"Sicko"

Universal Health Care? How come Americans don't have it? Do they even realise how amazing and wonderful it is compared to other countries, who don't have to be put on a waiting list for surgery or other medical needs. This is what Michale Moore's movie Sicko was all about. Why we as Americans don't have universal health care.

He starts the movie off in a very eye opening way if I may say so myself. He shows a man who can not afford heath insurance stitch up his own knee. Then he goes into detail on other people's life's who have been hit hard from not being able to afford health care because they get turned away due to pre-existing diseases. This movie at some points made me want to cry and feel bad for these people but other times when he would talk about other people's countries and how happy they are because they don't have to pay an arm and a leg for medical attention just seems to good to be true. It's like he is not exposing us to the whole truth. I feel like there has to be some sort of catch to how these people get there health care for free. I don't fully agree with everything he has to say.

According to an article review on Sicko done by MTV it sates, "Moore apparently expects us to witness this dumbfounding spectacle and ask why we can't have such a great health care system, too. I think a more common response would be, how can any country afford such economic insanity?" This is what I feel he's movie is based on. Only bring us the happy truths and the happy stories of how people love and enjoy there free health care. Earlier in this article it talks about how a man get three weeks paid sick leave and then ask the doctor for more because he still feels he needs more time to recover and then in the movie it goes on to show the guy hanging out in the beaches and doing nothing but soaking up the sun. It makes you stop and wonder what? How can this be true? Who is paying for him to do this? Will it eventually catch up to him? Will he have to pay someday? But Moore never talks about those kind of situations he only brings up the positive stuff and what we want to hear and see.

Another article review I was reading online states this about the movie and Michale Moore, "Moore's biggest enemy is entitlement: the American way of life as "I worked for it so I deserve the rewards" rather than "I worked for it to make our way of life better." I think Moore understands the American ways but he is trying to change it by making everyone gain the benefit of universal health care. Which to me is kind of like, you know I see where you are coming from and we tried this already with Mrs. Clinton and we see what other countries are doing but they also have their down falls too. Just because there country has universal health care does not mean that they don't pay for it somewhere else. Like in the movie they show a doctor I think it was who has to pay some enormous price for the apartment that he is living in, but he is so happy because he gets free health care. And to me it is like hold up a minute. So if Americans were to have free universal health care then prices of living and other things would go up greatly and then we as Americans would complain about that.

In conclusion, I know that I am not very knowledgeable on this whole Health Care. But I know that something about this movie did not sit with me right? It just does not make senses to me and throughout the hole movie it showed people in other countries who were happy with there heath care and then it showed the Americans who were suffering because they did not have any. I just feel that there is a lot more behind both stories that needs to be reviled before anyone can agree of disagree with this movie. I think it brought up a lot of eye opening situations on both ends of the spectrum but also it needs to back up and tells us all the little things about how these people get there free health care. Where are they getting all the movie?

The Matrix

Ring.....Ring....Ring....Ring. The telephone ringing was a very important part of the movie. For the when they answered the telephone they were brought back to the real world. There is a lot of controversy about this movie and how it relates to many different religions.There are many symbols throughout the movie The Matrix that make people believe this way.

According to the article The Journal of Religion and Film, it brings up many different examples where it relates to Christianity. For example, "Neo, like Jesus, is the long-expected Messiah who is ultimately killed only to resurrect as a fully "divine" creature." There was a part toward the end of the movie where it seemed like Neo was going to die and was about to take his last breath. But then he came back to life again. Just like Jesus died on the cross for our sins but he is still alive within us. The article also mentions the significance of The Oracle, she is like the god figure in the movie. Neo and Morpheus went to see her because she holds the key to the future and knows the plan to everyone's life. Just like she told Neo that he would have to choose between his life and Morpheus's life. Just like Christians believe that God is in control of the future and he knows our every move and each choice we make he has mapped out with a plan. Then the last thing that I pulled out of the article was the women in the movie named Trinity which means the father, son and the holy spirit. She was a key character in the movie, because no matter how many close calls she had she never died and she was always there being a strong key to fighting the Matrix.

According to our books, The Art of Watching Film, they state that, "Once we have completed our personal and subjective evaluation, we may want to approach the film from several rather specialized angels or critical perspectives." They go on to say how this is key because it helps you to look past what you think and to see what other people have to say about the film. I am pretty sure that if I did not read the article that I quoted from above I would not have put together that Neo could be seen as Jesus. So reading what other people's thoughts are about a movie helps everyone to kind of come to a better understanding and view point of the movie. But then on the flip side the book talks about how, "We may agree with the critics on many points and disagree completely on other points." So basically to just keep an open mind. The movie The Matrix has a lot of people going in different directions about their opinions and what the movie actually means but in the end all that matter is if you like the movie or not.

In conclusion, The Matrix I would have to say was an ok movie. It had a lot of good things going for it like the special effects but there was also quite a few things that I did not like about the movie. I feel that they kind of dragged out the ending. With Neo and Trinity going to save Morpheus I thought it was going to end there. But then Neo did not make it out so he had to fight the Matrix and then he went back in with Trinity and it just seemed like it went on and on and on. In the end, I am still undecided if I will ever watch The Matrix again.