Movies and Sex

A movie that had quite a bit of influence on me was "Youth in Revolt" in the movie the protagonist develops an alter ego so that a certain girl will like him more. He does this in hopes that the girl will eventually have sex with him. Although the movie is a comedy it kept stamping sex, sex, sex over and over into my head. The movie basically made me feel like i had to have sex and soon. This connects with the "feelies" in Brave New World because they are around to make the people feel like they have to have sex, it is common and natural and disliking them the way John does is considered queer and antisocial. Both these movies make the watcher feel like sex is something that must be achieved and that not acheiving it is a failure.

Feelies and the Media: Amerika

I found the video influential in many ways. It made me think how America or the U.S in particular influences the world. In the video, you have people around the world eating fast food and using TVs. I find the ending of the video the most hilarious. It mocks the U.S. by saying they staged the moon landing.(The band takes the role of U.S. citizens.) That was my first thoughts on the video. When I watched it a couple more times, I began to think more of how it mocks the U.S. First, it represents how the U.S. thinks it rules the world and how it treats others worse. It brings me back to an idea of history class. One excuse major powerhouse countries (back int the day) took lands was that they think they needed to be civilized. In other words, they colonize lands in false pretenses. The U.S. does do this by introducing capitalism, fast food, etc. to other countries that are behind. This will in turn, change their culture and their way of life. The visit of the "feelies" with Lenina made John feel horrible. The video makes Americans feel horrible as well. John is horrified by the way the BNW society experiences feelings. Americans are horrified by the way the video expresses the American "control" of the world. Both relate to the fact that Americans and John are horrified.


- Amerika by Rammstein

Parental Love

One of the movies that has really impacted my life is Blood Diamond. This movie has made me realize that a father will always be willing to give his life to save his children. This movie taught me to value my parents because I know that no matter what they are always going to be looking for what is best for me. In the movie a desperate father whose son was taken away by rebel armies; is willing to give his life to save his son from the malignant people. The father careless about where he has to go to find his son; the only thing that the father knows is that no matter what he has to save his child. This has taught me that parents will always be willing to give their life in order for his child to be save. Many times we think our parents hate us, but just now that is not true. Parents just want to see their child succeed. There are cases in which many children tend to value money more than parents. Just know that money will never be able to buy you the happiness and protection that your parents can give you. Unless your parent was conditioned to not like children your parents will always be willing to hepl you succeed. In BRave New World we are able to see how parents are condition to not know what children of their own so they new develop love towards them. It will awesome to see that even parental love could be superior than conditioning but unfortunally if you do not know what love is than you can not give it.

Lovely Bones

Lovely Bones changed my mind frame about the world and the people who live in it. It reassured me of the dangers that await me once I leave the comfort of my home. People pretend to be something their not to lure young prey into their domains. My mother always taught me to be alert and pay attention to my surroundings and the people in it, but over the course of years I let that moral slip in between my fingers.

The movie is about a vivacious, friendly, young girl who has been raped and killed by an older man. Lovely Bones was very touching and it brought me to tears, because I saw similar characteristics in the victim that related to me. On a daily basis I'm very friendly and seem to talk to almost anyone I meet, but I never really think about what could happen as a result. There are so many dangerous people out there and it took a movie to actually open my eyes of the real world and the things that go on. Child molesters, kidnappers, and rapist are my biggest fears at this point. Now I'm always looking around to check my surrounds and staying alert. I feel some strangers that treat you the nicest and offer you things might just be the ones that try to manipulate you and hurt you badly. I hate that things like this happen; it makes me feel unsafe in my own environment, but with the advocacy and assistance of my mother's knowledge I'm sure I’ll be just fine.

I noticed that when Lenina and John went to the feelies it had a similar affect on him that changed his mind frame. Naturally, John doesn't believe in having sex just for fun; john felt that he should get married first. This just goes to show how media affects how we feel about certain things. It can also make you second-guess yourself about your moral beliefs. Although John thought differently for a moment, he is a great example of what people should do; he didn't display the actions from what he thought about the feelies. This only applies and relates when negative media influences you. Do you think good media can be harmful to a certain extent?

Don't let negative television influence you.

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Immigration and its Faults

Immigration is a big deal in the United States. We are trying to make things work out for everyone but in every situation there has to be someone that ends up unhappy. The Senate Bill 1070 passed in Arizona has challenged illegals without even knowing where they come from or what their goals are in this country. There are people who aren't illegal but are still hurt from this law because of their family members. I understand where the pro-SB10170 people are coming from because illegals are the ones that bring drugs to America, but if the natives from our country keep wanting illegal drugs than they are going to find a way to get them. Although I'm not an immigrant but the most hard-working, stay out of trouble people I know are illegals and it's unjust for them to be worried for their sons and daughters if they are sent back to Mexico.

There is a music video in Spanish that describes the point of view of immigrants and of a child who sees her parents hancuffed. This video is called "Estoy Enamorado" by Wisin y Yandel(if you can watch the video click on the hyperlink). Without paying attention to the song of this video you're perspective on immigration should change through the child's suffering. I was affected by this video because it made me reflect on my life and if that was to happen to me I don't know what I would do. My life would change drastically because I would have to start relying on myself as an adolescent.

Turtles Can Fly

The movie that most impacted me was Turtles Can Fly, I watched it when I was in 6th grade. At first, I think I got the plot theme of the movie but I just recently watched it and I got a different take on it. The movie expresses the life of 3 children that are innocent and have to go through life struggling. Turtles Can Fly is a movie that has a beautiful story line but yet it shows how children of the Turkish border are being treated and the life they go through while the U.S. invasion of Iraq is happening. When I was in the 6th grade, I couldn't understand the how this movie was such a great movie if at the end I felt bad. Now, I still have a sad feeling toward the end but I understand the signs of hope, family, and choices that make this movie a beautiful movie.
The event that, I can relate this to, is when Lenina and John go to the "feelies". After watching the film, John expresses to Lenina that he disliked the film and that he couldn't see how she can like it. The way I relate it, is that John is still to "new" or "unadjusted" to the society in order to like it. For example, when I was younger I found it sad but I really didn't understand the beautiful part of it, because I hadn't experienced or thought about those themes at that age.

Life if beautiful

Movies have the power to make you think. After all, that's what they were designed to do. All movies have an underlying meaning that everyone is supposed to see and understand. I love watching movies because they help me see big picture things. I know that I living in America live pretty well, however in other countries, in different eras I'm oblivious to everything. At the end of the movie, Life is Beautiful, I was in dismay. I didn't understand how life was so beautiful, and I hated the name of the film for being so ignorant to the facts.
It was a film based during the Holocaust. A family was trapped, seperated, tortured, and yet life was beautiful. A child was hidden by his father successfully within his sleeping area and was saved. However, the father didn't meet the same fate. Instead, through his struggle to survive and reunite with his wife he is killed in the ending scenes. A son who suffered through the war and survived, who lost his father how is life beautiful?
In Brave New World a very similiar thing happens when Lenina and John go on their date.
"I don't think you ought to see things like that," he said, making haste to transfer from Lenina herself to the surrounding circumstances the blame for any past or possible future lapse from perfection.

"Things like what, John?"

"Like this horrible film."

"Horrible?" Lenina was genuinely astonished. "But I thought it was lovely."

"It was base," he said indignantly, "it was ignoble."

She shook her head. "I don't know what you mean." Why was he so queer? Why did he go out of his way to spoil things?
Lenina is shocked and disturbed that John didn't like the film. And John never really comes to comprehend why the civilized people like it. I experienced something of the same thing. When I was in utter shock at the film, it seemed I was the only one. My classmates understood that the life of the child was beautiful. It was in his eyes that the movie was being told. I remember Michael, explaining to me how the movie was in the eyes of the child. Almost the same reaction Lenina had about John spoiling things. I made the film seem like a horrible thing. However in the movie his father had shielded him from all the bad they were enduring. It changed my way of looking at life. I always thought I had it bad, but you know what, there are so many people that suffer now over small things that I feel I have no right to complain. My life is beautiful and it's my job to make the world a beautiful place. By whatever means are necessary and accessible to me. Purple Pinkie Week is something that is going to change the world. It's something that truly makes a difference and will make life beautiful.