Thursday, February 17, 2011
Beat Street!
Haha! So, I kind of love this movie. When we first saw the movie, half of the class room was wondering if it was for real. It seems like we are watching this for no apparent reason. . or are we?? This movie is about a group of kids who are just trying to find a place in the world and make a name for themselves. Kenny, the main character is trying to become a well known DJ and goes to a few clubs before his name gets around. The other characters also do things that may or may not be illegal but symbolize the good that they want to do. Such as that one guy (I can't remember his name) who always wants to tag the trains. Yes, okay, it may be vandalism, but hey, those murals were pretty good. But, bottom line, they all love to dance and they dance whenever they can! Especially in train station (which is apparently a disturbance - the police had to break it up).
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Hungry. . . for some delicious attention
Everyone is hungry for attention; its only natural. We all want others to see us, praise us, scold us - just to assure ourselves we are there.
We may not always be conscious to the fact that we are doing things to get attention, but, nevertheless, we commit acts that get us praised and sometimes in a lot of trouble. In Black Boy, Richard set the curtains on fire. He is writing this account as an older man and explains this incident as wanting attention. I don't think he stood there looking at the fire maliciously rubbing his hands together saying, "Mwahaha, this will get their attention!" I think that he was just sincerely curious about wanting to see how the curtains would look on fire. Maybe subconsciously, he was looking for mischief that would lead to attention; he fears his mother and yet he pulls the stunt off anyway.
There was this girl in my class from 2nd grade to 5th grade and she would always make snide, inappropriate comments in the middle of class; she would read magazines in the middle of class too, just to spite our teacher. And, yes, our teacher got very mad - even sent her too the office a few times. Despite all the scolding she received, she still continued to do all the things that got her in trouble. Was she hungry for attention - yeah! One of the signs to prove my point was when she got in trouble, she would always smile and look around to receive laughs and smirks from the rest of the class. So when I think of someone hungry for attention, I think of her, not someone like Richard. He may want attention, but I don't think he always goes out of his way to get it. The cat thing, I think, was to just get some revenge on his dad, not attention.
We may not always be conscious to the fact that we are doing things to get attention, but, nevertheless, we commit acts that get us praised and sometimes in a lot of trouble. In Black Boy, Richard set the curtains on fire. He is writing this account as an older man and explains this incident as wanting attention. I don't think he stood there looking at the fire maliciously rubbing his hands together saying, "Mwahaha, this will get their attention!" I think that he was just sincerely curious about wanting to see how the curtains would look on fire. Maybe subconsciously, he was looking for mischief that would lead to attention; he fears his mother and yet he pulls the stunt off anyway.
There was this girl in my class from 2nd grade to 5th grade and she would always make snide, inappropriate comments in the middle of class; she would read magazines in the middle of class too, just to spite our teacher. And, yes, our teacher got very mad - even sent her too the office a few times. Despite all the scolding she received, she still continued to do all the things that got her in trouble. Was she hungry for attention - yeah! One of the signs to prove my point was when she got in trouble, she would always smile and look around to receive laughs and smirks from the rest of the class. So when I think of someone hungry for attention, I think of her, not someone like Richard. He may want attention, but I don't think he always goes out of his way to get it. The cat thing, I think, was to just get some revenge on his dad, not attention.
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