12/12/16

The Grand Hotel Greta Garbo

We can see in the movie of Greta Garbo we see how people fall in love with her face. There are many overwhelming feeling of happiness as I watched her in “The Grand Hotel”. She plays a dancer in distress from people not appreciating. We can see all her facial expression and how soft and white her skin is in this black and white movie. 

She play a character that is distressed and she place the part really well with her facial expressions. You fall in love with her face despite her role. You can see how she makes her facial expression even in her eyebrows. We can see how the camera really likes her face because the cameras focus really closely to her face. 

When she smiles you can see the beauty of her face. She is the center of attention and it makes the movie very popular at the time because you come to an awe when you watch her perform. You can really focus on her face and see the beauty. There is no flaw and it just brings joy just watching her talk.

I really liked the movie even though it was in black and white. I prefer color movies over black and white films. I think the story was very nice and Greta Garbo’s face really did an amazing part of the movie it brought it to a whole new level of beauty in a black and white film. Even though her role was in destress her face just brought something else to the table.

12/12/16

13th

I originally thought that the movie 13th was based on the story of Friday the thirteen but it was much more scarier then I thought. Criminal is emphasize to describe what society saw black people as after the civil war. We see throughout the movie that history seems to repeat itself. Every obstacle a color person goes through a new one arrives. Freedom then separation, separation then incarceration, and it seems like society won’t give a break to colored people.

I was very interested in the fact about ALEC and how it had a great impact on making laws. It was a private organizations that is made up of cooperations and politicians. The make laws that benefit the big cooperations and there were many republicans that supported ALEC. I have never heard about this before and seeing this really opened up my eyes. It was very socking to find that out. We shouldn’t be creating laws for cooperations but instead for the good of the people.

Its really makes me sad when I watched the movie and it made me want to stand up and help. All the people who went to jail because they were black and media portrayed them as criminals or “super predator”. We see how the law is against the colored people and then we see how the law helps the white getting away with killing black people. Its kind of scary to see how the law is created based on many corporations. Its even more scary how people are put into prison or because they took up a plea bargin. The overall movie was very interesting and very scary.

12/9/16

MoMA

There were any interesting thing at the exhibit. The fact that the music and the vibe in the room made it feel mysterious and scary. The blood smears on some of the pieces made it scary and mysterious but they there where beautiful things in the exhibit as well like the dresses which show elegance and class. There was a specific piece that was colorful and lively. The contrast between the beauty and the violence we see the negative capability in the exhibit. There were beauty in some of the art works while others brought on horror.

There was a specific piece of art work that looked interesting to me and it was near the back of the exhibit. the piece was of a guy who legs looked like someone bit into it. It reminded me of when i broke my leg and the horror of pain. The feeling of the disconnection between my upper and lower legs but then the piece of the two men who had knocked out from a fun night brought joy. I feel like the exhibit brought on many emotions that are different as we go along a journey that the artist is trying to show us.

11/2/16

commute to Baruch

Judy was wondering if there was a rat running across the track. One by one people walked by her trying to get to their destination as she waiting for the train. There was a storm of hot wind in the cramp station as the train was about to pull into the station. She asked herself “am I going to be late to class”? She gets on a packed train three stations from school and run out of the station on 23rd street. Will she make it to class? Getting out of the train watching the gap between the train and the platform. The same routine of going through the same turnstile and then walking up the stairs to the street. Waking on to the street thinking that the sun would have risen but its still dark out. Judy wants food but doesn’t want to be late for class. Wondering whether to grab breakfast and be more late or getting to class first and be a little late. Running to class without getting breakfast because class was more important to her then getting breakfast. Did she make the right decision? Judy gets to school and bolt up to the 8th floor to her class. Already late but what made it worst was the eyes on her as she walked up the stairs to her seat in the big lecture hall. Mr. Professor was not happy someone was interrupting his class. Who is she? She probably one of my students failing the class because she’s late. Everyone should be early to my class if they are late then they are lazy and doing bad.