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I feel nobody is smart in this movie. It is different from the crime movies that I have been watched. Normally, they usually have the main character who are smart and fight with bad people. I think the director tries to make the movie is funny by using stupid manner of characters. However, many scenes are cruel, especially the scene that the man kills the police, and many scenes are unpredictable; for example, the scene that kidnapper looks through the window and breaks it out and comes to the house to kidnap. In addition, there is an example of overlapping sound in the scene that the man tries to fix the television. In that scene while the man is fixing the television, the camera is zooming in, and when the television is good, the camera zoom out, but it becomes the different place.

The movie is divided into two parts. The first part is about practicing for being a soldier. I like this part very much, especially the soldier teacher. When I watch his acting, it makes me think of the part of my life when I had to practice in soldier school. In the scene that all soldiers stand in front of their bed and the soldier teacher talks to each person; we can see low-angle shot after he punches his pupil. In addition, we can see the camera cut to another side of 180 degree system while they are talking; I think the director tries to emphasis that the teacher soldier talks very loud near the ear of his pupil. The scene that the soldier practice in the evening time with the sun in background is beautiful scene and this scene gives the feeling of practice hard. Plus, the background musics and instrument(drum)(nondiegetic) are used in practicing scene to motivate the emotion of the audience. Every scene in the first part represents the practicing, so there are many cuts that are discontinuity editing. In the second part, the movie is about war, so the kinetic quality of the movie is high including the moving frame. Besides, there are many special effect scenes. Moreover, low-angle shot is used again when the soldiers talk to the dead people and the camera moves from person to another person.

If we consider the name of the movie and we go back to watch the movie, we will see the contradiction between the name of the movie and the story of the movie. As a result of, everybody in the movie does something wrong even the police. Thus, I think the movie try to imply the audience that do not do something that is not right. If you do, you will get something bad in your life. Furthermore, if we consider the sound of the movie, this movie is dominant because there are many sounds in the movie. In the dancing scene in the beginning, the sound of music is off-screen sound(nondiagetic) because the dancing has the same pattern with the song. In addition, there are many off-screen sounds that are from the radio in many scenes. Besides, for nondiagetic sound, there are two types; first, the director uses instrument to make the sound background such as Jazz; second, the director uses music that has the singing to be the sound background. In the scene of the argument, the quantity of sound are high pitch, high frequency, and very high loudness. Finally, in the scene that two men has own radios has the mixing sound between the sound of the radios and the sound of Jazz instrument.

The plot of the movie is interesting because it begins with the short story that opens the mysterious thing for the movie. In the important scene of the short story that the man looks at the statue; the camera cuts to the man's face and zooms in after that the camera cuts to the statue and zooms in. Then, the audience can see the shot that they both stand in the opposite side with the weird of sound background(nondiegetic sound) that mixes with the sound of barking (offscreen sound). I think the director try to imply the audience that they both are going to encounter in some scene. In addition, the director uses "a lap dissolve" to connect between stories. Next, the plot of the movie follows with two story lines, and each story line meets each other in the middle of the movie. Moreover, the director uses the dream of the main actor to urge the expectation of the audience by connecting with the item(necklace) that was represented in the beginning of the movie. Finally, when the girl turn into evil, it looks very scary because the production designer did the good job for makeup. Plus, the director uses the special effect to show the supernatural things(shaking of the bed).

The movie represents the story of two married people who have the problem with their mind. After they got drunk, they talked a lot about their stories that are nondiegetic elements. Beside,they spoke very sarcastically because of the effect of alcohol. In the scene that he took the gun and wanted to shoot his wife is exciting; the director select the low background music with low amplitude that is opposite with the high loudness of conversation because the director tries to imply that the people in conversation were focusing on their talking. In addition, the director uses camera to zoom in her face and switch back to the shot of shooting. Furthermore, almost every scene is photographed in the building, so the director uses medium long shot and medium close-up shot to run the movie more smooth. In the dancing scene, the audience also sees the example of Dutch-angle shot. Finally, the scene that she left her husband; the director put the next shot(flashback) by using face out and face in the previous shot that increases the continuity between two shots.

In the beginning movie, the director grabs the attention of the audiences who love motorcycle. Besides, the director uses extreme close-up to present the details of the motorcycle while he was putting the money in the motorcycle. There are many good musics(nondiegetic sound) performed while they were ridding the motorcycles; this gives the feeling as they open music during driving a car. In addition, the director tries to photograph while they were ridding in many directions, so widescreen is very suitable for this situation because the camera can cover two motorcycles, and the audiences would be able to see more views of the background, especially the natural views such as mountain, and it is really good for the parade scene too because the audiences can see the performance. Moreover, the director uses technique to switch the last shot and the next shot(flash-forward) back and ford so that two shots would be more continuity. Furthermore, almost every scene is photographed from the real place, so this is cheaper than arranging in a studio. Besides, the artificial light is seldom used; the light of each scene is from natural light. These help reduce the budget to make the movie. Lastly, in the scene that the riders climb up to the small hill in the evening, and the audiences can see them look like shadow; I think it is very arts.

The first scene begins with the long take, and the camera moves following the main actor (kenesis). In the same time, the director opens the music with singing that is very appropriate for this movie in both content and form. I think putting the music with singing is a new thing to make a movie run smoothly, and it is definitely a way to promote the song too. In addition, the main actor has the character that is exact in the role of the movie such as his face or his manner that is the same with the concept of flat character. In the scene that the main actor lay down on the swimming pool we can see the switching between the picture of the main actor and the picture of water in the swimming pool. When the picture of the main actor is becoming dominant, the picture of the water is disappearing. When the picture of the water is becoming dominant, the picture of the main actor is disappearing. Moreover, the director use "Ellipsis Tecnique" to switch the shot between the room and his home many times. I think it helps to reduce the feeling of discontinuity between shots. After the main actress knew about the real between his mother and the main actor, the relationship between shots is not continuity(discontinuity editing) like his life that has no aim. Finally, he did something that is unpredictable with the brave heart that beat the audience mind, and the end of the movie finish with the same song with the beginning.

The voice of the main actor tells about his thinking and his story to connect the idea between shots so that the movie would run smoothly, and the audience would be more understand the story. Besides, it is a way to reduce the gap between two shots that are discontinuity editing. Moreover, this movie is plenty of the background music (nondiegetic element) and the music in the plot (diegetic element). They are combined to present this movie perfectly. In the scene that the main actress go swimming we can see "The Iris Shot" from the binocular because the directer wants to create the audience's attention by focusing on the point of view. In the next of couple scene, there is the example of "The 180-Degree System" which is the conversation between the main actor and actress, and it eventually ends by kissing. Finally, the setting is very beautiful because many scenes are photographed in the real place, so the view of the background is very nice.

The content of this movie is about narrating the story of the main actor, so every scene in the movie is related to him. When I watched the movie, I felt I was watching the series of the personal life which were selected only the important events and were combined together. Therefore, we can see the transition between shots are not smooth or continuous(discontinuity editing). In the scene of playing bowling, the filmmaker uses the cutting on action technique because the audiences would be able to see the acting of players and the running of bowling. Moreover, the scene in the car is interesting; we can see the camera photograph from many directions. Two people in the car, the camera photograph from the back seat after there are four people in the car; the camera photograph from in many directions. Besides, when the main actor ran to help his friend, we can see the shaking of the scene because of the running of a person who hold camera. Furthermore, if we consider culture how this movie is different from older movie, the movie has more freedom; we can see there are more sex scenes or using language more rudeness including to manner more rudeness too. Finally, when the main actor drove the car back home with his girl friend I thought everything was almost same as in the beginning, but I was surprised at his decision in the end.

The beginning of the movie is very interesting because it is related to the name of the movie; in that sense, the boy's eyes expression that looks at the guns gives the sense of how he feels about the guns. Moreover, the director put in the past event about the shooting gun of the main actor that he would not kill anything after he had shot the chicken. This detail is very important part because it is related to the end of the movie. Furthermore, in the scene of the shooting competition, we would see the director use cutting on action techniques to help the performing in the hard shot of the shooting more smooth. Besides, I like the idea how the main actor and actress met because it is about the talent of the shooting gun. In the scene of driving car, we would see some scenes the camera photograph from the back seat. This helps the audience to have more vision or have ability to see what the characters see. In addition, this is suitable for the scene that the main actor had to shoot the police car because in that scene the director need to photograph the camera at the face of the main actor and get the vision of the audience to the view in front of the car. Finally, everyone can guess this movie would not have the happy ending, but the end of the movie is very interesting, especially the setting is really good. The scene that after they could escape from the police dogs, they walked and followed the swamp; the camera was moving and following them. In addition, the end scene that has lot of fog is very exciting because it decreases the vision of the audience;on the other hand, it increases the curiosity of the audience.

It was very surprising when the women was murdered because I thought she was the main actress. In addition, I looked at the bar that shows the time of the movie; it was just in the middle of the movie, this encouraged my curiosity to know what was going on and what would happen to the money. The scene of murdering is really classic, especially when the camera zoom out of her eye slowly. Besides, taking a shower is the time to feel relax, is not any idea or attention in the mind. Therefore, when the murder show up, it break down unconscious and makes the audience feel frightened. Nevertheless, it is weird because we could not see the knife touch her body. Moreover, the scene that after she bought the new car, we would hear the voice of the conversation while she was driving. These voices told the other parts of the story that help the audience more understand. Furthermore, the setting is really good, especially the house with the perfect quantity of the light is very horrible. Plus, there are a lot background musics that make the movie more scary and excited. In the scene that the detective walked up the stair we would the the changing the angle of the camera to be high angle. I think it is very appropriate for this scene that is unpredictable because we could not see what he see.

The main actor voice is narrator to tell story about him, so the movie focuses on the story of the main actor. Besides, his voice sometimes describes what he is thinking. It makes the audience more understand the feeling of the character and makes the movie run more smoothly. Moreover, the background musics are very suitable with the scenes and the feeling; for example, the scene that the main actor came back from the party and went to see the main actress; the background music performed and stopped few seconds after the main actor said happy new year. In addition, the scene that the main actress did a joke to be "Charly" is very enjoyable with performing the background music. Finally, it is very weird to have the main actor voice after he died, and definitely the last scene that the main actress walked down from the stair like princess is very interesting the end scene that I have watched movie.

The beginning of the movie is very interesting because it begins with the murdering scene and the audience does not know exactly who the murder is. In another way, we can say this movie begins with the conclusion of the movie and go back to the exposition of the movie by telling the story of the main actress (first-person narration). I think the idea for arrangement this order is really creative because it creates the curiosity of the audience and grab the attention. The audience knows the conclusion, but how does the movie continue to that point? Moreover, the life of the main actress varies between the good situation and the bad situation. There are many things go into her life. However, she still keeps her goodness and to be really good mother in the concept of flat character that opposites with her daughter (round character). Furthermore, another interesting point is that who the murder is. This helps hold the attention of the audiences for finding the answer. Finally, this movie is a good example to distinguish between story and plot because we can listen many tellings from the police that they have not shown in the movie.

There is the narrator's voice of the main actor to help tell the story, so it is first-person narration, and the movie emphasises the main actor because it is story about him. However, I think the main actress is more dominant than the actor in the role of performance. In addition, there are many background musics that performed almost every scene of the movie; it makes the story is going on smoothly. Moreover, in the scene that after the main actor made the new sign for restaurant, they celebrated by playing music and dancing. While the main actor and actress were dancing, it was interesting to see the light from the sign that opened and closed between dancing. This makes the dancing more classic. The climax of movie is the point which the main actor and actress would want to kill the own restaurant, so I suddenly knew the end of the movie would not be happy, but how ? As a result of, they could become free from accusation.

In the beginning of the movie, the filmmaker attracts the audience by telling the story which is about the world war 2. However, I noticed something in the scene that the man who had expired passport tried to escape ,and he was shot, but the people around him did not be frightened or feel anything. After that, the story was focus on the bar, and there was the performing of music that was really fantastic. When the camera moved through the instrument or the singer, you would hear the sound of that thing was louder and louder. Besides, I think the vision of this movie is very clear; I can see many details on the background. Furthermore, the filmmaker added the story about the past; I think this is interesting way to tell a story and create the attention of the audience because the audience has to think what was going on, and this also fulfilled the love story perfectly.

I had a new experience to watch the movie that the main actress was the spy. It is different from the spy movie that I have been watching because it is not complicated ,and there is no tool to help the spy to be successful in the goal. For example, in the scene that she had to steal the key so that she could open the secret room. It would be better if she had something that could copy the print of the key, and she did not have to take out the key. However, if everything was fine, the bad situation would not happen. Moreover, another scene that she knew something was wrong in her coffee, and when she stood up, the filmmaker used the technique to make the scene blur. I think it is very creative. Furthermore, in the beginning of the movie, after the police had gone, the main characters both were in the car. When I heard the sound of the main actress that was quite loud, I felt they were not in opened area because her sound was reflected from the wall. Finallly, I like the end of the movie that we do not know what is going on, so we can imagine in the different way.

I could not believe this story is about war history because the movie began with the scene of the beautiful wedding. Besides, there were many soft musics that performed in the beginning. I thought this movie would have been the romantic movie. However, this movie attracted me because it introduced the life of people in rural. I watched many movies ,but they usually were about the life of people in urban, so it was like I learned another taste of movies. It was natural. Moreover, The scene that was about the war was exciting because there were a lot of shooting and using many kinds of weapon. A lot of people were used to perform the scene of the war that helps the audience get the feeling of war. In addition ,it was a good opportunity to learn the strategy of the war in that era. Another scene that I like when the three indians was chasing the main actor, and they were running on the mountain on the background of the sunrise. It helps me imagine this is very long running. Nevertheless, I think there is the problem of the color of the movie because I could not see the detail in far vision.

I like the story because I could not guess what was going on. Besides, I learned how the prisons spent their lives in the jail, and learned the law in that era that it was very stick. I think this is not fair for him ,and he is a good person. Why the person who just was hungry had to go to jail for ten years? If I were him, I would do as he did. Moreover, the scene that he tried to escape from the dogs and the polices had many barks of the dogs. I think the purpose would be increasing the exciting of the audience. In that scene, I noticed that something was wrong. When he was hiding in the water, and the police followed him to the water, we would see the level of water that was lower than waist, but when the camera photographed in the water, we would see the level of water that was in the chest level. Lastly, the scene that he drove to escape from the police was enjoyable as if I was watching the racing car.

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I think the plot of the movie was simple because the audience knew the harmful situation was going to happen. In addition, This was the very long trip, and it was quite boring, so I looked forward to when the climax scene was going to happen. However, there was the music which performed during the trip, and there were many beautiful background among the desert that I have never seen. Moreover, when the man interrupted the horse carriage after that the camera zoom to him, I suddenly knew that he was going to be the important character or maybe the main character. Besides, the scene that while people in the horse carriage were drinking water, I thought of while I was drinking water in my car, it was quite hard because of the vibration. Therefore, if that scene wants to be more real, the characters should have shown the act of more harder of drinking water. Finally, the climax scene of fighting was very impressive because there were many scenes of interest. For example, the scene that the Indian jumped from his horse to the carriage horse, and he threw the body down from the carriage horse after he was shot. The scene that the man jumped between the carriage horse to do the control was exciting too. Besides, I really want to know how they can make the scene that they photographed from the ground. Nevertheless, I still do not understand when the Indian people were shot, why they fell from their horse immediately ,or sometimes they were shot;their horse went down before they fell.

I am a foreigner so this is the fantastic cowboy movie. I like the opening of the scene that the main character and his friends came to the town with their cows. I think it shows the concept of the word "cowboy". The main character was dominant in the beginning of the scene after he arrested the crazy man. Moreover, the scene that the woman sang the song and go together with playing violin was interesting because the sound of crowd in the bar was reduced and the sound of singing was increase, and the camera focused on the main character. These help the audience get the emotion of the main character. Besides, the scene that the woman slapped the face of the main character was very loud. I think this is the fake sound, and it is the development for making sound to get the emotion of the audience more than using the real sound. In addition, the scene in the bar that the man took out the gun and the music stop playing is a good scene for opening the second main character. Furthermore, when the dancing scene was showing in the noon(I usually see dancing at night in U.S.), I really thought about the traditional dancing in my country. As a result of, in special day, we sometimes have the traditional dancing like this scene. Finally, the shooting in the last scene had no music sound. This gave me the feeling looks like the real situation and the situation which is serious, and I like the idea that after the horse carriage ran through through the road, the people between both side started shooting.

The movie is very violent. For example, the machine guns were used to kill a lot of people. There were many guns almost every scene. In addition, the bad people stayed together to be the big gang that made them very strong ,and they could do everything that they want. Each times to kill people had no reason ,so it was very challenge to polices to capture them. The most cruel scene is the scene that people stood in line against the wall ,and they killed them all by using the machine gun. However, I thought this scene was different from the normal because there was no blood. It would be more real and get the emotion of the audience if there was a lot of blood spreading on the wall. Besides, another scene that I like is when Tony knew that his friend wanted to kill him ,and he went to see his friend and tried to prove by whistling to put a pressure. Finally, I was quite disappointed in the last scene because I imagined that it should have had the big battle between the Tony's gang and the polices.

I was a little bit disappointed because in the beginning of the movie, the movie presented the exciting point that was funny along with the tune of music that made me thought that I was going to watch the really comedy movie. However, I like the scene on the train because it is the very noisy train that I have ever seen. In addition, I thought she was wrong to decide to go on the train because there were many crazy people on the train. On the other hand, it became the good opportunity to meet someone who changed her life. Moreover, I learned about the style of dressing of woman in 1940. There were many pretty clothes which made me thought about my old style clothes in my country. Finally, the most favorite scene is the end of the movie because everyone was happy in the end ,and it was related to the beginning of the movie.

This name was stuck in my brain after I finished watching the movie because the prominent of the main actor(Godfrey) who was smart and attractive. Every players liked him because of goodness. Especially, the main actress who fell in love Godfrey in the first meeting performed her role well too. She showed how she was innocence person and showed the doing when the person who fall in love want to do everything for the lover. Besides, the favorite scene that showed how innocence of her is the scene after Godfrey did not want her to go to his room anymore. She expressed her emotion and performed like the person who did not have feeling. In addition, there was the performing of the piano during the scene that made this scene more dominant.

Moreover, the beginning of the scene was interesting because I could not imagine what was going on ,and it became the last place of the scene of movie. In addition, this movie reflected to the problem of the family ,and Godfrey was the key to help connect the relationship between the family with the turning point that made the audience more impressive in the last scene.

wow! This is the first time in my life that I have watched the movie which has no conversation. This movie is better than I thought. The story is easy to understand because there are many action scenes. Many instruments are performed to show the emotion of characters and help the audience to understand the feeling of scenes. For example, in the romantic scene when the main character went to help the lover, the piano was performs in the romantic tune. In addition, there are many jokes which are showed by the main character. These jokes make the movie more attractive because they entertain the audience by combining with many kinds of instruments in appropriate way. Moreover, the action scene that the main character chased the another army to help the lover was very excited ,and I like the ideas of both to obstruct each other during driving the train. However, I think the scene that there is the thunder should makes more scary and looks more real including to the sound of the thunder.