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Animal farm

      Animal farm

 

Animal farm is a book written by George Orwell in 1945. The book contains a story of a Manor farm where all the animals got worn out of humans and obeying humans. Old boar called major tells in a secret meeting that humans shall not be tolerated anymore and after Major passes away pigs Snowball and Napoleon steps in charge and starts a Rebellion against human. This is a success and Manor farm gets a new name, Animal farm. Farm animals invent their own ism called Animalism in which all animals are equal and every animal that has 4 legs is good and what has 2 legs is bad. Soon the 7 commandments are developed. Everything is going great for a while and all the animals are enjoying from their freedom and own animal rights.

Farms true owner Mr. Jones tries to reclaim his land but fails and gets defeated by animals. After this two pigs in charge, Snowball and Napoleon, are getting their controversies and Napoleon gets rid of Snowball with dogs which Napoleon has taught since they were puppys. At this point the farm is heading straight to pigs tyranny when pigs are executing other animals and does whatever they like because their wisdom is superior compared to the other animals. Years pass and Animal farm is pretty much like it was in the beginning, only exception is that now the pigs are in charge but pigs are starting to seem a lot like a human beings. They wear clothes, drinks alcohol and carries whips with them and also the Animal farms name is changed back to Manor farm.

The main characters in this book are Napoleon, a fierce boar who’s not so much a talker but gets always his ideas through. Then there is Snowball, the reasonable pig who gets banished by Napoleon. Boxer was a great and muscular worker horse who got injured in working of a windmill so Napoleon sold him for money to buy whisky. There was also fat and small porker called Squealer who was always pleasing Napoleon.

The books events are inspired by Russian revolution and many of the characters are some well-known rulers for example Napoleon in the book is an allegory of Joseph Stalin.

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Paranormal activity

Paranormal activity is a horror movie published in 2007 and directed by Oren Peli.

The plot of the movie is all about young couple Katie and Micah moving in together. Soon after moving into their new house Katie and Micah starts to witness unnatural events in their apartment, doors are closed all by themselves, furniture is missing and pictures are ruined etc. Katie claims that some supernatural being is haunting her so Micah sets up camera in their bedroom to record everything that happens in their room at nights. Katie also contacts a psychic and asks him about this evil presence and he tells that it’s a demon who is feeding off of katies negative energy.

At this point there was a poignant juxtaposition between the reaction of Katie and his husband who wasn’t worried at all. First at nights almost nothing happens but as the movie goes on more serious things are starting to occur. Katie is getting desperate and calls a demonologist but when he arrives he is just saying that he is only making things worse and making the demon more angry. After this at 20th night Katie is ripped off of her bed to downstairs by some invisible being and after Micah saves her he notices that Katie has bite marks. Next night Katie is turning into something inhuman, demonic, and she kills Micah.

This whole movie is filmed from Katies or Micahs point of view or from the camera which is in their bedroom. This makes the film even more terrifying because it feels like you are inside the movie. Because Paranormal activity was pretty much filmed with one camera it was possible to film it without greater costs and really fast. It is said that the whole footage of the movie were filmed in one week but yet many critic says that it’s perhaps the scariest movie they have ever seen. Paranormal activitys budget was only 15 000 $ and the profit was astounding 193 355 800 $.

I really enjoyed watching this movie, the plot was simple but interesting unlike in sequels where the plot goes little bit too complicated which makes them less interesting and scary.

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