Week 8

Week 8

I read the screenplay of Sex, lies, and videotapes. This assignment is very interesting for me. I am currently writing a feature screenplay for my senior thesis. I feel like I am in a process that I finish the first draft and stock in between. Anyways, back to the topic. Sex, lies and videotapes is really an interesting piece. I would like to talks about this script as the roles of a director.

This story is about sex. The story talks about a man records down the sex of people. He is almost like a mental doctor who can make people talks threw the experience that they have. The main character is about this two sister, Ann, and Cynthia. Threw the camera, they confess the inner feeling and the complicated relationships and feeling. It is really hard to film a story like this. The feeling is hard to transfer through the vision. How should director make the audience understand and relate to the character is the main challenge here to the director.

I feel like the character is very outstanding here, each character has shown what they want and how do they going to get it. However, how to bring this complicated world to the audience? The answer is by make the main topic of the story “sex” meaningful! Sex is a powerful action in the movie. Here, by record seen and confess, sex becomes more relatable and translatable.

I can wait to find out the movie and watch it!

Marrige of a thousand lies

Marrige of a thousand lies

Like the title of the novel, mirage of a thousand lies is talking about this women, Luchy, suffer in the lies of “marriage.” Mirage is a Lesbian, and ironically she married a gay husband just to appreciate her family. She is passive and suffers in the pain of the stress of this unreal relationship. When she goes backs to take care of her family. She meets her childhood friend and also her lover: Nisha. Nisha is about to get married by the pressure of her family. Lucky wants to help out her wedding but in between, she can’t help herself but full in love with her again. All the lies about her identity and the pressure of the view of the society all happen to her.

This is really an interesting novel that I have read recently. The part of the reason that I like this story so much is that I also come from Asia. We liked of share the same value of the society, a place we valued tradition heavily. This valued from Asia is so different from the western relationship. Till today, LGBT is still a huge issue in most of the countries in Asia. When the story talks about the values of between western and Asia, I feel so relatable to what Lucky is thinking. She is a gay but forces herself to marry a man, just to makes her family accept. This is so painful but true in this society. In so many cases people can’t live in truth. We have no choice but hide in the lies because the society won’t accept who you really are. I perfectly understand why Lucky chose to be passive. When she tries to fight the society I feel so much pain is waiting for her. How much we have to scarify jus to be the way we want to be is really the issue here.

Week 5

Cosmopolis is a really interesting piece. The novel is talking about a young successful man, Eric. He lives in New York, smart and brilliant. He understands how the system of economic works and therefore earn a lot of money. However, just in one day. He misses calculating the price of “Yen,” on the way to the barbershop his life corrupt.

I like how the story uses “rat” to represent the corrupt of the economic system. When everything we know is gone. There won’t be such things known as “value.” There is a line in the story: “A rat became the units of currency.” It shows the odd but horrifies topic of the novel.

For most of the part, Erik is not a likable character. Even he fails and broke, he had always got his chance to work it back. (His wife is rich and he still got his skill of economic.) However, he chose to let himself perish. Or In another way, he gives up himself. Have sex with random girls, to weakness the riot and tracing the assassin. The story seems crazy, what Erik did is unreplaceable, hard to understand. There are so many questions while I am reading the plot. I think the character Erik is a representative of the modern society. We tried to predict all the things, but when a mistake happens everything will drag in it. Just like Erik can’t save himself in the story. Most people are also tracing the craziness of money, until one day we realize everything is just like a rat.

Talking to the topic privilege, the story also shows the interesting and odd society class. Erik is the highest class on the society, an elite of the world. In many ways, Erik does have the privilege. However, everything he got can be destroyed in one day. It is just that weak and funny.