Film, the Girl Can’t Help it was made during the greatest economic boom in history. It was a story between a man and a girl, a story of love and music, more importantly a story of an era to another. The 1950s was also called the consumer ear; it was a time that people started to have the opportunity to enjoy all the commercial goods that were available to them. This is the same as what Foner said in his book. Milton Friedman said that “economic freedom gives rise to political freedom; there is no freedom unless economic freedom is secured”. In a sense that the 1950s was the time that freedom really started to prosper. This also approves to be right according to Foner.
We learned that the 1950s American culture was more about consumer culture, people were happier than they ever were, only because they were able to buy the things that they were once only could dream of. It is evident to say that freedom was expanding to every corner of the country. This does not mean the world was all good and fine, racial segregation was still a major issue that was posed to the government.
As I have said before, racial segregation was still a major issue, but it was getting better nevertheless, they could be seen working at night clubs as singers and performers, they could record their own songs to be put in jukeboxes which I believe that they did not have the luxury to do few decades ago. What was more important was they were working on the same stage as white performers. Females also expanded their freedom during the 1950s; they had the opportunity to choose as to what they wanted to do, something which they did not have.
My favorite part of the film would be when Mr. Murdock and did his singing, it seemed funny at first, but he was really good at what he was doing. It also showed that freedom was expanding from a different angle, that Mr. Murdock finally had the opportunity to do what he loved.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Pickup on South Street
The Film, Pickup on the South Street was a film that made to reflect the tough times during the Cold War era at home. The main character of the film did pocket picking as his survival tool, he was nothing but an average American citizen. One day he pocket picked an important film out of a girl’s purse that revealed later to be an important massage that belonged to the communist party. He did not know who to trust during a chaos time, and he was afraid that the film would fell into wrong people’s hands, so he kept it in secret. The film really demonstrated people’s lives really well during the Cold War, down from pocket picker, up to government officials. This film is like a remake of what Foner talked in his book, people were in constant fear of communism, even though majority of them did not even know what communism stood for, and as a result people did not know who to trust. The movement of anticommunism was more of a domestic battle than a national battle.
We learned that people were constantly put to the test to oppose the idea of communism, and they did. Even though most of them did not even know what the ideology behind communism was, but they opposed it with passion. The characters in the film never once backed down from the threat that was posed by the communists. I believe the reason that they stood on their grounds so strongly was because they knew communism might not threat their lives, but it did threat their freedom, so they risked everything they had, even their lives to protect it. They believed that the foundation of the U.S. was built on the idea of freedom.
I believe the film revealed a lot regarding on the gender issue, the main female character was put on an important mission that would probably be given to a male. It tells us that women were granted more freedom than they ever had, females could be trusted with important missions and tasks, and they were more than reliable.
My favorite part of the movie was when female character took the bullet from the hands of a communist, she risked her live to protect something which held no value to her, the only reason she protected it was it had value to her country, and it would threat her freedom if it fall into the wrong hands.
We learned that people were constantly put to the test to oppose the idea of communism, and they did. Even though most of them did not even know what the ideology behind communism was, but they opposed it with passion. The characters in the film never once backed down from the threat that was posed by the communists. I believe the reason that they stood on their grounds so strongly was because they knew communism might not threat their lives, but it did threat their freedom, so they risked everything they had, even their lives to protect it. They believed that the foundation of the U.S. was built on the idea of freedom.
I believe the film revealed a lot regarding on the gender issue, the main female character was put on an important mission that would probably be given to a male. It tells us that women were granted more freedom than they ever had, females could be trusted with important missions and tasks, and they were more than reliable.
My favorite part of the movie was when female character took the bullet from the hands of a communist, she risked her live to protect something which held no value to her, the only reason she protected it was it had value to her country, and it would threat her freedom if it fall into the wrong hands.
The Purple Heart
Film, the Purple Heart is a film that was made in tribute of all the American soldiers that fought in World War II. In the film, there were eight Americans which were all soldiers. The reason that those eight soldiers were arrested by Japanese was because they took a one-way flight, their sole aim was to attack Japan in response of their attack on Pearl Harbor. They knew they were risking their lives, and they knew they were leaving their loved ones behind, for only one purpose that was to secure their lives, and American people’s lives, more importantly freedom. It is exactly what Eric Foner talks about in his book, which is to promote and fight for freedom.
As the film reflected, we learned a lot about American culture even though there were not much of dialogs. We knew that American freedom was threatened by the imperial power due to the invasion of Japanese naval force’s attack on Pearl Harbor. A lot of people feared that imperial power would attack on American soil again, but American people would not bent down to imperial power to risk their freedom, they answered when the country needed them the most, so the U.S. government decided to declare war on Japan as a lesson. It was not just a war, it was a message that sent by the American people that our freedom would not and could not be challenged by anyone, because that’s American people’s belief.
The film did not reveal much of gender, class or race issues. But it did reflect Japanese soldiers’ cruelty; they tortured American soldiers one after one so they could get a conviction on them, but they stood on their grounds and did not say a word.
My favorite part of the movie was when the American soldiers were talking over with each other if anyone of them had second thoughts about not giving or saying anything to the Japanese, unsurprisingly, none of them wanted to. Words do not say a lot, action does. That tells us a lot about American true value, and those few individuals’ character.
As the film reflected, we learned a lot about American culture even though there were not much of dialogs. We knew that American freedom was threatened by the imperial power due to the invasion of Japanese naval force’s attack on Pearl Harbor. A lot of people feared that imperial power would attack on American soil again, but American people would not bent down to imperial power to risk their freedom, they answered when the country needed them the most, so the U.S. government decided to declare war on Japan as a lesson. It was not just a war, it was a message that sent by the American people that our freedom would not and could not be challenged by anyone, because that’s American people’s belief.
The film did not reveal much of gender, class or race issues. But it did reflect Japanese soldiers’ cruelty; they tortured American soldiers one after one so they could get a conviction on them, but they stood on their grounds and did not say a word.
My favorite part of the movie was when the American soldiers were talking over with each other if anyone of them had second thoughts about not giving or saying anything to the Japanese, unsurprisingly, none of them wanted to. Words do not say a lot, action does. That tells us a lot about American true value, and those few individuals’ character.
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