Choose something to present that I like...what's an hard decision! I might choose to talk about music, but it's so typical of me, or about my dream to move to Canada but no. I decided to say something about the city of Paris. I was born there, and for me is a city which means a lot. I can say that I am totally in love with this city, for it's architecture, history, monuments and more. I just come back there twice at year but anyway. I think that it's this kind of city that even if you go during summer or winter, you always have fun and can be astonish of what Paris can hide. I am not saying that people from Paris are the most lovely persons, because is not the case, because when you are walking in the street people look at you with distrust. Paris, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.. definitely, yes. The city of love, of the lights, of mode! People always have something to say about this city, but in fact is not my case, it's my hometown, it's the city that I will always love.
I
decided to present the movie "Requiem for a Dream",
directed by Darren Aronofsky, in 2000. It's an american
drama starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer
Connelly, and Marlon Wayans.
This
movie deals with the notion of power, in various aspects.
This
movie shows us, the power of different addictions, as drugs, and TV.
And the power of love, of imagination, and of physical aspect.
The
power of drugs, is one of the most important think in the story,
because three of the protagonists are addicted to drugs, Harry
Goldfarb, Marion Silver and Tyrone C. Love. Then,
Harry and Tyrone got into the business of drugs, to can
finance some things. In this story, the lives of these three
characters change because of drugs; at the beginning, they
started in the same point, but at the end, they all finished in three
different situations.
The
power of TV is really important for one character, Sara Goldfarb,
(Harry's mother). The movie starts with a scene where we can see
Harry taking his mother's TV, because she is so addicted. Later,
Sara, received a call of a TV channel, then she starts thinking that
she was selected to appear on television, on her favourite TV show.
The think, is that during the vast majority of the movie she's
setting in front of her television, is like the trigger element,
because the majority of her actions during the movies, were
engendered by her addiction of television.
Another
aspect of power can be the power of the mind in Sara's case, because,
she was too obsessed of television, than she changed important things
in her life, and she started to rave. At first, she understood that
she was selected for the TV show, later, she convinced herself that
she have to wear her red dress again.
Which
takes us, to the importance of the physical aspect, because she
decided to lose weight. What jeopardize her physical and mental
health.
And
finally, we can find the power of love which is not the more obvious
in this movie. But Harry and Marion are a young couple, and they
still in love during all the movie. Harry decided to continue with
the business of drugs to can finance Marion's future project. During
the movie, their paths diverge, but they still fighting because
they still thinking on each other, to won't give up.
We
can definitely find the notion of power of power in Requiem for a
Dream, in various way, and not the most common that we can imagine.
In my opinion, this movie deals with war consequences, like what happened during war, and the outcome after war.With the lack of communication, which causes the ill-being of the soldiers, during and after the war. I think that Brian De Palma, didn't want to shows us a typical movie, but a really realistic, like a documentary. To shows us Afghanistan and Irak wars from the Americans soldiers viewpoint, but on a realistic way, not showing the american superiority, or a patriotic point of view. I think that De Palma, really wanted to disturbed people who watch the movie, making some mix of film, and documentary. I think that this movie deals with the notion of power, because is showing us that, sometimes some people have too much power, and than they don't use it, as they have to. But, it shows too, that sometimes the soldiers are powerless, like they have to kill people, and they don't want, they just sometimes live really hard situations, like they were liking in hell, and all because of the decision of a government. So it really deals with the notion of power, in this case political power, which is not always good.
Synopsis:
Director Brian
De Palma turns his lens on the Iraq War with this "fictional
documentary" about the experience of U.S. soldiers involved in
the conflict. Based on a news item about the rape of an Iraqi
schoolgirl by wayward grunts assigned to patrol a checkpoint, the
film depicts a scenario not unlike the one De Palma covered
in Casualties of War. Shot on high-definition
video, Redacted also
addresses the ever-evolving manner in which war is covered by the
media by focusing on such journalistic innovations as blog coverage
and web reporting.
Review:
This
is one truly powerful (for lack of better a word) film. I am left
dumbfounded and virtually speechless. Of course we all are aware of
the horrific tragedy of war, but this film really showed me that what
I had in mind is a "G" rated version. Everyone needs to see
this film so we can all truly understand what our men and women are
going though. It really brings you there with them and lets you see
what they see on a daily basis. Not only does it focus on Americans,
but it looks into what the Iraqi's are going through as well. This
war is not a pretty picture, and though this film documents the
disturbing realism of war, please watch it. It's films like this that
make a difference and spark change.
