Points of views from so many different groups define how different everyone is, but how much we categorize our selves in different little groups. After watching the movie "Hump Day" it reminded myself about many other movies I have watched, and at the end I say, "And the point of this movie was...?" Basically, how come I just watched this movie at school? College is not high school, so I get that part, that we are all adult and it doesn't matter what we are exposed to, we will be mature enough to handle it. What I am trying to get at, is finding the real moral lesson, or values does this "Hump Day" movie has, that I will be able to take in and apply it in my life? Because I believe that every project should be done, to send out a message or not, but to have a purpose. If the purpose of showing this movie was to apply it to the class, in the angle of "how women are treated by men" then I believe that there could have been another way to portrait it, another way to show it.
It seems like every decade the world gets a little more liberal, by the time babies now grow up to be adults, they will see many 'wrong/bad' things as normal. This way, the morals, values, lessons we have learned will be all gone. Little by little, more and more humans won't be scared to do anything inappropriate, because if their peers see it normal, they will too, and the world will be more broken. We now live in a exaggerated over sexed world...
In the movie "Hump day" I might have been OK with it if maybe it would have turned out this way...
Ben's wife, who seemed like a wife who will be dedicated to her husband for ever, was out of her mind. I believe that the reason why the world has turned out this way, is because there isn't any respect. Some women, like this wife, don't ask respect from their husband. What if the wife, would let him know that she was someone to receive respect. Obviously if she let him, it's because in the long run, she never cared of the relationship between them. If there is no respect at that level of situation, then what exactly is there between them? Absolutely no real relation ship. As I said earlier, this world has so many people with a different and unique point of view, and I call myself a daughter of God, and I am positive that someone might agree with me on this. This was my point of view were I tried to connect and hopefully gab someones reasoning to give my thoughts a chance to become their thoughts and ideas too.
Nattaly -
ReplyDeleteInteresting critique of our choice of films. Not to get sidetracked, but we did choose it because we were interested in how it portrayed very typical masculine constructs in a very unusual situation. I would be interested to hear what you think of "Rebel Without A Cause" considering the position that you take here. I am also curious if you have a specific film in mind that in your opinion has a strong wife character?
For future blogs don't loose sight of the readings. While (non-class) blogs are generally like virtual diaries we are asking you to meld the that form with a more traditional school essay. I think your position could have been strengthened by citing some of the readings from class (even in an oppositional manner) and/or something that is more in line with your point of view from out of class.
- Ruth