In the time of the butterflies

the story of a girl named Minerva who lives with her sisters and parents in a town controlled by a dictator who controls everything so she decides to create a secret society filled with anyone who wants to fight back against the dictator. until she was discovered and taken away to a prison where everyone suffers with torment and death. until she was released and was taken home but not or long she was stopped in the middle of the road by soldiers who took her and her sisters in the deep woods and was beaten to death but her story is still heard around America and her death is remembered as a Hispanic holiday on November 5.

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Story

After the MacManus brothers, Connor and Murphy, and their father, Noah, assassinated Papa Joe Yakavetta, they fled to Ireland. Their uncle Sibeal, a priest, arrives to inform them that a renowned Boston priest was murdered by a mysterious assassin who attempted to frame the Saints by using their ritual assassination style. So the brothers dig up their old gear and weapons and depart for the United States.
On their way to Boston aboard a container ship, they meet a Mexican underground fighter named Romeo, who recognizes them as the Saints. Romeo convinces them to let him join them as their new partner. Hearing a radio broadcast regarding Papa Joe's son, Concezio Yakavetta, they come to the conclusion that he must have hired the hit-man who killed the priest in order to draw them out of hiding.

Meanwhile, Detectives Greenly, Dolly, and Duffy (from the previous movie) are at the scene of the priest's murder. They are greeted by Special Agent Eunice Bloom, the protege of Paul Smecker (the F.B.I. detective from last movie, who now has died), who has been assigned to investigate the murder and determine whether or not the Saints are responsible. She comes to the conclusion that it was not the Saints who murdered the cleric and begins an investigation to find the real assassin. She and the other officers find out the assassin is Ottilio Panza, a man who seems to be working for a mysterious man known as "The Old Man".

Connor, Murphy, and Romeo hit a warehouse that is being used by an Asian gang to process heroin for Yakavetta. After killing everyone at the warehouse, Connor and Murphy reunite with their old bartender friend, Doc. They learn that the assassin was an independent contractor and that Yakavetta himself is hiding in the Prudential Tower. Later at the warehouse, now a crime scene, Bloom recognizes the ritual performed on the person in charge of the heroin warehouse, and confirms that the Saints have returned.

The brothers and Romeo have one of Yakavetta’s underbosses, Gorgeous George, set up a meeting with a group of mobsters at a bar, where they kill them. Panza arrives shortly after and attempts to ambush the brothers, but Bloom arrives in time to save them by wounding Panza, who flees. Bloom introduces herself, revealing her intentions to help the Saints in Smecker's place. The group then cleans up the crime scene to make it look as if the mobsters had turned on each other. Later, Bloom reunites the other detectives with the Saints, thus bringing them in on their plans.

Yakavetta calls a meeting with his crew, during which the Saints arrive and kill everyone including Yakavetta. Bloom interrogates Yakavetta's right-hand man and finds out of the Old Man’s involvement with Panza. Later at the bar, Greenly arrives to celebrate the boys' victory and is shot and killed by Panza. Noah, earlier having decided to help his sons, unexpectedly arrives to demand Panza tell him The Old Man's location. They engage in a Russian Roulette-sort of stand off, and after Panza still refuses to answer, Noah kills him.

Noah reveals to the group that in 1950s New York, he watched a trio of mobsters brutally murder his father in front of his eyes. Consumed with anger and wanting revenge, Noah killed the mobsters with the help of his best friend Louie, who is revealed to be the Old Man. Noah still felt unsatisfied, so Louie helped him pick out mobsters to kill. They continued this until 1975, when Louie gave Noah up to the police.

Bloom illegally obtains a file regarding Louie's location in York, Maine and gives it to Noah. Louie, anticipating the Saints arrival at his mansion, has several hit-men stationed on the grounds. When the MacManus family arrives, Louie tells Noah that he only used him to eliminate the competition in the Mafia, afterwards giving him up to the police when he was no longer useful. After this, however, the Mafia cast Louie out since he was of no more use. He then helped rebuild the Yakavetta family after Papa Joe's demise, and let the Saints take out the rest of the organization so Louie could take control. Louie signals the hit-men waiting to take out the Saints to make their move, but the Saints kill them all. Noah suffers a fatal gunshot wound, and before he dies, he kills Louie. The police arrive and arrest the wounded Connor, Murphy, and Romeo.

Bloom meets with Uncle Sibeal, who has arranged to take her to a safe place out of the country to flee the F.B.I. She is shocked to discover that Sibeal has been working with Smecker, who is still alive, having faked his death and developed a network of support for the Saints and their work. Smecker tells Bloom his plans to break the Saints out of prison.

Voces Inocentes

this movie was cool. i have seen it before. its about a few little kids that live in el Salvador and they try to get away from the militia. the main character is split from his family but finds his mom at the end. the colors in this movie were really dark and sort of gloomy and sad.

The Boondock Saints: Lighting and Setting

The setting in the Boondock Saints took place in Boston; it never said the date but I'm guessing it took place in 1999, in March (the very first day on the movie started on St. Patrick's Day). The lighting in the movie was overall realistic, with no shade over the whole movie, which gave a...realistic feel. What I found interesting was that when the two protagonists in the movie would kill and/or execute someone, the lighting would remain the same. But when the protagonists would perform their sacred ritual of putting pennies in the eyes of the dead, to give access to the River Styx in the afterlife, the lighting would turn black and white. There were most dolly shots, too.

The Boondock Saints: Story

The story is about two brothers, Connor and Murphy McManus, that kill 2 Russian mobsters in self-defense, and believe they are sent from God to rid the city of evil. There are 3 Russian mobsters in the very beginning that try to take over a local bar the brothers enjoy going to, and there are about 5 men at the bar, including the brothers, their Italian friend, and 2 other friends, that engage in a bar fight with the mobsters; the mobsters are outnumbered, and are beaten up. The next morning, the brothers are jumped by two of the three mobsters, and the brothers end up killing them by dropping a toilet on one of them and beating the other to death. F.B.I. detective Smecker is at the crime scene of the mobsters, and Smecker ends up with the conclusion that the boys killed them in self defense, after the brothers turn themselves in, so no charges were pressed. After spending a night in jail so the press wouldn't get involved, the brothers are picked up by their friend Rocco; while in jail, the brothers have a vision in their dreams from God that they are meant to rid Boston, their city, of crime and corruption. The brothers tell Rocco of this vision; the brothers then trade in the Russian mobster's valuables that were earlier stolen for guns and other supplies, notably silenced guns. After this, the brothers find out about a Russian mob meeting being held in a hotel, and manage to kill all 8 of them. Rocco, who was sent to kill the 8 Russians by his Italian mob boss "Papa Joe" Zakavetta, is told by the brothers that Papa Joe set him up. Agent Smecker arrives at the crime scene, and suggests that an international mob war has be triggered. Rocco finally realizes he was set up by Papa Joe, and tells the brothers to take down Papa Joe and his mob. The brothers agree, and kill Vincezo, the Yakavetta crime family's underboss. After killing a criminal that Rocco had a personal hatred for at that man's house, the three men are ambushed by Il Duce, a hitman hired by Papa Joe, as they are exiting the house. The three suffer wounds, as does Il Duce. Rocco's finger is shot off, and after the three flee the scene, agent Smecker finds it and finds out not only who the finger belongs to, but who the killers are. Then, Smecker goes to a confession stand in a church, to get advice. Without much help from the priest, Smecker decides to help the brothers take down crime, since they seem to be much better at it than himself. The brothers and Rocco attempt to break into Papa Joe's house and assassinate him and his men, but fail and are tied and bound in his basement. Papa Joe kills Rocco, then leaves his men in charge of the brothers, to do whatever they like. At this time, agent Smecker disguises himself as a woman to infiltrate the house, and kills two men before being knocked out by Il Duce. The brothers themselves brake out of their handcuffs and kills two men themselves. In honor of their friend Rocco, they begin their sacred ritual by putting pennies in his eyes and saying their family prayer. Il Duce sneaks up on them from behind, with the intention to kill them. When he hears their prayer, he realizes the two brothers are his own sons. Papa Joe has a court trial after being charges for killing 17 men; the court trial is raided by the brothers and their father, ridding the security there of their guns. The father tells everyone in the courthouse they have been chosen to witness what is going to happen, and they are to tell the world of their existence. After the brothers give a speech that their intention is to rid the city of evil to protect the innocent, the brothers and their father execute Papa Joe with two silences shots and one automatic gun shot to the back of the head. When the three men kill Papa Joe, everyone in the courtroom flees. There is a scene where the media dubbed the three men "the Saints", asking people's opinions about these saints and what they do.

Viva Cuba

Viva Cuba is a movie about a a boy named Jorgito and a girl named Malu. Malu is from a rich, educated family whereas Jorgito is from a poor family. They go on a journey all across Mexico to find Malu's father after they hear her mother is cheating on her father with another man. Along the journey they learn more about each other and bond with each other. Their mothers don't like each other much, but as they find out Jorgito and Malu go missing they bond with each other as well.

This movie uses a lot of magic realism. In one scene where Malu's mom is talking endlessly on the phone with someone, Malu is watering a small plant and imagines it blooming into pretty yellow flowers. Another scene is Malu and Jorgito are hanging out in the beaches of Varadero and they imagine drawing on the night sky with the stars. The two also "encounter" strange creatures called guijes in the wilderness. The way magic realism was used here was very amusing.

viva cuba

The story of two kids malu and jorgito that are best friends but argue to much, malu finds out that her mom is planning on leaving cuba but her and jorgito decide to go and run away to the other side of the island to persuade her dad to sign the papers to keep malu here in cuba with jorgito.

Viva cuba

The Twilight Samurai

The twilight samurai is about a man raising his two daughters after losing their mother. He is considered the lowest ranking as a samurai but works hard for his two daughters and his senile mother. When a long time friend of his comes back after getting divorced from her alcoholic husband they both find comfort in each other.

The Owl And The Sparrow

Owl and the sparrow is about a young girl feeling alone after the passing of her parents. Working at her uncle’s factory and being unhappy she runs away selling roses to live by and meets a lonely working woman as a flight attendant who offers her to stay with her as long as she needed. While at the zoo she meets the zookeeper and starts her plan to get them together.

The Scent Of Green Papaya

The scent of green papaya was about a young girl working as a servant for a rich family and as a reminder of the grandmothers own daughter if she were to be alive, the grandmother blames the wife for not keeping her son happy and the reason why he leaves at the last time he leaves he takes all the money and leave them with nothing. As the wife’s two son’s get older and leave she sends the servant to his oldest son’s home to be his servant with his soon to be fiance but soon he realizes she is more than a servant to him.

The Emperor And The Assassin

The emperor and the assassin is about an emperor trying to unify all of china bringing all the 6 kingdoms together to one and stops at nothing to do this having a plan of a assassination against him will give him a reason to attack but when he sends to invade lady Zhao’s former land she is very disappointed as well as his mother.

The Boondock Saints: Story

The story is about two brothers, Connor and Murphy McManus, that kill 2 Russian mobsters in self-defense, and believe they are sent from God to rid the city of evil. There are 3 Russian mobsters in the very beginning that try to take over a local bar the brothers enjoy going to, and there are about 5 men at the bar, including the brothers, their Italian friend, and 2 other friends, that engage in a bar fight with the mobsters; the mobsters are outnumbered, and are beaten up. The next morning, the brothers are jumped by two of the three mobsters, and the brothers end up killing them by dropping a toilet on one of them and beating the other to death. F.B.I. detective Smecker is at the crime scene of the mobsters, and Smecker ends up with the conclusion that the boys killed them in self defense, after the brothers turn themselves in, so no charges were pressed. After spending a night in jail so the press wouldn't get involved, the brothers are picked up by their friend Rocco; while in jail, the brothers have a vision in their dreams from God that they are meant to rid Boston, their city, of crime and corruption. The brothers tell Rocco of this vision; the brothers then trade in the Russian mobster's valuables that were earlier stolen for guns and other supplies, notably silenced guns. After this, the brothers find out about a Russian mob meeting being held in a hotel, and manage to kill all 8 of them. Rocco, who was sent to kill the 8 Russians by his Italian mob boss "Papa Joe" Zakavetta, is told by the brothers that Papa Joe set him up. Agent Smecker arrives at the crime scene, and suggests that an international mob war has be triggered. Rocco finally realizes he was set up by Papa Joe, and tells the brothers to take down Papa Joe and his mob. The brothers agree, and kill Vincezo, the Yakavetta crime family's underboss. After killing a criminal that Rocco had a personal hatred for at that man's house, the three men are ambushed by Il Duce, a hitman hired by Papa Joe, as they are exiting the house. The three suffer wounds, as does Il Duce. Rocco's finger is shot off, and after the three flee the scene, agent Smecker finds it and finds out not only who the finger belongs to, but who the killers are. Then, Smecker goes to a confession stand in a church, to get advice. Without much help from the priest, Smecker decides to help the brothers take down crime, since they seem to be much better at it than himself. The brothers and Rocco attempt to break into Papa Joe's house and assassinate him and his men, but fail and are tied and bound in his basement. Papa Joe kills Rocco, then leaves his men in charge of the brothers, to do whatever they like. At this time, agent Smecker disguises himself as a woman to infiltrate the house, and kills two men before being knocked out by Il Duce. The brothers themselves brake out of their handcuffs and kills two men themselves. In honor of their friend Rocco, they begin their sacred ritual by putting pennies in his eyes and saying their family prayer. Il Duce sneaks up on them from behind, with the intention to kill them. When he hears their prayer, he realizes the two brothers are his own sons. Papa Joe has a court trial after being charges for killing 17 men; the court trial is raided by the brothers and their father, ridding the security there of their guns. The father tells everyone in the courthouse they have been chosen to witness what is going to happen, and they are to tell the world of their existence. After the brothers give a speech that their intention is to rid the city of evil to protect the innocent, the brothers and their father execute Papa Joe with two silences shots and one automatic gun shot to the back of the head. When the three men kill Papa Joe, everyone in the courtroom flees. There is a scene where the media dubbed the three men "the Saints", asking people's opinions about these saints and what they do.

Killing fields

Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

Viva Cuba

the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.

Innocent Voices

A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.

Mongolian Pin Pong

Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands. The magnificent landscape here has changed little since the days of Genghis Kahn. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief. Bilike's grandmother says the ball is a glowing pearl from heaven. But the boys are sceptical after waiting all night outdoors for the ball to light up. Since nobody has an idea about the odd white object, they trek to the faraway monastery to consult the wise lamas. But even the grasslands' most knowledgeable inhabitants are stumped.

Himalaya

An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son's friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son's widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey. Fearing storms, Karma has led his caravan out of the village before the auspicious day ordained by the lamas. Tinle's group catches Karma's before the final pass; the two stubborn men lock wills with Tinle's grandson watching.

The Twilight Samurai

Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe, his long-time love, divorces a brutal husband. However, even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling, Seibei remains bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedences.

Owl and the Sparrow

Thuy is 10, an orphan, working in her uncle's factory outside Saigon. He beats her constantly, so she runs away to Saigon. Over five days, we watch her survive on the streets selling flowers, while her uncle looks for her. She encounters Hai, a reserved zoo-keeper whose fiancée. She also sells a flower to Lan, a flight attendant in the city for a layover, unlucky in love, who buys dinner for Thuy and offers her a place to stay that night. Thuy, who thinks of Lan as a sparrow and Hai as an owl, determines to bring them together.

The Scent of Green Papaya

A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui was sent to another family, a young pianist and his wife. The musician falls in love with the peasant, he taught her literacy and they eventually married.

The Emperor and the Assassin

Set during the third century BC, is the story of an ambitious King, Ying Zheng, obsessed with unifying all of China and becoming its first emperor. To this end, he goes on reign of terror and brutality against all who, he believes, stands between him and his destiny.Hoping to contribute in some way to Ying Zheng's dream of Chinese unification, Lady Zhao, his lover from childhood, makes a fake assassination plot against Ying Zheng which, when uncovered, will provide him with a excuse to invade the kingdom of Yan, his greatest obstacle to unification.

innocent voices

The movie tells of a 12 year old boy who lives in a small town in el salvador where a civil war is happening with the army against the guerilla forces and the army is recruiting all kids who are twelve years old but the boy tells everyone in the village so they could hide their kids from the army but at the end the boy went to united states because if he stay in his village he would be dead so in a couple more years he'll come back for his brother when he is twelve.

Inocent Voices

Innocent Voices was a Movie set in the 1980's in El Salvador. The story is being told by a boy who went the war and was able to escape to the United States where he was reunited with his family 6 years later. Chava (the boy) has to fight for his life and goes through watching his best friends die. He falls in love with a girl who ends up being murder. He trys to join the guerrilla, who is against the Salvadorean army who killing everyone. Then he gets caught by the Salvadorean army and watches his friends get killed (going back to the beginning scene of the movie).

This is definitely an anti war film.

by Amber Lovell

mongolian ping pong

The movie was mostly about a boy who finds a ping pong in the river but he doesn't know what it is because he lives in the middle of nowhere so he takes a journey about finding out the origins of the ping pong.

Mongolian Ping Pong

Was a story from Mongolia, It was really sad. It was a story of a group of 3 boys who find a ping pong in a lake. they believe that it is a glowing ball and therefore it was a spirits treasure. But then it was sad because an adult told them that in reality it was a ping pong. Then they heard on the tv that the ball was a national sport ball. So then they wanted to return the ball to the nation, so they went on this quest to go to Beijing, but they ended up going in the wrong direction. But this police officer brought them home. And then the boys mom stepped on the ping pong as a punishment and it was really sad because the 3 boys were so happy to have a national ball, and it meant a lot to them. then one of the boys stole the ball from the other boy and they stopped being friends. Then they were sent to different schools because he turned to the age of 7. And at the school he learned about ping pong.. he didn't seem to happy.

So this was a story of Mongolia that was poor and they didn't know much about the outside world so something that was so insignificant to us,was amazing and filled their whole day.


there was lots and lots of green pastors and not much in there land It was an underdeveloped land.
but every peaceful non the less

by Amber Lovell

Himalaya

Is a movie from Tibet.

The movie is about the struggles of a village in the Himalayans in picking a new chef when their chef expired early. They need a chef to help led their carvans into the Himalayan mountains, where the led Yaks carrying Rocks of salt to sell so their village can trade it for grain. This is an annual event that happens so that the village won't starve during the winter. But there is a major misunderstanding between the past chef and the herdsman who is being picked to led the carvan. The old chef wants karma (herdsman) not to led so he doesn't everything in his power to make it so. And it works, even though it was hard. Karma had the problem of not lessening to the Gods in leading his people so tthe old chef was always on his tail and never far off. At the end the old chef was able to except that Karma would be the next leader/chef of the caravan.

It was very good and it also showed the hard path that the Himalayans take in order to protect their people.

One good piece of advise that the old chef was giving karma when he was giving him his blessings was that he needs to be able to lead his people but always be lead by the Lord. He also said that every good leader disobeyed at first. So even though Karma didnt want to follow the Gods at first he learned to and was going to become a great leader


by Amber Lovell

Twilight Samurai

The film Twilight Samurai; which is set in the 19th century before the Meji Restoration. The movie starts out with the main character, Iguchi Seibei preparing for his wife's funeral, even though he's poor to afford a funeral his wife got a grand funeral. Despite being poor and a widow Iguchi goes through many events, but somehow he finds himself happy because he still has his daughters and mother. As the film progresses though Iguchi meets his old friend Tomoe he begins to fall for her and ends up dueling the husband of Tomoe...After three years being married to Tomoe, Iguchi dies in war.

The Owl and the Sparrow

The owl and the sparrow was a wonderful movie. It was really sad but unlike must of the movies we watch it ended up happy. =]

It was the story of a girl name Thuy, whos parents both died. It starts off with her working in her uncles factory. She miss measures something nd her uncle tell her how she is worthless. He continues to tell her how we would not survive one day away from him.
So she runs a way to the city, she trys to sell postcards on her first day in down but that doesn't work. Soon she begins to sell followers this was a period of a week. She meets two people a female flight attendant and a male zookeeper. Both of them are having relationship problems with different people. But they feel the need to help this thuy out. They end up meeting and falling for each other. They want to help Thuy out as well.
Thuy is then sent to an orphanage, and they try to get her back but there are rules, because they aren't her parents she couldn't be released to them.
The Uncle is call and he comes to retrieve his niece, and he wasn't worried about her but that she made a fool out of him. She was put right back to work in the factory but then she ran away a second time this time she stole her uncles money to buy the elephant that was going to be sold away from the zoo. But the zookeeper returned the money and made a deal to keep Thuy. All the uncle cared about was money
So the zookeeper put her into school, then he got back together with the filght attendant that almost left for work and it was all happy ever after.

So in short its a story of three strangers who made a family within a week =D


by Amber Lovell

Himilaya

The story is about villagers who take a caravan of yaks across the mountains carrying rock salt from the high plateau down to the lowlands to trade for grain because it's an annual event, the caravan provides the grain that the villagers depend on to survive the winter. It also tells about a story about rivalry between the aging chief and the young daring herdsman who is both friend and a rival to the chief's family as they struggle for leadership of the Caravan.

The owl and the sparrow

This is the story of three people and their lives, Thuy is a ten year old girl who works only in her uncles bamboo factory until she packs her bag and runs away and tries to survive by selling postcards and then she sells flower. Lan is a flight attendant who goes to ho chi minh on a five day layover checking in the same family run hotel every week and doesn't tell anyone about the affair that she is having with the airline pilot. Hai is a zookeeper who just had a bad brake up and now stays and lives with the animals in shack that's when he finds out that the zoo is shipping out his beloved elephant until the runaway girl wants to help him keep his elephant and see if she can be part of his family.

the scent of green papaya

The story starts out with a girl named mui who is a servant of a rich family which considers a husband, mother, an older son, two younger sons, and the husbands mother. when the husband leaves for the fourth and final time taking all the household money , then he returns with an ill and passes away. Ten years later mui is all grown up then she works for another owner who is only a husband and a wife and then his life left him and then the husband started teaching mui how to read and write.

The Scent of Green Papaya

This movie didn't focus on words, but on colors and actions. This is a story about a young girl and how she grew up what she went through in vietmam. She was maid, for a will to do family. In thid family the husband would leave for months at a time with all the families money and spend it one women. then he would come crawling back. The last time he left before the maid came, he left for to long and when he returned his little girl had fell sick and died. The next day he returned to find his daughter dead. He always blamed him self (which he should, I do to ). His wife would always take him back with arms wide because she loved him. When the wifes own mother died the husbands mother lived with them every time her good for nothing son would leave with all the families money, the step mother would tell the wife she always knew she wouldn't be able to please her son, that she wasn't good enough for her son. Then the grandma died and the wife was all sad, for reasons I dont understand. The wife/ mistress was always extra nice to the maid because she was the same age her dead daughter would be if she was still alive. She had a little son who was terrible, and would torment the maid all the time. (He needed to be punch in the face).
Later she was moved to another house I believe maybe the older brothers house. Whoever this guy was the maid was in Love with him, but at last he had a fiancee. But the fiancee was giving out way to early and all over her man, which was not proper in Vietnam. soon the man fell in love with the maid and they had a baby together and he taught her how to read and write.

By Amber Lovell

killing fields

Is a movie that takes place in the 80s about the massacres that happened in Cambodia. This was the biggest massacre that happened in history were the people who where killing people were killing their own peoples. This story is being shown by two survivors who where/are journalist during the killings. These journalist tell their stories of their escape from the concentration camps. There is death every where and these journalist is trying to get the story out to the world. It is a very sad sad story and its true. Bodies are still being found from these massacres over millions of Cambodian people died... it was so sad.


by Amber Lovell

The Empire and the Assassin

Was a movie about the creation of China becoming a whole kingdom by the hands of Ying Zkeng an heir of the Qin Empire. It takes place from the realistic side of view of things. It doesn't show the uniting as a positive thing. It shows all the death, how friendships where ended because of the murdering. Massive groups of people from the 6 different kingdoms that would soon make china where killed.
Ying Zkeng sends many assassins to kill Jing Ke, but none of his assassin succeed tell he has to do it himself,
He sends a massacre to Zhao, the land of his former Lover. He does this because someone from this state had rap? his mother. His former Lover then goes against him, and his Mother is also very displease. so he becomes dishonored by mother and his ex lover.
The movie covers many parts Ying Zkeng life.


by Amber Lovell

Twlight Samuri

Twlight Samurai is an anti war flim. Its the story of a Samurai whose wife died, he has two daughters, and his mother is being senile. In this society there are ranks between the Samuri's and Twlight only had an allowance of 50 (something). He has lost his passion to fight in the war because his family needed him. The clan which all Samurais must follow forced him to go to kill another Samurai who had defined the Clan. He didn't want to and ended up having to for his owns families safety.

It is also a love story, his neighborhood friend falls in love with him and is able to become his children mother. At first he didn't want to marry her because she came from a 500 (something) family and he didn't want to have her have to live with being a 50 (something) family for the rest of her livfe. It is truely sad that he must have ti worry about this.

I believe that two years after he got married to his childhood friend, he died in the war. This movie was truly an anti war film.


by Amber Lovell

twilight samurai

The movie was an action film with a low rank samurai who is poor but still lives a happy life with his daughter and without their mother then the samurai meets a childhood friend whos name is tomoe who he loves and wants to get married to but she is supposed to marry another man and then the samurai is told by his clanthat he is suppose to kill another samurai to get his honor back and at the end after he killed the old samurai he went back home and saw his two loving daugthers and tomoe and then they got married and he died three years later in the boshin war, japans last civil war.

Rinne no Ame (Rain of Rebirth)

Rinne no Ame, a Japanese film directed by Michiko Namiki, tells of two brothers and the struggle between family and identity. Kouhei and Shuhei Mikami were abandoned by their father after their mother passed away. Shuhei is mentally disabled and works at a factory while his older brother Kouhei, a college student, takes care of him. Shuhei is regularly abused by the manager at the factory. When Kouhei finds out, he kills the manager and, for good measure, steals the bloodstained money from the safe. When cops are investigating the murder, they are drawn to Shuhei through his actions and words as a person with a mental disability.

This movie protrays loyalty and shame in much of the same way as the title character in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Shuhei is very attached to Kouhei, which makes him into a parental figure of sorts. At first, Kouhei is very protective of Shuhei and how people treat him because of his mental disability. As time passes, Kouhei feels trapped in the role of caring for Shuhei like Gilbert did for Arnie. There is a lot of dark lighting and rain throughout the movie, reflecting the inner turmoil swirling inside Kouhei, including hiding the murder of the factory manager, taking care of Shuhei, and the reappearance of his father. It also explores the theme of reincarnation and rebirth quite heavily.

The Dungeon Masters

The Dungeon Masters is a documentary which takes the viewer into the lives of the people who play the role playing game, Dungeons and Dragons. This film tells the stories of three dungeon masters, Richard Meeks, Elizabeth Reesman, and Scott Corum. The Dungeon Masters is truly a surreal film; this film brought me great insight into the world of role playing. These people are not just playing these games for fun, they are playing in order to live another, better, life.

killing fields

Based on a true story of two journalist who go into cambodia in the 80s to see the horror of people dying and killing one another and taking pictures of desperate and poor people who try to leave the country but most of them get killed by guerilla fighters of cambodia and some are lucky to escape and then real pictures of this event was showed at the end.

paradise now

The Killing Fields: Lighting and Setting

The Killing Fields was set in Cambodia. The lighting in the movie was natural, which means that light wasn't very much produced by man, instead, light from the sun and moon was used. There were a little more hand-held shots in this movie, like when the prisoner escapes by hiding in the water and rice fields.

The Sicilian Girl: Lighting and Setting

The setting of The Sicilian Girl was set in Sicily, Italy. The lighting of the movie is overall gloomy, with some light; some scenes of cloudy gloom were when Rita'f father is asassinated in the street, and her brother is asassinated in the bay; even Rita's gravestone when it's smashed by her mother is cloudy, and Rita's suicide is at night. There were mostly dolly shots.

The Sicilian Girl

The Sililian Girl is a true story about a female living in Sicily during the late 20th century. What she did was so profound and unheard of that she will always be remembered. Her name was Rita Mancuso, at the age of 11 years old she saw her father killed. She saw her father as a honest man and would always be great in her eyes. When she found out that her uncle was responsible for the murder of her father she sought out to get revenge, hoping to kill him. She kept a journal of everything that she observed that her mafia family was doing. When her brother was killed, she was alone. Her mother had always hated her for having all her husbands attention. She finally went to the police to get help. She rated out the mafia and in doing so she had to accept that her father wasn't as noble as she thought. She was finally left alone because the mafia killed everyone that mattered to her. She ended her life.

The ending shows how Rita life effected all those in Sicily.

Amber Lovell

Turles can Fly

Turtles can Fly is a story about the hardships of war. It tells the story of
what the orphans of the war must indure to get any sort of a living. These kids led by Satellite (another orphan child) go into minefields to clear the area of any dangerous mine. The kids sell the mines to men who I think are trying to gain the knowledge of how to make mines? But Im not to sure.
Satellite falls in love with another orphan child named Argin, not before totally being terrible to her older brother. ( <-- I feel Satellite ruined any chance they had together from the beginning). Argin and her brother who is armless from working the mining fields, have experinced war is some of the worst ways. Their family was murdered and Argin was rapped, and her son was born mentally ill and blind. She wanted to kill her son so she made many attempts. But her brother kept bagging her not to. I feel he really needed them sense he had no arms and what not.
But in the end she succed in killing not only her son but herself... It was a very sad movie that I don't think many people in America think that stuff really happens.

Amber Lovell

Across The Universe

This film tells the story of a man, Jude, who came to America in search for his father. While there, Jude meets another man, Max, and Max's sister, Lucy. Across The Universe is a musical based on The Beatles' songs, taking the viewer through the lives of these three young adults during the Vietnam War. The special effects in this film are mind-blowing, and the soundtrack is amazing.

Persepolis

A animated film, showing the film in color and mostly in black and white had told of a story of Marjane Satrapi, main character of the recurring events when she was younger of the days during the Iranian Revolution. Going through so much she began to develop more and more of a character of herself and how she lived through the revolution.

Waltz With Bashir

An animated film pertaining to war had an eerie plot to it, but came together in a way. The movie's plot was focused on the Lebanon War in 1982, which the main character, Ari Folman had lost memory of it and dreaming one certain event that he thought happened. He began searching for answers by reminiscing with other soldiers of his squadron. Many told different stories that happened which turned out to bring more mysteries.

Turtles Can Fly

The film is takes place in a refugee camp on the Iraq-Turkish border on the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq. The film focuses on young youth leader Satellite; which he got his name for installing dishes and antennas. He makes the village children sweep up mines and sells them to get the necessities of their lives and also protection of their village. Satellite then becomes infatuated by a girl, Agrin, and helps her in anyway. The brother of Agrin, Hengov, who is physically disabled can tell the future, but for some reason brings bad luck. Soon the film becomes more harsh as many events begin and many end.

The Sicilian Girl

This film is about a 17-year-old, Rita, who's father and brother were in the Mafia. Both were killed by other members of the Mafia, and Rita is out to get even with the men who killed her father and brother. The Sicilian Girl is a powerful film not only because it is a true story, but also because the actors, especially Veronica D'Agostino(Rita), did an impeccable job, along with the director.

Gandhi

The film was based on Gandhi's life and went through events; such as him leading the nonviolent resistance against the British colonial rule in India. The movie begins with his assassination in 1948. But the movie after that goes to Gandhi's early days to when he was at the time a lawyer in the late 19th century. The movie goes on as Gandhi goes through many ordeals and challenges that have to do with freeing India from British rule. Gandhi went through so much to free India, but he was strong willed; whether if it was fasting for days, weeks, months or walking hundreds of miles.

Ajamy

Ajamy was one of those movies that tell a whole bunch of sides to one story that doesn't make sense until the end. It shows different characters point of views. The main story is about a man who uncle killed a member of a mob who was had wanted money for protection from the uncle. The mob is trying to kill everyone man and boy in the family to revenge the dead member. The oldest boy who is still alive flees to another area where his extended family lives. Here he meets a member of his family who needs money as well. The member's mother is dieing and needs a medical treatment. So he convinces the family member to sell drugs. But this is a trap, that another man set up because he doesn't want the main boy to marry his daughter. It was suppose to be safe but people died. It was really confusing but cool.

Amber Lovell

The sicilian girl

The beginning of the movie in 1985 in Balata, Sicily an 11 year old girl named Rita Mancuso saw her father killed in cold blood by a rival mafia family. So six years later her brother is killed by the same mafia she decides to avenge her brother and father by going to an anti-mafia prosecutor in Palermo with her diary used as evidence. So she was forced to flee her village and put into witness protection and was transferred to a safe house in Rome. She already knew that the mafia won't give up until she is dead and that's when she took her own life by falling off a building of a motel and then at the end of the movie they showed actual videos of Rita's life.

Ajami

This is about many different stories. It begins with a accidental shooting of a neighbor that was meant to be for Omar because of revenge from Nasri's uncle. Omar's relationship with the daughter of the restaurant's owner was not approved because he was a Muslim and she was a Arab christian. Malek is illegally working at a restaurant and ends up forcefully taking some drugs and he decides to sell them to get money for his mother's bone marrow transplant. All these stories end up tying together and shows everything they went through.

Turtles Can Fly

This takes place on a refugee camp on the verge of the invasion of Iraq. Satellite is thirteen and the leader of the children there and sends them and arranges work to be done in the dangerous but necessary clearings of minefields.

Gandhi

This is about Gandhi's life with many arrests and hate he went through how he came to be a famous speaker and everything he did to try to make peace.

Waltz With Bashir

This is about a soldier having dreams about the Lebanon war he was fighting in and finding different people to talk about what they remember from it and how those memories connect and helps him remember and revive his own memories.

Lagaan

This takes place in India where a village's taxes goes up but it has not rained so they do not have produce and the money to pay them so they attempt to reduce the taxes but instead a British officer makes them a bet if they would beat his team at a game of cricket they would not have to pay for three years but if they lost they would pay three times the normal taxes. The village is furious but when the officer's sister helps them they start joining him and support to win and not have to worry about it for three years.

Earth

This is about a young girl growing up as a wealthy Parsi girl with a group of friends and their different views and different faiths on the partition of India but as things progress with the partition things get worse and they end up turning on each other.

Udaan

This is about a boy that is expelled from the boarding school he was attending and is sent home with his abusive father and his younger new step brother, his father forces him to attend engineering classes and does not condemn his dream of being a writer and is constantly verbally and physically abusive with him and his step brother at one time his father goes as far as putting the boy in the hospital and claims he fell down the stairs but he knows it is not true. When his father announces he will marry a woman that he met and has a daughter, he decides to leave and take his brother so he will be safe.

Like Stars On Earth

This is about a boy who is considered lazy and a troublemaker and has trouble keeping up his academic grades, as much as he tried to understand the work he is given he couldn't, misunderstood by his parents, teachers, and friends the parent's decide to send him to a boarding school believing this is what he needs to straighten up but what he has needs more help then what they expected. A art teacher from the boarding school believes he has dyslexic and helps him and his family as well understand why it is so difficult for him to learn and how to overcome it.

Big Fish

This is about a boy that has been told stories by his father for years and believes he has not been told a single truth and that he does not know his father leading them to not speak for years until his father's heart starts to fail and he and his pregnant wife go see him and when he ends up in the hospital and passes away, at his funeral he realizes that his stories were true but expanded.

Amelie

This has magic realism throughout the film and show how her life was growing up with the loss of her mother and the isolation she felt without any attention from her father and how she starts helping others and finding herself and overcoming her shyness with the help of friends.

Slumdog Millionaire

This is about a boy who is a participant in the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? but is accused of cheating and is interrogated by police and explains with flashbacks why he knew the answers and what he went through in his past with the loss of his mother, what he went through with his brother and losing the girl of his dreams and not giving up hope of finding her.

Hero

This is about a man who is asked by the king to give the reason and the plan that they came up with to kill him and tells different stories of the three assassins that attempted to kill the king of ancient china.

The Power of One

This was about a boy that was sent to a boarding school and was bullied for being English and gets sent with his grandfather and discovers the fun of boxing. He joins the team winning every match he has been put against and throughout his life with school and friends he sadly views the unfair treatment of people and racism.

Rabbit Proof Fence

This is about three girls that are mixed-race considered half-castes in Australia that were taken from their home and were taken to a place where they teach them to be servants for the whites and end up running away from the camp walking for weeks along the rabbit proof fence trying to get back home.

The Sicilian Girl

Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live

OSAMA

The mother had been working as a nurse in a hospital, but regardless of she not being allowed to work, the Taliban has cut off funding to the hospital. The mother and grandmother make what they feel is the only decision they can to survive: they will have the preteen daughter masquerade as a boy so that she can get a job to support the family. The daughter, feeling powerless, agrees despite being scared as if the Taliban discover her masquerade, she is certain they will kill her


.

Paradise Now

This movie is about two friends who known each other for years. Said and Khaled who experienced living under another nations rule for their whole lives. They feel oppression, humiliation and consider themselves prisoners in their own land. As soon as a friend presents to them an opportunity to avenge their way of life, the filmmaker follows their steps as they prepare themselves for their final act of resistance, a suicide mission in Tel-Aviv.

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi

A teenager discovers he may be a genius, which turns out to be a less-than-welcome surprise to his family, in this comedy-drama from Israel. Shlomi is a 17-year-old boy who has unwittingly become the most important member of his household. But Shlomi's math teacher discovers that Shlomi has a rare gift for working with numbers wants to transfer him to another school where he can hone this talent. But Shlomi's family resists the idea because they're not sure if he can do the work and partly because they don't want to see the family's go away.

Turtles can fly

The film takes place in Iraqi Kurdistan near the border with Turkey. It is set right before the American invasion in 2003. One of the main characters is called Satellite because he sets up satellite dishes and antennae for local villagers hungry for news about the impending battle. He leads a large group of children, many of whom make money by collecting unexploded mines.
Satellite guides them and strikes deals with local merchants interested in buying the mines.

Ajami

This movie is about the revenge killing reveal the cultural and religious tensions beneath the surface: two young brothers fear assassination after their uncle wounds a local criminal; a young Palestinian refugee works illegally in Israel to finance his mother’s surgery; an Israeli woman and her affluent Palestinian boyfriend dream of building a life together; and a Jewish cop is obsessed with finding his missing brother.

Gandhi

this movie starts of with the death of Gandhi the go through his life showing how he became a movement in peace and showing his methods and ideas on how to get there.

Persepolis

In 1970s Iran, Marji Statrapi watches events through her eyes and her family. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her to Vienna to study for a better life. But this change becomes difficult for her to finding herself in a different. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs.

Waltz with Bashir

This movie shows the plot that unfolded one night in September of 1982, when Christian militia members massacred more than 3,000 Palestinian refugees in the heart of Beirut as Israeli soldiers surrounded the area. Ari Folman who was a 19-year-old infantry soldier. In 2006, he meets with a friend from his army service period, who tells him of the nightmares connected to his experiences from the Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find that he does not remember a thing from that period.

Paradise Now

This film is about two Palestinian men who are are recruited to be suicide bombers in Tel Aviv. The men, who are childhood friends, are separated at the border. One of the men finds his way back to the people planning the attack, while the other man continues to carry out the plan. Whether or not the man actually carries out the attack up to the viewer to decide. Paradise Now is an intense film, that gives the viewer the ability to come up with the ending, which, in my opinion, is a privilege.

Osama

This film is about a young Afghan girl who pretends to be a boy, working at a tea shop. All of the boys in the village are taken by the Taliban so they can be trained as soldiers. She is discovered as a girl, and is sent to be the wife of an old man. Osama is a moving film that takes the viewer on a depressing journey through a young girl's true story. This film gives the viewer a look at what the Taliban is, and how the Taliban ruins people's lives.

Paradise Now (Ellis Carroll Remix)

Hany Abu-Assad takes us into the minds of two friends who are (initially) dead set on becoming suicide martyrs for their extremist ideals. Every aspect of this movie is fabulous, from the derelect city in which the two friends live, the use of imagery in the crisp and clean suits they wear, to the slightest interactions between the main character Said and his (girlfriend?) Suha. Every single second of movie is dedicated to showing the emotional attachment to bombs strapped to their chests. This movie is a marvel of modern directing and should be seen by everyone who enjoys movies.

waltz with bashir

The movie talked about a man named Ari Folman who was in the Lebanon War in 1982. It focus on letting us see into the world of a teenager going in through the war as he grows up. And all the trauma that comes along with it. This story talks about a man Ari Folman who has repressed his memories of the war. He continuously has a dream of the war or how he was the war this one image. He wants to remember what happened there so he goes back to all the people that was with him there and gains little bits and pieces from his past. The movie is showing the after math of what happens to the brain after war. etc.



Amber Lovell

OSAMA

Osama is a story of a little girl who tries to pose as a boy. She is traveling with her mother when she has to change her appearance in order to get work. one day the taliban is recruiting all the boys from their village and has to go with them. She almost stayed undercover but she was found out.  She was forced to marry an old fat man and all of the other wives of the old fat man were telling her about how bad it was and that their childhood was ruined because they were forced to marry this man. The End.

Paradise now

This is the story of two suicide bombers. It shows what is going through a  suicide bombers mind and what they have to go through to do there job. One of the men backed down because he was convinced that there are other ways to solve there problems. They try to stop the other suicide bomber but he runs off ad the scene ends with him in a bus with a bunch of soldiers and small children with their mothers.

Bonjoure Monsiure Shlomi

It's about a boy with a learning disability who falls in love with the girl that his brother is pretending to have relations with. His family has been torn apart except for him and his grandpa. He struggles in school but is incredible at multiplication and his principle discovered it. he argues with his mom and finaly convinces her to let him go to a charter school with other kids like him.

Osama

The movie of a girl who is desperate to get a job for her family so she decides to dress and look like a boy to work until a soldier took her away to a camp to learn and train to become a Taliban soldier like all the young kids until she was caught that she was a girl and for that she was forced to get married to an old man and the story ends with the girl using her jumprope.

Thor

This film is about a warrior, Thor, who is sent to Earth by his father, Odin. Odin takes away Thor's powers, leaving Thor forced to live like a mortal. Thor's brother, Loki, makes sure Thor stays on Earth, powerless. Thor meets a human, Jane, who helps him in any way she can. This film had amazing special effects and the actors did an impeccable job. Chris Hemsworth(Thor) stole the show, with his sculpted body and chiselled face, and, I suppose, his superb dedication towards the role of Thor.

Paradise now

a story of two men who are going to be suicide bombers because they think their lives are boring but then they got lost when they passed the fence to the other side so then they had a long time thinking about what to do with their lives then they decided not to blow themselves up which is gay and nobody dies.

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi

This film is about a 16-year-old, Shlomi, who is very intelligent but has a learning disability. Schlomi's teacher has found a perfect boarding school for Schlomi, but Schlomi's mother won't let him go. Schlomi falls for the girl who lives next door. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi takes the viewer through Schlomi's experiences involving love, loss, and life. I thought this was a fun film, dealing with life's problems in a positive way. It had a great ending, and I would recommend it.

bonjour monsieur shlomi

The story of a high school teenager who is a genius but doesn't now it and then he sees her neighbor who he really likes and then finds his brothers diary and he thinks his brother is going out with her until she tells him that their not and they made love in the living room.

Schlomi: Lighting and Setting

The setting in Schlomi was set in Israel. The lighting of the movie was overall, bright, with the only examples of dark being at night. Some examples of brightness are at the beginning with Schlomi's girlfriend, and when Schlomi's outside with his brother while he plays guitar. There were mostly dolly shots, and no hand-held shots of worthy mention.

turtles can fly

This movie had a lot of drama of how there was a little village during the iraq-iran war where a boy is the leader of a group of kids and they collect mines to sell and now they watch the news and seeing that the war is about to start and a girl who was raped by soldiers and now she wants to kill the baby she had and then she killed herself and her brother cries for their death.

Turtles Can Fly

This film is about a child, Satellite, who leads other children in clearing minefields. Satellite falls for an orphan, Argin, who is traveling with her armless brother and her mentally ill and blind child. Turtles Can Fly tells the stories of Satellite and Argin, who each experience the troubles that the war has brought them. This film is very depressing: full of death and hardships. This film brought me insight of how horrid war can be, and showed me how hard my life could be.

Turtles Can Fly: Lighting and Setting

The setting in Turtles Can Fly was in Iraq. The lighting in the movie was overall very gloomy; cloudy grey, skies with small lighting. I can't seem to remember any parts where there was sunlight, either. There was mostly dolly shots, with some hand-held shots; I can't really remember any hand-held shots, though.

Ajamy

This film tells the stories of men in Ajamy who have different beliefs. The first young man we meet is Omar. Omar is an Arab who is trying to protect himself and his family from a gang who wants to kill him. The next person we meet is Malek, an illegal 16-year-old who is trying to get money for his mother who needs surgery in order to survive cancer. We also meet Dando who is an Israeli cop looking for is missing brother. Ajamy is a depressing film, but gives the viewer a true look inside the lives on men in Ajamy.

Gandhi

Gandhi help me realize that Gandhi was not a God. This movie is about the life of Gandhi, starting with the assassination of Gandhi. Gandhi was a lawyer who went to Africa where he saw the mistreatment of the Indians. So through peaceful no violet means he fought back against the whites. He again peace in that land. Then he moved to India where he wanted to try and live like the poor in India so he could relate to the people he wanted to help. He never took the glory that people gave him, he was just a man and he wanted his people to know that he was not special. There was many many times were he would fast in order to gain/ demand peace. There was many many people killing each other and as a result Gandhi almost died in a fast. This war ended to save Gandhi but there were many people are bitter because there loves one had died. Gandhi told a man that even though a muslim had killed his son, in older to forgive he would need to take an orphan who is a muslim and raise the child as his own. This man was so shocked and could not handle the idea of this that the first time Gandhi came back he shot his. It had much power

Persepolis

This movie had good animation and told a good story about a young girl who was in the time of the Iranian Revolution were she grew up in Tehran with her middle class family who protest against the Shah of Iran who they want to overthrow so they can have a better society. So at the end of the movie it showed that Marji is 24 years old who takes a taxi and was asked were she came from and she sigh and said "Iran" showing that she was proud of who she was and were she came from.

Lagaan: Lighting and Setting

Lagaan took place in Champaner, India. The lighting of the movie was natural, meaning the only light in the film came from the sun, or rural light sources. There were mostly dolly shots, and some hand-held shots.

Persepolis

This film uses an interesting style of animation. They signified the present by using color and for the flashbacks, which a majority of the film was, it was shown by black and white. I enjoyed this film because it had a an interesting way of introducing comedy into a tragedy. A+

Earth

Earth is set in the middle east during the time when the british began to leave and diside to slit the land into three areas based on race. The people who have grown up together, and never really had a problem with each other before. But then war broke out and everything had to be about race. Muslims where killing anyone who wasn't Muslims. And Muslims where being killed by non Mulisms. The story is surround by a girl living in Lahore, all the men like because she is very pretty. This story is shown through the eyes of the little girl lenny baby. The girl is the care taker of lenny baby. One day the girl picks a man to get married to, but they are different religions and another muslim become hateful and tricks leeny baby to tell him were the care taker is. Then he and all his muslim friends goes to kill her. he also killed her soon to be husband out of rage. He could not take the rejection. This story is told to let us now how crazy the fights are between the races and different religions.

by Amber Lovell

Persepolis: Lighting and Setting

The setting in the movie was in France. The lighting of the movie was...black and white. With very small color. The lighting gave an overall, cold view of the movie. Even a little depressing. There isn't much to say since the movie was black and white. Anyways, dolly shots and hand-held shots, and even amount between the two.

Persepolis

Persepolis is a movie about the life of Marjane Satrapi as she struggles through her life in Tehran as Iran is consumed by war. The movie was animated in black and white, with bits of color only near the end. Due to its use of mostly black and white lighting, the movie comes of as restricted, oppressed, and depressing, which is fitting because of the government regimes that take place. I really enjoyed watching Persepolis.

ajamy

The story of how a teenage boy who has to sell drugs so he can raise enough money to help his mom get surgery so he was caught and he was fired from his original job then he went to building to sell some more drugs but instead the plan went wrong and his friend and brother were shot and died and was a very sad scene but it was a cool movie.

Waltz with Bashir

This film is about a man who has lost his memory of his time in the war he was in. He also has a reoccurring dream which he does not know what its meaning is. He visits other veterans to try and figure out what his dream means, and to try to get his memory back. This film, in my opinion, was very confusing because of all of the different flashbacks and the dream, which plays over, and over again. The story was hard to believe purely because it was animated; I would like to see this film made with real people, then it would be much more realistic and easier to follow.

Big fish

Big fish is the story of a man who tells these outrageous stories to his kids and anyone who is willing to listen. He continues to tell these same stories to his son as he grows into a man and even at his wedding. The boy pulls his dad aside and tells him he needs to sop telling these false tales because no one believes them anymore. as it turns out, all the stories had some small truths to them, the dad just exaggerated them a little bit. The boy doesnt realize this until the end of the movie.

waltz with bashir

The movie talked about a man named Ari Folman who was in the Lebanon War in 1982. So in the present year of 2006 he meets with one of his war buddies and he talks about the nightmares hes been having about the Lebanon War but Ari doesn't remember anything about the war he was in. So then he starts getting a vision from the night of the sabra and shatila massacre in which he is in the ocean with his army friends at night with flares in the sky in the seaside of Beirut where they are walking towards the city. So then he went to see other war friends who were with him in the service and he also went to a psychologists and the reporter Ron Ben-Yishai who was in Beirut at the time. So at the end it showed the real footage of what happened in the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Waltz with Bashir

This film was about a man with repressed memories of the Lebanon war which he took part in. He has a recurring hallucination that he is naked in ad walks out of the water on to the beach. he sees this as  part of one of the massacres. He sees on of his old friends in the hallucination but his friend doe not recall any of this. A lot of people who have been in wars view these memories as trips from drugs they may or may not have done.

Earth

Earth is about a young girl's life, along with her nanny's life. They live in Lahore while people with different religions are fighting one another. The nanny is somewhat of an "adventurous" women when it comes to men. She has numerous affairs, while taking care of the girl. By the end of the movie, the nanny is taken away because of her religion. Like the other films we have watched, this film takes place mostly outside, with the sunlight or moonlight as the main source of lighting.

Lagaan

This film tells the story of a man who leads his people in a game of cricket against the British, trying to cancel the amount of tax his people pay for the next three years. This film shows the main character's, Bhuvan, courage and strength in fighting for something his people believe is not possible. Bhuvan fights all odds when he gathers a cricket team and wins against the British. The film, mostly, takes place outdoors, with natural sunlight as the lighting.

Gandhi

This film is about a man, Gandhi, who starts a revolution for change without using violence. The film covers Gandhi's life, and shows how he lead his people in a nonviolent protest again the British. This film simply tells Gandhi's story; it does not elaborate on any of the details, yet is still an intriguing story. A lot of the film takes place outdoors, with natural sunlight. Most of the indoor scenes are poorly, yet realistically, lit.

Gandhi, Lagaan, Slum Dog Millionaire

Gandhi was about the fight against English rule in India and how Gandhi fought without violence. Lagaan was about a village that was upset about having to make double payments to the English government. They played a game of Cricket to see if the village could rid the lagaan for three years or have to pay triple lagaan. Slum Dog Millionaire was a story of two boys who grew up in a poor village and shows the hardships they endured and the separate paths they took. The main character was trying to make an honest living serving tea in a coffee shop. His brother took the path of being a gangster and works for the biggest mobster in the village they used to live in.

Gandhi

This movie tells of the time when war broke out in the middle east like the movies Lagaan, and Earth telling the stories of how many people have to fight to survive in a brutal war. So Gandhi tried to prove a point in his time opening the eyes of everyone around the world that he tried to change the violent world that he lives in.

Country Strong

This film is about a young man who is making his way into the music business. He falls in love with an alcoholic singer/songwriter who is trying to make her comeback into the music world. This film is about her journey back into the spotlight, also telling the story of a young woman who is a newcomer in the music business, and the young man's story. Country Strong is a moving film which leaves the viewer almost speechless. This film, however, had poor transitions and some scenes when on, and on.

Laggan

-it hasn't rained and they need to pay their taxes to the British to get protection. the tax is call Lagaan.
-they don't eat meat, its against their religion
-there where Indians working for the British, choosing to do so and going against their own people.
- The general also told the people empire that if he were to eat meat his people would have to pay the tax, but he couldn't go against his God just because this guy wanted him to .
- The British general living near there village made a bet that if they won a game of cricket to the British they wouldn't have to pay the tax for 3 years
- one of the men who didn't want to help support the main character in the game that they were going to play. changed his mind because he said shame on them that they would wont help their own people when a white lady would.
- One man turned his back on the whole health of the village by going and telling the general everything that was happening. He did this because he was jealous of the main character.
- They have classes but they are allowing the cripple to play anyway.

- They use numbers of people doing the same thing to be more effective.
- They won and the British left because of the shame of the defeat.

by Amber Lovell

EARTH

A story of tragedy about war in the middle east of Muslims against Hindus and a story of a Hindu who loves a woman but another man who is a Muslim loves the same girl. They both saw a lot of violence of their own religion. At the end of the movie the girl loved the Hindu man and decided to get married and move away but the second guy who is in love with her knew about their relationship so he decided to kill them by forming an angry mob full of Muslims so they went to family house where she cleans an took her away and never to be seen.

Lagaan

At the end of the movie the villagers finally won the game so they didn't had to pay taxes for three years and after being humiliated by the villagers the British decided to relocate and left the villagers in peace and bhuvan finally got married and lived a happy life.

Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals is about two neighbors who grew up together and have different views of life. When the father of victor dies both victor and Thomas go on a trip to get his ashes and belongings. Victor only has memories of the pain, drinking and hate he brought him and his mother but Thomas grew up considering him a hero because he saved him from a fire in his home where his parents were killed. From the trip they find who they are and bring them understanding of how each feels.

Motorcycle Diaries

Motorcycle Diaries is about two friends who decide to travel across South America for fun and adventure but along the way they find poverty and a desire to fight for what is right and he does this by swimming across the lake and stepping foot on the leper side.

Rabbit Proof Fence

Rabbit proof fence is based on a true story about three girls who are taken from their home and taken to a camp where the half castes are being taught to be servants for the whites living in Australia. They run away from the camp and begin their journey back home thousands of miles away walking along the fence.

Lagaan climax

Lagaan is an indian movie of how villagers have to pay taxes to the british every year when they decide to double the tax and when the whole village heard of it they all begged to the british not to double the tax but a man of the village stood up to them and a deal was made that if the villagers win at a game of cricket against the british their taxes will be cancel for three years and if the british win the villagers have to pay triple the tax fund and so on they left to start their training for three months.

Udaan

This film is about a 17-year-old, Rohan, who was expelled from a boarding school. Rohan is forced to come home to his father and younger brother. His father has abused his brother who ends up in the hospital. Rohan stays with his brother during his time in the hospital and tells him and the others stories. Rohan is a great writer and enjoys telling his stories to whoever is lucky enough to be able to listen. Rohan's father ends up burning his journal with all of his writings in it. At the end of the film, Rohan and his brother leave their unhappy life to start an new one.

Lars and the Real Girl

This film is about a man, Lars, who brings home a women, his "girlfriend," who is actually a life-like doll. This film tells the story of Lars and the troubles he goes through in order to discover true love, and true happiness. Lighting is used to create depressing mood, which shows how the characters are feeling.

Rambo: Lighting and Setting

The setting in Rambo was set in the country Burma during a civil war going on in the country. The lighting in the movie, like Slumdog Millionaire, always had a shade. But contrary to Slumdog Millionaire, the movie had a dark shade to everything. The lighting in the movie was natural, so bright, hot days and dark, cold, rainy nights; the movie being set in a jungle. There were mostly dolly shots, not really many handheld shots; I can't even remember any, that's how few there were.

Slumdog Milliionaire

The film had a interesting plot to it as Jamal, main character, was a contestant of 'Who wants to be a millionaire' as the questions were asked to him he would have an answer, but in a unique way; by having live through it or having some type of relevance of bumping in to it. As the movie progressed it showed how Jamal had been accused of cheating and how he got in the hands of the police.
The film showed lots of the environment of India culturally and some other ways. The slums showed poverty in India or the cars that they used and the places; couldn't tell a indifference with the U.S and there.

Big Fish

The film Big Fish had shown a mixture between fantasy and magic realism; it had to do with the father tell his life, but in the shape of stories. His son didn't believe him at all even though they were all true, to a certain extent; shaping the obstacles that the son and the father went through. As the movie progressed his son had to see for himself that the stories his father told him were true and not a matter of fiction. Well he got his answer and they were true,well parts. In the end he knew his father and how he lived his life and completely forgot his doubts seeing everyone his father had encountered through his life...

We Own the Night:Lighting and Setting

We Own the Night was set in Brooklyn, New York, in Brighton. The lighting in the movie was overall dark; for example, Burt Gruskinsky's funeral, and drug lord's Vadim's assassination. But it also became colorful, like in Bobby's hotel room while playing poker,or being in Bobby's nightclub, which carried a good feeling of careless partying/fun. There were some dolly shots and handheld shots; some handhelds being Bobby going through the tall grasslands trying to find Vadim, where the camera is meant to be from Bobby's eye view point. One unique shot being when Bobby gets a sack put over his head to keep the drug shack anonymous, the camera gets the sack put over it, too, to convey the feeling of not knowing where you're going, a fear, sort of.

Udaan climax

At the end of the movie the oldest son sees that his dad is going to marry another woman with a daughter so he thinks his dad is going to put his anger on another family. So he decides to walk out the front door and never come back his dad tries to stop him but he punches him in the face and ran as fast as he could. He went to his uncle and told him everything the next morning he went to pick up his half brother who was waiting outside for his first day of bording school. He also left a note and his dads watch and wrote down that he is taking his little brother with him and if he tries to call the police he'll tell them that he abused both of them and they walked away and never to look back.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

This film is about three girls who are taken away from their home in Australia because they are half-castes. They are sent to a camp that teaches the girls to be servants for whites. The girls run away from the camp and follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence to find their way home. This film takes the viewer through the adventure the girls embark on.

Hero

This film tells the story of assassins who's goal is to kill the king of Qin. The film takes the viewer through the many different stories of how the assassins came to kill the king. By the end of the film, the king realizes that the main assassin has come to kill him, and ends up sentences him to death. The film consists of many scenes of magical realism. Magical realism adds to the film in numerous ways.

Slumdog Millionaire

This film tells the story of a teenager, Jamal, who becomes a contestant of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." While on the show, he has flashbacks of his childhood, which give him the answers to the questions he is asked. Jamal has had a very rough life, along with his brother and friend, Latika. For the final question on the show, Jamal uses a lifeline and calls his brother, who happens to be dead, but Latika answers the phone. The two, after being separated, are reunited and are able to spend their lives together, in love, with all of the money Jamal has just earned.

Big Fish

This film is about a man who's father tells his life through elaborate stories. The film shows the stories the father tells about his life. The son, Will, does not believe his father when he tells his out-of-this-world stories. By the end of the movie, when the father is on his death bed, Will finds the stories his father has been telling him to be true. This film uses magical realism to tell the father's stories.

Udaan, Slumdog M., Like stars on Earth

Examples of the three stories compared....

- Udaan and Like Stars On Earth are both stories where the fathers of the main characters are disapproving of their kids because they don't get 100% in everything they do.
- But in Like Stars On Earth there was a happy ending where the father end up accepting his son... but his son started doing better.. so would he have accepted him if his son didn't to better?
- In Udaan the father never changed, forcing the Son to have to leave with his little brother to give his a brother a chance at experiencing love
- In Udaan and in Like Stars On Earth the main characters both had someone who cared for them and truly saw their skills. in Udaan it was the uncle, in Like Stars On Earth it was the sub teacher.
- Slumdog M. it was different then the other to. It went from a game show point of view and many many flash backs. The other two where more present.
- Slumdog he was doing everything for love, and the other two stories where the main characters trying to be understood.


by Amber Lovell

Udaan

Example of things in India

-The boys got in trouble for leaving the school for a night on the town, so they all suspect their fathers will do horrible things like be disappointed.

-They got expelled sense it was the third time they got caught

-Little boy calls his dad sir

- Older boy wants to study literature, father is going to force him to work in the factory.

- Dad didn't visit him in 8 years

- The father makes both kids call him sir

- His father slaps his son, calls him a girl.

-Father pushed his little son down the stairs but the hospital doesn't suspect anything in America you would go to jail.
- The nurses didn't check the little boys body for marks
- Burnt his sons writing
- older son took his little brother home with him

Examples of universal

--The brother is mean to the new little kid, probably because he

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was upset the the father would have another id with a women after his mother died. And he never told him.

- Going out drinking

- Working in a factory at a young age
- telling stories, less commen in India
- The father pushes everyone away even his brother



by Amber Lovell

Udaan element

The movie is about a teenage boy who is forced by his father to study to become an engineer if he likes it or not and then he is forced to work in at the same factory as his dad. So in india a lot of kids and teens are forced by their parents to have the career they choose for them and probably not giving the child a dream and this happens in a lot of countries.

Like stars on earth

This movie is about Ishaan an 8 year old who cant get anything right in class. When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school. But a new art teacher Ram he breaks all the rules of 'how things are done' by asking them to think, dream and imagine. Ram sees that Ishaan is depressed, and he try to find to discover why. With time he helps Ishaan find himself.

Big fish

This film follows the life of Edward Bloom, through flashbacks that begin when his son Will visits him for the last time. Edward is dying of cancer, and Will hasn't spoken to him for years because he thinks he is a liar that never really cared for his family. As Edward's story goes on, Will tries to finally understand the truth about who his father really was.

Hero

A group of assassins: Flying Snow, Broken Sword, and Long Sky, have sworn to kill the King of Quin, and Nameless comes to the royal capital to claim the reward offered for their defeat. The movie tells the story of his conversation with the King of Qin, and the flashbacks depicted the journey he took to earn the honor of sitting before the emperor.

Slumdog Millionaire

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With everyone watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But the movie is about how almost every question that is asked how it came up in his life is some way.

The power if one

The Power of One is an intriguing story of a young English boy named Peekay and his passion for changing the world. He was orphaned, he was placed in the care of a German national named Professor Vollensteen. Peekay makes frequent visits and meets Geel an inmate who teaches him to box. Geel spreads the myth of the Rainmaker, the one who brings peace to all of the tribes. Peekay is cast in the light of this myth. He work in hopes of building a better future for Africa.

like stars on earth

The movie tells about a boy who has trouble in school trying to learn and understand so they shipped him to another school to work harder but instead makes it worse until he gets a teacher that actually understands him because he had the same problem when he was a kid so he tried his best to teach the boy until he becomes educated and then he becomes the best painter in the school

To live and become

This movie is about Shlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother who hopes for a better life for him, tells him “Go, live, and become,” as he leaves her to board the plane. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries: not being Jewish and having left his birth mother.

The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain

The movie begins with Amelie’s history, a narrator extolling the likes and dislikes of her parents and setting the stage of Amelie’s childhood, filmed in black and white. As soon as she turns 18, Amelie moves to Paris and works as a waitress. She visits her father every weekend and leads a fairly boring existence, living in an apartment building with other misfits. Amelie’s life changes the day Princess Diana died. She discovers a cubbyhole in her apartment with a small box of treasures and decides to find the owner and return the box to him anonymously. The man’s life changes when he receives his box back and Amelie embarks upon her new vocation of influencing lives.

Smoke signals

This movie is about Thomas a nerd in his reservation and his friend Victor. But when Victor hears his dad has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Victor's father's remains, but only if Thomas will also go with him.

The motorcycle diary

The film recounts the 1952 journey, starting by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations of the life of the less fortunate. The road presents Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado a genuine picture of the Latin American identity. Through the characters they meet on the road, Guevara and Granado learn about the wrong that was done and are exposed to people they would have never encountered in their hometown. The trip serves to expose a Latin American identity as well as explore the identity of one of its most memorable revolutionaries.

Rabbit prof fence

It’s the true story of Molly, Daisy and Gracie, three young Aborigines who escape from a detention center to embark on a 1500-mile journey home. Their only hope of finding the way back? A ruddy great rabbit-proof fence, stretching the full distance from one side of Australia to the other. The setting made the viewer see how difficult the charters journey was.