School Post

I try my best to keep things interesting. One of the things that I really dislike is posting to the class forums for school. It is quite annoying but I get a serious kick out of the lack of interest that the rest of the students have. Their one word to one sentence replies to a very thought out complex question literally does two things: 1) It angers me because of their lack of enthusiasm 2) I think about number 1 which keeps me in check so that I take a positive spin on it and laugh at them.

So I will give you an example of some of my brain dumps and droppings that I leave for the class. This one is regarding the conflicts in the movie "Angel Heart" which we saw in class last week.
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Topic: Discuss a conflict in Angel Heart. What kind of conflict is it? How is it important to the story? How is it resolved?

My Response:

Well it seems to me that Harry had a lot of problems in this movie. First, he gets sent to find himself but doesn’t know it yet. While doing so, Harry has some dreams that start the slow descent of his reality slowing disappearing like a mound of powdered chocolate in a glass of milk. All of this is because he can’t find the person he’s looking for. To continue his slow paced decline into the pathetic zone, his dreams contain sequences of him trying to disrobe an old woman in black. This makes the point very clear, that he has problems.

He still pushes his way further down in the hole because everyone he has interviewed or talked to about the person he is trying to find, Johnny Favorite, are dying off like the supposed Jaguar Shark. Since he’s he last person to be seen with any of them, the local authorities are also pressing hard against his face and neck to get some answers. The last witness on his list, that he has yet to ask any sort of questions to, happens to be a young girl who we find out is Favorite's daughter. So instead of using his deductive powers to get a clenched “I’m going to destroy you” grasp on the truth and reality, he decides the best move here is to sleep with her. Bad move Chuck. That never works out.

However readers, let’s not look negatively on this, but rather with a positive spin; he single handedly resolved five out seven conflicts by giving him a passing score of 71%.

So here’s what the final resolution points were:

Harry finds out that he’s really Johnny Favorite who made a deal with his employer. His employer is actually Robert DeNiro, who thanks to this movie I found out is really the Devil with a beard. The young girl he “sleeps with” is his daughter, who is Lisa Bonet from the Cosby Show. I also found out that she’s a high priestess in a voodoo cult. His grip on reality is totally smashed like a two high-speed trains hitting each other when he figures out that he is not Harry Angel by repeating the phrase "I know who I am." No Chuck, apparently you don't. Looks like the Devil is going to booger-hook Harry back to hell. All four of these resolutions bring the final resolution to the viewer, which is the truth of how this whole deal went south.

Two points that I like to make are, Harry never finds out who the old woman in the dress is and he never really gets over that fear of chickens. That’s too bad, there are chickens in hell.
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Thanks for reading, now I gotta wipe.