The Crush Review
Essay #1: The Crush (2010)
The Crush by director Michael Creagh is a successful short film, which won the Oscar prize for this genre in 2010. The film was also produced in 2010 with the setting in Ireland.
The film delivers the message of love and truth by the story of an eight-year-old schoolboy, who has a crush on his teacher. He gives a toy ring to her teacher to announcing his love. He lists “marry Ms. Purdy” on the first page of his ten year plan and tries to look as an adult to draw the attention of his beloved teacher with a big-size jacket and a polished leather pair of shoes. The rising action occurs when he sees his teacher wearing an engage ring, going shopping hand-in-hand with her fiancé. He is even more angered when noticing the fiancé is insensitive and treats his teacher with neglect.
The conflict is led to climax when the little boy challenges the fiancé to a duel to the death. As “death cancels everything but truth”, confronting the boundary between life and death, the fiancé confesses his love for the teacher is just made up obligation. Achieving his aim, the schoolboy decides to shoots the fiancé and the gun turns out to be a fake one to the surprise of the deceitful fiancé. Till this shot, every conflict of the film has been resolved.
In the falling action, the teacher now realizes the “true love” her fiancé promises her and she decides to call off the engagement. In the ending, the little boy goes home with his teacher and agrees to “keep this between ourselves”. He says his crush is over but she should find someone really deserves her.
With a short time frame, the writer of this short film has dug deep into creativity to polish up every detail. The three words “reveal, pretend, love” on the board appearing right from the beginning scene is one of those creative and meaningful details. Without careful attention, many audiences may miss this important detail, which is a delicate way that the writer implies the whole message of the
The Crush by director Michael Creagh is a successful short film, which won the Oscar prize for this genre in 2010. The film was also produced in 2010 with the setting in Ireland.
The film delivers the message of love and truth by the story of an eight-year-old schoolboy, who has a crush on his teacher. He gives a toy ring to her teacher to announcing his love. He lists “marry Ms. Purdy” on the first page of his ten year plan and tries to look as an adult to draw the attention of his beloved teacher with a big-size jacket and a polished leather pair of shoes. The rising action occurs when he sees his teacher wearing an engage ring, going shopping hand-in-hand with her fiancé. He is even more angered when noticing the fiancé is insensitive and treats his teacher with neglect.
The conflict is led to climax when the little boy challenges the fiancé to a duel to the death. As “death cancels everything but truth”, confronting the boundary between life and death, the fiancé confesses his love for the teacher is just made up obligation. Achieving his aim, the schoolboy decides to shoots the fiancé and the gun turns out to be a fake one to the surprise of the deceitful fiancé. Till this shot, every conflict of the film has been resolved.
In the falling action, the teacher now realizes the “true love” her fiancé promises her and she decides to call off the engagement. In the ending, the little boy goes home with his teacher and agrees to “keep this between ourselves”. He says his crush is over but she should find someone really deserves her.
With a short time frame, the writer of this short film has dug deep into creativity to polish up every detail. The three words “reveal, pretend, love” on the board appearing right from the beginning scene is one of those creative and meaningful details. Without careful attention, many audiences may miss this important detail, which is a delicate way that the writer implies the whole message of the