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.