LA Confidential film review

  

  LA Confidential film review 

   

   LA Confidential is a really good film.It is only one of the best movies of 1997. It is a story of three different cops drawn together to solve a murder that has everyone as a suspect. Russell Crowe  plays Bud White a good but very violent cop. Kevin Spacey plays Jack Vincennes a cop who loves the spotlight, he is showing to Hollywood how to be a real cop, he gets information by Danny De Vito who plays  publisher Sid Hudgeons, for an exchange . Finally, Guy Pearce  plays Ed Exly, he is a good cop but he is to scared to make mistakes and he is against violence and very different from other two cops. The three cops can't stand each other, but must work together to find out just what went on in that mysterious murder. This film also has a love line to it, Bud White (Crowe) falls in love with Lynn Bracken played by Kim Basinger  who is a prostitute that looks like Veronica Lake a famous actress of that time.   Kim Basinger took the Academy Award for best supporting actress and I think she deserves it. James Cromwell plays Dudley Smith head of the LAPD. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards all together.  

This film is a crime drama. Actors did a good job playing roles, LA Confidential film is old, but people all over the world are still watching it just because it shows the atmosphere of those times and how people were during that time. Cops were working but now they are lazy and they don't care much about completing their job anymore.  

Success is counted sweetest

                                             Success is counted sweetest.

                                                     Emily Dickinson.

In the poem “Success is Counted Sweetest” Dickinson employs allegory, metaphors and diction to create a sense of melancholy commenting on people who are not appreciating their success. The poem is written in third person. The first stanza introduces the idea of success being the sweetest in its absence, i.e. success is best appreciated by those who don’t have it. 

In first stanza author opens the universal concept and how people don’t appreciate it, but in this stanza she focuses more on people who never succeeded, she uses metaphor to make a stronger impression on the reader she is comparing nectar to success and also using diction between the first line and the third one. Also she repeats the sound s and,to a lesser degree,n.This is alliteration.”Sorest” is used with the older meaning of greatest,but can it also have the more common meaning. The association of “nectar” is good.

                                                        

Success is counted sweetest

 By those who ne’er succeed

                                                To comprehend a nectar

                                               Requires sorest need

She is making an ascent on nectar being sweet and by that she is creating diction. The last line is talking about sexuality and beauty.

In stanza two,”purple” represents royalty; the robes of kings and emperors were dyed purple.It is also the color of blood. In a battle, flag represents victory, in this poem victory is described in terms of taking the losing side’s flag. People don’t apprisiate the victory because they know how to win.

 In stanza three, most of the words are connected by sound d or by sound s. In first line Dickinson is using allitiration using ....,defeated,dying,

Author is compressing language and omitting connection in last three lines.The dying man’s ear are not forbidden; rather,the sound of triumph and forbidden to him because his side lost the fight. The triumphant sounds that he hears are clear to him; rather, he is agonized at hearing the clear sound of triumph of the other side. They are “distant” literally in being metaphorically in not being part of his experience;defeat is the opposite of  “distant” from victory.

In the poem “Success is Counted Sweetest” Dickinson employs allegory, metaphors and diction to create a sense of melancholy commenting on people who are not appreciating their success. The author clearly explains and opens up the main idea of  the poem which is: success is important for poeple who never experienced it. Emily Dickinson’s poem can be connected to Sylvia Plath’s because they are both dealing with the man leading is society and they have similar style in writing. I personally didn’t like this poem as much as I liked Allan Poe’s poem about the time it has more imegery to it and more emotions. This poem didn’t make me feel anything. 

History boys))

  Comparison between the film called History Boys and the book.

After reading the book and  watching a film I understood that the story line goes in slightly different order. I noticed that some characters are different in the film,some of them are represented  defferently then it’s shown in the book.For example Headmaster seems more demanding and serious in the book,where in the film he looks more cunning and nicer then expected.Posner’s caracteristics are showing more in the film then they are in the book because, through the visual image people can see that he is more into male sex without even him talking about it.Also in the film Irwin is having his classes outside and it wasn’t even in the book, plus Dakin’s scene of having sex with Fiona is completely gone from the film and not mentioned.One character was added into the film in order to show that boys have more then just three teachers,that’s why the art teacher was added into the film and wasn’t mentioned in the book.The other moment made me think, why was headmaster’s wife replased by random bus lady? She saw Hector touching the boy in the film, but in the book it was headmaster’s wife.Also Irwin is not in the weelchair towards the end of the film but in the book he is.In the book author doesn’t tell us that one of the students (Lockwood) dies.Posner changes more in the book then he is the film, film director changed a lot of little bits and pieces and in my opinion that the film would be so much better if it had all small details from the book.

Poe poem)

Allan Poe’s poem represents his life, which he believes was “a Dream Within a Dream”. Author links his poem to his life by telling us that he had a hard life and lost a lot of family members, but that we can only discover by looking in depth to his biography. He suggests to reader that his life was “a dream within a dream” but after reading the poem reader may suggest that this dream wasn’t the good one, narrator hopes that it was a dream, but it appears to be for real. The setting takes place at the shore of the ocean; he is holding grains of sand and crying. He is trying to prevent sand from running out of his hands as it represents a life passing by him, narrator never mentions if this life is his or his friend but we can assume that it’s a life of his closest friend.

The structure Poe’s poem “A Dream within a Dream” consists of two stanzas, the first stanza written in first-person. It talks about narrator’s separation from loved person; the second stanza is different from the first one. In the second stanza author is already at the ocean shore talking about his feelings and his powerless against the time. The second half of the poem is more passionate and shows authors feelings and emotions were there the first part is more relaxed and powerless.

The first stanza contains less literary elements. It leaves the reader questioning what the narrator is talking about and why is he so powerless and depressed. The opening of the poem symbolizes death: “Take this kiss upon the brow!”-  Because only dead people are kissed upon the brow. With authors word choice we can already say from the beginning that the tone of poem is negative. Also Poe is using Personification in line number six: “hope has flown away”- he is personifying hope being a bird.

Second stanza is more emotional; narrator is expressing his feelings to reader by using first person. Also he uses a metaphor in line number two, “Surf-tormented shore”- which represents life in general. At the end of this poem he uses imagery to help the reader to image this situation in their heads. Poe wants to save the moments which are shared with that person and doesn’t want to let grains “life” to disappear from his hands.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Agree or Disagree.

1.               As Def Leopard states, it’s better to burn out, than fade away. I.e. it’s better to seize the day, live life to it’s fullest than to live a more uneventful and predictable life.

     Agree It’s better to live interesting and exiting life and die early at age of 60, then obey the rules of life, rules are there to be ruined and in my opinion you live your life once so you might just enjoy it. I don’t want to live boring life I don’t want to think when I am 80… if I would be young again I would change something, I want to have adventures in my life and have a lot of stories to tell to my kids!

2.               All of history’s great artists possessed a touch of madness.

       Agree artist’s madness makes them unique, for example Van Gogh, he was absolutely crazy but his pieces are beautiful. To be an artist you have to be a little bit crazy. All people are crazy in some sense; every one is unique in their own way and sometimes crazy.

3.               People look up to bravado and physical prowess.

I agree with that statement, it’s really important to be in a good shape and most of people look at the physical aspects before then on the inside of a person. Even ages ego people would still choose the fittest to produce future generation. Animals are using the same concept of choosing, they choose the fittest and strongest.   

4. it’s the quiet ones that you have to watch out for.

Agree, most of the time you should be more scared of people who are quite because you never know what’s on there mind, they are usually acting quite but deep inside you never know what secrets  they are hiding. Did you notice that in most horror movies the psycho guy is always the quite one? So you should be aware that most of quite people have disturbed mind or they just live in their own world.

5. The law of Herod is unavoidable. I.e. no matter the good intensions, when people are placed in positions of authority, their power eventually corrupts them.

I agree with that statement, it always happens first some guy works as a clerk at the some company and judging his boss by saying: “If I would be on his place I would never make us work on Saturdays”. Three years later: This guy is the boss of the company, and he is making his people work without the weekends at all, his power corrupted him and now he can’t remember when he was working as a clerk and when he was saying “I would never make my people work on Saturday”

6. The difference between a rebel and a hero is whether or not that person seeks to defend the helpless.

I agree with this statement, it doesn’t matter who you are a hero or rebel, you would still try to defend people around you. Foe example you are walking on the street and see how three people are fighting against one, wouldn’t you help this one guy who can get killed by these three huge guys? I bet u would, you are not a hero but If you will see that something horrible is going on next to you, you will be always there to help because that’s people’s instinct to help others.

7. What society often deems as “crazy” is nothing more than the misunderstanding.

Agree, most people who were extremely smart were clamed to be crazy ages ago, it all was happening because of miss understanding for example the book which I read a wile ago called   Woe from Wit has a character who clamed of craziness because he is unique and smart but others cant understand his point of view so its easier for them to think that he is crazy that to think that they are to stupid to understand him.  So in my opinion this statement is right.

2 examples of literaly terms

Simile: 2 things compared with words as or like.

1. The loo stood like a tomb in a neglected graveyard

(Destructors, Graham Greene)

Point of view/narrative: Who is telling the story?

2. In the story “I’m Your Horse in the Night” narrator is Chiquita, the story is tolled from the first perspective.

- I thought you were fighting up north.

Looks and money

Looks and money

1.      Is money the way to happiness?

In my opinion money are definitely important in the society but, there is more than only money to the happiness. People can have money and never be happy, happiness it’s the feeling you can get while spending time doing your favorite things, being with your relatives and enjoy your life. People who are poor still happy that they have their support: relatives or husbands, wives etc. So I disagree with that statement of money be a way to happiness.

2.      Personal image is more important than the social class.

Agree, but sometimes when you would like to get a job people would prefer to take the one from the high social class than the one who looks better, people with the good personality never could be a presidents but people with a high social class can. But as for me, I don’t really care about this so it’s hard for me to find an answer for this question.