"Everything Everywhere All At Once" is a movie that covers many themes and concepts that are relevant to the world today. The movie explores the idea of identity and self-discovery, as Mei (p navigates through different dimensions and versions of herself to find a sense of purpose and belonging in the world.

Additionally, the movie touches on the importance of human connection and relationships. As Mei encounters different versions of people in different realities, she realizes the significance of the relationships she has in her own world. The movie also emphasizes the idea of sacrifice and the lengths we are willing to go to protect the people we love and care about.

The movie explores different dimensions and realities also serves as a commentary on the concept of multiverse and parallel universes, which are becoming increasingly popular in popular culture. The movie's multicultural approach, featuring a diverse cast of characters and languages, adds a layer of authenticity and depth to the themes it presents.

Overall, I really enjoyed watching this movie. "Everything Everywhere All At Once" is a movie that presents complex and thought-provoking ideas, while still delivering an entertaining and action-packed experience. Its exploration of identity, relationships, sacrifice, and the multiverse make it a movie that is both relevant and engaging for a modern audience. In the end it made me think about different aspects of my own life and compare it to the way the characters
in the films actions and discoveries.

 

"Swiss Army Man" is a film that looks at several in-depth themes . The movie is about friendship, acceptance, and finding meaning in life. The film shows the journey of Hank, a man who is stranded on a deserted island and becomes friends with a corpse named Manny. Together, they go on a surreal and emotional adventure that challenges their beliefs about life, death, and what it means to be alive.

One of the most prominent themes in the movie is the idea of loneliness and isolation. Hank's character is initially portrayed as a lonely and depressed man who is desperate for human connection. The introduction of Manny, despite being a corpse, provides Hank with a sense of companionship and a newfound appreciation for life. The film uses humor and surrealism to explore the human need for companionship and what people will do to find it.

Another theme in "Swiss Army Man" is the exploration of identity and self-acceptance. Throughout the film, Manny's corpse undergoes a transformation, becoming more human-like and gaining the ability to speak. This transformation shows the importance of accepting oneself, flaws , and embracing your true identity. It's a reminder to the character and the audience that true acceptance comes from within and that the acceptance of others is often a reflection of how we see ourselves.

"Swiss Army Man" is a thought-provoking and silly at the same time. Through its bizarre and unconventional way of telling the story , the movie really puts a spin on the way we see life and what happens when you die. I connected to the character at the end as he shows what it means to truly be alive. The themes of loneliness, identity, and acceptance make it a powerful and unforgettable cinematic experience.

 

The Academy Awards were on and although I would not typically care or even watch them, I was home and my mom had them on the TV. I found myself paying a little bit more attention than I normally would because I am taking this film class. I noticed that the film Everything Everywhere All at Once was nominated in a lot of categories and they kept winning ever category they were in. I did not see the film, but I was rooting for them because the best supporting actor nominee Ke Huy Quan was in one of my favorite childhood movies The Goonies. I thought I was interesting how I wanted him to win for his role that I did not see over others just because my personal connection. It was then that I realized the power that films can have on someone. My connection to a character in one of my favorite movies connected me to a film I have never seen.

The movie won best picture and three acting awards including best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan.It was the big winner of the year winning a total of seven Oscars. 

The Academy Awards were on and although I would not typically care or even watch them, I was home and my mom had them on the TV. I found myself paying a little bit more attention than I normally would because I am taking this film class. I noticed that the film Everything Everywhere All at Once was nominated in a lot of categories and they kept winning ever category they were in. I did not see the film, but I was rooting for them because the best supporting actor nominee Ke Huy Quan was in one of my favorite childhood movies The Goonies. I thought I was interesting how I wanted him to win for his role that I did not see over others just because my personal connection. It was then that I realized the power that films can have on someone. My connection to a character in one of my favorite movies connected me to a film I have never seen.

The movie won best picture and three acting awards including best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan.It was the big winner of the year winning a total of seven Oscars. When Ke Huy Quan got up to give his acceptance speech, I thought it was fitting that he gave a thank you to Steven Spielberg who had cast him as a child in The Raiders of the Lost Arc movies. He also was connecting his own memories of film and acting to another film and director. Overall I feel like the escapism and entertainment we get from certain characters in film and life can connect people together on common ground.

This week we started our group project of making a short film. The idea of actually putting together a short film seemed pretty fun and I was interested in taking a closer look at the actual steps that go into this process. The first thing we did as a group was toss around a few ideas of what we wanted the film to be about. We had a few good suggestions and finally settled on creating a scary movie about a haunted chair. We then started to work on some story boards to help us see what the story was going to be about and to organize our thoughts. The story boards helped us a lot and we were able to put the haunted chair thriller together.

The film process has a lot of parts and we discussed as a group which part each of us thought they would be good at, I said I thought I would like to be involved in the film editing process because I like to work with technology and thought I could use my previous knowledge I have from editing a few you tube videos that I have made. I am excited for our project to get to that point. At this point we are still in the filming stages of the project. We have filmed most of the scenes using our phones and still need to film a few more night shots.

 The process of making a film is more detailed than I thought but it gives you a look at all the different areas of film making and what needs to be done in order to create something like this. I have enjoyed the film making process so far and am looking forward to not only seeing our finished project but everyone else’s also. I am not a fan of group projects in general but this one seems to be working well and I believe our final outcome will reflect a group working well together.

 

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The scene we chose went from 55:22-56:05. This part of the movie was pivotal because Chris was meeting Rose’s family and things are getting even more strange than they already were since Chris arrived at Rose’s parents’ house. Towards the end of the party Chris was asked a question about the African American experience and Chris thought he would let Logan take that question because he was walking by with his wife. This scene was shot outside, but it seemed like there was no way out of Rose’s parents’ house and the yard because of how large the property was. The frame was full, but anything behind the characters speaking or focused on in the scene, was blurred out. The background didn’t matter in this scene, Peele wanted us to focus on the characters, especially the conversation between Chris and Logan, but Rose’s other family members were in focus for the most part. As Chris took the picture the camera panned out to a long over the shoulder shot and everything was clear for the eye to see, like the flash of the camera on Chris’s phone grasped everyone and everything's attention in the scene. Then Logan attacked Chris making it seem like the flash put him into a trance of some kind.  

We are meant to have harsh feelings towards the Asian character because he made Chris think about how he is perceived in this world as an African American man. He asked him if he feels that being an African American is an advantage or disadvantage in the world, and there were some laughs, and Rose’s dad added “That’s a tough one”. Like how can you ask someone that question and feel good about yourself? As an audience we feel bad for Chris because he didn’t defend himself because he doesn’t want to be on the wrong side of the family, but he wanted to fight back it seemed by the shocked and disgusted look on his face. The audience wanted Chris to say something back at Rose’s family because it was inappropriate for them to act like that, and no one should get away with asking something like that. Then we feel bad for Logan and Chris because they had the power to be heard by white people, because some of them were listening, but some were in their own conversation in the background not paying attention until Logan attacked Chris. Unfortunately, that power was lost because Chris took a picture of Logan to send to his friend because Chris thinks he recognizes him, but really it made Logan and Chris look foolish because they lived up to the stereotype of how African Americans resolve conflict. There is a racist message within this scene, because the looks on everyone in Rose’s family's face says it all, and Rose’s family seems like they don’t want anything to do with Chris as they look at him with disgust but wanted to tame Logan to see if he's okay. The characters were wearing similar outfits, but they were all dressed very clean and proper, and it made Chris look out of place in his jean jacket, white shirt, and black cargo pants. Logan was dressed in a tan suit jacket, gold pants, white undershirt, a collared shirt, and a nice hat that matched his suit. So, Chris looked underdressed compared to everyone else. Everyone seemed to be wealthy by what they wore (men suits, women nice dresses) and Chris seemed to be looked down upon as the poor person at the party for what he wore. 

Peele is an auteur because he has probably experienced racial discrimination in his life as an African American man. Peele in his own life may have not had the opportunity to have the power to speak in front of a large number of people like Logan did for a short period of time before Chris snapped a picture of him. We live through the lens of a Black man in a white dominated world in this film as Chris in this scene is one of the two Black men surrounded by his white counterparts. In the scene we chose, Chris takes a picture of Logan to send to his friend who is part of the TSA to see if he recognized him because Chris believed that they all went to school together. As Logan continues to explain the story of how him and his wife are doing, and the camera shot as Chris had his camera ready was a close up and after the flash goes off, the camera switches back at Logan at a medium close up shot really depicting his teary eyes and the trance he seemed to be put in from the flash. Peele may have used a close up on Chris’s camera to show that the flash played an important role for Chris at the end of the film. Peele also made it seem like it was just Logan, his wife, and Chris were having a conversation because the camera was switching back and forth with medium close ups with just Chris and then with just Logan and his wife and anyone in the background was blurred out. After the picture was taken the camera went out into a longer ranged over the shoulder shot and we could see now who was paying attention to Logan as he was talking. Rose’s dad looked disgusted at Chris as he is the only one besides Logan who is looking at him. The group Logan was talking to was in a circle showing us that these were the only people listening, but Peele only included Chris and Logan as the main characters for most of this scene because Peele wanted to show us that Black people didn't have a lot of power unfortunately. When Chris took the picture and Logan started bleeding, that blood symbolized them losing their power over Rose’s family at that moment. Logan had almost everyone's attention at the party as he explained how the African American Experience was for him, but the power was short lived. Those who were outside of the circle as Logan talked were in their own world until Logan started to attack Chris, because now they had everyone's attention, but that was because they were fighting. The stereotype used here is that Black people resolve things with violence and that is just “how it is” no one really cared to stop it besides Jeremy, everyone else was just staring because it seemed normal to them that Black people act out. 

 

I think of Marie Antoinette as an older piece of history and that is what I thought I would see when we watched the movie, but Sofia Coppola put a modern-day spin on things and rearranged the past to fit the future. A lot of sceptics and critics thought that if the movie was called Marie Antoinette, it should follow the history it comes from and parallel the things that happened back then, but Sofia Coppola had a different take on how she wanted to represent her character. She wanted to show the individual side of Marie and not the Queen of France during the French Revolution. The way she shows the audience that she is just a normal person is a very clever way to connect the past, which can be somewhat boring to watch for some, makes the film better. I also like the music she uses to bring the movie into the present while the costumes and setting remind us that it is truly a movie about the history of Marie Antoinette.

There is no denying the fact that Alfred Hitchcock was brilliant behind a camera. This pictures angle shows how he let the viewer into his movies. The angle of this shot shows the window and window ledges as you would see it yourself, although the point of view is actually Jeffries. This is a common design throughout the film and really allows you as the viewer to connect with what is happening to the main character. It allows you to see the entire courtyard at the sametime instead of just one window to give a complete overview of the setting.

By using this sort angle and perception Hitchcock makes you feel like you are the one actually seeing the things that are happening outside that window and not just watching a movie. If they shot it from behind Jeffries where you would see him looking out the window it would have a completely different effect on the scene and how we watched the movie.

I would say it almost has an interactive style to it that puts you right in the middle of  drama that is happening outside that window. I like the way it adds to the suspense for the viewer and leaves us with our own point of view as we are voyering on the outside.