Mississippi Burning

Mississippi burning is a movie of two FBI agents, who went to a small town called Mississippi, where people divided their culture to white culture and colored culture, to investigate the three missing civil right workers.

While watching the movie, I felt so angry throughout the movie because of the violence that the White men treat those Black men, when they did not do anything wrong. They get treated differently because of their skin color, and treated unfairly too. In the beginning of the movie, the director used an unique way to express the white and colored culture. The water dispenser from the white is obviously more better that the colored side. It can seen from here that the differences and status between white and colored are serious.

Plus, when the FBI team start their searching in the swamp, the residence in Mississippi also speak their opinion of the FBI's action. One of them said it is kind of plan, or show, to let other people laugh at Mississippi folks. Some of them said they deserved it too. And when the reporter asked about how Negroes is treated in Mississippi, some of them said they are being treated fairly as they ought to be. But from the interview, it seems that each White citizen in Mississippi has prejudice towards the Negroes, as they said they do not take bath, they are stink and nasty, and all sorts of negative perspective towards the Negroes because they are taught to think the Negroes are like that since young.

Moreover, when the investigating is going on, the Klu Klux Klan interrupt the investigating by using violence to the Negroes, threaten them, burn the churches and killed them to avoid them talking to the FBI. When the movie showed this scene, I felt so angry and heartbreaking, because I still cannot understand why people can do all sort of these violent things and kill people without feeling guilty and ashamed. Maybe something is wrong in their nerve brain.

And as a Christian, I feel angry too when they showed the scene of the Klu Klux Klan burning the Negroes' churches. Although Dr.Goh had explained that there are no religion conflict in Mississippi, because the Whites are also Christian, but still the anger still cannot fade away. The reason they burned down the churches is that they see the Negroes are so organized in churches, and they want to prevent them to be so organized so they burned the churched. From my opinion, I think that their actions somehow reflect their fear, that the Negroes will get stronger a day and take revenge to them, so they are preventing them using violence.

Lastly, luckily the both FBI agents did not give up searching for the three missing civil rights workers and the truth despite the obstacles and difficulties they faced in Mississippi, they success to find the dead body of the civil rights workers, put charges to the Klu Klux Klan that killed the three civil rights workers, and I think they also managed to make a good start for the citizen to know the seriousness of prejudice to the Negroes and find a way to solve it too, because the racist and prejudice toward the Negroes are getting lesser these days.

And the last scene of the movie, the director showed the tomb written "Not Forgotten". I think the tomb is to remind people about the incident and prevent the repeating mistakes to do in the future as history are always a lesson that learned from their repeating mistake. 

Conclusion, I gain some history knowledge about Mississippi, because before this movie, I do not even know where is Mississippi. Plus, when I watch the movie, I began to reflect on myself too about the prejudice I have to the Negroes, as I was told by my family that the Negroes in Malaysia are bad, they are smelly and so on. Although I did not do bad things to the Negroes, but I admit that I do have prejudice toward the Negroes in Malaysia. However, through this movie, I felt that I am as bad as the people from the movie too. Therefore, I want to try to change my perspective towards the Negroes, and try to make friends with them despite the prejudice I have on them, because I do not want to become like the White in the movie neither do I want to become a person that full of racist and prejudice.  

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

“Eat, Drink, Man, Woman” is a story of a father, who is a chef and a widower’s life with his three daughters. For me as a viewer, I think the parenting style here is secure relationship, although the movie did not show the scene of them as a child, but it seems like their basic needs and other needs were given by their father. Plus, they have weekly family dinner on Sunday night. This might explained that the father really cares about the meeting and interaction with his busy daughters. Another interesting character of this movie is the second daughter. In the beginning of the movie, it seems like the second daughter had a bad relationship with her father because they always argue with each other. Also, in the movie, it had mentioned that the second daughter had spent a lot of good times with her father in the kitchen and has talent in cooking too when she was young, but I think something bad happened back then cause her cannot remember or do not want to recall back the memories then. However, no matter how she argue with her father, when she coincidence met her father in the hospital and thought that her father might diagnose with cancer, her attitude change. I think she somehow influenced by the word that was told by uncle Wen, who is the father’s friend, when he diagnosed in the hospital. She scared that it will be too late for her or her father to both express their true feelings with each other, that is why I think she change her attitude to her father. Conclusion, after watching this movie, it actually reflects me of how I treat my family too, because I always argue with my parents. But I think is time for me to change my attitude before it is too late.

Strictly Ballroom

Strictly Ballroom is a movie about a dancer, called Scott, who risked his dancing career by dancing a different dance step in a competition despite the objection of his mum, teacher and dance mates. In this movie, the beginner dancer, Fran, although she is just a beginner but she is dare to challenge. The word that she spoke made me reflects a lot, which is "to live in fear is like a life half lived". In this movie, because of fear, influenced a lot of people do not dare to make changes because of their fear. For example, Scott's mother and his teacher have always wanted Scott to dance the traditional way of dance sport, because they want Scott to win the Grand Prix and they have the fear of losing too. However, Fran's family taught Scott the new dance movement and their support to both Fran and Scott gave them a lot of confidence and love. Lastly, because of Scott and Fran's new dance movement, their guts to make changes and challenge themselves, they finally make it and influenced a lot of people, including Scott's mother and teacher to change their perspective too. From this movie, I actually get to reflect on myself. I usually get influenced by people very easily especially negative comments, just like Fran in the scene where she dance with Scott in the backstage, where she felt down after listening to those negative words. For me, I scared of listening negative feedbacks, that is why I usually stay quiet and humble for what I had done. But through this movie, I learned that making changes are very important and therefore I think it is time for me to change myself too so that my life will be more bright and happy.