Task 1
Read these two movie
reviews, then analyze them by comparing the social function, generic structure
and language features between those reviews!
Movie Review 1
Peace of Autumn
Cliff (Joseph Arnone)
is a suicidal war vet.
Kora (Daniella Alma)
is a street artist with a penchant for truth-telling and meaning.
When their paths
cross, they change each other's life forever within the short span of a unique
yet believably authentic friendship. It's a friendship that leads them down a
path they could have never anticipated.
A Peace of Autumn is an intellectually
satisfying and emotionally resonant film that tackles the challenge of two
quite substantial characters within the span of a short film running just over
seventeen minutes in length. Both characters end up being people you want to know,
Cliff's despair obvious and real and filled with the kind of rage that
intimidates yet compels. It's also easy to understand exactly what draws Kora
into the situation, perhaps something within herself as both a human being and
an artist - if, indeed, one can actually separate those two anyway.
Joseph Arnone, who
stars in the film along with serving as writer and director, creates such a
multi-layered character that you're never completely clear where everything is
going, while Daniella Alma's Kora oozes compassion and vulnerability. Together,
the two create a story that draws you in even when you think, and I stress
think, you have everything figured outArnone also lenses the film and he does
so with an eye toward the awkward intimacy that exists between these two, a
friendship borne out of what is both spoken and unspoken between the two A
Peace of Autumn has only recently been finished and should have no
problem finding a home on the indie and underground film fest circuit where its
heartfelt story will companion a program of dramatic shorts quite nicely
Movie Review 2
A Beautiful Silence
It was only a year or so ago that I
found myself reaching yet another crossroads in my faith journey. After having
attended seminary and grown in ministry within my Anabaptist denomination, I
found myself disillusioned by not just belief systems but how those belief
systems were being lived out within the life of the denomination.
The more I grew in leadership, the more
it bothered me. So, I turned in my ministry license and moved away from a
ministry path that I I found conflicting even as I loved the many people I'd
gotten to know over the years.
I thought about this faith journey often
while watching Steven Adam Renkovish's meditative and thought-provoking short
film A Beautiful Silence, a film that he professes was at
least partially borne out of his own disillusionment with the church and the
legalism contained within. What A Beautiful Silence projects
so beautifully is that divine awkwardness found between faith and doubt, an
awkwardness that longs for authenticity yet reaches and too often finds
artificial expressions of the divine experience.
While it may sound like A
Beautiful Silence is a faith-based film, it is not a faith-based film.
While it may very well resonate most deeply with progressive Christians, I'd
also dare say that those who've led a more disciplined spiritual life will
identify with the doubts and fears and anxieties expressed by Brittany Renee
Smith in the film. Smith, who also co-wrote the film, gives a relaxed, natural
performance that feels less like performance and more like we've become
observers to a journey deep within her soul.
While some who've praised A
Beautiful Silence have mentioned Malick and Von Trier, I found myself
contemplating the works of Van Sant, especially films such as Gerry and
the recent The Sea of Trees, the latter being a film a good
majority of the world seemed to hate yet I adored.
A Beautiful Silence is a refreshingly honest film, not entirely devoid of
hope yet also refusing to create a false sense of hope for the sake of somehow
honoring the faith journey. The film has already been an official selection at
over a dozen indie film fests, while it Renkovish picked up the prize for Best
Director at the Franklin County International Film Festival. The film has also
been nominated for prizes at the Blackbird Film Fest and Smoky Mountain Film
Festival.
Filmed in and around Greenville, South
Carolina, A Beautiful Silence captures the simple beauty of
the surroundings yet also captures the wounded soul of a young woman struggling
with God, faith, meaning and the world around her. It's an experience that is
likely familiar to many persons of faith, yet an experience not often portrayed
with such honesty on the big screen.
A Beautiful Silence doesn't project easy answers. Indeed, that appears to
be an intentional choice as the journey itself isn't easy and the answers you
may discover will be uniquely your own. If there's a divine purpose
behind A Beautiful Silence, it's the realization, perhaps,
that we are not alone in our faith and we are not alone in our doubts and
wherever we go there's at least a sliver of hope that we can discover
somewhere, someway within that beautiful silence.
© Written by Richard
Propes
The Independent Critic
The Independent Critic
http://theindependentcritic.com/a_beautiful_silence
Complete the Following
Table Analysis
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Component
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A Peace of Autumn
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A Beautiful Silence
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Social Function
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to appreciate or to critic a movie.
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to appreciate or to critic a movie.
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Generic structure
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Orientation/Introduction:
Cliff (Joseph Arnone) is a suicidal war vet.
Kora (Daniella Alma) is a street artist with a
penchant for truth-telling and meaning.
When their paths cross, they change each other's life forever within the
short span of a unique yet believably authentic friendship. It's a friendship
that leads them down a path they could have never anticipated.
Evaluation:
A Peace of Autumn is an intellectually satisfying and emotionally
resonant film that tackles the challenge of two quite substantial characters
within the span of a short film running just over seventeen minutes in
length.
Interpretative recount:
The two create a story that draws you in even when you think, and I
stress think, you have everything figured out.
Evaluative summation:
Arnone also lenses the film and he does so with an eye toward the awkward
intimacy that exists between these two, a friendship borne out of what is
both spoken and unspoken.
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Orientation/Introduction:
It was only a year or so ago that I
found myself reaching yet another crossroads in my faith journey.
Evaluation:
A Beautiful Silence is a refreshingly honest film, not entirely devoid of
hope yet also refusing to create a false sense of hope for the sake of
somehow honoring the faith journey.
Interpretative recount:
A Beautiful Silence captures the simple beauty of the surroundings yet
also captures the wounded soul of a young woman struggling with God, faith,
meaning and the world around her. It's an experience that is likely familiar
to many persons of faith, yet an experience not often portrayed with such
honesty on the big screen.
Evaluative summation:
A Beautiful Silence doesn't project easy answers.
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3.
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Language features
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Adjective:
Clear, awkward.
Complex Clause :
When their paths cross, they change each other's life forever within the
short span of a unique yet believably authentic friendship.
Metaphore:
A friendship borne out of what is both
spoken and unspoken.
Tense:
Present simple and past simple
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Adjective:
Faith, doubt, good, hate, honest, easy.
Complex Clause :
· I thought about this
faith journey often while watching Steven Adam Renkovish’s meditative and
thought-provoking short film A Beautiful Silence.
· While it may sound
like A Beautiful Silence is a faith-based film, it is not a faith-based film.
· While it may very
well resonate most deeply with progressive Christians, I’d also dare say that
those who’ve led a more disciplined spiritual life will identify with the
doubts and fears and anxieties expressed by Brittany Renee Smith in the film.
· While some who’ve
praised A Beautiful Silence have mentioned Malick and Von Trier, I found
myself contemplating the works of Van Sant.
Metaphore :
An experience not often portrayed with
such honesty on the big screen.
Tense:
Present simple and past simple
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