Blog 5: Precious

The Precious movie trailer consists of various clips showing a young, pregnant girl living in an abusive home. Precious is a heart touching documentary about a pregnant teen who lives in Harlem who has gone through many drastic and horrible obstacles such as being raped twice by her own father. Throughout the movie trailer many clips are shown, showing the different actors and actresses. At the end of the trailer simple sentences about life being simple, rich and precious are shown. These three sentences tie in the entire movie and the life story of Precious. In the trailer scenes of the abuse Precious goes through and the happiness she is able to find is seen. The background music in the trailer goes from sounding like there is danger and sad and becomes happy and joyful. The music goes perfectly with the movie because in the end there is a very happy ending. From this trailer, I would highly recommend this movie because it looks like it will be an inspiring and uplifting movie.

Blog 4: Up in the Air

Up in the Air is a transporting comedy that takes the viewer through a turbulent romance, the tops and turns of a cratering economy and takes George Clooney, playing Ryan Bingham, on the ride of his life. Ryan's job is to fire people from their jobs which causes him to travel back and forth all the time. He has a very sterile apartment in Omaha, Nebraska but is very rarely home because of his high traveling job. When firing people from their jobs Clooney explains to them that this is just an opportunity for them to grow and make the best out of their lives. The movie is very flight forward, flying you from city to city watching Ryan Bingham fire many people. Natalie(Anna Kendrick) comes into the film about halfway through where she dismisses Ryan calling his style of firing people old and not modern.
The movie was very good and created a very flightful feeling. The appearance of actual workers being laid-off made the idea of recession more personal. The twist at the end was executed very well and left you thinking and talking about the movie after.

Less Privacy is Good for Us (and You)

The article by Amitai Etzoni discusses how the government is the "big brother" in today's society. Etzioni discusses with examples how the privilege Americans have with privacy has changed throughout the years. Today we are faced with obstacles that could ultimately change how much privacy we actually have. The question raised after the article was how does Etzioni's article help readers to see the complexity of privacy issues? Etzioni does a great job in explaining the issue of privacy today. Some of the examples that impacted me include the HIV testing as part of prenatal care, biometrics in the future, and bosses and neighbors listening in or getting into personal information. In my opinion I don't feel the government is listening into all of out phone calls because there can't be someone that does that all the time. I feel that the government only does it, if they actually do, in situations pertaining to the lives of others. The issue of women being tested for HIV and it being an issue of privacy I can't seem to grasp. I feel that a woman should want to know if they have HIV to protect the child they are soon to conceive. They should want their child to have the best of health they can.