Harrison Bergeron by: Kurt Vonnegut

I chose to pick Harrison Bergeron because it sound so thrilling after reading a couple of lines. The story takes place to year 2081 when everybody is finally equal. Not only before God and law but also in every way. Harrison Bergerons father George and mom Hazel are starring on leading roles in this story.

In that time people were made equal by putting some obstacles to intelligent people. One of them was putting handicap radio on their heads which would send sharp noise to their ears and scatter their thoughts. Second was Handicap bag which was filled with forty-seven pounds of lead and hanged to peoples neck.

Handicapper General was the one who invented the items which would equalize people. In story Hazel thinks that she would be great handicapper general. She would transmit only chimes on Sunday, nothing more and just on Sundays to honor the religion.

Harrison is the main bad guy in this story. He was taken from his parents and put in to jail.He had to escape from jail to commit one last thing. He resembles people about the time when they weren’t so equal.  He wants to be the emperor and also he commands everyone to do just like he says. Harrison snaps out of all his handicaps on live television and gets shot to death whilst his mother was watching it on TV.

In the story Hazel and George different from each other by that Hazel is perfectly average intelligence while George’s intelligence is way above normal, so only George must use those handicap items. That highlights the theme of the story about what is normal and what isn’t.

In my opinion I think that Harrison was already full of this world and also full of picking out that equality. He didn’t want to be the same as everyone else. He wanted to be more. Even thought he died in the end doesn’t mean that he wasn’t happy. I think that he died at doing something what he wanted and that’s how we are all supposed to pass away.

The Book of Eli

The Book of Eli (2010) (by Gary Whitta) is a post-apocalyptic tale, in which there are a lone man who fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book which is a Bible. Almost every copy of The Bible is burned after war. There is some enemies on his way and he will have to compete with them so he can deliver that book to safety.

Characters:

Eli (Denzel Washington) is the main character and he is on journey to deliver that Bible to safety on a museum. On his way he finds companion who helps him complete that task. 

Carnegie (Gary Oldman) is the main bad guy. He has guys looking for books, but really he wants to get his hands on Bible. Because he believes that with that he could rule the humankind.

Claudia (Jennifer Beals) is Carnegie’s blind mistress and mother of Solara.

Solara (Mila Kunis) becomes an companion for Eli and she helps completing the task. First Eli would not want Solara to come with him. He rather wants to complete his burden alone, but after when Solara gets caught by highwaybandits Eli comes to help her and they start to walk together.

Lombardi (Malcolm McDowell) is the owner of the museum and he re-writes The Bible as the Eli tells him.

Special effects:There is so much of them in fighting scenes. You can know that they are effects, but still they look so much alive. Also when the house is gunned down camera comes towards the gun you can see it shooting but you will see its just an effect.

Genre: The genre of this movie is action, adventure and also drama. Its wonderful tale about task what you can complete if you just want to succeed in it.

My own opinion about this movie is that its so good that you can watch it many times and just then you can understand all what it tells to you.