Someone wanna help me with a project?

AmyFett · September 2012

Precious or The Blind Side?

SLE0803 · September 2012

slumdog millionaire? Great movie

SLE0803 · September 2012

the boy in the striped pajamas

innocenceportrayed · September 2012

Never seen slumdog millionaire or the boy in striped pajamas.

I'm going to scour netflix soon

magj0y · September 2012

What is the course? It's called Social & Cultural Class? That's super vague
What does your prof mean by "significant diversity content"? ...that is also vague to me... knowing what the course topics you have discussed would help

That is the course, Social & Cultural (Psychology) and I have NO idea what she means by that, honestly I can hardly understand half the crap she says because her Nigerian accent is so thick.

Social and Cultural psychology...

Ok, the assignment makes perfect sense to me. Watch a movie that involves cultural diversity/contention.
How does the movie make you -feel
Does the movie -enlighten you- about this specific cultural contention?

Lets look at
The Milagro Beanfield war
It's about a rich community next to an ag community. A rich white dude wants to divert natural water flow to their community and keep it from the farmers. And a guy dies, which is pretty cool because you don't really know he's dead unless you pay attention.

Boys Don't Cry,
It's about a a girl, who dresses and acts like a boy and falls in love. 'he' is found out and brutally assaulted Story is about Brandon in the midwest.

Stand and Deliver
hispanic math teacher who encourages kids in LA to do better at math to get a high enough score to do good on the SATs and get into college. The class is diverse and and there are parts on each ethnic character and how education isn't very easy in their parts.

what I believe the teacher is looking for is how movies enlighten other people psychologically on other cultures and allow for them to have an understanding and empathy for them.

PASS ON THE BOY IN STRIPED PAJAMAS. Read the book, the movie is super hard, or at least find out what it is about before you do it! OMG, the book alone made me cry!!! I can't go see the movie. just can't.

**Grand Canyon is an easy watch and the cultural differences span greatly but tie together nicely. I would suggest this one as there are enough characters to easily get you through the 5 minutes because with in the movie, the characters are learning empathy with their individual circumstances and experiences.

***Stand and Deliver will also get you through the 5 minutes for the same reason.
You can get through your 5 minutes by how this movie changed your pre-conceived ideas about these people. While the gran canyon is a stacked deck of actors/actresses, stand and deliver is stacked with poor diversity and struggling to get ahead or stay afloat. Both is set in LA

innocenceportrayed · September 2012

What is the course? It's called Social & Cultural Class? That's super vague
What does your prof mean by "significant diversity content"? ...that is also vague to me... knowing what the course topics you have discussed would help

That is the course, Social & Cultural (Psychology) and I have NO idea what she means by that, honestly I can hardly understand half the crap she says because her Nigerian accent is so thick.

Social and Cultural psychology...

Ok, the assignment makes perfect sense to me. Watch a movie that involves cultural diversity/contention.
How does the movie make you -feel
Does the movie -enlighten you- about this specific cultural contention?

Lets look at
The Milagro Beanfield war
It's about a rich community next to an ag community. A rich white dude wants to divert natural water flow to their community and keep it from the farmers. And a guy dies, which is pretty cool because you don't really know he's dead unless you pay attention.

Boys Don't Cry,
It's about a a girl, who dresses and acts like a boy and falls in love. 'he' is found out and brutally assaulted Story is about Brandon in the midwest.

Stand and Deliver
hispanic math teacher who encourages kids in LA to do better at math to get a high enough score to do good on the SATs and get into college. The class is diverse and and there are parts on each ethnic character and how education isn't very easy in their parts.

what I believe the teacher is looking for is how movies enlighten other people psychologically on other cultures and allow for them to have an understanding and empathy for them.

PASS ON THE BOY IN STRIPED PAJAMAS. Read the book, the movie is super hard, or at least find out what it is about before you do it! OMG, the book alone made me cry!!! I can't go see the movie. just can't.

I've wanted to see Boys Don't Cry for so long! I don't think netflix has it and there's no place around here to rent, but I'll definitely check. It'd be perfect for me. I just emailed her about Schindler's list to check and make sure it's okay. She's sooooooooooooo picky and I'm a transfer student so even though I'm on the dean's list and in Psi Chi I cannot seem to please this woman, especially since my APA skills are sub-par(last school didn't make us know APA which is ridiculous considering it's the only one used in most sciences!)

Fat2Fit4Life · September 2012

Amelie

magj0y · September 2012

What is the course? It's called Social & Cultural Class? That's super vague
What does your prof mean by "significant diversity content"? ...that is also vague to me... knowing what the course topics you have discussed would help

That is the course, Social & Cultural (Psychology) and I have NO idea what she means by that, honestly I can hardly understand half the crap she says because her Nigerian accent is so thick.

Social and Cultural psychology...

Ok, the assignment makes perfect sense to me. Watch a movie that involves cultural diversity/contention.
How does the movie make you -feel
Does the movie -enlighten you- about this specific cultural contention?

Lets look at
The Milagro Beanfield war
It's about a rich community next to an ag community. A rich white dude wants to divert natural water flow to their community and keep it from the farmers. And a guy dies, which is pretty cool because you don't really know he's dead unless you pay attention.

Boys Don't Cry,
It's about a a girl, who dresses and acts like a boy and falls in love. 'he' is found out and brutally assaulted Story is about Brandon in the midwest.

Stand and Deliver
hispanic math teacher who encourages kids in LA to do better at math to get a high enough score to do good on the SATs and get into college. The class is diverse and and there are parts on each ethnic character and how education isn't very easy in their parts.

what I believe the teacher is looking for is how movies enlighten other people psychologically on other cultures and allow for them to have an understanding and empathy for them.

PASS ON THE BOY IN STRIPED PAJAMAS. Read the book, the movie is super hard, or at least find out what it is about before you do it! OMG, the book alone made me cry!!! I can't go see the movie. just can't.

I've wanted to see Boys Don't Cry for so long! I don't think netflix has it and there's no place around here to rent, but I'll definitely check. It'd be perfect for me. I just emailed her about Schindler's list to check and make sure it's okay. She's sooooooooooooo picky and I'm a transfer student so even though I'm on the dean's list and in Psi Chi I cannot seem to please this woman, especially since my APA skills are sub-par(last school didn't make us know APA which is ridiculous considering it's the only one used in most sciences!)

**I re-edited my list, so check it out. Ask for grand canyon or stand and deliver, the others are really harsh. She's probably never even heard of The Milagro Beanfield War. Lord of the Flies is a good one, not too intense but sheds a lot of light on the social workings of the teenage mind, psychologically.
The reason you don't want super sad is because you will have to give you a speech on a movie that made you cry. Yes it's moving..touching, real.. and will make you cry like a baby. getting through that kind of speech will make it that much harder.
for this, she'll probably accept stand and deliver.

windycitycupcake · September 2012

Hotel Rwanda:

The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

“In three short, cruel months, between April and July 1994, Rwanda experienced a genocide more efficient than that carried out by the Nazis in World War II. The killers were a varied bunch: drunk extremists chanting ‘Hutu power, Hutu power’; uniformed soldiers and militia men intent on wiping out the Tutsi Inyenzi, or ‘cockroaches’; ordinary villagers who had never themselves contemplated killing before but who decided to join the frenzy.”

Never condemned by the international ‘community,’ the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) 'struggle’ was supported by powerful western agents and institutions, including the World Bank and the IMF, who shackled Rwanda with austerity programs in perfect synchronization with the RPF assault. This led to the heightened inculcation of structural violence throughout Rwanda.

The majority of people in Rwanda, besieged by the propaganda of competing factions—a spectrum of political interests aligned with or against the RPF or the Rwanda government of Juvenal Habyarimana—found scapegoats according to their positions in society.

Economic interests predominated as a few elites increasingly controlled the life or death of the many. The rising insurgency and structural violence provoked hostility amongst and between groups, and elites controlling media outlets of all stripes began to use their venues to sow ethnic rivalry as the veneer for the deeper agenda: class warfare.

The racism and segregation that played out in the Rwanda cataclysm of 1994, where there were very different conditions and outcomes between whites and blacks, continues to be played out today.

The telling and re-telling of the Rwanda ‘genocide’ story by its very nature revolves around a system of institutionalized segregation. Powerful whites in powerful ‘gatekeeper’ positions in the West hold a virtual monopoly over the information.

Alongside of them are the select voices of non-whites who validate the predominant discourse. These ‘experts’ include Alison des Forges; Roméo Dallaire; Philip Gourevitch; Victoria Brittain; Samantha Power; Mahmood Mamdani; and many, many others.

If truth is the first casualty in war, then those of us who are lucky observers must endlessly work to resurrect it.

In Central Africa, today, truth mingles with the souls of the dead, forsaken amidst the unheard cries of some seven million—mostly innocent people—whose life on this earth ground to a gruesome, meaningless conclusion.

Brendajo510 · September 2012

I'm terrible with these things because I always prefer something a little different. Beauty and the Beast, Thumbelina, Rent. Dances with Wolves is a good movie.

Rachelle_Ohh · September 2012

OMG I HAVE THE PERFECT TWO MOVIES!!!!

Gummo or KIDS. Both by Harmony Korine. I know Gummo is on full video on Netflix and Youtube.

randomtai · September 2012

Go with a comedy.... Trading Places

Rachelle_Ohh · September 2012

Gummo

Gummo is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine, starring Jacob Reynolds, Jacob Sewell and Chloë Sevigny. The film is set in Xenia, Ohio, a small Midwestern town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado. The loose narrative follows several main characters who find odd and destructive ways to pass time, interrupted by vignettes depicting other denizens of the town.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0NhA4dqI08

KIDS

The film features Chloë Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Harold Hunter, and Rosario Dawson, all of them in their debut performances. The film is centered on a day in the life of a group of sexually active teenagers in New York City and their unrestrained behavior towards sex and substance abuse (alcohol and other drugs) during the era of HIV in the mid-1990s.

Kids created considerable controversy upon its release in 1995, and caused much public debate over its artistic merit, even receiving an NC-17 rating from the MPAA.[4] It was later released without a rating and grossed $20 million at the worldwide box office.