Melinda Sordino, is raped during the summer before the start of her freshman year in high school by Andy Evans, a popular senior. Melinda calls the police and the party is stop to a halt. When the people from the party find out she called the police she begins her freshman year as an outcast. She befriended only one girl, named Heather who was a new student from another state who was unaware of what had happened during the summer. Melinda was like a bunny rabbit who feared the wolf, who…
It is a British movie based on a play written by Willy Russell that narrates the relationship of the two main characters: Susan (who asks to be called as Rita at the beginning of the story) and Dr. Frank Bryant. Susan is a young lady who belongs to the working-class, she works as a hairdresser and is about to get marry with her boyfriend, even though, after knowing Dr. Frank Bryan, she experiences a sense of freedom that leads her to leave behind the oppression she is living with his boyfriend and to get rid of the patriarchal regime in which she is immerse. Dr. Frank Bryant is a middle-aged man who works in a university as a lecturer, he is an alcoholic who has taken the tutorship to pay for his drink; the play opens as 'Rita ' meets her tutor, Frank, for the first time.…
The movie portrays how the lack of parents guidance can make things difficult when you’re too young to make your own choices. In a very delicate scene April cries in a bathroom because she is afraid of the choices she has to make in order to get into an university. The drama brings the reality of the pressure such young people…
One day she finds an unused janitor’s closet, and she makes the room a ‘safe place’ she can go to for comfort. In Art class Melinda expresses her feelings into the trees she makes. They are usually gloomy and dark looking, and Mr. Freeman comments on one of her sculptures about it showing “pain.” Rachel, Melinda’s ex- best friend, starts dating Andy ‘Beast’ Evans but when Melinda tells her about him raping her, she accuses her of being jealous. Despite what Rachel says she dumps Andy during prom and accuses him of having raped Melinda in front of the other…
Although She’s been raised all her life in West Florida by her grandmother, whom she calls "Nanny," along with four white children in the Washburn household. She spends so much time with the white children that she doesn’t realize she’s black…until she sees a photograph of the family. After all the white children in the picture are pointed out and named, there’s only a dark, skinny girl left. In the moment of revelation, Janie cries, "Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!" The kids tease Janie relentlessly, using the story of Janie’s parentage to shame her. Everyone knows the part about the police sending bloodhounds hunting after her father because he slept with her mother. But, they keep the part about her father attempting to marry her mother hush-hush. Although Nanny’s worried that Janie will cruelly end up being used and treated like garbage by some man without her grandmother’s guidance while granny is getting up to age by the hour.. A man is that named Logan Killicks is interested in marrying Janie, but Janie is disgusted because of the huge age difference and because he "look like some ole skullhead in de graveyard.". Nanny accuses Janie of not wanting to be an honest wife and slaps Janie for her insolence. Sadly Nanny tries to explain to Janie where she’s coming from. Though it’s the early 1900s right now, Nanny grew up as a slave. Nanny describes a scene during the Civil War when her former master rode off to fight and she was left to face…
Thoughts of her skin and family consume Emma Lou, even at her high school graduation. She is the only "Negro pupil in the entire school,"[1] and this fact is made even more obvious by the white graduation robes the graduates wear, to the dismay of Emma Lou. The only thing Emma Lou can concern herself with is the color of her skin. Her graduation ceremony takes a back seat to thoughts about her skin.…
Francesca is an ordinary 16 year old Italian girl, living in the outskirts of Sydney, whilst starting a school that have just begun to accept girls. Francesca has been thrown into the deep end and is sinking real fast. As she has just left her old all girl school - St Stella's and now is finding it difficult to go on without her friends that always guide her identity. On top of this her rock, her mother Mia is suffering from depression and is no longer telling Francesca who she should be. Francesca has always been influenced by her mother and her St. Stella friends who she is and now that the connection is lost so is Francesca and her identity. Now that she has started at St Sebastian's Francesca is free to explore who she really is and be able to be her true self. Saving Francesca is one of the most prestigious books by creative author Melina Marchetta.…
This movie revolves around a young woman named Susanna in the 1960s who is experiencing mental issues and ends up in a mental institution. Her journey focuses on her relationship with several of the other patients and nurses. At first she doesn’t believe she is ill, and resists her treatment, instead befriending another patient, Lisa, who takes her on many adventures inside and outside of the hospital. Lisa leads her down the wrong path which ends in the death of a former patient. This event leads Susanna down the right path and she dives into focusing on making herself well.…
As she sits on a plane next to the very famous Roy Spivey, she forgets about her life and starts dreaming about life with Mr. Roy Spivey. She gets his phone number as they part, but she waits too long and misses the opportunity to call him. Her dream of a new life with him will never come true.…
The film is about two frustrated and confused young men called Derek and Danny. The father of Danny and Derek was murdered by a black man when he tried to out put out a fire in a slum. The "White power" leader in town, Cameron Alexander sees Dereks potential and recruits him as the leader for a neo-National socialism gang. One night Derek kills two black men who tries to steal his car. Dereks goes to prison for three years. While Derek is in prison,Danny goes in the same footsteps as his older brother. Danny writes an essay on "Mein Kampf" and the principal of the school puts him on a special class called "American History X" Derek comes out of prison as a new man, the prison changed his way of thinking since he became friend with a black man. Derek tries to make Danny understand that hate is not the answer but it's hard to unlearn something you've grown up with....…
Mrs. White - Herbert’s mother and Mr. White’s wife. Mrs. White is an intelligent and passionate woman. She shares her husband’s and son’s fascination with Sergeant-Major Morris’s stories and questions him just as eagerly as they do. She is lovingly attentive to her husband and son, although she also enjoys teasing them. Herbert’s death traumatizes Mrs. White, and she forces Mr. White to wish Herbert back to life.…
Sarafina is the story of a group of black-South African teenagers living through the apartheid in a poor area of the country called Soweto. This group of young students is led by one of their peers named Sarafina, a politically conscious young woman with a passion for music and a dream of becoming a star. The film follows Sarafina and the rest of the group as they learn about themselves and their oppression from their combination history and music teacher who strays from the classes approved syllabus and goes into topics that concern revolution and standing up for themselves. The students all ultimately turn against authority and commit criminal acts against the "white" enemy.…
n epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker. Full synopsis Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, HYPERLINK "http://www.fandango.com/willardepugh/overview/p58023" Willard E. Pugh…
One day her mother took her with her to work in a white family’s home. The girl liked it there. Everything was new and clean. She met the woman who lived there and played with her children in the garden.…
Romantic tales can take many forms; some are sugary sweet with illogical storylines and even more illogical conclusions. The film The Painted Veil (2006) by director John Curran, an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel, forgoes sugar for pungent truths. This story is steeped in the painful emotions of betrayal, resentment and the realities of marrying for the wrong reasons. Viewers are taken on a visually stunning and emotionally charged journey to the meat of the heart where love is not always gentle or syrupy, yet can bloom unexpectedly even when scorned and surrounded by death. The Painted Veil explores the devastating emotional consequences of infidelity, and the difficult, if not impossible, road to redemption and reconciliation. Set in 1920s China, The Painted Veil stars Edward Norton as an English middle-class, lackluster bacteriologist named Walter Fane who lives and works in Shanghai. While on a trip to London he meets and quickly proposes marriage to the young, selfish, upper-class socialite Kitty Garstin played by Naomi Watts. She irresponsibly accepts his marriage proposal, not for love, but to rebel against her mother. Walter whirls her away to Shanghai, where she quickly becomes bored and the two realize they have little in common and nothing to talk about. An immature and reckless young woman, Kitty engages in a sordid affair with a married British diplomat named Charles Townsend played by Liev Schreiber. Walter learns of their affair and is determined to punish his wife. He gives her two choices: either join him on a treacherous journey to a remote, cholerainfested village where he has volunteered his expertise, or endure the disgrace and embarrassment of a public divorce. Kitty reluctantly agrees to join Walter after Townsend, whom she professes to love, refuses to leave his wife. As revenge for his wife’s unfaithfulness Walter makes the journey to the village more arduous and unbearable than it needs to be. The resentment between the two…