About Elly In this ultimately tragic tale, we get to follow the weekend vacation of a group Iranians friends who are having a sort of reunion. Accompanying the group of families and friends is Elly. She was invited to come along by Sepideh, the mother of a child she teaches. As the film progresses, onContinue reading “About Elly”
Boy The film, Boy, takes a comedic yet difficult take on the outlook of a child with a less than typical life. As we follow the day-to-day life of Alamein, whom later takes on the nickname of “Boy”, we discover that there are many aspects of his life that have created his unique character. With Boy’sContinue reading “BOY”
In the assigned reading, We Are What We Choose to Recall – Remember the Ala-what-now,K. Merinda Simmons talks about a commemorative event at the University of Alabama and how the University chose to focus on their current stance rather than comment on their wrongdoings fifty years prior. The University held this event with the intent ofContinue reading “Eye in the Sky”
The Farewell Blog Post In The Farewell, we follow Billi who is a Chinese-American woman in her 20’s living in New York. Billi like many of us in our 20’s; searching for a stable career, love life, personal and mental health. When you’re in your 20’s, that is about the time when our eldestContinue reading “The Farewell”
Captain Fantastic Blog Post For our fourth movie in my UA course, Religion in Movies, we watched the screening of Captain Fantastic. This movie followed the life and adventure of a father, Ben Cash, raising his sic children deep in the wilderness. The movie opens up by examining the daily lives of the children, butContinue reading “Captain Fantastic”
“You know who you were, not who you are”. This quote offers a complex look at the constant questioning of the human mind and also a broken human mind. We are always looking at the past rather than doing the productive alternative which is looking to the future. In the movie Memento, we follow LeonardContinue reading “Memento”