Reflection of To Kill A Mocking Bird

     I've never read the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" but after watching this movie, I really want to read it. I was so into it and was very excited to finish it and see what happened to Atticus, Jem, and Scout in the end. All during Atticus' whole trial, I really expected him to win because of how the main characters always win in the end of every one of today's movies, so it really surprised me when they said that Tom Robinson was "guilty as charged".  I could have guessed that he wouldn't win with the amount of racism where they were. But speaking of modern films, with the amount of violence and death we see everyday in movies now, it had me guessing that someone was going to take Atticus out on multiple occasions. For example, both times that Atticus Finch saw Mr. Ewell,  I thought that Ewell would have pulled out a gun and shot him for defending Tom Robinson, but he never did, and when Atticus stood between the mob and Tom at the prison, I also expected someone to shoot Attocus. I guess that says a little bit about today's society. After the Court room when the cop told Atticus that Tom died he said "Tom just ran like a crazy man", that Tom ran, the Deputy called out to him but he didn't stop, the cop shot the would not kill but he missed his arm. That got me a little mad, all I remember thinking was that that was complete crap. They wanted to end the situation so they killed him. That movie was actually amazing and I can't wait to see it all through text.

Reflection on Precious

     The ending of this movie both made me happy and extremely angry, all I could think is "Yes! You go Precious! You be great! You don't need her, you can raise these two children by yourself and still get your GED!" but at the part where her mom was trying to get Precious and her children back, that's when everything got me really upset. She wasn't even concerned about the fact that her Boyfriend, Precious' father- That man is a father because he definitely isn't a dad, being a dad entitles a person to actually show and feel love- actually raped her, all she really cared about is the fact that he wasn't making love to her. She doesn't deserve to have any child if she doesn't care that this person is molesting her child. When the problem was brought up to her mother, she apparently only did one thing, she asked him what he was doing to her child while he was supposed to be making love to her, but she didn't even stand up to him when he told her to shut her fat ass up because it is good for her child. All she said on the subject was that she was mad at Precious because she had driven this man to leave, that she hated Precious because he gave Precious two children instead of giving her mother two more children. She was just mad at Precious because while he was loving Precious, who would love her mother; who was there for make her "feel good". That is not a good mother, and Precious is better off without her.

Reflection on Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I've never actually gotten through this entire movie before. I've only ever gotten to the part with the black knight in the forrest, and I didn't realize why until now. This film was so long, but the way the writers incorporated satire, humor, religion, history, and the original stories of King Arthur really brought out a whole new feel of the story as a whole. I used to watch this movie just for entertainment, but after taking this class I can see the different uses of many different literary techniques. The part in the beginning of the movie, when King Arthur as "galloping" through the lands with his assistant making the clopping sound of a horses hooves running and taking King Arthur to his destinations using two coconuts was hilarious, and when they had the people in the castle questioned how they found the coconut.  It's pretty funny because I'm fairly certain that back in the time that this film was based in, they wouldn't have known about the how the swallows wouldn't have been able to carry the coconut all the way from a tropical island to England because of the small wings and the amount a swallow has to flap it's wings to keep its own body up in the air, let alone carry the coconut. At the end of the film, when the cops came and took everyone, make me think that the entire thing was just a bunch of people reenacting a King Arthur story.  There are just a lot of things that make this movie a good one, but I feel that it is lost in the long length of it.