This week I watched Bedtime Stories and loved it! Adam Sandler is one of my favorite actors and I love that he brought his humor to a kid movie.  We are coding this movie for sexual innuendos and I found quite a bit of them in this movie geared toward children.

It's amazing to me that so much adult humor can be in a PG movie. Just today as I was watching "Gladiator" on TV with commercials and all I heard the B-word dropped. I thought wow they will allow just about anything on TV now.  Weird to see the changes in media as I get older.

So I had an interesting experience that I noticed after our music lecture.  I downloaded the song "S and M" from Brittany Spears and Rihanna because I practice to it for a dance class and it has a great beat per minute (Don't Judge). I decided to listen to it one day on the road and I noticed this new alter ego come out in my driving.  I started driving faster, singing a long, and I made a couple of questionable lane changes. My energy level increased and my heart felt like it was going a little bit faster. In the midst of all these biological changes I caught myself and thought, WOW music is powerful!

I turned it down and focused on my driving and decided that music has a great impact on us and can help or hinder our ability to live "life". Glad I made it safely to my destination.

This week was educational week for me because I watched another documentary! In my biological functions class we watched "Inside the Womb" which showed how humans develop from a tiny cell into the human creation that we are. This film is the best depiction of the growth stages and has amazing imagery to help us understand what goes on inside the womb.

I really enjoyed watching this to help me understand more about how our bodies function and how much science and beauty there
is in conceiving a child.

               

Social Injustice in the Media

This week in my social work class we are learning about social injustice and human rights. The Color Purple is a monumental film about this topic and focuses on female black life in the 1930's taking place in the southern United States.  I had a chance to watch a short clip of Oprah Winfrey punching the lights out of a white male because she refused to be his wife's maid.  When she refused the man got offended and tried to intimidate her by using competitive language.  The scene got out of hand as other white men surrounded her and started calling her names and labeling her in society.  In class I learned that when we decide to label others based on their culture, race or gender, we oppress them from fulfilling their potential. I think the color purple illustrates this concept well and was great at helping me learn about human rights and the worth of the individual.  Definitely a film all people should watch to help promote awareness and also to mark how far we have come as a society.

I watched K-19 this weekend on Netflix and found the imagery very dramatic and somewhat graphic. The film was a true story and evoked many emotions about the trama that happened during the Cold War.  The film unfolded a story of a Russian Captain named Captain Alexi Vostrikov who was ordered to take command of the nuclear missile submarine K-19. The men stugled to stabilize the nuclear weapon and was forced to stay abord and follow through with the Soviet Navy's plans.

After being exposed to such traumatic scenes I felt very moved and sensitive to the issues of the war.  I thought about it again later the next day and again that night. It amazes me to see how media can affect me by continually coming up in my mind after watching a movie.  It reminds me of when I was a teenager and thought that I was evincible.  I thought that nothing would effect me, although as an adult a drama  like K-19 will enter my mind and stay there for a while. This makes me realize the importance of allowing good, clean and informational media into our lives and avoid media that will create a negative impact on us.

One of my favorite opinion leaders I watch consistently on Youtube suggested the show Pretty Little Liars so I decided to watch it recently and got totally sucked into the drama.  During the 30 minute program I was anticipating what's going to happen next and couldn't wait through the commercial ads.  After I watched the show I analyzed how ridiculous the show actually was. The acting is bad, the plot is bad and all the girls keep secrets, lied and deceived each other the whole time.  I wondered to myself why was I getting so into this program only to wonder why I wasted 30 minutes. Then I thought to myself there was a continual cliff hanger about a girl who was kidnapped and I wanted to find out what was going to happen to her.  The show kept referencing the girls situation, but would not show it until the very end.  It's amazing what a suggestion from a respected media commentator and a little suspenseful cliff hanger can do to oneself!