We will focus on three films on the final exam: A Scent of a Woman, Seven, and Nosedive. If you know the following words and phrases, you will do fine:
dystopic, science fiction, column, paragraph, plot, character, theme, colonel, disillusioned, nosedive, misanthrope, information, misogynist, wrath, sin, revenge, infected, similar to, genre, aliens, infected, homoerotic, myth, society, rank, army, riddle, twist of fate, bookends, superficial, vision, future, animation, detective, sentence, creation, insane asylum, jail, hitch hike
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Power of the
Dog for two reasons.
First is the
bookend idea to start / finish a movie or song.
Both Power
of the Dog and Pulp Fiction have bookends.
Remember I
said the start of the movie looks like a film reel.
Phil talks
about Bronco Henry three times. Every time, George ignores him. He doesn’t want
to talk. Phil studied classics in university, or myths, which are stories that
are not true. Do you think Bronco Henry is real or maybe he is just Phil’s
dream lover.
Our last
genre is science fiction. There used to be a TV show called The Twilight Zone
in 1950s and sixties. It had were short stories with a twist of fate.
A twist
of fate is a surprise ending. I think Black Mirror follows that idea. I think the writers
of Broken Mirror grew up watching Twilight Zone.
Opening
credits: beginning of movie
Nosedive.
When an airplane is crashing. It is a dystopia. This is a story set in the
future where it is bad or scary. Something terrible is going on in the society.
This episode
has my classmate from high school.
Technology
is not helping us improve. It is having a bad influence on our psychology,
making us stupid, and superficial (shallow).
Are they
happy or miserable (very unhappy)? And if they unhappy, but perfect people.
4.8. Why would perfect people tell lies?
Do they
really have friends? Why does she have to ask someone she has not seen in many
years to be her maid of honor at a wedding?
Are these
really friends in the phone?
Will being
an honest (true) person get you a low rating? Why?
Picaresque:
road trip that the protagonist did not at first want to take
Dynamic
character: is she a dynamic character?
The colonel
was a dynamic character. At first, he was selfish and unkind. He was a
misogynist. In the last scene, he changes and helps Charlie. And he is
respectful to the female teacher at Charlie’s school.
Maybe that was just a good day for him and he was in a good mood. Just because he changed to help Charlie, if we truly look at people, do they really change? How about the next day? Will he stay the same or will he go back to being an unkind, mean old man
