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The identity difference between Tony and Don is really fantastic. In Smoke Signals, Thomas and Victor are very different from each other in personality. However, Tony and Don are different not only in personality, but in many aspects including speech and manner, education, social status, etc. Especially this difference is iconoclastic. Don, as a black person, is in the dominant position. While Tony is much ruder, and is in a position of being dominated (he takes the job for money). And Tony is casual and a little racist. As a white man, he has stereotypes and even despises the black men who come to his house. All these differences are prepared for the confrontation, and conflicts bring communication. In the job interview, we can see Don sits on a higher place, and Tony has to look up to see his face. Their seats hint their status difference.

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Thomas is my favorite character among the six films in the course. I love characters who are a little weird. He is a nerd, he tells weird stories all the time, and his hair is the same as his grandmother’s (really lovely!!!). Characters like Thomas are seemed to be an idiot at the beginning in the film, however, they are really intelligent because they look at things from different angles and they can always keep original. During their journey, Thomas asks him to change his looks: to free the hair and keep a mean face. And when Thomas comes out with a “wild hair”, he really looks like a “warrior”. However, when he puts on his glasses, he suddenly smiles and that kind and stupid Thomas comes back immediately. Of course people can not change or grow up simply by changing their looks.

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The Indian woman Lila impresses me in the film. Her mother-in-law steals her child, and the police refuse to help her. Racial discrimination seems to be the basic problem in the film. Even at the end, when Lila and the children finally enjoy the peace, Ray has to go to jail for four months. Her time is shorter than Lila because Ray is a white. The police in Frozen River reminds me of another film Chinatown. The film plot has nothing to do with the Chinatown, but there is a story behind it: the police ignore most criminal events happened in Chinatown because they share distinct cultural differences with immigrants. If they interfere in affairs, they do not know whether they deter crime or assist it. So this may be another reason of the police’s ignorance, though they stand on the same land with immigrants and Indians, and they are all legal citizens, they still do not identify with them.

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“Hold that tiger” is a line sung by Tucker in many joyful and exciting occasions. Tucker would repeat this line when he gets excited from his dreams, when the problems get solved, and when his dream comes true. I think this line best represents Tucker’s ambition. We know that holding a tiger with bare hands is almost impossible. And Tucker’s dream is to build “the car of tomorrow” from nothing. I think the theme of the film is to make the impossible possible and to go from rags to riches. People need to take risks of “holding a tiger”. Tucker need to achieve impossible goals from politicians, he almost goes to jail when his career has just begun, and his working condition is tough and full of danger. The line “hold that tiger” cheers him up and supports him.

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Mini Movie Review 3: Pray the Devil Back to Hell 

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Mini Movie Review 3: Pray the Devil Back to Hell 

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Child soldiers are one of the most serious problems. The warlord choose them since they are easy to control, they haven’t developed a rational mind, and they can be influenced and stirred up with little effort. Once they are equipped with guns, they take everything they want wherever they go, and become a powerful and dangerous weapon for warlords. However, when the peace agreement was finally implemented, these women said, “how can we move on if we don’t forgive?” Unfortunately, I think forgiveness is the only solution for these women. They cannot ask these children to pay back. In the documentary, we can see these children rob and kill, but we also notice that they suffer from hunger and pain. They get killed or lose limbs in the war. Indeed, child soldiers are also victims. They are the sacrifice of the warlords who start the war because of their own selfish greed. So when I see this picture (children go back to their parents), I know that the problem of child soldiers is waited to be solved. They are not the devils that should go to hell, but children who should go back to their parents' arms.

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I notice that family issue is a serious problem for Dolores after watching the film. To farmworkers and Mexican-Americans, Dolores is a heroine. She fought for workers’ rights, led the boycott, changed rules, and brought new contracts. It is lucky of people to have a hero, but it seems unlucky to be a hero’s children. Many interviews in the documentary are from Dolores’s children. They are proud of their mother. However, when talking about their childhood, they say that “there are scars.” It is unsolvable since a hero/heroine needs to sacrifice. In many films with female protagonists (especially science fiction, fantasy, etc) such problems are usually ignored. The protagonists are either too young or just do not have children (superhero films like Black Widow, feature films like Pretty Woman, Thelma&Louise, etc). It is rare to have a woman with children as a protagonist because of a wife’s submissive position in the traditional family pattern. But Dolores shows us the reality.

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I am deeply impressed by Erin’s effort and persistence after watching the film. But I think the development of her character can be improved. Her identity, a single mother with three kids and an unemployed person, is enough. I do not think it is necessary of her to be a beauty queen, especially when she begins to solve her problems through her beauty. A female protagonist can be beautiful, but if she uses her beauty to get her problems solved, I think it will lead to an illusion that beautiful women can get what they want simply by being beautiful. Some male characters are also good looking, but they seldom achieve something by their handsome looks. It is true that Erin is very capable and hard-working. But when Erin is asked that “You think if you got no uterus and no breasts, you’re still technically a woman”, her answer is very positive and warm. And I think that answer is not that convincing when she simply gets the important documentary at last by a man who tries to flirt with her.