Brock

 Rear Window     The movie I selected to watch for this blog post was Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The reason this movie intrigued me more than the others was because I have not seen a lot of Hitchcock's films despite his reputation within Hollywood, and I am glad that I chose it. I really liked the decision to have it set essentially in one room, with characters coming and going. Using locations like Thorwald's apartment but only from the outside looking in was such a unique choice that could not have been easy to pull off, which I heavily admire. Modern mystery and suspense movies tend to, in my opinion, not leave things up to interpretation. I recently saw Longlegs  (2024) directed by Oz Perkins, which was a mystery movie but after the characters found out what the solution was, it just explained all of it through dialogue. In this movie, I really liked how they left things up to interpretation. At a certain point I was pretty sure Jefferies wa...

 Introduction     This year for symposium day, I had the pleasure of attending the Augustana Student Films Award Show. This highlighted student made films that excelled in qualities such as cinematography and storytelling while dealing with heavy subjects like drug abuse and suicide. I am taking this opportunity to express my thoughts, praises, and critiques of these productions. Overall     To begin my review, I want to start by going over the event as a whole, outside of just the quality of the films. I thought that the event was set up very nicely and felt very professional with ballots and being in the actual theater made the experience very worth it. The only issues I had came from some members of the audience who were being a little disruptive but, they were way in the back so it did not take away from the experience of everyone I do not believe. Films Film 1     The first film I want to talk about is Bounty: Chapter 1 by Aron Stewart. This ...