Thursday, April 10, 2014

500 Words On Wall E

Wall E is about a robot named Wall E and his journey for love. In a future version of  earth humans messed up. Earth is no longer habitable and humans need to leave. They leave in giant ships to space awaiting the day earth can harvest life again. They leave robots called Wall E to clean it up. The movie only shows one Wall E who has seemed to gain a personality. Wall E is a robot that is curious about what the earth he is cleaning up and wanders around collecting remnants of what was left. He is quirky and uncoordinated. He is also a fan of Musicals and love. He is lonely and craves another companion besides his cricket.One day a robot called EVE arrives and Wall E falls in love right away. EVE wanders around investigating while Wall E follows constantly making a fool of himself. Eve is on a destructive mission, but soon finds an interest in Wall E. The movie has them interact iin such away as a young couple. Then as Wall E is showing off his stuff she sees his plant and takes it and then shuts off. All of a sudden Wall E is alone again. Doing his best to try and wake EVE Wall E stays by her side. The ship that brought her there soon returns to take her and Wall E follows in the name of love. They end up at a ship that took the humans. Everywhere humans are obese floating in chairs doing nothing productive. EVE and Wall E then try to show the captain that earth is habitable again only to find out that they never intended on going back. Wall E and Eve then fight their way with other robots and humans trying to get back to earth and stop the evil ships auto pilot. During al this Wall E and Eve become closer and in love. As they get back to earth Eve tries to revive an injured Wall E who seems to have gone back to his original work. Eve tries to bring him back and gives up until she holds his hand and he suddenly is good ol Wall E again, happy to finally be doing what he wanted since the beginning. Holding her hand finding a companion, so he isn’t lonely. I love this movie. There are so many cool things about it. First is that there’s no dialogue for about the first half of the movie, they communicate by cool sounds and is really funny. Also even though this was a cool pixars child movie, it also had a scary truth to it. It shows a possible future for humans in two ways. We are either gonna fuck up the earth even more until it’s dangerous for us, or that we will become lazy and rely on technology as it takes over. Even Though a lot of thing that seem impossible would need to happen it’s still scary. I like that this pixar movie about a robot in love can have a dark background being there the whole time.

500 Words on The Social Network

The Social Network is a movie based on the origins of how facebook got started and the guy that made it. Mark Zuckerberg is played as a smart asshole that doesn’t really care about others or about actual social events. He’s seemingly emotionless, but his actions prove otherwise later in the movie. He goes to school for programming and is really good at it. The movie opens up with him on a date with his girlfriend and ends up with her breaking up with him. Clearly to everyone that it was his fault, everyone except him. He insists that she did it because he is a nerd, but she tells him it’s because he’s an asshole. He goes home and get drunk. He decides to talk shit about her on his blog. At the same time he makes a website that has him hack top college internet security and take pictures of every girl. The website shows you various girls and you decide which one is hotter. He gets a lot of views that get him noticed by members of a Final Club, which he desperately wants a part of. They notice his skills as a web designer and ask him to make a website for them, He says yes, but never does, He makes a better similar idea, thus Facebook is created, These members try to sue him and his friend for stealing their idea, but Mark swears that they didn’t use any of thier code and made a better idea and website. The site gets popular and expands out to more places. Mark and his best friend Eduardo start seeing it as a buisness, but have different views. Eduardo wants to try and market slowly while Mark wants to make big progress fast. Eventually the guy who started nabster finds them and helps Mark turn the website into a big company behind Eduardo’s back. Mark even tricks Eduardo into doing stuff, Mark is now very wealthy, but has made a lot of enemies from being an asshole. Eduardo and the Final Club members sue Mark. This is how the rest of the story is told. In the court sessions where it’s from flashbacks from the main characters, but not at the same place or time. They would show a scene and then go to one of the people describing it as if they were telling someone about that scene  the whole time. In the end he gets sued and ends up alone. This whole movie had a couple themes such as Greed and identity. I think identity was the main one. The identity them showed itself many times.The identity of our generation and how we all interact relating to facebook. The way people were nosy about other peoples info and wanting to have friends on there and how important it was to add all these people and be a a part of it.I enjoyed this movi a lot and it was the first time I seen it, so it was all new to me.

Monday, January 6, 2014

400 word Children Of MEn


 Children of Men are a film that takes place in a futuristic dystopian world. The world has gone to shit and only London being a safe place, but even London is messed up. Humans can no longer have babies and segregation.  Anyone that wasn’t from there was sent back or put in concentration camps. The movie begins with the youngest person in the world has died. He was 18 years old and that lets the viewer’s know that something isn’t right. Everyone is in tears because it signifies how close the human race is to total extinction. The main character walks out a coffee shop after hearing the news and shortly after gets blown up. He looks back as if it’s nothing.  He ends up helping the only hope to save mankind, by helping the only woman who has gotten pregnant in years. Throughout this movie the director uses some cool camera techniques. He uses long takes about 7 minutes long. That is something that many people haven’t done. I think the action and suspense is more dramatic and interesting that way. There’s also this scene where the main characters are in a building and there are broken windows all inside. Two of the main characters are talking inside while the pregnant woman is outside in the background. During this conversation every time you see the woman in the back ground she was shown clearly in the holes of the window and never behind the dirty glass. This film technique was supposed to show that the woman is a sign of hope and joy. There’s another technique he uses that has the camera follow the main character. It makes you feel like you’re in the movie looking through the eyes. It has you turning your head with the camera and feels realistic and cool. This movie had a cool story on dystopia and somewhat possible problems we can face in the future. It also has a lot of cool camera work that you have to pay attention to notice.

400 Words on Eternal Sunshine of the SpotlessMind


In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a romance movie starring Jim Carrey. Not seeing Jim Carrey in a comedy movie made me think I wasn’t going to like it adding to the fact that I don’t even like falling in love and then erases each other from their memories, literally. They find each other again and fall in love again then find out about their previous relations and start again knowing it might repeat. I thought this movie was cool because they weren’t your typical couple. They didn’t have any ridiculous obstacles they had to overcome to be together. They mutually broke up because they didn’t like each other anymore and had real problems. They both go to a place where they can have the other person wiped completely from their mind. To do this they must get rid of every single thing they have that relates to the other. Then they go to their homes at night and undergo the process in your sleep. During Jim’s procedure he wanted to stop it and was trying to hide in his memories while saving his memory of Clementine, his girlfriend in the movie. There’s a cool camera technique they use when he’s in one of his childhood memories where he is hiding under the table. The movie makes it one scene, but It took many takes because it switched from his view he is a kid being played by a different kid actor. When Clem is looking at him he is Jim Carrey. They both however fit under the table which means that they had two different tables for the scenes. They also have the beginning of the movie really be the ending which is cool. There is also the part where he is in his memories and the movie goes from romance to sci-fi action. Cars start falling they are traveling memory to memory. It gets more dramatic and fiction like. This movie was a good romance movie that wasn’t lame like other ones, and very cool characters and an interesting story.

Animal Farm 400 words


Animal Farm by George Orwell is novel that is written like a fable. The story is full of animals that represent certain kinds of people and has a moral in the end. This novel uses examples of dictatorship and communism as themes for the farm. Each character represents a certain kind of person. The whole story revolves around farm animals wanting equality amongst each other and humans. Old major, who was an old boar, was someone all the animals looked up to. On his deathbed he spoke of an upcoming rebellion and teaches them the song Beasts of England. The song is like an anthem to them. His final speech and death sparked the rebellion amongst the animals. Two other pigs decide that it is up to them to start the rebellion. Napoleon is a big pig that gets his way with intimidation and force. Snowball wins others with great speeches. They use the term “Comrade” which gives them the characteristics of famous dictators such as Stalin. These two use their charm and leadership to convince the animals to kick Jones out. Jones is the farmer who is seen as the current dictator. The pigs describe him as an evil drunk tyrant. There are other important animal figures that represent the people who follow the pigs. Boxer the horse is a loyal hardworking follower that everyone looks up to. He will do anything the pigs tell him. However he is also gullible and dumb. He sometimes questions his orders, but only briefly and then dismissing them. He represents those who blindly follow dictators and do what they say without thinking. There are many other animals, but the pigs are the main characters. As they slowly start deceiving the other farm animals more and more, the pigs have a struggle for leadership. Napoleon refuses to share leadership with Snowball and runs him out the farm. Since then Napoleon has said that Snowball was a traitor the whole time, and becomes a scapegoat. Anytime something goes wrong Snowball was the culprit. As things get worse the pigs start doing things that are now obviously wrong to every animal. They move into Jones house start wearing clothes. The animals are stunned as to why. The pigs start getting more violent and executing animals. The animals are wondering if it was better with Jones around. With most of the animals gone or dead there is no changing the way things are. The way the farm is now described like a labor camp. The pigs are now associating with other humans and walking on two legs. The farm animals peek in on them one night having a night with business men. To their terror they could barely tell the difference between the humans and pigs. The ending has them turning into men while they were already representing humans. This is an analogy on how humans have acted just like the pigs in this story.