Tuesday, March 28, 2006

My View on "V for Vendetta" The film

"V for Vendetta" is an amazing film that I urg you to go see. It is worth the cost of a movie ticket, and popcorn! The acting, the plot, the action, the tears, and feelings that it gives you take you on the ride of your life. Natile Portman makes you feel what her character feels and is so authentic. If you don't know what this movie is about I'll give you a quick over view. I don't want to ruin it!
Natile Portman gets involved with a man named V for Vendetta because he saves her from the Fingerman. The Fingerman are people who are suppose to protect people from each other if they go out after curfew they are to be fined, arrested, or even killed. The goverment is very controlling of it's people during this time, and use the plague of a virus that supposebly terroists leashed out at a school to control them. I don't want to go a lot further in detail because even the littlest thing could give it away.
I myself was glad I went in to this film knowing very little about it. When you are able to do this you can experince the adventure with the characters presented to you. Even though this is only a movie, it deals with things that play into our current events today. It's what could happen if things get out of control. My question I ask myself when speaking about our goverment, who apparently are trying to do the best for us, is it really "For the people by the people" anymore. Please if you can look closely at this movie, think, ananlyze and decide if you think that this movie is just that a movie, an idea, or is it more? I like to belive it's many things all in one. It moved me like no other film has in a while. If you have noticed there have been many controverisal films lately "Crash" is only one of them I can think of right now. The other I cannot spell, LOL. Please go see this film, and if nothing else enjoy it, realizing that it has been made, and what we still have for now, be grateful. (If you see this film you'll understand why I said this.)
Thankyou
Arcadia

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

GREAT NOVELS OPEN MINDS


Recently I was introduced to a great novel by the title of "RIVETHEAD" by Ben Hamper. If you are a normal everday blue collar worker you will be able to relate to Ben Hamper wether you have worked on an assembly line or not. This story is about a guy who never knew he was really a great writer! This book is so amazing! I don't want to spoil it. This is a true story boys and girls! A man grows up not wanting to work in a GM factory like his father, but circumstances lead him to the same and only option of work. Latter he finds himself writing for a paper called the flint voice discussing issues he and others have with the shop.
I really enjoyed this book. It made me laugh, cry, and very angry with the way things just are. Big bosses on top of totem pole, little people hit bottom, Big people get big bucks/Bonuses and the small people get an extra day off, or a commemorative mug, or cheap pin. I believe if American was really free, it would be balenced. We would all get our fair share. Why should someone who sits in an office all day get paid more then a factory, or fast food worker? What types of scrutiny does the employee have to deal with? What do the big overhead managers deal with, how doe these relate? If you look at it from my stance point the average employee on the bottom earns the money for the company, while those on top are the only ones to benifit from it. You make them the money and in return have to meet higher standards, as well as double the amount of money you made in the past. It is understandablet that the bigger profit you make, you'd like to exceed this, because their is always room for improvement, but look at who has to make the sacrifices, those earning a smaller wage, those who are trying to make ends meet, and that is the sad fact folks. We in turn have to work twice as hard to earn the same wage, and some of use without benifits. The only postive thing about being a factory work is that you do get benifits, but you still pay a price. Just read this book, and you'll have a better understanding of why.