But I'm a Cheerleader

After I watching the movie, my impression to some of the scenes were non-sense. Especially, when Megan’s boy friend and her family thought Megan was lesbian as a hypothesis because Megan was vegetarian and put celebrity’s pictures in her lockbox. When she kisses with her boy friend, she didn’t feel any emotions from him. I almost felt like she was donating a kiss for his boy friend. However, this doesn’t explain the correlation between vegetarian and lesbian. (I thought only few of them were vegetarians at that time and that’s why they treated vegetarian as a lesbian). When she was gone to reparative therapy camp, she realized that she was a lesbian and according to the therapy, she was proven to be a 100 % lesbian. Furthermore, she loved staying with her girl friend, Graham who is also a lesbian.

I believe Megan wasn’t a lesbian to start with because her potential of being lesbian was fired up after she was back from the camp. If she were to avoid herself going to the camp, she is likely to stay straight. What I wanted to say is that she was supposed to be a straight person same as me. After she went to the therapy she realized that she was real homosexuality because she felt comfortable staying with Graham. All Megan did was to find true friend who will love her and stay with her; and the person who can do that was Graham.

When people are judging others, they look at the other person’s personal characteristics, behaviors, and appearances.
Finally, we need to accept those people have who they are and respect them.


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Murderball

Murder ball is a film that draws history of wheelchair rugby. This documentary film is focusing on life of wheelchair players. The murder ball is a nick name for the game before it has been named as wheelchair rugby. This gorgeous game became official sport in Olympics, and the historical background is back in 2004 where Athena Olympic was taking place on. Movie introduces Joe Soares in the beginning, which wasn’t luck enough to become a coach for the team U.S. The natural of the sports is to win the game; therefore everyone wants to win their games. They are all wheelchair players, but they are very different than what we thought. What I really want to say is that they are hoping to be winners and giving out their best shots. Movie is such as impressive because all of the characters from the film are common people. Only difference from other people is that they are challenged from walking and moving easily, but enjoy their life and never give up. From the part, I was really impressed of never giving up. If I were them, my life would end up miserable. However, they are considered all of the life and things that matter to them.
Also, the movie showed handicapped people’s sexual life which was little bit odd to watch because the actors seem shy. I first thought that they wouldn’t have sexual relationship and noticed that it was my tunnel vision. This part of the compelling scene made me think that these people are same with others.
Finally, the movie made me cried and it was really impressed.

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The Jazz Singer

As I mentioned in many previous postings, I focus on different aspects of the movies. The movie that I will talk about today is called “The Jazz Singer”, and it was one of the oldest modern movies that I have ever watched. Before I actually got to sit down and watch the movie, I expected it to be boring and somewhat out of fashion as it was dated back. However, it was a great surprise to find out that I actually liked the movie. It is easier for me to engage with the story as there were less conversations going on and more singing. The movie, The Jazz Singer remains in the history of cinema as one of the first musical movies. Prior to this specific movie, there were films with sound effects and voices but none using singing as a conversation in a script.
Before I go on to talk about the storyline of the movie, I want to warn you readers that I mostly concentrated on the emotional reviews for this posting instead of critical analysis that I am used to doing. The main story of the movie was relatively concise and simple. The main character was young Jewish, Jackie Rabinowitz who was a cantor. A cantor is a leader for the Jewish prayer songs, but Jackie was against tradition of singing at the beer hall. Instead, he wanted to be a jazz singer, so he runs away from his family. He practices singing and dancing at a club and follows his dream to become a jazz singer. He changes color of his face from white to black. [another stereotypes shown in the movies- who says all the REAL Jazz singers have to be black?- It was ironic to compare it with Michael Jackson’s transformation from black man to white.] Jackie ends up changing his name to Jack Robin, and becomes a popular Jazz Singer in Broadway and even gets a chance to perform as a main actor in a show. However, he hears the news that his father passes away, and head to the ceremony instead. Even though Jackie never performed as a cantor, he sings perfectly at the ceremony and touches many people’s heart. At that moment, even though Jackie could not perform at the Broadway show, he was a true super star.
I was very much touched by the story and was impressed about the fact that this movie emphasis on importance of both tradition and dream. The most ideal situation would be tradition and new dreams accepting distinct characteristics and fuse those together to improve on good qualities while tone down on bad. I would definitely suggest watching this movie if you haven’t yet. It made me think more about what I am pursuing and what my traditions are. A great movie full of enjoyable songs!

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