Seeing the Big Picture

To me, film is a visual to something I once imagined while I read a book or heard of a film coming out. It is not a very important part of my life as all I have done until now was just watching them and judging them if they are part of the good films or the bad films. Reading a book is always better than watching a shortened film version of the book you read that also added extra scenes and events that did not happen in the book, I would prefer reading the book since it is also more detailed. The influence on the film depends on what type of film is it, horror, comedy, documentary etc. different films make you think differently and influence you differently, they could make you wonder if something that is in the film would actually happen in the real world, or when talked about a documentary film we could learn some new facts. Very simply, for some people, films are just films, they are there to make you think and to pass time but for some people it is a whole new art, and they love making films and it is their passion, and love to study it or would love to, I am both of these types of people.

Reflection 1

First of all, since we start this class I didn't even realize what is it going to be about at all. After this chapter, I have concious of what we have learned, and what is the point of this course. How do i learn? I don't like to learn from book, to read just definitions and remember them. I like this way, what we have in this class, bu discussion, we have discussions at classroom, and when You explain just once some definition I already can remember this. My "aha" moment was about "salad bowl" I didn't have an idea what does it have common, but now it makes a huge sense in culture. One of my things that I have learned is that America is the biggest country of different nations,races,religions, and cultures..I learned that many cultures were forced to get americanized, but there are still some cultures that keep their traditions, that's why Chicago is for example is divided into neighborhoods,for instance like the Ukrainian village, or Wicker park.. bunch of Irish people used to live there now there is bunch of beaners,as well we can compare it to the melting pot.

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