Ilya : LOL this is like your third comment EVER so ill make it good. How lucky WE ARE? that a nuclear bomb doesn't land on our heads. that shouldn't even be an option , but man's curiosity for destruction and war knows no end.

War is a drug - Hurt Locker

i believe we should instate a policy that whenever the president wants to shoot a nuclear bomb he should be subject to severe torture afterward. This way they can think twice before ordering an attack

Diana said...

I dont understand why your acting like your disagreeing with me, when your reiterating exactly what I was saying. I was putting what you said in nicer terms. The fact that the people who actually make the wars dont live through them, they are sheltered for the most part from the harm and dont truly understand its impact. I said that we may perceive ourselves lucky that were not in the same predicament at this time. I agree with you on the policy, if the people who made the war actually got to feel its impact they might think twice about it. I disagree that its mans curiosity, I feel like its more of their ego.

I thought this was very important . War is a game for those who create it, but for those who have to fight it - its something much greater.  I think its also very important and devastating how we dont realize how certain decisions effect our world so greatly. How the tests, while not necessary were preformed and devastated not only the lives of many people but our own earth.   How the film depicted  the people who create war, as people who  see the world and its people as resources  and machines to fight against each other.

The documentary

I find this new film the one that has the greatest impact on me for it is the only one that depicts events that have occurred. While the others I could have brushed off and said that they were only acted out and filmed, this one I know is true. When you see the faces of the people, or the images of their wounds, you cant just brush that off. Thats reality. Then it hits you, how lucky you are. How these people who create this war, dont really live through it , they dont see its impact, its reality, the way it changes other peoples lives. They see it as a game.

While the film we just watched was not my favorite, it did present a very interesting and logical idea as well as allowed me to understand in greater extent the events that unfolded or could have unfolded with the encounter between Russia and the United States. It was very interesting to see the idea that war is made by man of wealth but fought by men of lower status. While the film didnt really allow the audience to see the actual tragedy of war because it didnt show it from the perspective of a soldier, it did show us the perspective of a politician, which is valuable within itself.  We are also able to see through the film the effect human error has on the unfolding of events. It inevitable is out to get us. I also found it very interesting how the two presidents were very friendly while the countries hated each other.

As I am thinking back on film class I realize how most of the films have focused on the human experience and how it is mostly out of our control. The films show us how everything is beyond our control and while we think we can outsmart life and death and create out own destiny, we in fact are mistaken and in the end everything will come out as it was meant to be. I have also gained a new appreciation for all different genres of film,I know that without the class I would not have seen the films we saw. Im glad I got to see them and understand their meaning and through that appreciate the types of films I would not watch. I am  also interested to see what will the be final films that we will see for the remainder of the term.

It snowed !

So todays blizzard reminded me of the movie we just watched, The Simple Plan. The psychological  triller, played with the idea of how our conscious is the main thing that will lead us to doom, in the situation presented in the film. It was scary to see how a person who may seem completely normal and incapable of doing anything bad was able to kill 6 people without a blink of an eye such as the main character of the film was able to do. Overall it was an ok film, just as you said, while it did not match up to the other films we've watched in class in terms of cinematography, it was still enjoyable to watch and analyze.  It was in a sense frustrating to see someone throw everything away for money, which in the end showed itself not to be anything more but mer paper. The film put that into good perspective, how we all put such emphasis on this material thing that we are ready to give up everything we have for it, yet in the end the things we give up are so  much more valuable then money. 

Memento

One of the greatest realizations that came out of this film is that memories are flawed. If we think about it our memories are just thousands of fragments and ever time we try to recollect a memory were just putting those fragments together. Ever time they are a little different and a certain piece is changed from what it really was to what we remembered it as. We start to remember what we want to remember and not what actually happened. But then again our memories are our greatest treasures, they are what allows us to piece puzzles of our lives together and to learn from the past.

Dark City

 We have just started the film Dark City in class. I am incredibly impressed with the cinematography of the film, the first thing I thought of when the film started is how much the cinematography reminds me of Watchmen. The scenes are so intensely filmed where everything has some kind of meaning. The setting is so cynical  and dark and the plot line is so intriguing. Yet certain parts of the film are so disturbing, such as when they show the men being hung or when his head gets chopped off. I also really liked how they contrasted how the man is a killer yet he stops to save a goldfish. Could that say something about humanity? That were not purely good or bad but that in the best of people there could be a bad trait and in the worst of people the best one.