Best in Show Review

I had watched this movie before when I was very young and did not quite understand the movie. This was my first time really watching it and I really enjoyed it. The plot was great following the contestants of a dog show, in mockumentary format. The cast was very funny including Eugene Levy who basically makes any movie hilarious by just entering the screen.

The movie also has it’s flaws. Sometimes it felt a bit silly and often had boring parts due to excssive talking. This is however necessary when creating a movie of this type.

The announcers at the dog show also were incredibly funny, as each question asked by comedian Fred Willard was hilarious. Overall the movie was great and shows that people often use other things in their life such as a dog to judge their own happiness, and that was the main idea of this film.

As a rating I would give this movie a 7/10

The Electric Slide Boogie

Christmas Eve 4:20 A.M.

and every body has never felt more alive

past time to sleep and rest

and too early to awaken

stuck in the midst of both

we sacrifice our sleep

for each other’s company

the night calls

through the first flakes of white peace

down the chimney

where children gather in huddles

talk and play and sleep and pray

for Santa and his toys

 

the living room is bursting

with a parade of family

not wanting to sleep

instead rejoicing within eachother’s company

on the electric boogie slide

making loud thumps

and shaking the house

so much

from amidst the overjoyed people

past the sweet aroma of coffee

brewing so early for the hurdle

and baking chocolate cakes

mixing with the sound of

delightful laughter

pleasant chit- chat

amusing rumors

sweet memories

across the porch and over the driveway

a beautiful gift

for the approaching neighbors

 

how impossible it is

to not be lured to live

Response Paper 5 Option 1

The movie Best is Show was quite an interesting movie to me. I thought at first when I watched it that it was nothing more than just a dog show movie. It did not really satisfy to me how it can be about a dog show, when the director kind of rushed the dog show itself in the movie. I noticed that they actually got to the dog show pretty far in the movie. Aside the director did not really go into the details of the actual show. At first I kept thinking that it was a bad move of the director, to actually make a movie about dogs and not actually focus a lot of attention into the show itself.
Eventually I came to realize that there was more to this movie that meets the eye. The movie later became famous to me for a different reason, and it wasn’t the show but the actual obsession of people. What this movie had was character development. This movie really emphasized the different kinds of obsession that people have towards their dogs. Dog shows to me seem kind of pointless and I thought that people were just there to show off their dogs. I also thought that people were all the same inn how they treated their dogs. This movie had something in common with all the dog owners, and it was that they love their dog. But the difference was that they appreciated each dog in a very unique and funny way. If it wasn’t one that just talked a lot about the breed, but there were ones who made them look like humans themselves, or actually treat them as if it was a child they had. Interesting enough was that with one of the couples it was so insane to actually see how they treat their dog as if it was a God, someone they had to please with toys, or apologizing and going to therapy because they engaged in sexual intercourse. Знакомства
I really enjoyed this movie. It definitely made me laugh to see the kind of people that were in this movie. This movie made me realize that it was the same thing we have been reading in class as well. This movie has loyalty and sacrifice written all over it. The Birth mark by Hawthorne is somewhat similar to this movie, and not in the concept of giving up your life for someone else, but praising other living beings that exist in their lives. In this case their Dogs. Georgiana was willing to do anything in order to ensure happiness for Aylmer. Aylmer was the dog in this sense. Georgiana would treat this one particular dog as if it was her life. A dog in which she is willing on giving up her whole being just to make sure that dog is satisfied, clean and ready for the next show.

Rose Colored Glasses

Seeing beyond pink-tinged glass

makes my eyes water

drops of happiness

and none of pain

 

Once I lived behind thick walls

that I built in earnest

my eyes cast downward

resolutely at the floor

desperately, to avoid any color

Seeing was not

really seeing to me.

It was only what I allowed myself to see

what my brain would allow.

And now the walls have crashed down.

I’m cold; there’s wind in my face

tears in my eyes

droplets of calm

after the storm.

 

I see the future

better than now

where my eyes do not hurt.

Response Paper 5: Option 2: Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap

MirrorShe’s insecure, unsure, in search of the perfect cure
But she knows she’s better than this
Striving, trying, attempting, struggling, putting heart and soul into
Deserving that assumed true love’s one immortal kiss

What has become of the one with the pink bow in her hair and smile on her face?
Nowadays what wretched heartbreak does she mourn in all black?
Treading mirror to mirror, looking for the one who will accept her no-longer innocent beauty
So that she can look at herself like she used to…she craves her old self back

The faux hair and deep makeup are all that define her now, how damaged
Can a person be…to not be able to see beyond the distorted reflection on the mirror
Is there not a slight bit of self-worth left?
A glimmer, a spark, a speck, not even a flicker?

Utter chaotic pandemonium of self-loath in the early morning
Which may only be cured through hours of heavy ornamentation
On good days. Gone are days of rosy-red innocent smiles at the ground
Now her cheeks adorn merely tainted carnation

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me now or not at all…
Do I perhaps, oh please, look at least passable today?”
“Sad, poor, baby, hush”…he says…” You’re my being…
I don’t care if you don’t…it’s okay,” he looks away.

Never good enough for you, it hurts, for you’re the one I love
Not a word I say goes unpunished; not a word you say goes unheard.
Every morning I wake, every night I go to bed, everyday
I want to be good enough for you, long enough you’ve suffered

Five years of self-punishment can lead to insanity,
Slit wrists, broken mirrors and a suicide note
Of all the blood-tainted mirrors and tear-etched pain severe
What mirror was too costly to keep her once-exuberant soul afloat?

Mifta Mahmud Cornea

Contact lenses

I strain so hard to see

Which makes my eyes only want more

But this hurt my eyes

It made them tear.

 

I remember when I wore glasses

All the time

And my eyes would see differently

Grasping things but only just

Of what they were layed upon.

Of course I could see

Anything

That was close

Bringing the image

To the back of my brain.

But now my eyes

Are one with me

Truly seeing what was only a glimpse

Of everything that was once a blur.

 

I can see

So clearly

But the it hurts to put them in.

 

“Best In Show”

Best in Show is directed by Christopher Guest, this movie is mainly on five dogs and their owners were prepared to join the Annual Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show in Philadelphia. At first I thought this film was weird, Christopher Guest portrays the film in a documentary-like setting, each person’s story was told one at a time. I watched for about 20 minutes, and slightly puzzled by what was going on. Then I started to laugh and didn’t stop until the movie ended.
The actors do a brilliant job of half learnt, half improvised lines. The characters are all believable stereotypes: the yuppies, the millionaire glamour queen, the gays, the hillbilly, Mr. and Mrs. ordinary with separate pasts, and the dogs themselves are great, and probably are overlooked in most reviews. They definitely have personalities of their own, and they seem very normal compared to their handlers – much like the kids whose parents make them endure high profile talent shows. The whole movie really takes place in when they arrived in PA for the show competition. I think this movie is not really about dogs, it was something like a commentary on relationships. From the interaction between Gerry and Cookie Fleck, a middle-class couple from Florida who run into monetary problems and are forced to sleep in the hotel’s storage room when they finally arrive. The Flecks to the interplay of the two commentators at the Mayflower, it was obvious that source of the humor was really the interplay between people, not the quirkiness of dog owners. It was only more obvious because the humans tried to use the dogs as surrogate partners if they didn’t get the response that they were looking to get! I really like dogs so I enjoyed this movie, and it was really funny as well.

Fall and New York City

The weather is beautiful today. To me, this is the best kind of weather. Don’t judge, but I love when it starts to get chilly and you can wear your Abba‘s old sweater layered over a summer dress and get away with it. Yes, I wear my dad’s sweater. It kind of makes me wish I weren’t sitting at home, writing a paper. Or at least, sitting at home. It’s a Central Park day, for sure. Although something tells me I wouldn’t get any homework done except maybe if my homework involved drinking hot apple cider from Starbucks and spotting the cute boys going for a run in the park.

Also, this is going to sound kind of lame, but I love the sound of wind in the trees, especially when the leaves turn red. I know, it’s pretty corny of me. But I’m a reader and writer at heart, and we tend to get a little sappy, especially when nice weather like this surfaces after three days of flooding and intermittent frizzy hair weather. I mean, really- what kid didn’t run around stomping on the crunchy, shriveled up leaves come fall? I still do it. Anyone else? Anyone?

When Harry Met Sally (always a classic)

Tell me that didn’t give you a sudden urge to jump on the nearest train and take it all the way to 59th street, 5th avenue.

Well, the weather may be nice, but I don’t suppose one of you wants to do my homework, do you? No, I didn’t think so. I should be getting back to the 2005 merger between Sprint and Nextel. Or maybe I’ll forgo that for some apple cider, care of my kitchen refrigerator…

Oh, and one last note:

Autumn in New York – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

 

It doesn’t really get more magnificent than Ella and Louis, does it?

My Thoughts About The Near Future

I am very excited for my birthday which is coming up in 8 days ! (October 21st). My 2 best friends united to organize a surprise birthday party. Now you may ask if its a surprise why do i know about it, well the answer is simple; had they not organized the party and let me know about it, i would have organized my own party.  Therefore, they decided to let me know not to organize anything and just wait for instructions!

Besides them organizing my surprise party, i am planning on going sky diving! well its defiantly going to be something memorable to do with my friends and i have always wanted to do it so why not now? Oh did i mention that my parents know nothing of this? Yea, about that… I am just thinking of coming home and showing them the video. They can’t really do much can they? I mean if jumping out of a plane didn’t kill me, i shouldn’t really be afraid of them right?

So what i do know about my birthday is that my friends and i will be going to some place to get food, and then head on to a club in the city, after all my job is promoting clubs in the city… By the way, everyone reading this is more then welcome to join me at either of the 3 events. Just let me know and i will give you one of my friends contact information.

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