A lesson before dying

In a lesson before dying which was directed by Joseph Sargent the story takes place in the 1940’s rural south were a white store owner is murdered and robbed and a innocent black bystander named Jefferson is wrongly convicted and charged with murder. Grant the local teacher is asked to teach Jefferson to read and write before he dies so he can be a man. After getting permission from the deputy Grant helps Jefferson to be educated and they form a close bond. Grant becomes conflicted about his place in life and the roles he will as Jefferson’s soon execution comes forward. I really liked this film it captured the essence of what life was like pre-civil rights, this director mainly focused on the story more than anything else classifying as a writer/director. There were many close up angles in this film that caught the true emotion of each scene. Production and design was very much old south, with the slacks and button up shits, and agriculture life of all shacks and cattle. A lesson before dying was mainly based of the book by Ernest J Gaines making it an adaptation. Based on both reading the book and watching the film I would say the book had more detail but the film unlike most adaptations really stuck to the storyline.

Jaws

Jaws film is a popular horror film directed by Steven Spielberg that depicts man’s fight with the creatures of nature. A great white shark plays the villain in this horrific film, when a teen girl goes missing and her remains are later found by chief Brody the protagonist of the film. As another child is murdered a bounty is placed on the shark’s head causing everyone to explore off into the sea on the hunt for the killer shark putting their lives in jeopardy.  Chief Brody and his acquaintances tag along for the adventure as well and are able to put an end to the murderous great white barely making it out alive. Being familiar with Steven Spielberg’s work as a director I would say that jaws was pretty well thought out and executed properly with a lot of surprise elements giving the film a suspense aspect. I felt the film was really similar to Spielberg’s film Carrie in the use of suspenseful music when something was about to happen and up close camera shots in the action scenes. If anything was different about this film that I hadn’t seen before it was more of the peripheral shots of the background that I thought were pretty unique. Overall Jaws was pretty entertaining more so action and suspense for me than horror which was probably why I enjoyed it.