Friday, September 28, 2018

Day Three Of The Movie
Jack Cavanaugh
Throughout the duration of the film, the criminal is presented as a malevolent man with no regard for human life. He thoughtlessly kills people day after day, and symbolically exemplifies what is means to be absolutely insane.

 In Class on Thursday, it was revealed to us that LuEllen's mother-in-law told a seemingly personable Mexican where they were headed, which was essentially where LuEllen was. Immediately after that, the police officer received a call from LuEllen's wife. She wanted to make sure that if she told the officer where he was that it would just stay between them. He promised her that it would. As this is going on, LuEllen meets a woman at the hotel pool, and she flirts with him and asks if he wants a beer, He responds, "No, I know what beer leads to." The woman quickly retorts, "More Beer." While not extremely important, that scene gives insight into what happens next.

A few minutes later in the film, the police officer arrives at the hotel. Upon his arrival, he notices that there is a bloody woman in the pool, and she is dead. He goes on to go into the hotel, and find a slew of dead bodies. One of those dead bodies, although not shown, is assumed to be LuEllen.

Shortly after, LuEllen's now widow arrives at the scene. Meanwhile, the killer is on the loose unscathed. She realizes that something had gone wrong at the hotel, and by the body language communicated by the police officer, we are forced to believe that LuEllen is dead.

After that, the focus returns to the criminal. LuEllen's wife returns to her house, only to find the criminal sitting on a chair scarily in her bedroom. He has his unique gun on his lap, ready to kill. The widow does not back down, and in fact refuses to call heads or tails, which would ultimately define whether she would be killed or not. It was not revealed to us what happened to her, but we are forced to believe that she was killed too. That is seen because as the criminal exits the house, he checks the bottom soles of his shoes for blood.

In conclusion, subjectively, I thought the film was phenomenal. It was suspenseful, intense, and really well made. The cast was tremendous, and it had a lot of different themes developing at the same time. Some of those themes included insanity, money, and loneliness. The criminal was insane, and would do anything he needed to do to get what he felt like he needed. The money was the overall goal for LuEllen, and that ended in his demise. We don't see characters as lonely much in the film, but the widow had to be lonely while LuEllen was on the run, and now dead. The movie would be given a good good rating by me, as it was very fun to watch, and would also appeal to somebody looking for a quality made production.

The homework today was to finish your revisions, and submit them in Classroom.

1 comment:

  1. Loved your analysis at the end! Great use of the Be Reel ratings. Don't forget to be on time! This would have been a perfect 20/20 post.

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