My Review of The Elephant Man

To me, The Elephant Man was an amazing movie. The way they did the movie was great, such as having it in black and white – even though color was already being used in movies- which helped with the setting of the movie. The characters were great, especially John Merrick, the elephant man. While in the beginning, he is shown to be a bit of an idiot, you later on learn that he is quite intelligent and a very nice. He always is trying to do is best and ever since Dr. Treves took him to the hospital, he seemed to be very happy by all that they had done since before everyone was terrified of him. It seemed great when John was able to get back to the hospital after he was taken away by bytes. One thing that sort of got to me was the end, after he had completed making the church; he decided to try to sleep like a normal person, knowing very well that he would die by asphyxiation by trying to, yet in the end, he did it. Overall, I’d say that the movie was great and was enjoyable.

My Name is John Merrick

Today, Mr. Bytes was drunk. Even though it seemed liked he knew that I was sick, he still was angry at me. He had taken me to the monkey caged and locked me up, the monkeys kept screaming at me and I was helpless to do anything about it. Later in the night, these kind people took me out of the caged and helped me escape Mr. Bytes since that they probably knew it would only get worse if I stayed there with him. These fellow freaks took us through the forest and took me to a ship heading towards London. As I began to go on, one of them told me,"luck my friend, luck. Who needs more than we." On the ship, all I could think about was returning home, back to the hospital.

One time I laughed really, really hard

In 10^th grade, on our way to 5^th period, one of my friends would walk with this group of girls to class. We would kind of make fun of him since we knew that he wouldn’t be able to get with any of them. Well one day while we were hanging out, it a thought occurred to me so I told him, “I just realized, you’re like their gay friend huh?” (No offence). He was about to make say something but then he realized it too and just had a horrified look on his face. It was amazing because I had never seen him with that kind of expression before, well afterwards he had stopped going with that group to class. Now in this year, one of the girls that was part of this group was in my 6^th period class, I asked her if she would ever get with the friend I mentioned and then she said. “Nah, to me he’s sort of like a gay friend”, and when I heard that, I just broke out laughing for the fact that she even agreed on this, with me telling him about it later on.

Welcome to My Nightmare

Fear is a thing that can ruin a life. Fears can be different for everyone, some people fear speaking in front of a crowd while others fear the dark. Paranoia is something that leads to a fear, the people feeling like their being watched, they begin to fear everyone since they believe that everyone is out to get them. They would alienate themselves from society, just hiding from everything, pretty much ruining the chance of a normal life. A fear of speaking in public is pretty bad, for some events people have to say a speech in front of everyone or if your running for a position, you are most likely to have to say something to a large crowd of people. That fear of speaking in public will prevent your from getting that job or position you wanted. While fear has helped keep us alive in the past, now it can be considered a hindrance. 

Compassionate Science

Science can be used in so many different ways, it can be used to help others or get rid of them, to help the environment or destroy it, and it all depends on who is doing it. Compassion in science can be great, as shown by Mike Ebeling, who went to Africa, taught them how to use a 3-D printer to make prosthetic limbs, and gave one of them prosthetic arms to use since he had none. To do good with science, you need to work your hardest or you will just never be able to do it. While it might be hard, in the end you might be able to help a lot of people, possibly changing their lives for the better. You just have to have the will power and the knowledge to do so. Science can be beneficial or disastrous for everyone; it just depends on the people.

In the Future...

I think 10 years into the future; there will probably have more advanced technology, especially for gaming. One thing I’m really hopping for would be complete immersion into virtual reality, like you would actually feel that you were in the game, touching, smelling, and hearing everything that's going around you. Possibly finally figure out how to have unlimited energy for ships, there was a theory last month or two talking about how they might have figured it out so in 10 years they should have done it already, have gone to mars and possibly even further. We would have probably wasted more resources, with people finally believing in global warming and how our world is changing in a bad way because of us. Population would have grown a lot more, meaning more cities need to be created, meaning we are destroying some animal’s habitat in the process. We should have learned more of the ocean and what lurks beneath, or at least more that 5 or 10% since we only know around 1 or 2% of what’s going on down there. Medicine would have advanced a lot more, with people dying at a later age and in war, they have even more ways of killing one another using a full exoskeleton that increase there normal abilities to something overpowered or maybe using some new tanks that can go invisible.

Modern Times

Modern times is an amazing movie made in 1936 by Charlie Chaplin. To me the movie was funny, and I enjoying most of it. After learning that it was originally a talkie movie but was changed at the last minute, I’m wondering how it would have been if he went through with his original idea. My favorite part of the movie would have been when he is working night watch in the store and begins to roller skate and nearly falls off the edge multiple times while blindfolded. One thing I wanted more of was when he went to jail. They show him a couple of times going to jail but for most of it, they don’t really show anything about it. In my opinion, they probably could have done more with this. Even though this movie was created after the talkie revolution in 1927, it was still very good for a silent film.