American Psycho:
I chose to
use American Psycho because of the
strong contrast between Patrick Bateman’s two personalities. On the one had
Bateman is an everyday working man who comes from a rich family and is
successful in life. But at night time Bateman turns into a evil cool blooded
serial killer.
This film
interested me because of how ruthless Batman is at night, but how he can be so
normal during the day. It’s like he has a switch he can flick on and off when
he feels like it.
Atonement:
I chose to
use Atonement because of the extreme
conflict that happens between the main characters. Brony has a very active
imagination; she dreams of becoming a writer. Brony sees what she thinks is
Robbie raping her young cousin and changes the course of all their lives for
ever. Brony is a strong young woman to be able to even speak up about what
happened that night; unfortunately she got it so very wrong. Her sister Cecilia
is also a strong young woman to side with her lover Robbie as she is so sure he
is innocent. Robbie is a very understanding man, he can’t do anything about
what hand he had been delt so he works out his prison sentence and his time in the
army, unfortunately it costs him his life; he dies without his name been
cleared. Cecilia also dies during the war without being reunited with Robbie.
This film portrays what happens
when you tell one little lie and how it effects the lives of the people around
you forever. The film shows this really well through the use of moving time.
The film starts off before the situation unfolds and then afterwards it moves
forward to the effects of Brony’s mistake and the emotion problems it caused.
These types of this happen all
the time in ordinary life. Mostly not on such a big scale, but telling one
white lie always starts a stream of lies. Everyone lies; it’s a fact of life.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:
I chose to use Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind because
of the relationship between the two main characters. They are complete
opposites yet they fall in love with each other. As the relationship unfolds
they start too full out of love and hate each other.
These types of things happen in
relationships all the time. People full madly in love and can’t stay away from
each other, but so often it ends badly.
Joel and Clementine take measures
into their own hands, it is only after they erase each other from their
memories, but they find out how much they really love each other and are meant
to be together.
This is a far reaching film in
the fact that there is no sure thing as a procedure to erase people from your
mind. It is the idea his procedure initials that is important for the film. The
couple had to be without each other to know how much they really loved one
another.
Fight Club:
I chose to use Fight Club as one of my films because The Narrator is a very interesting
character. At the start of the film we
see The Narrator at his weakest. The Narrator has a boring job, catalogue
apartment and average life. Through the introduction of Tyler Durden, The Narrator
becomes stronger and more emotionally stronger. As the fight club grows bigger
and better so does The Narrator. Only at the end of the film is The Narrator strong enough to get rid of
Tyler Durden; this is done when The Narrator shoots not himself but Tyler in the cheek.
Theses aspects of the film are
very relatable to normal day life. The
Narrator is a character who could be applied to many people’s very day
lives. His live is so boring and mundane that he creates an Alter ego, a strong
charming, and good-looking male character. Having this character on The Narrators side makes him strong and
through his he is finally able to become his own person again.
Many people in real life create
an alter ego or invisible friend to help them deal with their problems. For
example, Dan had an invisible friend who sat on his shoulder call Kenneth.
Whenever Dan did something wrong, it was Kenneth’s who was the problem. Dan
grew out of his invisible friend, but it is still a fond memory. Fight Club is very much a reflection on
human life and how people, especially men deal with their problems.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next
I chose to use One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest as one
of my films because R.P McMurphy is a
very interesting character. He goes into a Mental Hospital when he has
no mental problems to begin with and it ends up costing him his life. Both McMurphy and Nurse Ratched are very strong willed characters who would never
back down from one another. McMurphy
works so hard to try and break down Nurse
Ratched that it ends in McMurphy
getting a lobotomy. If McMurphy had
just waited out his short stay in hospital he could have left a free name. But McMurphy wanted what was best for the
other men in the ward. He wanted them to have a better more enjoyable life
while receiving their medical treatment.
This film really shows what
happens when you take the easy way out. R.P McMurphy chose to go inside the
Mental Hospital instead of jail because he wanted an easy way out. Also
McMurphy could have had a cushy time staying out him sentience but instead he
chose to annoy Nurse Ratched into giving the patients a better life.
McMurphy tried to give the men in
on the ward a better life, in the end it cost him his life. But I think after
his death he changed the ward for better.
Pulp Fiction:
I chose to use Pulp Fiction as one of my films because
it’s a fast passed extremely violent reflection on life’s underground. As the
film revolves around six different lives you get a greater scene of the wider
community. The things that happen throughout the film are very extreme and are
quite unbelievable, but it almost like these things could happen, for example;
the drug over dose scene. This scene is so extreme, the woman is about to die
from an overdose. After the two men save her life she seems to bounce back very
fast and is ready for her next hit up.
The aspects of this film are
extremely unbelievable when you relate it to everyday life, but that’s just my
life. I have ever been exposed to this extreme form of living but some people
have. To these types of people some aspects of this film are relatable to their
lives and unfortunately they know what it is like to experience someone who has
overdosed.
