"To Kill A Mockingbird" Review

I've never read the book, so I don't know if the movie is accurate and true to the story, but I liked the movie somewhat. It was a bit boring in the beginning, but it was much more interesting towards the middle and end. I feel as though it is based on a book that is better as a book than a movie, because it's much more interesting to read it than to actually watch it. I wasn't very sure what this movie was about. It seemed pretty pointless until we got to the court. In the beginning, we see the world that Scout and her brother Jem live in. It is filled with climbing trees, running around, and spying on neighbors. They're just children who play. But, when we go to the court with them and Atticus, we are shown a different world. It is a world that is unfair and racist. It is Tom's word against the white woman's and whose word will the white jury take as truth? Even though it seemed pretty obvious that Tom hadn't hurt the woman, the jury still ruled him as guilty. The children get to witness this world where the justice system isn't actually just and how even their strong father is incapable of saving a man's life. In this way, they grow up and see that the world might not be as they thought. Along with them, we are shown the same. It also shows us how certain stereotypes have started and still prevail in our society today. We treat black men as scary and women as incapable of evil. There are women that lie and many have used their privilege of being white to scorn black men. It shows not only how unjust our justice system is, but also how people use their privilege to hurt others and how truly disgusting it is.

"Precious" Reaction

I really liked this film, and although I expected it to be completely depressing, I was surprised by how it was managed. The film didn't seem over dramatic or under done. It had a good mix of everything from funny to devastating. It seemed like real life to me and I enjoyed that the movie did not shy away from the very explicitly bad things that have happened in Precious' life. The abuse that she had gone through was in your face and very real. Sometimes I forgot I was watching a movie. I also liked that although Precious had gone through so much in her life, she still somehow managed to get out and to move ahead. She also could joke around and laugh. She didn't let people take her humanity away from her. She could have easily become like her mom, but instead chose to be different. I really enjoyed the parts where she would fantasize, because that is so important to teens and children and even adults. We always fantasize about doing great things, about making life different for ourselves somehow, and these things, I believe, are what help us to cling to the hope that things will get better. I hardly ever see in any movies, though, about teen girls living in poor conditions fantasizing while they're walking through the streets. This is also telling of what Precious is feeling. Whenever it seems like she's going down, she sees herself as a new person and she continues on. The ending was great, too. In the end, she got her child back, and she was unforgiving to her mother. She understood what she went through and she didn't let her mother get away with her inaction. In the end, we don't really know what happened to her, but that's the point. She has her life ahead of her and she still has her dreams.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Reactions

I've seen this movie before, so it wasn't a new experience watching it, but I always like to see it again. I think that this movie uses a unique comedy that people will like no matter what year they're watching it in. It's juvenile, but witty. I also really liked the part with the demon rabbit. It's not something you expect. I liked all the characters and their stories and I like that they made fun of this sort of serious myth that people take seriously. The beginning of the film, the credits, was also a part I really liked, because I feel like not many movies do that sort of thing. I feel like they made it start off as something serious, but the credits really set us up for the whole movie. The first time I saw it, I was surprised that you could actually mess around so much, because I just haven't thought about it like that. The part with the monks always makes me laugh no matter what. I don't know why, but it just seems very funny and although seems to be there for simple comedy, actually makes a statement about the practice of religion in the past. The movie seems silly, but it takes something serious, historical, and mythical that we treat with respect and sort of pokes fun at it and makes it fun. Nowadays, I see similar stuff happening, like for example the show Galavant. It is also historical and mythical, but it is funny and satirical, unlike the seriousness of Tudor or Reign. For this reason, the movie is unique and interesting.