Blog 7

Blog 7

            I have very mixed views on basic literature as a core subject, but I’m sure that’s normal for everyone. One thing I really have to say though is that this year in English we did something that I’ve always wanted to do. We did a film presentation that I thought was really fun and intriguing. I wouldn’t call myself a cinaphile, but I have always been a movie lover and I have just always loved going into details about what makes a movie something worth seeing. When I first saw Django Unchained, I saw it as just a blood-filled, fantasy western that had a good story. Then when I went into detail about it I realized why Django Unchained is such a highly acclaimed movie and it made me admire Quentin Tarantino even more for being able to come up with something that creative and insightful. Although most times the teachers pick good movies for film studies, I just felt that it would be good to do a film study so that we can choose our own films and offer our own insight because the way I see it, people often forget that there is more to a movie than just an inspiring story. I will be dead honest there were components of the project that I was not on board with. I did wish we had more freedom in our presentations, when she would assign a category, there were certain aspects of that category that we were forced to cover, I just wish that they would be there to serve more as guidelines and allow us to make our case to make our presentations more open for interpretation. I also wish we had longer than fifteen minutes since there were a lot of presentations that went over. If I could make the rules I would make it so that it had to be longer than fifteen minutes but no longer than twenty. Overall though, I am happy that I finally got to do a project like this in my school career and I think it was the teachers were really smart to give us this project.