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.