Summary: Tommy realizes that many people know what to do, and soon he believed he would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He knew he had made mistakes but it was time to overlook them. Dr. Tamkin and Tommy begin to talk about the investments, even though the lard has gone down, their investment on the rye is rising. The stock on the Rye keeps rising and rising, Tommy thinks they should stop their investment on this since they are already ahead. However, Tamkin tells Tommy he needs to learn to take risks, and to stay in. Tommy then wonders about Tamkin and his personal life, he has some doubts. Whether Tamkin might be creating a fraud with his patients, Dr. Tamkin did not seem the least bit fit to be in an office, and he did not bathe quite as much. While Tamkin wants Tommy to stay in this business, Tommy cannot help but think about Margaret. He begins to remember the times when he was sick and she would care for him.
Next, Tommy and Tamkin go out for breakfast, Tommy wants to eat quickly and get back to the market to handle business. Tamkin tries to persuade Tommy by telling him he thinks too much about his father, and his father's impression on him. However, Tommy goes on to tell Tamkin that he dearly cares about his father and mother. Even though his father may put a lot of pressure on him, he does not want his father to die. Tamkin then began to fabricate his own lie of his father. Tommy begins to think that Tamkin is lying, specially after the story about his alcoholic wife who drowned in Cape Cod. Though Tamkin manages to talk his way through everything, trying to get Tommy's mind off certain things he might be thinking about. Finally, when Tommy manages to leave to the market he notices the drop of numbers in his investments. As he entered the room Mr. Rappaport was putting away his cigars. Mr. Rappaport is not the best looking, but he has quite a lot of money, and Tommy considers that he does not give any of it to his children, who must be in their fifties. Wilhem made agitated calculations, he thought he had even made some mistakes from the difference in numbers. Tamkin along with the money is missing, and the only thing Tommy can think of is it could of been worse.
Tommy goes to his dad once again to ask for help, but he refuses, and Margaret does not make the situation any easier. Tommy becomes very angry, and goes outside. He thinks he sees Tamkin, but he ends up at the funeral of a stranger, where he cries and cries, while everyone wonders who he is, whether he might be a brother, the guest from New Orleans that they were expecting, but they all thought he must be someone close. From this Tommy thought of everything he needed to fix in his life.
Quote: "I can't seem to I'm stupid, Dad, I just can't breathe" (Bellow 105).
Reaction: This is when Wilhem goes to his dad, begging for his help, but his dad does not help and gets inpatient by Wilhem. He tells his dad he feels like his choking inside, that he can't catch his breath. It's the same mistakes over and over again that catch on to him. However, he is not only asking his father for money, he just needs to hear one word from his father, he wants to feel something from his father that his father had not ever given him. Not even his wife had showed him love, love wasn't supposed to come in the form of torture.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Seize the Day (1-57)
Summary: Tommy Wilhem is the protagonist, he stays at Gloria Hotel with a vast population of old people. Wilhem feels out of place here, he was comparatively young, in his middle forties, large and blond, with big shoulders. When Wilhem worried about his appearance it was mainly because of his father. Wilhem liked to wear good clothes, but when he wore them, it piece of clothing seemed to go its own way. However, this morning, as he went to meet with his father for breakfast Wilhem received a compliment on his clothes, and he could not believe it. He took a second look at himself from the glass cupboard. Early in his life, Tommy has been considered star material because of his looks, he even tried to get on the big screen for seven years. However, his pride and laziness must of gotten to him because he stopped trying to pursuit that career. From Tommy's talk with Rubin the man at the newsstand, he reveals his financial status, and how he couldn't join the game the night before. Perhaps, Tommy needs help from his father since Dr. Tamkin, Tommy's psychologists who claims to know about sales doesn't quite know it. Now all Tommy wants is a better life, to no longer be a disappointment to his family.
Tommy's father Dr. Adler, wants him to go back to the five figures type of money he made, and to attend his wife and children, instead of being a pill popper. Margaret, Tommy's wife asks him for money, and refuses to grant him a divorce. Tommy would give Margaret everything, if only she could give him back the dog Scissors, which she refuses to give him as well. Tommy is in love with another woman, and he cannot marry her until he is fully divorced from Margaret. Tommy tries to explain this all to his father, but his father does not seem to understand and tries to compare his own successes to that of his sons failures, and refuses to help Tommy financially. In fact Mr. Adler had told Tommy to stay away from Dr. Tamkin, and now that Tommy has questions about the money he was invested in Dr. Tamkin, Dr. Tamkin tries to change the topic. Tommy begins to think if he should trust this man or not, but either way he had already signed he last one thousand dollars over to him. During Tommy's visit to his psychologist, he receives a poem. This poem gets him to thinking about money, and his obligations.
Quote: "Ass! Idiot! Wild boar! Dumb mule! Slave! Lousy, wallowing hippopotamus" (Bellow 52).
Reaction: This was Wilhem's reaction after speaking with his father, after the discussion they had, insulting one another. Whether Tommy was running his life the wrong way and that he should get a job, and meet his financial needs as well get back with his wife. While Tommy is telling his father that in fact he shouldn't be one to judge when he probably doesn't even remember that day of his mother's death. From this conversation Wilhem had been totally worked up, from this he realizes that he has to carry his peculiar burden, to feel shame, to taste the tears, and to finally think of the importance of business.
Tommy's father Dr. Adler, wants him to go back to the five figures type of money he made, and to attend his wife and children, instead of being a pill popper. Margaret, Tommy's wife asks him for money, and refuses to grant him a divorce. Tommy would give Margaret everything, if only she could give him back the dog Scissors, which she refuses to give him as well. Tommy is in love with another woman, and he cannot marry her until he is fully divorced from Margaret. Tommy tries to explain this all to his father, but his father does not seem to understand and tries to compare his own successes to that of his sons failures, and refuses to help Tommy financially. In fact Mr. Adler had told Tommy to stay away from Dr. Tamkin, and now that Tommy has questions about the money he was invested in Dr. Tamkin, Dr. Tamkin tries to change the topic. Tommy begins to think if he should trust this man or not, but either way he had already signed he last one thousand dollars over to him. During Tommy's visit to his psychologist, he receives a poem. This poem gets him to thinking about money, and his obligations.
Quote: "Ass! Idiot! Wild boar! Dumb mule! Slave! Lousy, wallowing hippopotamus" (Bellow 52).
Reaction: This was Wilhem's reaction after speaking with his father, after the discussion they had, insulting one another. Whether Tommy was running his life the wrong way and that he should get a job, and meet his financial needs as well get back with his wife. While Tommy is telling his father that in fact he shouldn't be one to judge when he probably doesn't even remember that day of his mother's death. From this conversation Wilhem had been totally worked up, from this he realizes that he has to carry his peculiar burden, to feel shame, to taste the tears, and to finally think of the importance of business.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Racism (160-200)
Summary: Racism has never been a unique term to anyone, it has been around for so long. It is mentioned that the whites believe to have a supremacy upon other colored races, in the fears of yellow Asia, and the belief of pure from the contamination of Negro blood. Race in Germany served as a means of restoring their self-respect after the national humiliation of Versailles. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 declared racism as an official policy. World War II had brought German racial enemy, before the U.S. had became part of the war. There is a difference between racial and religious hatred. Racism remains in the hands of history, based on religious bigotry and on physical characteristics, dating well back to their ancestry.
The U.S. tried giving the African Americans a better deal, setting them free. However, the social conditions kept them impoverished and ignorant. The Holocaust provided a great amount of history on antisemitism, dealing with religious roots. In the 1960's historians produced plenty of works on racism, labeling it as a belief system, theory, or ideology. This was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and the decolonization of Africa. There still exists the belief that differences between ethnic groups involved are permanent. There can be intolerance towards religious or culture, but not racism.
Quote: "Such group-centeredness may engender prejudice and discrimination against those outside the group, but two additional elements would seem to be required before the categorization of racism is justified" (Fredrickson 169).
Reaction: This quote refers to culture, and if culture can actually be a factor for racism. It may cover the pride and loyalty that may result from a strong sense of ethnic identity. This quote reminds me of a conversation in Spanish class, on the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is being said that the Dominicans are racist, because they have been kicking out all Haitians from D.R. no matter how long they have been living in the D.R. they are still being kicked out. Similar to the immigration problems in the United States, and the way once blacks were treated in the U.S. Meaning there is always going to be a problem with different ethnic groups depending on the wealth status of a country, their laws, and ethnic group differences, not racism. Unless, one group is trying to dominate or eliminate the other.
The U.S. tried giving the African Americans a better deal, setting them free. However, the social conditions kept them impoverished and ignorant. The Holocaust provided a great amount of history on antisemitism, dealing with religious roots. In the 1960's historians produced plenty of works on racism, labeling it as a belief system, theory, or ideology. This was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and the decolonization of Africa. There still exists the belief that differences between ethnic groups involved are permanent. There can be intolerance towards religious or culture, but not racism.
Quote: "Such group-centeredness may engender prejudice and discrimination against those outside the group, but two additional elements would seem to be required before the categorization of racism is justified" (Fredrickson 169).
Reaction: This quote refers to culture, and if culture can actually be a factor for racism. It may cover the pride and loyalty that may result from a strong sense of ethnic identity. This quote reminds me of a conversation in Spanish class, on the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is being said that the Dominicans are racist, because they have been kicking out all Haitians from D.R. no matter how long they have been living in the D.R. they are still being kicked out. Similar to the immigration problems in the United States, and the way once blacks were treated in the U.S. Meaning there is always going to be a problem with different ethnic groups depending on the wealth status of a country, their laws, and ethnic group differences, not racism. Unless, one group is trying to dominate or eliminate the other.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Racism (120-160)
Summary: In the twenty first century, racism is still a problem. To some countries , racism is used to describe discrimination directed towards a group. Racializing people usually refers to an individuals ethnicity. A person's ethnicity is based upon a myth, a myth of collective ancestry, that usually carries its traits. Language, religion, customs, and physical characteristics is what is usually related with ethnicity. Difference or diverseness of a person can cause, hatred, discrimination, and violence. Xenophobia is literally the fear of stranger, it is an ancient phenomenon. While racism is a historical construction covering the time from the fourteenth century to the twenty first.
What has been called a new racism in the United Stated, Britain, and France relates to culture rather than genetics. The arrival of numerous amounts of immigrants has changed the way France thinks of racism. It is more of a way to distinguish their culture as welcome or unwelcome. In Britain skin color and culture remain close to one another. While in France the color is not as important, in fact dark skinned may be acceptable or welcome. However, many of the most bloody and bitter ethnic conflicts have not been completely racialization. Most minorities are discriminated by cultural or religious belief, rather than genetics. There is temptation to expand the term racism, and even add xenophobia and persecution based on religious and cultural differences. Even though, it is not time to give in to that, specially since racism in a sense refers to the enslavement and colonial domination. Society might also fail to realize that religion and genetics are not similar.
Quote: "As has been suggested, religion easily becomes race in the twisted minds of racist skinheads in eastern Germany or the United States" (Fredrickson 150).
Reaction: Racism has become a struggle for many to try and get rid of the term all together, however the term has been becoming broader as society reaches the future. Referring to historical events in the United States, Africans were discriminated against and enslaved not for their beliefs but for their color, and the thought of them being of lower rank. In Germany, the Jewish were discriminated against for their beliefs, they were made to be thought of as inhumane. Now the term of racism is not only trying to be based upon physical characteristics or beliefs, but it has become a fear of people, or a certain type of person.
What has been called a new racism in the United Stated, Britain, and France relates to culture rather than genetics. The arrival of numerous amounts of immigrants has changed the way France thinks of racism. It is more of a way to distinguish their culture as welcome or unwelcome. In Britain skin color and culture remain close to one another. While in France the color is not as important, in fact dark skinned may be acceptable or welcome. However, many of the most bloody and bitter ethnic conflicts have not been completely racialization. Most minorities are discriminated by cultural or religious belief, rather than genetics. There is temptation to expand the term racism, and even add xenophobia and persecution based on religious and cultural differences. Even though, it is not time to give in to that, specially since racism in a sense refers to the enslavement and colonial domination. Society might also fail to realize that religion and genetics are not similar.
Quote: "As has been suggested, religion easily becomes race in the twisted minds of racist skinheads in eastern Germany or the United States" (Fredrickson 150).
Reaction: Racism has become a struggle for many to try and get rid of the term all together, however the term has been becoming broader as society reaches the future. Referring to historical events in the United States, Africans were discriminated against and enslaved not for their beliefs but for their color, and the thought of them being of lower rank. In Germany, the Jewish were discriminated against for their beliefs, they were made to be thought of as inhumane. Now the term of racism is not only trying to be based upon physical characteristics or beliefs, but it has become a fear of people, or a certain type of person.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Racism (80-120)
Summary: When one comes to consider racism as an inevitable encounter with strangers and aliens, it completely takes the subject outside of history. If racism is thought of as a historical construction associated with the rise of modernity and with specific national contexts, then it can have an end to it. Plenty of historians, have made comparisons with whites and the Nazis, Jews. All of those racist regimes have been overthrown. Racism has existed long before the nineteenth century.
Many societies have been plural in racial prejudice and its tributes. They authorize the differences between dominant groups and the group being subjugated. The sense of racial difference and alienation is expressed in the laws a state is able to pass. Social segregation is mandated by law, and not merely the custom of product or private acts of discrimination. The state's goal is simply to bar all types of contact and equality with the segregators and the segregated. Also, such groups are excluded from being able to hold public office. The access they have to the resources around them are diminished, thus making them impoverished. This all well applied to the Jim Crow Laws of the South. Even though the blacks were free, laws were being placed on them which pretty much put them back under white control.
Societies have been made racist, they can be described as racialized societies. Even then they still fall in the same range of hatred with those who have already been introduced to racism. Whites among these, occupied an advantage position at the hands of indigenous populations. Common citizenship could long turn strong prejudices into exclusions of a kind that would be justified.
Quote: "The Negro is not bound by any treaty but only by brute force" (Fredrickson 112).
Reaction: Groups in South west Africa like the Nama were also targeted, they are the only surviving pure blooded descendants of the Khoikhoi which occupied most of southern Africa. The Germans intended to wipe out their entire race. They believed the Name were completely useless, and that they should not preserve the race. The Negroes were trying to be forced out of everything.
Many societies have been plural in racial prejudice and its tributes. They authorize the differences between dominant groups and the group being subjugated. The sense of racial difference and alienation is expressed in the laws a state is able to pass. Social segregation is mandated by law, and not merely the custom of product or private acts of discrimination. The state's goal is simply to bar all types of contact and equality with the segregators and the segregated. Also, such groups are excluded from being able to hold public office. The access they have to the resources around them are diminished, thus making them impoverished. This all well applied to the Jim Crow Laws of the South. Even though the blacks were free, laws were being placed on them which pretty much put them back under white control.
Societies have been made racist, they can be described as racialized societies. Even then they still fall in the same range of hatred with those who have already been introduced to racism. Whites among these, occupied an advantage position at the hands of indigenous populations. Common citizenship could long turn strong prejudices into exclusions of a kind that would be justified.
Quote: "The Negro is not bound by any treaty but only by brute force" (Fredrickson 112).
Reaction: Groups in South west Africa like the Nama were also targeted, they are the only surviving pure blooded descendants of the Khoikhoi which occupied most of southern Africa. The Germans intended to wipe out their entire race. They believed the Name were completely useless, and that they should not preserve the race. The Negroes were trying to be forced out of everything.
Racism (40-80)
Summary: The Europeans of the early and medieval times figured out that they could not completely get rid of other religions that did not refer to their God. Therefore, racism became the new policy to comply with. However, the highest religious authorities prohibited such form of ethnic predestination. The different beliefs, would create a distance between the slave traders and those who killed Jews. Unlike the Jews being blamed for everything that went wrong, the blacks were not considered cursed.
There was more controversy placed on Christian belief, as to how they believed that Adam and Eve were the progenitors of all humans. In the sixteenth century Giordano Bruno and Christopher Marlowe brought forth the belief that mankind had three ancestors, and that Adam was the forefather of the Jews only. This theory brought a racist fashion that all humans are not that single blood they believed to be. The modern concept of races has been classified by physical characteristics, primarily skin color. In western European the recognition of superior horses and dogs foreshadowed the ranking of human being with different characteristics.
By 1611, the Spanish dictionary included the word "raza" which would mean a caste or quality of authentic horses. This would refer to an amalgamation of Jewish or Moorish ancestors. It also believed around this time, that blood would have magical properties. That the blood of the Christians and that of the Jewish was clearly different. Whenever that word race was used, it mean that such races has an unchangeable characteristic.
Quote: "If they had asked men of science. they would have learned that the Negro in accordance with his formation, is not susceptible under equal conditions of education being raised to the same level of intelligence as the European" (Fredrickson 67).
Reaction: The age of democratic revolution began in the United States, with it they brought the doctrine of "all men are created equal". However, this reason would be hard to refer to the blacks and the Jewish, because they were considered less than human. That was until, the United States abolished slavery, and after the Constitution decided to reside with the Jews.
There was more controversy placed on Christian belief, as to how they believed that Adam and Eve were the progenitors of all humans. In the sixteenth century Giordano Bruno and Christopher Marlowe brought forth the belief that mankind had three ancestors, and that Adam was the forefather of the Jews only. This theory brought a racist fashion that all humans are not that single blood they believed to be. The modern concept of races has been classified by physical characteristics, primarily skin color. In western European the recognition of superior horses and dogs foreshadowed the ranking of human being with different characteristics.
By 1611, the Spanish dictionary included the word "raza" which would mean a caste or quality of authentic horses. This would refer to an amalgamation of Jewish or Moorish ancestors. It also believed around this time, that blood would have magical properties. That the blood of the Christians and that of the Jewish was clearly different. Whenever that word race was used, it mean that such races has an unchangeable characteristic.
Quote: "If they had asked men of science. they would have learned that the Negro in accordance with his formation, is not susceptible under equal conditions of education being raised to the same level of intelligence as the European" (Fredrickson 67).
Reaction: The age of democratic revolution began in the United States, with it they brought the doctrine of "all men are created equal". However, this reason would be hard to refer to the blacks and the Jewish, because they were considered less than human. That was until, the United States abolished slavery, and after the Constitution decided to reside with the Jews.
Racism (1-40)
Summary: Racism has been used in a way that does not describe the negative effects it has on ethnic groups or people. Hitler made up racist theories as an excuse for his treatment of the Jews. Same as the South did with Blacks, and the Jim Crow laws. Racism reached its highest point in the 20th century. Throughout history there has been a rise, and decline in the use of racism, however it is not yet wiped out from the world.
Now, it has been noted that religion has been one of the factors contributing to the invention of racism. The Greeks, Romans and early Christians placed people in either civilized or barbarous categories. These categories depended on the place in which an individual lived. The Romans had slaves, which represented all the colors and nationalities found on frontiers. As of their time, it is not exact as to whether what they did was a form of hatred towards dark skin color.
There was definitely prejudice among religions, for example the Jews. The Jews became unpopular with the Christians, because they had a different belief, that the New Testament overruled the old. They refused to recognize Christ, as it prevented the accomplishment of the gospel. The Christians could not judge the Jews for what they practiced, however they were criticized for not converting to Christianity as it was among them. The Jews were blamed for the worst possible human crime. Anti-Judaism became so strong a hatred, that it was rather better to eradicate the Jews than to try converting them. The Jews were thought to be evil, instead of having been thought of as having false beliefs. Attacks towards the Jews, began as early as 1096 during the First Crusade. Even though the Jews seemed to be quite useful, and harmless they were still viewed as a military and political threat.
Quote: "His blood be upon us and our Children" (Fredrickson 18).
Reaction: As of the organization of Christianity for the Jews, they were seen as guilty people for not following that belief. In Matthew 27:25 it is mentioned that the Jews cried out for the death of god. Therefore, anything wrong that was to happen would be fault of the Jews.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Girl Interrupted Film Criticism
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/1999/12/20/girl
"But you can almost feel Mangold's panic when he feels the story might be losing steam: It wouldn't have been enough just to have the girls interacting with each other during their commitment; they have to have adventures, too. And Ryder, whose performance consists almost solely of turning on that wide-eyed, bewildered-doe look, gets her big moment in an embarrassingly overplayed scene where she confronts Nurse Whoopi with a flurry of heartless, nasty insults."
I agree with some of these comments, in the part where they say most of the movie is shown with the girls communicating, and that there should have been a little bit more adventure. Because, having read the book, it seems like more action happened, while in the movie mostly Lisa did the action. However, I disagree with the "overplayed scene" because the girls are supposed to be portrayed as lunatics, so that's how the event should take place.
"But "Girl, Interrupted" is always worth watching when Angelina Jolie steps to the fore. Somehow, she takes a thuddingly ill-conceived role and turns it into gold: Lisa is the bruised and beautiful troubled doll who's unfailingly charismatic (when she lifts a cigarette to her lips, a nurse stands at the ready with a lighter), the restless girl who's always trying to escape from the confines of the hospital, who blurts out the blunt observations no one wants to hear"
I agree with this critic, Angelina Jolie's character as Lisa is what leads the other girls to do most of what they did. She was the crazy one, escaping and telling Susanna how to do things. At the point where Daisy hung herself, Lisa just went took her money and left. She didn't care that Daisy had killed herself.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/dvd/review/2000/10/03/girl_interrupted
"The main problem with the film is that it looks like it started out as an ensemble picture and then ended up as a star vehicle for Ryder and Jolie. The brief sketches of the other girls who live in the institution scream for more attention: There's a pathological liar obsessed with the "Wizard of Oz," one who tried to burn her face off and another who is a (presumably) perfectly sane lesbian who has been shut away because she likes women."
I agree with this comment, the film starts with a picture of something dark, and at the end Susanna is on the cab leaving the hospital. The film also portrays the main characters exactly as shown in the movie.
"he tried to use "The Wizard of Oz" as a model to get away from traditional nut house dramas like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and how he had his production department tie leaves to trees in order to make the seasons change outside the grim institution."
I also noticed the Wizard of Oz come into play when Georgina was reading the book. Also, theres a few camera shot in which it starts up at the trees and goes down to the hospital, same way when Susanna was leaving her home she looked back and saw her mom through an angle of two trees. Same when she was leaving the hospital, from the back window of the cab there were the images of trees.
"But you can almost feel Mangold's panic when he feels the story might be losing steam: It wouldn't have been enough just to have the girls interacting with each other during their commitment; they have to have adventures, too. And Ryder, whose performance consists almost solely of turning on that wide-eyed, bewildered-doe look, gets her big moment in an embarrassingly overplayed scene where she confronts Nurse Whoopi with a flurry of heartless, nasty insults."
I agree with some of these comments, in the part where they say most of the movie is shown with the girls communicating, and that there should have been a little bit more adventure. Because, having read the book, it seems like more action happened, while in the movie mostly Lisa did the action. However, I disagree with the "overplayed scene" because the girls are supposed to be portrayed as lunatics, so that's how the event should take place.
"But "Girl, Interrupted" is always worth watching when Angelina Jolie steps to the fore. Somehow, she takes a thuddingly ill-conceived role and turns it into gold: Lisa is the bruised and beautiful troubled doll who's unfailingly charismatic (when she lifts a cigarette to her lips, a nurse stands at the ready with a lighter), the restless girl who's always trying to escape from the confines of the hospital, who blurts out the blunt observations no one wants to hear"
I agree with this critic, Angelina Jolie's character as Lisa is what leads the other girls to do most of what they did. She was the crazy one, escaping and telling Susanna how to do things. At the point where Daisy hung herself, Lisa just went took her money and left. She didn't care that Daisy had killed herself.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/dvd/review/2000/10/03/girl_interrupted
"The main problem with the film is that it looks like it started out as an ensemble picture and then ended up as a star vehicle for Ryder and Jolie. The brief sketches of the other girls who live in the institution scream for more attention: There's a pathological liar obsessed with the "Wizard of Oz," one who tried to burn her face off and another who is a (presumably) perfectly sane lesbian who has been shut away because she likes women."
I agree with this comment, the film starts with a picture of something dark, and at the end Susanna is on the cab leaving the hospital. The film also portrays the main characters exactly as shown in the movie.
"he tried to use "The Wizard of Oz" as a model to get away from traditional nut house dramas like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and how he had his production department tie leaves to trees in order to make the seasons change outside the grim institution."
I also noticed the Wizard of Oz come into play when Georgina was reading the book. Also, theres a few camera shot in which it starts up at the trees and goes down to the hospital, same way when Susanna was leaving her home she looked back and saw her mom through an angle of two trees. Same when she was leaving the hospital, from the back window of the cab there were the images of trees.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Girl Interrupted Film
The setting of the film starts out dark
While the movie begins, there is Susanna speaking in the background as the camera does a close-up on her face to show her emotions as to how she feels, about being mentally ill, or maybe its just her being a girl.
They also show another close-up when Susanna is at the hospital, we can see the pain she's going through.
Over the shoulder shot, when Susanna talks to her once teacher whom she had intercourse with, and he wants to go into her room but Susanna does not want him to, the shot is over Susanna's shoulder to show the teacher's expression.
The hospital does not look as bad as described in the book, in the film everything seems much brighter not like a prison.
Medium shot, as Susanna is called up to drink her pills, it shows the faces of the rest of the patients at the hospital, and their behavior.
When Susanna is to fake drinking her medication, they use a bird's eye view, looking down from a mirror, also it is a frame within a frame.
When Susanna is first walking into the bowling area, there's a type of horror music that plays, but once she feels comfortable enough to play, a happy song begins to play.
In the movie Valerie appears more often, and as the mother figure to the girls.
There's a dolly shot being used, going in to the girls room through the windows.
A fade away occurs, while the film tries to show the girls life at the hospital.
Sorrow music being played, after she is written up for drugging the nurse.
Sad song plays when Daisy hangs herself. There's a black cat, that leads Susanna where Daisy has hung herself, black cats are known for bad luck.
Fades away again, when Susanna begins to realize her future, and that she is not crazy.
Camera lowers down from the sky to the hospital, an aerial shot. Frame within a frame is used when Susanna looks through the rectangle glass of Lisa's confinement room.
Ends Susanna on cab leaving the hospital, Lisa is still tied to a bed, and Susanna's voice closes.
While the movie begins, there is Susanna speaking in the background as the camera does a close-up on her face to show her emotions as to how she feels, about being mentally ill, or maybe its just her being a girl.
They also show another close-up when Susanna is at the hospital, we can see the pain she's going through.
Over the shoulder shot, when Susanna talks to her once teacher whom she had intercourse with, and he wants to go into her room but Susanna does not want him to, the shot is over Susanna's shoulder to show the teacher's expression.
The hospital does not look as bad as described in the book, in the film everything seems much brighter not like a prison.
Medium shot, as Susanna is called up to drink her pills, it shows the faces of the rest of the patients at the hospital, and their behavior.
When Susanna is to fake drinking her medication, they use a bird's eye view, looking down from a mirror, also it is a frame within a frame.
When Susanna is first walking into the bowling area, there's a type of horror music that plays, but once she feels comfortable enough to play, a happy song begins to play.
In the movie Valerie appears more often, and as the mother figure to the girls.
There's a dolly shot being used, going in to the girls room through the windows.
A fade away occurs, while the film tries to show the girls life at the hospital.
Sorrow music being played, after she is written up for drugging the nurse.
Sad song plays when Daisy hangs herself. There's a black cat, that leads Susanna where Daisy has hung herself, black cats are known for bad luck.
Fades away again, when Susanna begins to realize her future, and that she is not crazy.
Camera lowers down from the sky to the hospital, an aerial shot. Frame within a frame is used when Susanna looks through the rectangle glass of Lisa's confinement room.
Ends Susanna on cab leaving the hospital, Lisa is still tied to a bed, and Susanna's voice closes.
Girl Interrupted (68-168)
Summary: Susanna begins to think about how she was admitted to the Hospital, and about the doctor who placed her there. The doctor that made her believe she had a mental illness. She tries to narrow down what a mental illness is, she says it has two types fast and slow. However, to others not experiencing this it may look simpler than what it is. Susanna herself believes she suffers from both, the inability to act, and the obstacles that make it hard to act. According to Susanna's doctor he had examined her for three hours, but Susanna says otherwise, she says it was only twenty minutes.
While in the hospital, the patients realize how hard life is outside of the McLean. They witness all the violence going on, and how it does not seem like a battle to win. Even though, Susanna thinks the hospital has them all confined, she feels that in a way its a haven. She doesn't have to worry about what's going on with the rest of the world, no need to worry about parents, or homework. A girl who cannot relate to Susanna is Torrey. She was recently admitted into the hospital, and her parents blame her for everything that goes wrong. Torrey, like Susanna in a way is glad to be at hospital. She no longer has to be in Mexico, trying to cope with her addiction. Then her time at the hospital is cut short when her family comes to pick her up, Torrey does not want to leave, and of course Lisa would be the one to throw a tantrum. Though, Valerie the head nurse was already used to Lisa and knew what she was up too. Torrey was gone back to Mexico, and the girls were back to their normal days at the hospital. Another patient is checked in to the hospital, her names Alice. One day Alice went through something none of the girls could explain,
The nurses quickly transfered Alice to a new room, this room had nothing but a mattress. Her room quickly filled up with waste. The girls stay away from Alice after they see what she has been going through. Once again Susanna begins to think about her mental illness, her counselor is the only man that makes her feel comfortable. Susanna discuses with him how she is 18, and she's still in that hospital. He then arranges that the nurses let her be about more freely. Once having been in the hospital for quite a while, Susanna begins to explain her views on the brain and the mind, rather than her mental illness. She comes to a conclusion that this concept cannot be divided, the mind is part of the brain, unlike the way mental illness can be divided. Susanna also talks about her future husband, and what she encountered during her working time.
After her release from the hospital, Susanna claims herself to have a borderline personality, in which certain things in her a damaged but not completely. Everyone, at some point left the hospital, and Susanna caught up with some of her friends outside the ward.
Quote: "Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: All of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves" (Kaysen 94).
Reaction: The title of this chapter is bare bones, and it ties in with what Susanna thinks of the hospital, as a place of both confinement and liberty. In a way they were free, they were in a place that kept them safe, there was not much that could go wrong there. Then comes in what they think about their dignity, it is like they can do nothing but act sad to avoid the things they do not want to face. During this chapter, was when Torrey became a patient, and in a way she was free from the drugs of Mexico, but she was confined to this place. This shows the patients control over the situation.
While in the hospital, the patients realize how hard life is outside of the McLean. They witness all the violence going on, and how it does not seem like a battle to win. Even though, Susanna thinks the hospital has them all confined, she feels that in a way its a haven. She doesn't have to worry about what's going on with the rest of the world, no need to worry about parents, or homework. A girl who cannot relate to Susanna is Torrey. She was recently admitted into the hospital, and her parents blame her for everything that goes wrong. Torrey, like Susanna in a way is glad to be at hospital. She no longer has to be in Mexico, trying to cope with her addiction. Then her time at the hospital is cut short when her family comes to pick her up, Torrey does not want to leave, and of course Lisa would be the one to throw a tantrum. Though, Valerie the head nurse was already used to Lisa and knew what she was up too. Torrey was gone back to Mexico, and the girls were back to their normal days at the hospital. Another patient is checked in to the hospital, her names Alice. One day Alice went through something none of the girls could explain,
The nurses quickly transfered Alice to a new room, this room had nothing but a mattress. Her room quickly filled up with waste. The girls stay away from Alice after they see what she has been going through. Once again Susanna begins to think about her mental illness, her counselor is the only man that makes her feel comfortable. Susanna discuses with him how she is 18, and she's still in that hospital. He then arranges that the nurses let her be about more freely. Once having been in the hospital for quite a while, Susanna begins to explain her views on the brain and the mind, rather than her mental illness. She comes to a conclusion that this concept cannot be divided, the mind is part of the brain, unlike the way mental illness can be divided. Susanna also talks about her future husband, and what she encountered during her working time.
After her release from the hospital, Susanna claims herself to have a borderline personality, in which certain things in her a damaged but not completely. Everyone, at some point left the hospital, and Susanna caught up with some of her friends outside the ward.
Quote: "Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: All of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves" (Kaysen 94).
Reaction: The title of this chapter is bare bones, and it ties in with what Susanna thinks of the hospital, as a place of both confinement and liberty. In a way they were free, they were in a place that kept them safe, there was not much that could go wrong there. Then comes in what they think about their dignity, it is like they can do nothing but act sad to avoid the things they do not want to face. During this chapter, was when Torrey became a patient, and in a way she was free from the drugs of Mexico, but she was confined to this place. This shows the patients control over the situation.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Girl Interrupted (34-68)
Summary: Susanna begins talking about suicide, she mentions that suicide is like premeditated murder. She says it's something that one thinks about more than once, and it takes some getting used too. She states that a successful suicide is one that demands good organization and a cool head. She says she had a debate with herself, and that debate was whether she would kill herself or not. She did attempt to kill herself, she took fifty aspirin pills. Before she did this, she called her boyfriend to tell him she was going to kill herself. Her boyfriend called the cops, they showed up at her house and told her parents what Susanna had done. Susanna went out in public and reached Mass. Ave. before her parents found her. She had to get her stomach pumped, they took a long tube, put it up her nose and down the back of her throat it was like she was being choked. After that she decided she would never take aspirin ever again. Then later on, she questions herself whether there would be a next time.
Susanna also wonders how a doctor she had only seen once could have submitted her to a mental hospital. The doctor told her she would not be there long, but she had been lied too. The mental hospital was arranged in three phone booths, inside there were a couple of single rooms, the living room, and the eat kitchen. This way it looked good for first time visitors, however once you past the living room things change. There was a very long hallway, with seven or eight double rooms on each side, the nursing room on one side, and then the conference room. The toilets and showers were to the right to make sure they were in sight by the nurses. In front of the nursing room, was a blackboard. This board gave an advance warning of a new patient. There was also a seclusion room that was the size of a suburban bathroom. In the seclusion room you could go yell all you want, and get back out because you yelled in the TV room it meant you were acting out. In the seclusion room all there was, was the chicken wire enforced in one door, to be checked upon. In this room if the patient was not locked in for a reason then anybody could join.
Quote: "Freedom was the price of privacy" (Kaysen 47).
Reaction: This quote refers to the seclusion room, as to the patient having the chance to request being in there. However, the room was for people who went bananas and should be locked in there. Anyone who maintained a higher level of noise would be put in seclusion. Seclusion worked after a day or night in there. Therefore, relating to freedom as the price of privacy Susanna is talking about how the nurses would check up on a patient if they were yelling to check out their reason for yelling. Which is when the request business came into place, a patient could request to be locked in the seclusion room and they would also have to request to be let out.
Susanna also wonders how a doctor she had only seen once could have submitted her to a mental hospital. The doctor told her she would not be there long, but she had been lied too. The mental hospital was arranged in three phone booths, inside there were a couple of single rooms, the living room, and the eat kitchen. This way it looked good for first time visitors, however once you past the living room things change. There was a very long hallway, with seven or eight double rooms on each side, the nursing room on one side, and then the conference room. The toilets and showers were to the right to make sure they were in sight by the nurses. In front of the nursing room, was a blackboard. This board gave an advance warning of a new patient. There was also a seclusion room that was the size of a suburban bathroom. In the seclusion room you could go yell all you want, and get back out because you yelled in the TV room it meant you were acting out. In the seclusion room all there was, was the chicken wire enforced in one door, to be checked upon. In this room if the patient was not locked in for a reason then anybody could join.
Quote: "Freedom was the price of privacy" (Kaysen 47).
Reaction: This quote refers to the seclusion room, as to the patient having the chance to request being in there. However, the room was for people who went bananas and should be locked in there. Anyone who maintained a higher level of noise would be put in seclusion. Seclusion worked after a day or night in there. Therefore, relating to freedom as the price of privacy Susanna is talking about how the nurses would check up on a patient if they were yelling to check out their reason for yelling. Which is when the request business came into place, a patient could request to be locked in the seclusion room and they would also have to request to be let out.
Girl Interrupted (1-34)
Summary: The story begins with a case record, this case record is on Susanna Kaysen. The record is for the Institution McLean Hospital, and she voluntarily signed herself in. The story takes place in Massachusetts, Susanna is an 18 year old girl. On one of her visits to the hospital she was diagnosed with, psychneurotic depressive reaction, personality pattern disturbance, mixed type, and schizophrenia. From there on the doctor suggested she sign in to the mental hospital, and she voluntarily did so, once in there she questioned herself how she made it to that place. At the hospital, there's Polly, whom set herself on fire. There's Lisa who always tries to runaway but is found immediately after she leaves. Georgina is another patient, and according to Susanna, Georgina and she are the most stable in the hospitable. Daisy is another patient whom is obsessed with chicken, and her father has an obsession with her.
Polly set herself on fire, and that left her body damaged, she saw herself in the mirror and screamed as if she had never recognized what she had done to herself. Polly is in there because she can be a danger not only to herself. Lisa, in the last attempt of running away and being caught, the nurses put her in solitary confinement. In there they cut down Lisa's nails which she always keeps long and takes care of them, during her nights of insomnia. Lisa is the type of girl who is always talking and she hated those who watched TV. Georgina had a boyfriend named Wade, he is also in the mental hospital and he is violent at times. He had to be pinned down during his outbursts, and he would tell stories about his dad being a CIA that no one believed. When he was locked in confinement Georgina really got depressed. Daisy only comes certain times of the year, during Thanksgiving through Christmas. Cynthia was also in the hospital, she was a girl who was placed through electroshock very often. Janet is an anorexic who shared a room with Polly, and Polly no longer wants to be her roommate, the girl weighs 79 pounds and keeps loosing more.
Quote: "If you lived here, you'd be home now" (Kaysen 31).
Reaction: The quote is actually the title of one of the chapters, and it relates to Daisy. Daisy's father payed frequent visits to her and brought her chicken each time. Daisy barely spoke to the girls, but in one of her conversations with Lisa she told Lisa that her father was going to buy her an apartment. What she loved about it what the logo that read "If you lived here, you'd be home now" therefore she wanted to live there. After Daisy leaves, months later the nurses tell the patients that Daisy committed suicide in her apartment on the day of her birthday. I found this quote interesting, because I've passed by logos that said the same thing, and I would think to myself like that is so true, I would love to be home now.
Polly set herself on fire, and that left her body damaged, she saw herself in the mirror and screamed as if she had never recognized what she had done to herself. Polly is in there because she can be a danger not only to herself. Lisa, in the last attempt of running away and being caught, the nurses put her in solitary confinement. In there they cut down Lisa's nails which she always keeps long and takes care of them, during her nights of insomnia. Lisa is the type of girl who is always talking and she hated those who watched TV. Georgina had a boyfriend named Wade, he is also in the mental hospital and he is violent at times. He had to be pinned down during his outbursts, and he would tell stories about his dad being a CIA that no one believed. When he was locked in confinement Georgina really got depressed. Daisy only comes certain times of the year, during Thanksgiving through Christmas. Cynthia was also in the hospital, she was a girl who was placed through electroshock very often. Janet is an anorexic who shared a room with Polly, and Polly no longer wants to be her roommate, the girl weighs 79 pounds and keeps loosing more.
Quote: "If you lived here, you'd be home now" (Kaysen 31).
Reaction: The quote is actually the title of one of the chapters, and it relates to Daisy. Daisy's father payed frequent visits to her and brought her chicken each time. Daisy barely spoke to the girls, but in one of her conversations with Lisa she told Lisa that her father was going to buy her an apartment. What she loved about it what the logo that read "If you lived here, you'd be home now" therefore she wanted to live there. After Daisy leaves, months later the nurses tell the patients that Daisy committed suicide in her apartment on the day of her birthday. I found this quote interesting, because I've passed by logos that said the same thing, and I would think to myself like that is so true, I would love to be home now.
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