THE PIANIST DIRECTED BY ROMAN POLANSKI

This is my second movie review and also my sixth assignment review for the Critical Literacy’s assignment. I am going to review a movie ‘The Pianist’, a biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski. This movie is a very interesting movie for me. The main actor, Adrien Brody who cast as Władysław Szpilman is a famous Polish Jewish pianist working for Warsaw Radio (taken from Wikipedia).

At the beginning of the plot, Szpilman’s country was attacked by the German army. Britain and France had declared war on Nazi Germany. This is when the whole villagers live turns out worst. After their country had been ruled by the Germans’ army. The Jews has to live in an awful life everyday and they witness each of the sadistic activity.

Szpilman’s family is desperate because the Nazi’s had limited their right to own the money, the food and ask them to wear the band. The family gives a very good example for us. Even though they are desperate, but their family bonds are tight. They share the foods even it is not enough to fill their stomach. It shows that they are not a selfish person and care toward each other.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t help them to stay together when one day Szpilman is separated from his family. The army forced him to stay and become a slave labourer with others. Szpilman shows his sad expression and it also make me cry too, but since he is a man, he surely got a strong heart. Although he has to be a slave, sharing the foods, being tortured by the Nazi, he still put up a spirit to live. He never gives up until one day, he manage to escape from the cruel Nazi. I love the spirit shows in this movie, it help me to be strong no matter what circumstances go through our live. In the end, Szpilman’s spirit help himself to live and Warsaw is free from the Nazis. He become a very famous pianist around the world and live happily until his last breath.       

FROM HELL BY THE HUGHES BROTHERS

Let’s check out my first movie review but at the same time it is actually my 5^th assignment review for the critical literacy’s subject. I think the movie ‘From Hell’ directed by the Hughes brothers is a very interesting movie. I’m actually not the one that can adapt with thriller movie, but this American crime drama horror mystery film attract my attention and make me curious to know what is going to happen next.

The main things that make this movie attractive is of course because of the main actor, Johnny Depp or police inspector Frederick Abberline. This story tells us about the conflict that happens between the two different worlds of people, the rich and the poor. The poor people especially the women hardly get a job and force them to be a prostitute so they can continue to live. This is the only way for them to survive.

Conflict happens when one of the prostitutes has been murdered by someone and the murderer can not be identified. This is when the story get a little bit confusing and asked me to be a little curious on finding who is the real culprit. 

By time, the number of prostitute that has been murdered increased. I think the way the culprit murder the prostitute is a way too harsh. Especially in the end, it shows clearly how the murder kills the prostitute by cutting her into pieces. I think the director must be a very straight forward person and he might want to surprise the audience with this act. The director has really shows us, how cruel this person that we call ‘Jack the Ripper’. It reminds me on those liquid things that Abberline drink so he can get a vision about the murder. Sometimes, this kind of act is not reasonable to be done. There are so many things that we can do to solve the problems by not bringing any harm to us. We must think clearly to get the right answer. In the end, Abberline’s died because of an Opium overdose and the culprit is still free.        

THINKING FOLLY BY ECKHART TOLLE

                I am reviewing my fourth article which is Thinking Folly by Eckhart Tolle. At first, I did not really understand what is this article’s about. When I’m reviewing it for a few times, then I slowly understand about it. I’m interested about Einstein’s quotes that is, ‘the majority of scientist are not creative is not because they don’t know how to think, but because they don’t know how to stop thinking!’. I think he means that we don’t have to think hardly for simplest things. Let us take it easy and use our mind freely without stress and burdened.

It is true that the way we think reflects our self, but that does not mean we have to think something that was far beyond our thought. Our brain will functions clearly if we try to focus but at the same time, give your thought a free and light perceptions towards everything. So the brains would not suddenly stuck into one thing and make us want to search about it deeply. Eckhart Tolle says that we sometimes use our brain wrongly because we usually don’t use it at all, but it uses us. We had become its slave and that suppose not to be happening. We are the one that supposed to be controlling our own thought. Never ever let our emotion controls us because it is the same like we harm our self because of our own doing.

We have to recognize that thinking is not as complicated as we see. For example, while solving the Math questions, you were thinking deeply but you still can not get the answer. We all knew that every problem have a lot solutions. So, rather that thinking deeply to answer it in one way, feel free to try to answer it using the same formula but with different method. That way you do not have to think hardly, but think creatively.  As long as it Is clear and logic.     

                          ~THIS IS ONE OF THE FAMOUS QUOTE BY ECHART TOLLE~

ALL THE COOL KIDS ARE QUITTING FACEBOOK BY JENNA WORTHAM

  

Facebook is one of the greatest inventions that connect people through the world. Well, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg for inventing this technology. We can’t deny this kind of social network service help us a lot in socializing. There are many interesting thing that we can do by joining Facebook, but why Jenna Wortham, a technology reporter from New York says in her article that ‘All The Cool Kids Are Quitting Facebook.’?. she said in her article that Facebook’s main point is to builds closer ties among friends and colleagues but it turns the opposite way. It gives gap among those people, not making it closer.
I think all of them make sense since I’ve happen to felt it before. I only know about their condition by checking their updated status and if they don’t, I just considered that they are fine. Anything in our life was easy for us since we only have to ‘comment’ and ‘like’. Something that runs through my mind now is why I’m feeling awkward with my friends when we meet with each other although we are always chatting through Facebook?, it is because we don’t know their true feelings at that time. If we use the mobile phone instead of ‘words’, at least we can hear the tones and it is easier to express our feeling at that time.

The most important and major concerns is our privacy. Facebook tend to have ‘a general sense of trust in others and trust in institutions’, but this is also the reason why people are quitting Facebook by being too trusting. Our privacy in Facebook is not that secure since we all know that it has been attacked by the hackers.

All this while, I did not realizes the truth behind this social network system which is Facebook create a distant between each other. I may continue to use it, but I’ll take all the things she said as a great speech.