Mid Term Exam

For the Midterm Exam, please learn these words or phrases: column, ice cream, synonym, misogyny, misanthrope, paragraph, homophobic, genre, science fiction, explain, disillusioned, director, disillusioned, hint, hatred, mistrust, chronological, hitman, briefcase, structure, respect, chopper, mistrust, picaresque, gold digger, pay homage to, is, dork, do, materialism, dysfunction, similar, match cut, image, eat, hatred, film, literature, pulp, good

Midterm Exam is next week. I will send the information by tomorrow night at the latest.

Part One: vocabulary I will tell you the vocabulary to study, so check your email

Part Two: comprehension questions. I will ask questions about the movies we have watched

Part Three: Paragraph

 

Who has seen American Beauty?

Genre: comedy, coming of age movie (turning from a child to an adult), drama

Themes:

Homophobia: hating gay people / being afraid of gay people

Adultery: having sexual relations with someone other than your husband / wife; cheating on your spouse

Family dysfunction: when you don’t talk to the people in your family; you live together, but you don’t really know those people

Materialism: love to buy things because you are a sad person; you think owning nice things will make you happy; shallow view

Mid-life crisis: when you get to around 40 to 50 years old and you hate your job and life becomes uninteresting

Am I talking about happy themes? This movie seems to be full of unhappy lives. So why is the title called “American Beauty?”

“In a way, I’m dead already.” He has lost feeling for his life.  

Mother: “I watched you closely. You did not screw up once.” 

Screw up: make a mistake

The mother actually expects the daughter to lose or not succeed.

Very negative parenting.

Let’s watch his posture.

Slouch.