Run lola run

The movie run lola run, was a movie that I found very interesting. The movie essentially tells the story of a girl named Lola, and one very important day in her life, where her boyfriend Manni, who needs her help to get 100,000 marks in 20 minutes for a diamond peddler, who is his boss. Lola had forgot to pick him up after he had fulfilled the job, he decides to take the subway, but then when he sees the subway police, he leaves the train and forgets the money, which is then picked up by a homeless man. The movie is very interesting because it tells the story in 3 different versions, with each successive version getting better in a positive manner. The first run has Lola and Manni robbing a grocery store to get the cash, and then Lola being shot when they are caught by the police. The second run/story has Lola going to her father's bank and robbing the bank and taking the necessary amount needed, but then it ends with Manni getting ran over by an ambulance. The third and last run/story has Lola going to a nearby casino and winning 127,000 marks. The run also has the accident that causes her father's death, a father who didn't even care for his kids, and was having an affair with another woman. However it ends with Manni catching the homeless man and getting his money back, so that he can pay his boss, which he does, which leaves Manni and Lola with 127,000 marks to spend all to themselves. The movie shows how connected our world is, because the stores seen in the movie look just like the stores I can find next door. The bank is just like any other bank, and they even have a subway system. The western world is very much alike wherever you go, so there was alot of similarities between her life and mine, except for the fact that I don't have to worry about paying a diamond peddler.

Noi the Albino

The movie Noi the Albino, was a movie about an albino teenager, and his struggles in daily life. The movie takes place in present day Iceland. There is no serious plot to the movie, but its just about Noi's life, and what he faces daily. Noi isn't a very good student, and many times he finds himself in difficult situations, so at last he was expelled from school. Noi lives with his grandmother, but many times he is seen at his father's home. We never get to meet his mother, or know who she is. Noi has a girlfriend he's always hanging with, but when he tries to leave Iceland, she refuses to join him, and he is then sent to jail, but is then bailed out by his father. Cultural differences includes the relationship Noi has with his father. The relationship is more like a brotherly relationship, rather than a father to son relationship, being that they wrestle and play together. In the end of the movie a huge avanlanche occurs, and Noi's grandmother, father, and girlfriend die, leaving him all alone. The movie was funny, but I wasn't happy at the ending, or lack of a real plot throughtout the movie, however I did enjoy it. Lesson learn is that we never know what tomorrow brings, so we must always live the day as if its our last.

Persepolis Movie

The Persepolis movie is a movie 2007 French animated movie that speaks of a young Iranian girl, and her coming of age against the backdrop of the Iranian revolution. The young girl is named Marjane, and throughout her young life she faces many difficulties. Because of the Iranian revolution, she leaves her native country of Tehran at the age of nine. As a young girl, she had dreams of being like her idol, Bruce Lee, and she wished for a better society, and times in her native country, thus she and her middle class family supported the U.S. backed shan of Iran. Later on in the movie, the Iran war breaks out, and Marji sees her father threatened by the government, and the government bans many simple pleasures. As she grows up, her parents send her to Vienna Austria, as a way for her to stay out of trouble and to seek safety from the government being that she is outspoken against them. She goes to a christian public school, but however she faces lots of discrimination from the teachers, nuns, and students, and in essence feels isolated, and lonely. She is made fun of because she is Iranian, and doesn't make any friends. But she does fall in love with a ugly guy, who then cheats on her on her eighteenth birthday. She becomes homeless, and almost dies of bronchitus, and is then fully determined to return back to her homeland. Here she then begins enoying life once again, but finds out that the Iranian society is even worse than when she left. At the end of the movie however, Marji leaves the country for good, and her grandmother later dies. Similarities between the movie persepolis and my own life is that we have both faced the difficulty of standing up for what we saw was wrong and unjust. Also we both are immigrants in a different country, thus we have both faced discrimination and injustice from those around us. Differences however are that we both live in different eras, and she is Iranian, and I'm Nigerian. I saw from the movie, details of the Iranian war that I didn't know before, and I even saw aspects of Iranian culture that I didn't know before, along with the communists ideals of the Iranian past.

Maria Full of Grace

Maria full of Grace was one of my favorite movies that we've watched this quarter. The movie itself speaks of a prevalent issue in today's society; the issue of drug trafficking, especially in the South American country of Colombia, a country known all around the world for this primary issue. The movie depicts the rural life of a seventeen year old girl named Maria Alvarez, who works at a flower shop, where she is poorly paid, and is treated like thrash by the owner. Maria is at a crossroad in her life, being that she is also having issues with her boyfriend, who doesn't seem to care to much for her. Along with the problem at her workplace, she finds life as being a struggle. She works because she is the only financial source for her very impoverished family, and she has to provide for not only herself and family, but also for her unemployed sister's baby. She also finds out that she is pregnant by her boyfriend, a guy who she really doesn't love. So with all of these problems, she decides to quit her job, and go searching for a new one, and with the help of a friend she meets at a party (Franklin), she becomes a "mule", smuggling cocaine. After recieving this job, and being told of the risks, along with the rewards, she is sent to New York, along with her bestfriend who also becomes a mule (Blanca), and another woman named Lucy. She swallows 63 pellets. After arriving at the airport, she is detained and was almost caught, but because she was pregnant they couldn't risk hurting the baby with x-rays. She is sent on her way, but one issue occurs when Lucy's pellets bust in her body, and she dies, sending Lucy and Blanca on their way to escape. In the end however Lucy and Blanca recieve the money, but lose a friend, and then have to tell Lucy's family of the loss.

Similarities between the movie and my life is found in the ages of the main character and myself. We are both in our late teens, and seem to have to much time on our hands, but still find that we also have to many problems to deal with. The kindness of her heart is also a similarity. However, differences include our living circumstances, and in what country we live in.