Parinoch Chea
05/05/02
Knowledge, Art & Power
Dr. Jamie P. Ross
Film Review 3


Cradle Will Rock

   The Cradle Will Rock is one of the movies that are hard to understand.  I had watched this movie in the beginning until the end; still it gave the difficult time to put it together.  I think this movie is about the communist party, union and the civilians. Communist are the bad people and try to take a command over everything. Union are the people that are in the middle and try to help things to get better. If this movie is true like what I first understood, I could relate it to my personal experience.
Living in a large family is not an unusual thing. I have two sisters and two brothers; I am a youngest one in the family.  Carter and I are in college and the rest are working.  Both of us always have the assignments that require computer typing and researching.  At home, we have only one computer, so we usually fight over it.  When it comes to computer time, Carter seems to be a mean brother.  He always uses it to chitchat with friends or check out video game online.  One day, I was doing typing and research for information online.

Carter opened the door and said, “Get out, I need that computer… right now”.  I was very mad at him because my assignment was due the next day.  I rose up from the chair and gave him an angry looked.  I said, “Why you are doing this to me again, do you know that my homework is due tomorrow?  You are my older brother, but it does not mean that you can do whatever you wanted to do.  You just got back from school and why do you still want to use it.  I know that you got your homework done, so do not make it as your excuse, ok?”  Then still sat down on the chair and still my hands are on the keyboard bottoms.  Carter put his shoe away and come to the computer desk.  Carter said, “I do not care! Get out! I need this computer! Right now!…… Why you are not staying in school to finish your work?”  I had no response.  For a growing up girl like me, my parents do not let me stay up late in school. Carter could stay up whenever he wants to because he is a boy.  To my parents that still have Cambodian traditions, they thought that for boys would be fine if they want to do something.  If we think back to the movie, we can say that my brother is a communist against me.  I am a civilian and my parents sometimes are the one that is union.  My parents were worry and loved me that was why they do not want me to stay late in school by myself.  They also give me the warm and confident with school and personal problems.  Sometimes the way they think are communist because they still think of themselves and cares about what their traditional thoughts, they do not want to understand me.

In the Cradle Will Rock, there is a man that tries to write the songs by his imagination.  When he writing his song, he always imagine the things is happening.  He has every focus and direction to every characterizes of people.  I like his character in this movie because when I decide to do things, I would think of both ways, good and bad.

Convince:
Cradle Will Rock has a strong impact on history after the grate depression and a love for art.  Express our feeling through the art of drama, how interesting is that?  It helps you of any experiences when you are in the situation of judgment.  Being a judge, of course you have to find out any positive and negative things of your victims.  So this movie will show you how can a person could understand both good and bad through out his imagination putting together of music.  Also it is a relaxing through the rhythms of music, art and acting.

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