movies, action movies, etc. Nowadays, most of films are commercial films, they have grand scenes, famous artists, famous directors, so they can attract more people's attention. There is no denying that some of them are pretty good; however, a few of movies just want to earn more money. Therefore, I think most of commercial movies are a form of entertainment. There also have some films named "literary movies," this kind of movies are "better." I mean that movies just don't use too much cost to complete the whole film, they also can give people aesthetic feelings, some inspiration. In my opinion, this kind of films are an art-form.

I have many favourite movies, for instance, "Harry Potter" "X-Men" "Spider man" "The Pursuit of Happiness" "Forrest Gump." Although "Harry Potter" X-Men" or "Spider man" belong to commercial films, I think that their story lines are really interesting for me, so I like them. On the contrary,"Forrest Gump" or "The Pursuit of Happiness" are not commercial films, they have very good stories, which moved me very much, and also tell me the keys to success. Thus, when I define a "good" movie, no matter who is the actors, who is the director, how much they cost, as long as the movie's story can attract me; besides, it should give audiences some feelings or inspiration.