Essays on Mute

Happiness has almost always been associated with money. This is particularly a general belief in more urban areas in which amenities and conveniences are almost always purchased by money. The argument of whether money could buy happiness or not is perennial. However, meanings of both money and happiness change over years not only for communities across ages but also for individuals over different life phases. For supporters of moneyed happiness, so to speak, happiness – interpreted as enjoying what modern life has to offer including all consumables and even spiritual practices – cannot only be achieved without money but is, in ...

Social Norms

The non-breaching experiment included being verbal during what were normally verbal orders in public places. The employee would have no knowledge of a disability on my behalf, and I would not use words or sign language of any kind to distinguish myself from those who hear and those who do not. Instead, I would simply enter various places and write my order down on a slip of paper, handing it to the employee without entering into a verbal exchange on my end. During my first interaction, the employee asked me how they could help me and I had written ...

The following analysis of Persona and Solaris reveals how movies from unlike countries and of different genres portray the development of opposite human personalities while losing or gaining humanity under the external influences and internal self-recognition. The attempts to create a fine movie about internal and external of human life do not often impress much, especially nowadays when we experience an endless flow of visual images. Probably, it inspires people to look back at the classic works that not only represent the unusual transformations in the forms of self but also produce extraordinary rhythms in the scenes (Tarkovsky 113). ...

The Wheel Response Paper

The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage Julia Boll Julia Boll, the author of “The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage”
is essentially trying to prove that this play is an example of this group of “theatrical representation(s) of both the individual and war in time of disintegrating national states and the dramatization of destruction versus survival” as currently being the driving forces on stage” (Boll 167). Boll argues that war is the ‘primary organizing principle of society’, implying that it could very simply break out where we least expect it including our own homelands. Although she points ...

Wong Kar Wai’s Fallen Angels (1995) is a strange, thought-provoking and exciting film about a hitman and his relationship with a cold, alienated partner, a mute, and a girl looking for a former lover. Throughout, we end up seeing just how transient relationships can be, especially within the world of professional killing. The alienation the hitman and the other main characters feel towards the world at large (and each other) provides an interesting perspective that is not normally found in a Hong Kong action film.

The opening shot of the film is very indicative of the theme of the movie as a whole. Two characters (Leon ...