Little Miss Sunshine

First off, I have to say that I thought that this was a fantastic movie! The family in the movie was absolutely hilarious. The producer and director did a great job with capturing every aspect of a completely dysfunctional family. I thought that all of the obstacles the family ran into added a great comedy aspect to the movie. My favorite parts of the movie would have to be when the family "stole" the deceased grandfather out of the window of the hospital, the family having to push start the van, and Olive doing a seductive dance at the beauty contest. I think that everyone would be able to relate to at least one of the dysfunctions of this family. This movie helps remind people that no one has a perfect life or a perfect family. I think that viewers were supposed to leave this movie realizing how much love a family still has for each other even when they aren't perfect.
I thought that the filming of this movie was very good. It captured great emotion, especially those of Olive and how she was oblivious to most of the problems amongst her family. I also think that the actors and actresses did a great job "being" their part in the completely dysfunctional family. I think that the seductive dance was a great way to end the movie, it was also surprising because throughout the whole movie the viewer is wondering what this little chunky girls talent could be and then at the end you finally are able to see it.
Overall, I think that this is a great family film that combines both comedy and unconditional love of a family all into one amazing film.

The Full Monte

I thought that this movie was very interesting. It was a good movie but at the same time it was a little shocking. It took me off guard when the men actually started to take all of their clothes off. However, after getting past this point of the movie, I thought that it was an excellent movie. I think that one of the main things the director/producer wanted people to get out of the movie was for people to see how much a parent will do for their children. I thought that this movie portrayed that lesson very well. Gaz wanted to be able to see his son so bad and you could tell that he was willing to do anything, even the "full monte," in order to achieve that. I enjoyed how much humor there was in this movie. I producer was able to capture a great lesson in this movie while at the same time incorporating some great laughs. The Full Monte definitely keeps the viewers attention throughout the entire film. I think that another lesson that could be learned from the film is that if you set your mind to something, anyone can achieve anything. No one would have ever thought that the group of men would have been able to pull off a strip show let alone make money on it. But they all had their minds set to it and they were able to achieve both things.
Overall, I think that this was a great, entertaining film that has a lot of lessons that can be learned from it.

Amelie

I was very shocked at the beginning of the movie, in America we aren't used to movies so openly talking about sex in the way they did in Amelie. We also aren't used to movies talking about orgasms as much as this movie did. That had to be the one thing that really stuck out to me as being very different with this movie. It was also different to watch a movie were you have to read subtitles the whole time; it was only the second movie I had ever watched that was this way. I think it is kind of neat in a way because you have to pay closer attention to the movie but at the same time I don' t care for it because you can't concentrate on the picture (or movie) as much because you are too busy trying to read the subtitles. I thought that the movie had good humor in it which is something that I think would be harder for a director to do in a movie that uses subtitles rather than the audience just being able to hear the jokes/humor.

I think that the movie is about a girl who has been lonely her entire life because she has lacked the love and compassion that she needed from her dad. Once she is older she decides to use her experiences of loneliness to help others around her. She first does small things to help people but then she discovers someone who is as lonely as she once felt (the man from the movie store) and she makes it her mission to help him. Amelie doesn't want other people to feel lonely because she knows how horrible that can feel. I also think that she might be helping these people because it makes her feel like she has a purpose and it probably made her not feel as lonely herself.

I think that we could learn from Amelie to take our own experiences and use them to help better other peoples lives. I also think that we could learn that you don't always need to be recognized or known about when we are helping people. We need to help people as an act of kindness not as a way to get recognition for ourselves. Amelie shows us this because she never let the man from the movie store know who she was that was helping him.