This is the author account of the film Delicatessen. This is a post-apocalyptic film set in France. Meat and food is very scarce in this dark period for the world as we know it. There is everything in this film from from murder, sex, cannibalism to people living under the ground the Troglodytes. And that's not even the best part of the film. That has to be taking by the character Aurore who hears voices in her head. 1.1 Methodology The author was giving the film Delicatessen and told to deconstruct the film and give the author's opinion on this weird film. The author watched the film a few times and read reviews online to learned about the director and main actors and actress that starred in Delicatessen. 2.1 Food is Currency There is no money in this post-apocalyptic film so meat, corn, lentils and even sex is used to pay for food. The people are using the barter system to trade by exchange of commodities rather than uses of money. Food was more important than money and meat was the top commodity you could exchange for anything in today's world it would be up there with gold. The kube brothers exchanged 2 bags of corn for nine …show more content…
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The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields. Rithy Panh is an internationally and critically acclaimed Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter. Rithy Panh was a young boy when Khmer Rouge revolutionaries arrived in Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. Starting that day, he and his family were designated “new people”—the revolution’s code for those who needed “re-education”—and forcibly evacuated out of the city. That day began a terrifying experience that gradually took away most of his family, forcing Rithy to survive a series of brutal, and often arbitrarily cruel, ordeals.
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At some point of your life you meet very special people that carry very similar interests. This creates bonds that can be a very powerful and important part of your life. Some may say that bonds are created between a series of negative events that leads up to friendship. However, this is not true because in The Way, the main characters come together to walk the same path. Each character motivates each other to achieve the overall reason of why they wanted to walk The Camino De Santiago.
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With its humor tone and delicate structure, Café Nagler questions the relationship between history and ourselves: to what extent does individual/familial memory inform a family history, whether or not it coincides with the historical reality? As a “mirror” of representing the family history, do family photographs and autobiographical-family documentary films faithfully reflect the image of the family and individuals in it, or do they distort it? What is “real” after all, if historical existence itself becomes unreliable and unapproachable? The film starts with Kaplansky having an afternoon tea with her grandmother Naomi Kaplansky, using tableware sets from Café Nagler.