ANIMAL FARM REVIEW

        Last Tuesday, during my Critical Literacy class, I have watched a movie entitled “Animal Farm” which directed by George Orwell and was published in England on 17 August 1945. At first, I did not have any interested at all to watch this kind of movie since this movie was quite dull in the beginning. Furthermore, the pigs in this movie seem to be so tickle until made me felt like vomiting. However, after that, I became used to watch the movie that include the pigs, which can be considered as the main character, in it and started to understand about the storylines of it.

SYNOPSIS OF THE MOVIE

        The movie was about the animals that live in Mr Jones’s farm which trying to lead a happy life without being controlled by human being and in order to do that, they have to fight for their right. The animals in this movie include horse, dog, pig and many more. However, after they succeed to achieve what they want, they have been controlled by the pigs who claimed themselves as the leader.  As the time passes, the pigs became greedy and they just want to monopolize everything in their life. Napoleon, the greedy pig has chased the kind-hearted pig named Snowball from that farm and this making life harder for the other animals since Napoleon started to change the original Seven Commandments of Animalism.

One of the Seven Commandments of Animalism by Napoleon

        The whole story was aptly concluded by the last line, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which”. But still, I felt unsatisfied with the ending since I did not have any clue on what happened to Napoleon at the end. Is it died? What I know is the other kind animals got their new owners and still I did not get clue on how these animals will be treated since they have new owners now. 

FICKLE FRIENDS by KIRSTEN WEIR

For this week, I decided to read an article entitled “Fickle Friends” which written by Kirsten Weir. Weir is a science writer and editor who has an experience writing for newspapers, magazines, websites, and books that covering on topics from evolution and neurobiology. In this excerpt, she has written about her point of view about type of friends that known as “frenemies” that exist in this worldwide. The exact meaning of word “frenemies” is those who can be your friends; however at the same time that friends also can be your enemy.

Kirsten Weir

Have you ever experience a friend who will help you when you have a trouble but later on that “friend” will talk or gossiping about you without you knowing about that? As for me, I have experience that kind of situation throughout my life before this. It is kind of painful and bitter memories ever. That is what we called as “frenemies” since they can be by our side when we have difficulty but at the same time they will betray us. However, this is what I called as circle of life. It has been the most common thing that happened in our life nowadays.

QUALITY OVER QUANTITY

Human are an extremely social species. They thought it is important to have lots of friends than having good ones if they want to lead a happy life.For me, I think that the number of friends, on the other hand, had not given any significant effects towards human being.  What the use of having thousand of friends in your life, but yet it is hard for you to find friends that can be by your side when you were in trouble or not? But still, this sort of friends are very helpful for me in order to identify which one is the good and the bad friend ever throughout my life.

As conclusion, “frenemies” can be bad for your health but understanding these taxing relationships can make them less painful. It is all depends to us on how to manage these “frenemies”.

“No friendship is perfect, but frenemies are consistently imperfect”.

THE STEVE JOBS NOBODY KNEW by JEFF GOODELL

Steve Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 to Joanne Simpson and Abdul Fattah ‘John’ Jandali. He was an American businessman, inventor and designer. As we know, he had become a well known person due to his Apple products, iPad and iPhone that can be accepted by majority society all around the world. However, there is a second Steve Jobs that we do not know. This article entitled “The Steve Jobs Nobody Knew” which is written by Jeff Goodell will tell us who Steve Jobs is.

Steve Jobs

            In this article, Goodell has stated about Jobs ‘s attitude at his workplace. For instance, he treated his employees like puppets, an attitude that we cannot even imagine and expect came from this great man. As for me, eventhough he wanted his invention to be impeccable all the time, still this kind of attitude can be considered as inappropriate since Jobs was the best inventor ever. 

            From my point of view, maybe this bad attitude of Jobs was his real characteristic before he became the inventor of Apple. He just has to turn to new Jobs after he became a well known person so that he can gain trustworthy from others. Despite his bad side, Steve Jobs was the man who brought the human touch to our digital devices. Although he was died on 5 October, 2011 at the age of 56, everyone still remembered him as Apple’s founder and the great inventor ever.

“An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.”- STEVE JOBS-

"Much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented”-PRESIDENT OBAMA-

...MEN AND WOMEN ARE MERELY PLAYERS by ROBERT GREENE

Greene's book

This article comes from Robert Greene, an American author of well known books that discussed about power, seduction and strategy. A little brief about Greene is he was born on May 14, 1959 to a Jewish family in Los Angeles. Also, he has been graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in classical studies. His book entitled The 48 Laws of Power has been mentioned in certain songs by famous Jay-Z, Kanye West and others.

Robert Greene

                       Based on this excerpt, it can be seen that majority society made this temporary world as their stage by playing different characteristics from their true self in order to achieve highest power among them. Specific human being who hunger for power will become hypocrite in order to attain what they need in their life. As for me, I am totally agree with Greene's point of view regarding this topic.

           This world is not for the foolish people. If they want to obtain highest power within their life, they need to struggle on it.   A warning also has been given from the author for these genuinely innocent people to beware with specific general public that claim as non players because they might have lots of ways to obtain highest power within their life. For instance, they may act like innocent people in order to raise trustworthy from others to achieve highest position in one society. 

As the Great Machiavelli wrote " Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good".

                  In my opinion, this excerpt is such an interesting topic to be discussed about. Through this article, each individual can be alert of what happened in the worldwide. As for the strongest people, they will know that they still cannot manipulate certain people although they have pretended to be someone else in order to gain highest power because honesty is the best policy here. While, for the weakest people, they still can achieve power if they struggle more on it.

HORROR MOVIE : FROM HELL

          From Hell is a mystery horror movie which directed by the Hughes brothers and starring by Johnny Depp who played an important role as Inspector Frederick Abberrline. This movie was actually an adaptation from comic book series which talked about Jack the Ripper murders.

                  This movie quickly introduces you to Abberline, the visionary police officer who had to investigate murder cases which involved the prostitutes that happened in London. He and his assistant, Peter Godley were responsible to figure out who was actually the murderer of these all prostitutes. The killer was absolutely very cruel and heartless. He will cut his victims’ throat first to prevent them from screaming. Then, he proceeded to kill them like a ritual. On the other side, this movie brought you to know Mary Kelly, a young and beautiful prostitute. There is a connection between Mary Kelly and the victims where they were actually best friends. During the investigation, Abberline met Mary Kelly and both of them eventually fall in love with each other.

Johnny Depp as Inspector Frederick Abberline

Heather Graham as Mary Kelly

JACK THE RIPPER

             Jack the Ripper is an unidentified serial murderer who had kill lots of prostitutes in district of London in 1888. He can also be known as The Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. It is believed that there were five victims of Jack the Ripper. Amongst them were Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Kelly.

          In my opinion, this thriller movie was such an interesting movie. The plot of this movie went smoothly and I totally did not feel bored at all watching this movie. Plus, there were lots of unexpected scene happened along this movie. For example, at the last scene when Abberline died because he took too many drugs. I did not expect this scene will take place since I expect that Abberline will live happily ever after with Mary Kelly. Although this kind of things occurred, I still love this movie and wish to watch it again in the future.

*must watching movie

BIOGRAPHICAL MOVIE : THE PIANIST

         The Pianist is a biographical war movie which directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody who got an Oscar for his role. It was about Wladyslaw Szpilman ( Adrien Brody), a famous Polish Jews who was working as the pianist for Warsaw Radio. This story begins when the Nazis first arrived and started to take over their place. This has made them living in hunger, death and humiliation. It was a privileged when Szpilman is saved from a labour camp and this makes him hiding, battling illness and searching for his own foods in order to survive.

         Because of his determination and efforts to survive, he succeeds to bear up until to the end. I felt very satisfied when the Jews gets back their freedom while Szpilman returned to his normal life and started to play piano again. He is not a hero, but he is totally a survivor in this movie.

Adrien Brody

         At first, I thought this movie was really bored since I was the one who did not have any interest on war movie at all. Plus, I did not really get what they are talking about due to the sound system seems to be little bit slow. The scene when they talked in German also has made me lost since there is no subtitle available.  However, this movie has made my eyes opened widely when I watched the scene where Nazis, the heartless people has tortured and murdered an innocent people. For example, an old man in a wheelchair was thrown through a window by the Nazis. It was like I was in that movie and I can feel all those pains that the innocent people faced. Other scene that has touched my heart is when Szpilman was playing piano. The rhythm of the music sounds really wonderful. That was when I found out that this movie was actually an interesting movie.

         In my opinion, this movie has made me realize that I lived in such a harmony and peaceful country. I really cannot imagine how I will manage my life if I stayed in those cruel and heartless countries. As a Malaysian, we should be grateful since there is no symbol of torturing and murdering an innocent people in our country.

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