Movie+Critics

Critic 3 It is your job to look at this performance from an artistic, cinematography standpoint. Each movie critic sitting in the audience must answer one of the following questions at the end of the performance. Response must be a thorough and well-argued PARAGRAPH to get full-credit. Critic 1 Critic 2 Critic 3 Critic 4 Remember to put your name next to your response so that you can receive credit for the day.

Thursday 5/28/09 Pages 238-281

State at least three important themes in //Monster// citing an example for each one.

**Tuesday 5/26/09 Pages 201-238 A. Respond to Mr. Sawicki's statement, "It is my belief that to make an honest film, one has to be an honest person." layton- well what if you don't know if a person is honest because sometimes people act like they are honest and good but sometimes they are lying

B. Is Steve an honest person? Explain your answer. layton- steve wasn't totally honest but he lied to save his own butt. he doesn't want to go to jail and he really didn't lie about anything big. they were just little white lies like he said he wasn't friends with james king and everyone else.

Thursday 5/21/09 Pages 137-200 Identify three different types of conflicts in //Monster,// and give examples of each. Which conflict do you consider to be the most important one, and why?**


 * Pages 89-136: (Answers must be in TAGGG)**

1. Why is Steve disturbed by his father's visit?

2. What new facts are revealed in Steve's journal and movie that support eh acccusation that he was involved in the robbery?

Pages 45-88 1. Detail three things that you have learned about Steve from his journal entries.

2. Do you think that you learned more about Steve from his journal writing or his movie script? Why? Alexis: The journal writing I had leaned more about because he was more convince then the other witness on the stand and steve was proven in the eyes of the witness that he was apart of the rubbery

Kalinda: I think I learned more from reading Steve's journal writing than from his movie script. In his journal entries it tells more about his feelings and how he feels while being on trial. His movie script talks a lot more about all the other characters. One of his journals talks about how he got his friend beaten up because of something that he did but didn't want to take the blame. By reading his journal entries we can see how he is feeling by being around all the other inmates at the detention center and how he can't even go to the bathroom around them because he's that self-conscious.

Nolan: I have learned more from his journal entries more than his movie skit because he writes and talks about his life more in his journal. And he also tells how he feels about staying in prison with a bunch of bad guys. Steve is also telling how his lawyer is trying to help him to prove that he is not innocent. He also tells how the trial is going. 3. This section of the movie contains two flashbacks that reveal conversations Steve had in his neighborhood. What do you learn about Steve from these conversations? Does anything from either of these conversations lead you to believe that Steve might be guilty of the crime with which he is charged? Why or why not? layton um that he is really not a bad kid and that he wouldnt be able to rob any place because it say in the one flashback that he doesn't have the guts to rob a place but the other guys does. 4. Why is Steve disturbed by the fact that he looks a lot like the other guys in the detention center%Pr