Movie respose: Disturbia

I chose the movie Disturbia, which is about a boy who is put under house arrest and during that time, Kale discovers that the new neighbour, Mr. Turner, is responsible of the countless number of missing women.
I chose to answer the EQ: How can a character represent darkness?
I find that a character can display or give the impression of darkness mostly through their actions. In this movie, the person who displayed the most darkness was Mr. Turner because he showed no mercy towards innocent and helpless women. He also represented darkness by deceiving people giving the impression that we was a harmless and friendly neighbour. He took the lives of the innocent with no justified reason. Mr. Turner is a very dark and evil man because he inflicts pain on others for his own pleasure.

Celeste

Pearl Harbor - Jessie and Christine

This is a link to a clip from the movie Pearl Harbor. It is the part ofthe movie when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
There are many layers of context in this film. First of all there is the story of the two childhood friends who fall in love with the same woman. Then there is the bigger picture, the second world war; the attack on Pearl Harbor and multiple other attcks that Rafe and Danny take part in. This film takes place All over the world, in japan, the united states and in Europe.

Blood Diamond

The expressions of darkness that had the most impact on me was the way that they would take lives and torture innocent citizens to have posessions over diamond's. They would capture villages, and kill the young and the weak who can't work, and take the strong one's to use them as slaves to find more diamond's. Also, they would take some of the little boys, and brainwash them into thinking that all the innocent people are evil, and to kill them by giving them guns. This impacted me the most because they were being unfair to the society in general, and making everyone around scared, not knowing if they will attack they're village or not.
This movie expresses darkness and evil in many ways, and is a good movie for showing how these traits can be involved.

Silence of the Lambs.

Watching this movie for the first time kind of gave me the creeps, and the expression of darkness that had the most impact on me was the way Hannibal Lector talked to others. It had this eerie feeling that gave chills up my spine because he talked so confidently. Too confidently, and that's what scared me about him, and you just knew he was evil. Another expression of darkness that intrigued me was the instant image of the two police guards, one hanging, and one almost dead on the ground. They were covered in blood, and it looked horrifying. It hurt me, and scared me! They were but up, and the one hanging looked like the killer, Hannibal had made the killing look like art! It was disgusting and too scary and dark for my eyes. =(
~Krista

Movie Response: LOTR

For me, the expression of darkness most poignant was that it can consume even the best of us, given enough time. Frodo was chosen because he was least resistant to the lure of power by the ring, but even his resolve broke down as he tried to keep it for his own. This impacts me the most because I think we all know of someone who we believe is wholly good and can keep on going no matter what the hardships, yet it is shown that it isn't entirely true. They do have moments of weakness, just like every one of us. We all aren't invincible, and we need to realize that.

ryan and mitch's movie responce

we watched the movie District 9 and the question we chose to answer was:
How does the film maker convey evil or darkness?

The film maker shows evil and darkness through the setting, plot, and the imagery. The setting is the slums. Its disgusting, full of garbage,disease, prostitution, war, and just filth. Its a hell hole. The governments murderous activities to a new race of "prawns" (aliens) almost seems racist. They take control and kill all aliens that show resistance. The image that stuck out to us displaying evil was when Wikus (the main character) had to brutally murder a prawn for absolutely no gain. Another strong image was when a prawn was in a government medical lab and came across his best friends dissected body. It was actually quite sad to see.

The setting and context of this film are, everyone is out for themselves, living in a poor location they all have next to nothing and need everything. Everyone is in distressed because the country in politically unstable. People are constantly hoping and praying the rebels don't take them or their families. The people are constanly living in horror of the evil and darkness.

By Hillary Wolthers & Victoria VanderBos