Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 204 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Monday, December 21, 2015
Freeway
The movie "Freeway" was interesting and I liked the twist from "Little Red Riding Hood" that it added. The character Vanessa was portrayed to be someone living in an unstable family and the reality of her life is that she has nobody that can provide moral support for her and even appears to have her own issues. Yet for some reason, she is an extremely appealing and like-able character because even though she's had to endure so many hardships with her family being taken from her, the death of her boyfriend, and ultimately her having to be in prison, she somehow had reason to move forward and not let anything mentally cripple her. Her survival against Bob Wolverton, who'd ironically in this case would be the big bad wolf, was brutal but yet inspiring since she was intelligent enough to act well under pressure and turn the odds against Bob by taking his gun from him and shooting him to the point of paralyzation. This was arguable better than the screening of "Blade Runner" which was an incredibly interesting movie on its own and a lot can be learned from "Freeway".
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