Read
these two movie reviews, then analyze them by comparing the social function,
generic structure and language features between those reviews!
Movie Review 1
Peace of Autumn
Cliff
(Joseph Arnone) is a suicidal war vet.
Kora
(Daniella Alma) is a street artist with a penchant for truth-telling and
meaning.
When their paths cross, they change each other's life
forever within the short span of a unique yet believably authentic friendship.
It's a friendship that leads them down a path they could have never anticipated.
A Peace of Autumn is an intellectually
satisfying and emotionally resonant film that tackles the challenge of two
quite substantial characters within the span of a short film running just over
seventeen minutes in length. Both characters end up being people you want to
know, Cliff's despair obvious and real and filled with the kind of rage that intimidates
yet compels. It's also easy to understand exactly what draws Kora into the
situation, perhaps something within herself as both a human being and an artist
- if, indeed, one can actually separate those two anyway.
Joseph Arnone, who stars in the film along with serving as
writer and director, creates such a multi-layered character that you're never
completely clear where everything is going, while Daniella Alma's Kora oozes
compassion and vulnerability. Together, the two create a story that draws you
in even when you think, and I stress think, you have everything figured
outArnone also lenses the film and he does so with an eye toward the awkward
intimacy that exists between these two, a friendship borne out of what is both
spoken and unspoken between the two A Peace of
Autumn has only recently been finished and should have no
problem finding a home on the indie and underground film fest circuit where its
heartfelt story will companion a program of dramatic shorts quite nicely
Movie Review 2.
A Beautiful
Silence
It was only a year or so ago that I found
myself reaching yet another crossroads in my faith journey. After having
attended seminary and grown in ministry within my Anabaptist denomination, I
found myself disillusioned by not just belief systems but how those belief
systems were being lived out within the life of the denomination.
The more I grew in leadership, the more it
bothered me.So, I turned in my ministry license and moved away from a ministry
path that I I found conflicting even as I loved the many people I'd gotten to
know over the years.
I thought about this faith journey often
while watching Steven Adam Renkovish's meditative and thought-provoking short
film A Beautiful Silence, a
film that he professes was at least partially borne out of his own
disillusionment with the church and the legalism contained within. What A Beautiful Silence projects
so beautifully is that divine awkwardness found between faith and doubt, an
awkwardness that longs for authenticity yet reaches and too often finds
artificial expressions of the divine experience.
While it may sound like A Beautiful Silence is a
faith-based film, it is not a faith-based film. While it may very well resonate
most deeply with progressive Christians, I'd also dare say that those who've
led a more disciplined spiritual life will identify with the doubts and fears
and anxieties expressed by Brittany Renee Smith in the film. Smith, who also
co-wrote the film, gives a relaxed, natural performance that feels less like
performance and more like we've become observers to a journey deep within her
soul.
While some who've praised A Beautiful Silence have
mentioned Malick and Von Trier, I found myself contemplating the works of Van
Sant, especially films such as Gerry and
the recent The Sea of Trees, the
latter being a film a good majority of the world seemed to hate yet I adored.
A Beautiful Silence is a
refreshingly honest film, not entirely devoid of hope yet also refusing to
create a false sense of hope for the sake of somehow honoring the faith
journey. The film has already been an official selection at over a dozen indie
film fests, while it Renkovish picked up the prize for Best Director at the
Franklin County International Film Festival. The film has also been nominated
for prizes at the Blackbird Film Fest and Smoky Mountain Film Festival.
Filmed in and around Greenville, South
Carolina, A Beautiful Silence captures
the simple beauty of the surroundings yet also captures the wounded soul of a
young woman struggling with God, faith, meaning and the world around her. It's
an experience that is likely familiar to many persons of faith, yet an
experience not often portrayed with such honesty on the big screen.
A Beautiful Silence doesn't
project easy answers. Indeed, that appears to be an intentional choice as the
journey itself isn't easy and the answers you may discover will be uniquely
your own. If there's a divine purpose behind A Beautiful Silence, it's the realization,
perhaps, that we are not alone in our faith and we are not alone in our doubts
and wherever we go there's at least a sliver of hope that we can discover
somewhere, someway within that beautiful silence.
©
Written by Richard Propes
The Independent Critic
The Independent Critic
http://theindependentcritic.com/a_beautiful_silence
Complete
the Following Table Analysis
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Peace of Autumn
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Beautiful Silence
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Social
Function
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to appreciate or to critic
a movie.
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to appreciate or to critic
a movie.
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2.
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Generic
structure
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Orientation/Introduction:
Cliff (Joseph Arnone) is a suicidal
war vet.
Kora (Daniella Alma) is a street
artist with a penchant for truth-telling and meaning.
When their paths cross, they change
each other's life forever within the short span of a unique yet believably
authentic friendship. It's a friendship that leads them down a path they
could have never anticipated.
Evaluation:
A Peace of Autumn is an
intellectually satisfying and emotionally resonant film that tackles the
challenge of two quite substantial characters within the span of a short film
running just over seventeen minutes in length.
Interpretative
recount:
The two create a story that draws you
in even when you think, and I stress think, you have everything figured out.
Evaluative
summation:
Arnone also lenses the film and he
does so with an eye toward the awkward intimacy that exists between these
two, a friendship borne out of what is both spoken and unspoken.
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Orientation/Introduction:
It was only a year
or so ago that I found myself reaching yet another crossroads in my faith
journey.
Evaluation:
A Beautiful Silence is a refreshingly
honest film, not entirely devoid of hope yet also refusing to create a false
sense of hope for the sake of somehow honoring the faith journey.
Interpretative
recount:
A Beautiful Silence captures the
simple beauty of the surroundings yet also captures the wounded soul of a
young woman struggling with God, faith, meaning and the world around her.
It's an experience that is likely familiar to many persons of faith, yet an
experience not often portrayed with such honesty on the big screen.
Evaluative
summation:
A Beautiful Silence doesn't project
easy answers.
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3.
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Language
features
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Adjective:
Clear, awkward.
Complex Clause :
When their paths cross, they change
each other's life forever within the short span of a unique yet believably
authentic friendship.
Metaphore:
A friendship borne
out of what is both spoken and unspoken.
Tense:
Present simple and past simple
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Adjective:
Faith, doubt, good, hate,
honest, easy.
Complex
Clause :
I
thought about this faith journey often while watching Steven Adam Renkovish’s
meditative and thought-provoking short film A Beautiful Silence.
While
it may sound like A Beautiful Silence is a faith-based film, it is not a
faith-based film.
While
it may very well resonate most deeply with progressive Christians, I’d also
dare say that those who’ve led a more disciplined spiritual life will
identify with the doubts and fears and anxieties expressed by Brittany Renee
Smith in the film.
While
some who’ve praised A Beautiful Silence have mentioned Malick and Von Trier,
I found myself contemplating the works of Van Sant.
Metaphore :
An experience not
often portrayed with such honesty on the big screen.
Tense:
Present simple and past simple
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