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Monday, 10 October 2016

Bridget Jones's Baby.

Bridget Jones's Baby is drama, comedy, romance directed by Sharon Maguire and is about the famous hopeless romantic Bridget Jones finding love again and bringing a new love into the world. The film was released in September 2016. It was produced by Debra Hayward, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan and the production company was Mirimax, Studio Canal and Universal Pictures. 

I believe it portrayed a very honest depiction of today's man and woman. the two male protagonists in this film are played by Colin Firth playing the role of Mark and Patrick Dempsey playing the role of Jack. When the two male characters would argue it wouldn't turn into a physical fight ,they would argue both with each other, sometimes calling each other rude names but it wouldn't develop any further. In the last Bridget Jones We saw Hugh Grant and Colin Firth fighting over Bridget Jones like two cave men. This film has matured the male representation and has turned it in to more of a sophisticated, sensible and modern image. The writers or producers might have done this to show a more positive representation of men and the fact that it is a woman and not some fox network, testosterone injected brute directing it, makes me believe that they wanted a very honest depiction of men. 
The depiction of the average woman is a very true representation. The main stereotypes of woman are they have to be sensible and respectful they have to be able to cook and clean, they are dependent on a man and are unintelligent and weak. These stereotypes are replaced with new ones to present more of a authentic representation of women. Bridget Jones is independent and has her own flat and job, she is intelligent and takes risks going to the festival, strong by carrying a baby on her own and still turning up to work and finally she's tough by taking on authoritarians in her work place.   

In conclusion Bridget Jones's Baby has a honest and true depiction of the modern woman and man today. 

Monday, 3 October 2016

Weekly film
The Man who Squeezes man's muscles: The search for Purple Aki is a short documentary made by Benjiman Zand and was made in 2016 in September and is about the urban legend of Purple Aki and if it is true or not.
The film is single camera film with a voice of god narration and is a investigative documentary. so it poses a question and solves it and tries to solve it. It uses long shots of people walking along the side walk, waiting at the bus stop and walking through train tunnels. The long shot with the voice of god narration constructs this creepy and tense atmosphere. Almost like this urban legend is watching us.

It uses people's interviews to reconstruct events which have occurred with innocent individuals and the sinister Purple Aki. It was first a headliner for the Daily Mail, no surprise there, and it started to gain popularity from there.
"Muscle Obsessed Pervert".
TA lot of the shorts and scenes are taken at night contributing to the creepy atmosphere. With the people interviewed there a certain enigma about it maybe the filmmaker is trying to confuse the audience. It ends without a definitive answer and with text appearing in the shot saying "we tried to contact Akinwale Arobieke He did not want to speak". The text faded out of the shot. The use of the text appearing and disappearing is almost phantom like and contributes further to the enigmatic nature of the Film. n