Western Unit

I personally was not a big fan of the Western unit. I think their too much alike. Like, each film has the same idea behind then next one. It's also very degrading of women, for the most part. It's not that I don't enjoy them, some I do, but the whole idea behind a "western" film is the part I don't like. If I had to pick what I preferred, I would for sure say a revisionist western. Probably just because their not so stereotypical towards women and Indians. For my Journal#3 I watched Young Guns. I HATED IT. It was too much for me. I usually tend to like scary movies, but this was just too much. There was tons and tons of shoot outs, the whole thing was killing people, or trying to kill people. I thought the plot was kind of silly. Don't watch it... I'm not sure where this is going but me saying what I dislike about westerns, so maybe I'll stop.

Citizen Cane

This movie overall was kind of confusing. I enjoyed the story behind it all but it jumped around so much it was hard to follow at times. The whole movie is about trying to discover what his last words were linked to, and what they ment to his life. 'Rosebud' was his last word, along with holding the snow globe. We eventually learn that that leads all the way back to his childhood. It was one of his last childhood memories, which to me seems like a funny thing to remember so vividly. In class we disscused if we thought that this gave us all our answers to his life, and I don't think it did. Yes, 'rosebud' was significant, and yes, it was something in his life he did not require to love him back, but it did not give us he reasonings to why he acted the ways he did, and why he treated people the way he did. I can see where some people would recognize that as a good way to describe his life in one word. But I think a life could never be described through just one word. From what we saw in his life, I'm sure there is a lot more things he could use to describe his. 'Rosebud' was obviously a big part in Kane's life from his childhood all the way to his adulthood, just not as descriptive for others as it was to him.