It has been on the news, and I have read articles about it in the newspapers. It’s a top story at the moment and Gordon Brown wants to do more to find Osama Bin Laden.
To be honest, it’s been so long now I often forget about Bin laden and that there are people out there trying to find him. It’s been eight years since September 11th and we are no nearer to finding him, it makes you wonder whether we’ll actually ever find him. I personally think we won’t, unfortunately if we haven’t found him yet then what reason is there to ever believe we’ll see him again. Al-Qaeda needs to be found, it’s important we get more progress or hear from politicians where we stand with the progress of finding them. I’m glad Gordon Brown has noted this to people as it needs to stay in the media so we can find Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda as they are very dangerous people who have done so much damage. I do often wonder where he could be, but what I don’t understand is why haven’t we managed to find this man after all these years?
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
HJC – Citizen Kane
In last week’s lecture we had a screening of Citizen Kane, before we watched it I had no idea what it was about. It’s a very famous film but I’ve never had the chance to sit down and watch it but I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it.
When Kane was a child he had nothing, his family wasn’t wealthy and no future to look forward to. Kane got taken away to Chicago where he grew up and suddenly had everything he needed. He had many opportunities given to him and soon became wealthy and powerful to society. Orson Wells wanted to portray the film in a way of how society is, very powerful but corrupted.
A symbolic moment is ‘Rosebud’, the film never explained the meaning of the word but I believe it’s something he never had. He never experienced true happiness as he grew up around heartless rich men. Who only cared about one thing, money.
The film was shot mostly low angle shots, at College I studied media and we learnt why producers choose the shots they do. Low angle shots are usually used to make the characters look powerful and the majority of the characters were rich and powerful. The film is also quite dark and cold, in the sense that he lives in this big house (which reminds me of a house from a horror film) with the opening scene being quite scary.
Kane decides to use the money he has to run his own newspaper company; he wants to create honest news. He’s a passionate man but with the wealth and power he soon becomes corrupted like the rest of upper class people of society. Kane is quite isolated, he ends up being divorced twice pushing both away.
Things go bad to worse throughout the film, he starts off happy and wants to make the best with the power he has, but he ends up getting divorced twice and loses his campaign to become Governor.
To conclude I really enjoyed watching Citizen Kane, it tells a great story of a man who had everything to end up having nothing. I look forward to hearing what my lecturer Chris Horrie has to say about the film tomorrow.
When Kane was a child he had nothing, his family wasn’t wealthy and no future to look forward to. Kane got taken away to Chicago where he grew up and suddenly had everything he needed. He had many opportunities given to him and soon became wealthy and powerful to society. Orson Wells wanted to portray the film in a way of how society is, very powerful but corrupted.
A symbolic moment is ‘Rosebud’, the film never explained the meaning of the word but I believe it’s something he never had. He never experienced true happiness as he grew up around heartless rich men. Who only cared about one thing, money.
The film was shot mostly low angle shots, at College I studied media and we learnt why producers choose the shots they do. Low angle shots are usually used to make the characters look powerful and the majority of the characters were rich and powerful. The film is also quite dark and cold, in the sense that he lives in this big house (which reminds me of a house from a horror film) with the opening scene being quite scary.
Kane decides to use the money he has to run his own newspaper company; he wants to create honest news. He’s a passionate man but with the wealth and power he soon becomes corrupted like the rest of upper class people of society. Kane is quite isolated, he ends up being divorced twice pushing both away.
Things go bad to worse throughout the film, he starts off happy and wants to make the best with the power he has, but he ends up getting divorced twice and loses his campaign to become Governor.
To conclude I really enjoyed watching Citizen Kane, it tells a great story of a man who had everything to end up having nothing. I look forward to hearing what my lecturer Chris Horrie has to say about the film tomorrow.
Sunday, 8 November 2009
HCJ – Freud and Modernism: Lecture 3
This lecture explored Sigmund Freud and introduced us to the novel ‘Ulysses’ which tells us about the fascinating world of modernism. I found this lecture very interesting and it kept me listening till the very end.
Sigmund Freud has some of the best theories but is most well known for his theories of unconscious mind. I personally was intrigued about this theory, and often wonder what people think unconsciously. Freud once called dreams the “royal road to unconscious” by this he is saying that dreams illustrate the “logic”. He believed that unconscious exists and there was a way of gaining access to it. It’s not just happy repressed memories that can be found, there can be a disturbing side to the unconscious mind. Freud found this out from his patients who are unaware that that they have traumatic experiences. I am intrigued by Freud’s theory, but from a different view I also think perhaps repressing memories isn’t always a good idea. Some things are just better left alone, Freud had other views that I don’t agree with as well.
Freud had a strange and bizarre theory about sexual desires; he believed that if you are male you have the desire to kill your father to become more dominant. And if you are female you are useless, and that all women are jealous of men because they are dominant and the fact they have penises. I think these theories are nonsense, I have never been jealous of a man because they have a penis. Men in the past have been more dominant but in today’s society we are all equal so this theory doesn’t exist. Women are proud that they can reproduce, and I for one have never felt the need to have a penis.
In Freud’s latest work he theorised that a human’s mind can be divided into three parts, id, ego and super-ego. Id is the childlike part of the brain, ego is to keep the mind fit and ego in check and super-ego is moral and rational part of the brain. I can see where Freud is coming from with this theory, as it makes sense. Doctors have proven that different parts of the brain act differently so I can understand this.
To sum up Sigmund Freud I can say I have mixed feelings towards him, he has strange but fascinating theories but he’s a crazy philosopher.
Sigmund Freud has some of the best theories but is most well known for his theories of unconscious mind. I personally was intrigued about this theory, and often wonder what people think unconsciously. Freud once called dreams the “royal road to unconscious” by this he is saying that dreams illustrate the “logic”. He believed that unconscious exists and there was a way of gaining access to it. It’s not just happy repressed memories that can be found, there can be a disturbing side to the unconscious mind. Freud found this out from his patients who are unaware that that they have traumatic experiences. I am intrigued by Freud’s theory, but from a different view I also think perhaps repressing memories isn’t always a good idea. Some things are just better left alone, Freud had other views that I don’t agree with as well.
Freud had a strange and bizarre theory about sexual desires; he believed that if you are male you have the desire to kill your father to become more dominant. And if you are female you are useless, and that all women are jealous of men because they are dominant and the fact they have penises. I think these theories are nonsense, I have never been jealous of a man because they have a penis. Men in the past have been more dominant but in today’s society we are all equal so this theory doesn’t exist. Women are proud that they can reproduce, and I for one have never felt the need to have a penis.
In Freud’s latest work he theorised that a human’s mind can be divided into three parts, id, ego and super-ego. Id is the childlike part of the brain, ego is to keep the mind fit and ego in check and super-ego is moral and rational part of the brain. I can see where Freud is coming from with this theory, as it makes sense. Doctors have proven that different parts of the brain act differently so I can understand this.
To sum up Sigmund Freud I can say I have mixed feelings towards him, he has strange but fascinating theories but he’s a crazy philosopher.
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