Comments on: Movies that Have Touched Me http://www.dominickevans.com/2009/05/movies-that-have-touched-me/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:35:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Janelle http://www.dominickevans.com/2009/05/movies-that-have-touched-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1471 Janelle Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:16:46 +0000 http://www.dominickevans.com/?p=351#comment-1471 Hi Dominick, I watched The Boy with Striped Pyjamas/Pajamas and Children's Hour today. TBWSP, like you said, has a somewhat unbelievable story line, but it is well done. It sort of makes a point to the Nazis, in the sense that the (supposedly) set up such an undiscriminating machine of destruction that could just as easily turn against them if they are not careful; but also to non-Nazis: That the power structures set up around them were so powerful and even the slightest shadow of disloyalty was punished so severely that no one could dare even to speak (like the soldier being sent to the front whose father had left the country). I kept looking for the right minute to cry, and at the end tears did sort of come to my eyes. Just a little bit. The Children's Hour was interesting. I think a film made today would have gone more into character analysis (don't know how to call it) -- more into what the characters were going through as they acted or were acted upon. It was sad how everybody's life came apart over something like that... Interesting that the solution to lesbianism (according to the film) is death. Also... a film to show bullies. Bullies like to make it hard for the bullied, but if they knew how fragile a life's accomplishments are. Funny, I am thinking about my psychology course in college. We did a unit on brain injuries. I had one at the time but did not (entirely) know it. Then we did a unit on other injuries or handicaps, how it took only a moment, or the lack of one small but key function, to make people turn from successful and happy to dependent and weak (I do not mean to make any stereotypes here.) It is the same sort of fragility that caused Karen and Martha's lives to fall apart. Well, feel free to publish my comment or to edit it as you wish or to discard.... I don't know whether I have revealed too much of the films. Yours, Janelle Hi Dominick,
I watched The Boy with Striped Pyjamas/Pajamas and Children’s Hour today. TBWSP, like you said, has a somewhat unbelievable story line, but it is well done. It sort of makes a point to the Nazis, in the sense that the (supposedly) set up such an undiscriminating machine of destruction that could just as easily turn against them if they are not careful; but also to non-Nazis: That the power structures set up around them were so powerful and even the slightest shadow of disloyalty was punished so severely that no one could dare even to speak (like the soldier being sent to the front whose father had left the country). I kept looking for the right minute to cry, and at the end tears did sort of come to my eyes. Just a little bit.
The Children’s Hour was interesting. I think a film made today would have gone more into character analysis (don’t know how to call it) — more into what the characters were going through as they acted or were acted upon. It was sad how everybody’s life came apart over something like that… Interesting that the solution to lesbianism (according to the film) is death. Also… a film to show bullies. Bullies like to make it hard for the bullied, but if they knew how fragile a life’s accomplishments are.
Funny, I am thinking about my psychology course in college. We did a unit on brain injuries. I had one at the time but did not (entirely) know it. Then we did a unit on other injuries or handicaps, how it took only a moment, or the lack of one small but key function, to make people turn from successful and happy to dependent and weak (I do not mean to make any stereotypes here.) It is the same sort of fragility that caused Karen and Martha’s lives to fall apart.
Well, feel free to publish my comment or to edit it as you wish or to discard…. I don’t know whether I have revealed too much of the films.

Yours,
Janelle

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