A Steetcar Named Desire

Watching the movie A Streetcar Named Desire is just as almost reading the text itself. There were not much different from the play and the movie. The movie is much similar to the play. It evolves around the character of Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalsi and Mitch Mitchell. I didn’t have a hard time understanding the movie. In fact, the movie helps my understanding of the text better. Yes I have read the text before I watched the movie and after watching the movie; I felt that I really like the play. The story is something that is common in our society but somehow people rather not to talk about it. Maybe they feel that it is not important or perhaps it is just something small that we didn’t need to pay much attention to it. The portrayal of the characters especially Blanche Dubois makes me think that what she experience is something that we should not ignore.

Review on "As You Like It"

First of all, I thought the last movie that we are going to watch for the semester is “The Streetcar Named Desire”. But somehow when Yuen Thien told the class that there is another movie that needs to be watch, I was quite surprised. Honestly, I think the movies were quite dull. After all, it’s literature! The movies that we have watched were not acted out by Brad Pitt! “As You Like It” was the last movie that I watched. This Shakespeare adaptation was a blur to me. I felt asleep halfway and I need lots of catching up to do to understand the movie. But to my surprised, most of my classmates didn’t understand the movie also. That was not a big surprised. I was busy discussing with Agnes what the movie was all about and who the hero was. First we thought the hero was the Negro man, but the real hero was the man with the long beard. Well, we are not sure if that is the real hero up until today. Personally, I think the language that was used in the movie makes all of us did not understand the whole movie well. Yes, I was a modern movie but yet the dialogue was the Shakespearean dialogue with lots of thou and art. Perhaps we would understand better if we pay full attention to the movie when it was screen rather than guessing and discussing what the movie was all about!

Shakespeare Wallah

Shakespeare Wallah was the first movie that I watch during my drama class this semester. It was an adaptation from a Shakespeare play. My first impression was uh oh I think this is going to be a boring movie but I was wrong. It turns out to be interesting. It was a movie about cross-cultural beliefs. The hero, a Hindustani falls for two girls; one is an Indian actress who’s very cheeky and matured. The second girl was Liz, also an actress whose characteristic differs from Manjula, the Indian girl. I really like the movie because it shows how cultures and beliefs do play an important role in our daily lives, even when we are making the decision to find the right person to spend our lifetime with.

Pygmalion

When I first watch this movie, I really like it. it was a movie about a flower girl whose from the lower class society who transform herself to mingle with the upper class society. Liza, the flower girl seems to challenge Henry Higgins, s professor to teach her how to speak standard English and how to become a lady. Henry took the challenge and did manage to teach her everything that she asks for. Through the process of teaching Liza, Henry grows fond of her and eventually falls for her. Luckily, Liza seems to love him back. As for me, the important message of the story is that when you learn a language, is does not mean you only learn the language. It also mean you learn the culture of the language. As we can see in the movie, Liza feels awkward and out of place when she visited her old neighbourhood. Now that she is a lady, she feels that she doesn’t belong there anymore.

Review on Macbeth

In class Dr Edwin had taught us what is tragic flaw. Personally I think I do understand well what tragic flaw is. But Dr Edwin had insisted the whole class to watch Macbeth, as an example of a tragic flaw movie. Yes I have read Macbeth before but the experience of watching and reading is totally different. I was quite sleepy during the first half of the movie. To me, reading the play is far more interesting. Well, perhaps it is because of the unfamiliar actors and actresses. Things started to change when the plot of the movie is changing. When reading the play, we know that Macbeth die in the end. Watching the way Macbeth dies on the screen makes the play livelier. His tragic flaw was expressed greatly when the scene where they cut of his head was revealed. After watching this scene I did truly understand what tragic flaw means, falling from the highest, respected place in the society to the bottom where nobody notice you. That was happened to Macbeth, from a king to someone who is doomed to die.