Moulin Rouge Reaction Piece

Moulin Rouge is set in France during the 1800s. Although they party a lot in the movie the events are fictional. The whole movie is is either inside the Moulin Rouge Lounge or in Christian's apartment.
     Some film techniques that I noticed were used, is at the very beginning, it shows a conductor and curtains, at the end of the symphony, the camera is zoomed into the curtains, which takes the viewer into the story which is the movie. Another film techniques that I realized were used was when the gentlemen inside the club were told to throw their hats up into the air. The camera shows them taking off their hats and throwing them into the air and then it zooms out and shows the men taking off their hats again and throwing them up into the air. Farther into the movie, when Christian is singing to Satine, you see him jumo off of the roof of the elephant room onto to Eiffel Tower, and spin around on top of it. The last film technique that I spotted was at the end of the movie. It was when the owner of the Moulin Rouge throws the Duke's gun out the window and it hits the Eiffel Tower. This film technique gives the viewer a funny but reassuring take on the movie and shows that Christian and Satine are safe once and for all.
    I thought it was a weird touch that the music that was used in the film wasn't old. It featured newer artists like Madonna and Nirvana. The music was like this because love is a timeless belief, music is too. Another reason that newer music could have been used in the film is to receive a younger audience, and so more people connect with the film.
     Using a typewriter in the movie gave the film a point of view. It makes the viewer keep in mind that this is Christian's story and point of view.
     The theme of the Moulin Rouge is the greatest thing about love is to love and be loved.

Effective Writing Piece

Graduating high school is the beginning, it's a new start, on a clean slate where no one knows who you are. Whoever you were in high school will mean nothing once you walk across the stage in front of the people that made the past four years a living hell for you, and all of their adoring family and friends fanning themselves with the paper programs that will be left behind. Whatever mark you made in high school will be forgotten. Nobody cares how popular you were in the past years or what kind of experiences you had. Only you care. In order to get through high school successfully you need to forget about peoples opinions and accept everyone for who they are. Once you throw your hat high into the air, it takes all of the bricks, criticisms, and the weird looks that had all built up and vaporizes. Graduating high school is the beginning.

Most Effective Movie

     The movie Blackfish changed my life. It was a documentary about how animals are treated in Sea World. It focused a  whale hat has killed three of its trainers in the past couple of years. They talked about how the living conditions of the whale was terrible and that it made his behavior reflect on it. This movie made such an impact on my life because I have always been interested in animal behavior, this movie completely peaked my interest. I went and saw it with a couple of friends in downtown Portland and it impacted all of us. One of my friends, the more naive one, wants to write a letter to the president about how dangerous animal behavior in the U.S., reflects on their keeping conditions. There were other stories about how a couple of dolphins went crazy on one of their trainers, probably because of how they were kept when they weren't in a show.