Hitchcock

1) The primary focus of the film, "Crash" is its dramatic emotional effect's as well as its moral implications. The theme of the movie is the message that the director, Paul Haggis, is trying to portray. "Haggis keeps the truth of the situation behind every scene, and exploits the audience's own personal prejudices with his scripted moments of aggravation, bitterness, and incorrect racial stereotypes." As the film moves on it solicits its mood into the mind of the audience and unbearably gets stronger and stronger until it feels like the screen has become one with the audience. The mood of the film creates a sense of confusion in the audience, persuading the audience to like and dislike the character at different times throughout the movie.

In "Crash" several characters of different racial backgrounds collide in one incident. The different stereotypes society has created for those backgrounds affect their judgment, beliefs and actions. This in turn causes catastrophic problems for each of them. The magic of "Crash" is that it balances drama and realism in a seamless way. The characters aren't evil people, just products of their environment, family, and frustrations. Each character aches in natural human ways to connect and protect, but their motives are brought down by their own fears and anger. The universal theme presented in the film connects to each member of the audience because it portrays how everyone is good and bad and how the viewers react to the incidents in the film. For me "Crash" isn't an easy film to digest. The movie makes you think about it long after, regardless of whether you want to or not.

2. For a sequel, Meet the Fockers wasn't bad. It was Meet the Parents with a different twist. The film is sort of a gross out comedy that use's strong sexual content as a way to humor people because it's a universal trait that all humans share. The film has a strong cast with some of Hollywood's best actors. What made it a good movie was the actors and the awkward situations the characters encounter during the movie. The movie doesn't have much of a plot, but what makes up for the plot is how the cast and characters interact and clash with each other makes up for it. It's an entire film that analyzes what happens when you put one set of highly controlling and tense parents at one side of the table and an extremely relaxed set on the other. The Burns are more of a civilized non liberal and straight edge family. The Focker parents operate a little differently. They're a liberal minded, openly sexual, fun-loving couple who could also at times be vulgar and obnoxious. Bernie Focker is a former attorney and his wife, Roz is a sex therapist for elderly couples. The title of the film "Meet the Fockers" grabs your attention because it sounds like saying the "f" word and the Focker parents are not at all ashamed to use it in any manner they wish. Jack Burns (Robert Deniro) said at one point that he is "beginning not to like these Focker's," so the movie uses a lot of sexual content for its humor. I wouldn't recommend this movie for children to watch. Especially with the scene of elderly people in sexual positions attending Ross' sex therapy classes, and with Jack nursing a baby with a rubber breast he created. That same baby glued his hands to a liquor bottle, and when he saw a woman with big breast, it seamed like he wanted to get all up in there with his hand gestures. I never in a million years thought that I would see Robert deniro strap on a rubber breast on his chest. Some times what actors do in their movies, (especially in a sequel,) can hurt their career. Robert Deniro is an awesome actor but I didn't like him as much as I usually do in this particular movie. But I did like him in Meet the parents. He stuck to the tough and strong character that he usually is.

3) I think The Rear Window was such a good movie. Hitchcock was brilliant and his creative genius expressed its self through suspense and strong Visual effects. He was known as the master of suspense and I completely believe that to be true. His films are so nightmarishly realistic. He also can be considered in his time to be the Master of visual effects in black and white films. As I saw The Rear Window I felt like I was in his apartment watching his neighbors activities with him. It might have had a different and not have such strong effects if I saw it on a regular TV. I believe this film was meant to be seen in a theater like the media center and viewed through cinemascope. When I first saw the movie I was like a puppet to Hitchcock. At times believed that the guy murdered his wife and at one point I believed he didn't do it. I wasn't for sure until the end of the movie when I was scared out my pants by a movie that is over fifty years old. The tension of the film brilliantly got stronger