Listening log 8- Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre


2011 film


120 min; Drama, Romance

Jane Eyre is story about a young orphan. She is raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. One day, as punishment for fighting with her stupid cousin, Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room, the room in which Jane’s Uncle Reed died. While locked in, Jane screams and faints. The doctor Mr. Lloyd suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane needs to go to school. 




The movie starts at that part. Young Jane suffers from a principal of school’s biased but she tries to be better person. Jane’s life improves dramatically. She spends eight more years at Lowood which is the school she studied, six as a student and two as a teacher. After teaching for two years, Jane wants to get new experiences. She accepts a governess position at a manor called Thornfield, where she teaches a lively French girl named Adele. Jane’s employer at Thornfield is a dark, gloomy man whose name is Rochester. Jane finds herself falling secretly in love with him. She saves Rochester from a fire one night. He claims that it was started by a drunken servant named Grace Poole but because Grace Poole continues to work at Thornfield, Jane concludes that Rochester has not told the entire story. When Rochester brings home a beautiful but merciless woman named Blanche Ingram, Jane expects Rochester to propose to Blanche. However, Rochester proposes to Jane, who accepts almost disbelievingly. 




The wedding day arrives. Jane and Mr. Rochester prepare to exchange their vows however, the voice of one man claims that Rochester already has a wife. He introduces himself as the brother of that wife who is a woman named Bertha. Bertha was the real cause of the mysterious fire earlier in the story. Jane disappoints and runs away. She thinks she can’t marry with Rochester. 

Jane is forced to sleep outdoors and beg for food. At last, three siblings who live in a manor alternatively called Moor House take her in. Their names are Mary, Diana, and St. John. Jane quickly becomes friends with them. St. John is a pastor, and he finds Jane a job teaching at a charity school. St. John decides to travel to India as a missionary purpose, and he wants to accompany with Jane his wife but Jane refuses because she does not love him. However, she realizes that she cannot abandon forever the man she truly loves when one night she hears Rochester’s voice calling her. Jane hurries back to Thornfield and finds that it has been burned to the ground by his wife. Rochester saved the servants but lost his eyesight and one of his hands. Jane travels on to Rochester’s new residence and tries to rebuild their relationship. 

Listening Log-7; Anastasia

AnastasiaGenre: Animation; RomanceTime: 93min

Anastasia is about one girl who was royal family member in Russia. Her name is Anastasia who was a last daughter of Russian emperor; Tsar Nicholas 2. The story is started at 1916. In 1916 Tsar Nicholas 2 hosts a party at his Palace to celebrate the Romanov holiday. His mother, queen Marie is visiting from Paris, and gives a music box and a necklace “Together in Paris” as parting gifts to her eight-year-old granddaughter, Anastasia. However, the evil sorcerer Rasputin interrupts party. He wants to destroy and kill every Romanov family. Only Marie and Anastasia are able to escape because a young servant boy named Dmitri shows them a secret passageway in Anastasia's room. Rasputin confronts the two royals outside. They reach a moving train, but only Marie can climb aboard while Anastasia falls and is hitting her head on the platform. 


The story restarts at 10 years later. Russia is under communist rule, and Marie has offered 10 million rubles for the return of Anastasia; her granddaughter. Dmitri who is now a conman and his friend and partner Vladimir thus search for a fake Anastasia to present to Marie in Paris and get the reward. Elsewhere, Anastasia, now became "Anya," leaves the orphanage where she grew up. She has lost her memory after arriving there. She change her way from St. Petersburg to Paris after her necklace inspires her to seek out her family in Paris. Dmitri and his partner meet Anya and they decide to take her with them. 


Anya and Dmitri eventually reach Paris and go to meet Marie, but Anya must be answered at quiz from Marie's first cousin, Sophie, to approve her identity. Dmitri told Anya all the answers, but when Anya independently how young Dmitri saved her ten years ago, he finally realizes that she is the real Anastasia. Dmitri, having fallen in love with Anya, manages to change Marie's mind by showing her Anastasia's music box, which he had found after their escape. Anya's memory returns upon meeting Marie, and after using her necklace to wind the music box and singing the lullaby it plays, the two women are reunited at long last.


That night, at Anastasia's return celebration, Marie informs her Dmitri will leave her and tells her about his love. Anastasia wanders through a garden and onto the Pont, where she is trapped and attacked by Rasputin. Dmitri returns to save her, but he is injured and knocked unconscious. Anastasia manages to kill Rasputin by crushing the reliquary under her foot. With Rasputin's soul having been tied to the object, he turns to dust at the last.

Afterwards, Dmitri and Anastasia check each other’s love and then, Anastasia sends a farewell letter to Marie with promising to return someday. The story ends with the couple sharing a kiss at Paris. 

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Listening log6- Sherlock S1 E1-study in pink

SherlockBBC drama:70mingenre: mystery, drama  

John Watson was graduated British army and tries to find house in London. He can’t use his own leg and feel annoying about everything. He need to feel thrill. However, his friend introduces some strange, unique man. His name is Sherlock and he work by detective. Sometimes, he is really rude but genius. John starts to work assistant of him.




 They try to find evidence of crime. The police investigate the deaths of a series of people who all appear to have committed suicide by eating a poisonous pill. However, they have a trouble to find evidence and then, they call Sherlock and John. After a series of incidents, the person responsible for the deaths who work for a taxicab driver reveals that his victims took their own lives by playing a game of Russian roulette with two pills that one is fatally poisonous, and the other is safe. Their first working is called ‘study in pink’. 

Listening log5-Tangled

Rapunzel(Tangled)Animation;100min

    Long time ago, A drop of sunlight falls to the ground and grows into a magic flower, with the power to heal the sick and injured. One witch, Mother Gothel found that magic flower first and has kept it secret. However, centuries later, a kingdom has developed, ruled by a king and queen. The Queen becomes ill during pregnancy, and everyone try to find magic flower. The queen eventually gets the flower, is healed, and gives birth to a daughter; Rapunzel. Rapunzel's golden hair has the magical abilities of the flower.


   Gothel discovers this and tries to steal Rapunzel's hair from the King and Queen. However, once it is cut, the hair turns normal brown and loses its power. So she kidnaps Rapunzel and hides her in a tower for herself, and raising her as her own child. Every year, on Rapunzel's birthday, her parents release thousands of sky lanterns with a wish that the lost princess will return. Rapunzel has seen these over the years from her tower. Before her 18th birthday, she asks Gothel to take her outside for the annual floating lights as her birth day present, but Gothel refuses because she worries about runaway. However, Flynn Rider steals the tiara of the lost princess. Flynn outwits his coworkers and takes the tiara. He stumbles upon Rapunzel's tower. He climbs up it and succeed to go inside but is attacked by a frightened Rapunzel. When Gothel returns, Rapunzel tries to show her the captive but is fiercely ignored by Gothel. Gothel just tells her she is never leaving the tower. After Gothel leaves, Rapunzel takes Flynn out of her closet and asks him to bring her outside. Flynn said OK and their adventure starts. Mother Gothel worries someone will find Rapunzel. She returns to the tower to find Rapunzel gone and Rapunzel and Flynn Rider have escaped. 

   They arrive at the kingdom and Flynn takes Rapunzel to see the lanterns. However, Flynn is arrested and sentenced to death and from various clues she found during her adventure, Rapunzel realizes she is the lost princess. Flynn returns to the tower, and climbs up the tower to rescue rapunzel. Gothel injures Flynn and Rapunzel tells Gothel that she will never stop resisting unless she can heal Flynn. Knowing that Rapunzel keeps her word, Gothel agrees, but before Rapunzel heals him, Flynn uses a sharp piece of broken mirror to cut her hair. Then, it turns brown and loses its power. Gothel rapidly begins to recover her own age and stumbles around the tower. Rapunzel's pet chameleon, Pascal makes her fall out the window from the tower. Rapunzel tries to heal the Flynn, who declares his love for her. Rapunzel cries and sings the incantation. However, miracle is coming! One teardrop, filled with her power, lands on his cheek and revives him. 


  Back at the kingdom, the royal family has a reunion and the King and Queen also welcome Flynn into the family. Flynn then closes the movie, as a narrator with telling the audience that he and Rapunzel get engaged and will married. Everyone fulfill their individual dreams.

Listening log-4 Inception

Inception


mystery; 158 min 

  In a world where technology is able to enter the human mind through dream invasion, there are really clever thief group. They plan to change some person’s mind or indoctrinate some trick at target’s brain. Entering the subconscious minds of their targets by using two-level "dream within a dream" is very useful to extract valuable information for rival or enemy of target. 

  So it is illegal but Cobb and Arthur use their clever brain to do this crime. Mr. Saito who is very rich and rival of Cobol engineering company want to make Cobol’s new owner to decide to separate his all company. Because Cobb and Arthur need help, they decide to do that work. They plan 3-step of dream. It’s really dangerous so they gather friends. Ariadne is a student who studies architecture at the Sorbonne. She is really great architect so she build suitable dream for Cobb’s team. They have many problems but as a result, inception is succeed. However, we don’t know that Cobb can go back his home or not.

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listening log 3- illusionist

Illusionist

romance-106min
  

At the end of 20thcentury, Eisenheim was born the son of a cabinetmaker in Vienna. One day, Eisenheim meets a mysterious magician and learns how perform several tricks for him. He also falls in love with Sophie, the Duchess von Teschen, a noble woman. Although the lovers try to forbid their love, people know their love and make them separate. They meet secretly for a time until they are forcefully separated.

  Eisenheim then leaves home and travels the world. He returns to Vienna years later as a master illusionist. He meets Sophie again at one of his performances, when she is volunteered by Crown Prince Leopold as a participant in an illusion. He soon knows that Sophie is expected to marry the Crown Prince, who has a history of abuse towards women. After finishing another performance with Sophie, they realize that they are still in love. They plan to flee the Empire together, but first, something must be done to stop Leopold, who is given Crown of Austria from his aging father, the Emperor. Sophie knows that the Crown Prince will think her as disposable if she leaves him for another man and that he will have both her and Eisenheim and killed.

  Leopold finds out that Sophie has met with Eisenheim. While drunk, Leopold blames Sophie and accuses her unfaithful and misbehave woman. She tells him that she will not marry with him and support his plan. When she attempts to leave, it looks like that he kills her, with a sword cut across her neck. Unfortunately, Leopold's royal status makes no accusations. Eisenheim blames Uhl and others. He said that the murderer is crown prince and attempts to prove it by his performance. Eisenheim prepares a new kind of magic show, using mysterious equipment. During his show, Eisenheim leads many people to believe that he possesses supernatural powers. During this show, Eisenheim summons the spirit of Sophie, who says someone in the theater murdered her. And at that time crown prince is in there! And he panicked. Finally, Leopold orders Eisenheim's arrest. However, Eisenheim's body fades away like his summoned spirits.

  Uhl soon reveals to Leopold that he has found evidence that links the Crown Prince to Sophie's murder such as a jewel from the prince's sword and a locket that Eisenheim had given Sophie when they were children. After ordering, Leopold discovers that Uhl has already informed the Emperor and the General Staff of Leopold's conspiracy. As the Army arrives at his Palace to arrest him, Leopold shoots himself. 


  After that, Uhl goes train station to follow small thief who steal Sophie’s locket necklace. As the train leaves, Uhl puts the pieces together in his mind and discovered how Eisenheim faked Sophie's death and framed Leopold for the murder. When Uhl recognizes that, Eisenheim is walking up to a house in the country where Sophie is waiting for him

  I really liked this movie. When I was in high school student, my family and I used to go to see a movie at the midnight. i saw this movie at that time. It gave me so many effects and motivated me to study European cultures. 

listening log 2-500 days of summer

Romance;95 min

    This film is about Tom Hansen and Summer Finn’s 500 days of love story. They met at the company and became couple but broke up. Tom recollected his memory because he thought that he and Summer did not have a reason of break.

    On January 8, Tom meets Summer, the new assistant for his boss. Tom works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles but the most he want to do is architect. During the next few months, Summer and Tom grow closer. Even though Summer tells Tom that she does not believe in true love, and does not want a boyfriend, they become lovely couple. When they have a date, Tom shows Summer his favorite spot in the city, which overlooks a number of buildings he likes, although the view is spoiled by parking lots. After several months of dating, on day 290, Summer and Tom end their relationship after they see The Graduate, a film which Tom has been thinking that shoes true love. Tom does not believe the breakup well and panicked, so Tom's friends call his younger sister, Rachel, to calm him down.


    After they finished, a months later, Summer and Tom attend the wedding of a co-worker and Summer invites Tom to a party at her apartment. He attends the party, but leaves when he sees that Summer is wearing an engagement ring. Tom enters a deep depression, only leaving his apartment for alcohol and junk food. After a few days, he decides to find himself again by working as architect and starts to attend interviews. On day 488, Summer sees Tom at his favorite place and they talk. Tom says that he still can’t understand her actions. Summer explains that she discovered someone else who make her to feel something that she had never been felt about with Tom. She says she is glad to see Tom is okay. As she leaves Tom tells her that he really hopes she will be happy.


    At the last, twelve days later, he attends a job interview and meets a girl who is also applying for the same job. They talk, and Tom learns she shares his favorite spot. Before entering the interview, he makes a date to have coffee with her. He asks her name, and she replies "Autumn"

listening log 1-atonement

          Atonement 

   122 min; romance

This movie has awesome story line. And, I like the actor 'James McAvoy. He is very attractive actor. I have liked him since I saw him at the British drama "state of play." 

    This movie is about tangled love and how historical events effect individuals. There is story about 'atonement'. 

     In 1935, Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old girl from a rich family in England, had just finished writing a play. She wanted to practice this with her cousins but they just decided to go swimming. At that time, Briony showed a moment of sexual tension between her older sister, Cecilia and Robbie Turner, a servant's son. Unfortunately, Robbie was a man Briony felled in love with childish mind. Robbie wrote love letter for Cecilia and also wrote some erotic poem for just fun. He needed to prepare to go Tallis’s party so Robbie asked Briony to deliver his letter. However, he had a mistake that gave erotic poem to Briony.  She secretly read the letter and shocked about that.

    At that evening, Cecilia and Robbie met in the library and recognized their love of each other’s and made love. During the act, Briony watched that act through the opened door and mistakenly believed that Robbie was raping Cecilia. At dinner, the twin cousins have run away. Briony went out alone into the garden and was looking for them. However, she found that a man running away from her teenaged cousin Lola who was looked like raped. Lola said that she does not know her attacker, but Briony was sure that it was Robbie, and told her guess to everyone. Including the police, she claimed that she saw Robbie committed the act. Everyone believed her story – except for Cecilia. Robbie was arrested and sent to prison. 

    After Four years, Robbie was released from prison because of war and he joined the army. Before he leaved, he was reunited with Cecilia and promised to return. Briony became 18 years old; she had joined Nursing Corporation in London because she wanted to be useful role to the society. Later, Robbie, wounded and very ill, finally arrived at the beaches of Dunkirk. And then, Briony fully understood the impact of her lie so she visited Cecilia to apologize to her directly. Cecilia replied that she would never forgive her and Robbie confronted Briony. He demanded that she immediately told every truth to her family and reanalyzed the truth but Briony already knew who that person is. He was actually family friend Paul Marshall and he would not be implicated in a court of law because he had married Lola.

    However, decades later, Briony has an interview about her new novel, Atonement, which she has been working on for most of her adult life. Briony reveals that the book's ending is all fictional. In reality, Robbie actually died at Dunkirk while awaiting evacuation, and that Cecilia died a few months later as one of the flood victims in the tube station of the London Underground. So, Briony hopes that, by reuniting them and their life in her fiction, she can give them the happy conclusion to their lives that they always wanted to have. 

I think that this poster show well the main topic of this movie. 

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