Life
Life, Hope and Dreams
In the film Nanook of the North, presented an Eskimos life of a family struggling through the snow storm in Baffin Island. The film follows Nanook through his daily struggles to find food and shelter. Nanook's approaches ways of hunting, fishing, and building igloos. This was a very emotional documentary, although there was not any voice over or anyone talking in the film. While in the other film, Mad Hot Ballroom is about young teens from New York who is striving for the best to win in the dance competition. This movie isn’t just all about dance it’s about the kid’s thoughts, hopes, and dreams. It kept the reality about everything real. There was a lot of humor and modesty. The kids gave their own real opinion of the competition as well as their opinion of life and their surroundings. Such as, how kids would grow up if their parents were divorced, or if the parents didn’t care the kids would be out doing drugs and that is something they don’t want to do.
In Nanook of the North, Flaherty, the writer, producer and director of the film makes sure to film every aspect of the family’s daily struggles and duties. With nearly everything caught on film in the cold weather with limited supply. It becomes very clear that every aspect in their lives serves a specific role aimed towards survival. The family bonds seem to be extremely strong. Even though everyone exercises their own specific tasks, they also help participate in more scary tasks such as help Nanook pulling out the seal from the ice. Life and hope as a whole is run by the pervasive understanding that survival only comes with the idea that it has to be one for all and all for one. Flaherty makes it appear that the family has a general structure, with Nanook as the father and as the head, Nyla who is the wives and as the caretaker. As one watches the movie they notice there is what seems to be a second wife, Cunayou, although she is never recognized or given any kind of title. She is
In the film Nanook of the North, presented an Eskimos life of a family struggling through the snow storm in Baffin Island. The film follows Nanook through his daily struggles to find food and shelter. Nanook's approaches ways of hunting, fishing, and building igloos. This was a very emotional documentary, although there was not any voice over or anyone talking in the film. While in the other film, Mad Hot Ballroom is about young teens from New York who is striving for the best to win in the dance competition. This movie isn’t just all about dance it’s about the kid’s thoughts, hopes, and dreams. It kept the reality about everything real. There was a lot of humor and modesty. The kids gave their own real opinion of the competition as well as their opinion of life and their surroundings. Such as, how kids would grow up if their parents were divorced, or if the parents didn’t care the kids would be out doing drugs and that is something they don’t want to do.
In Nanook of the North, Flaherty, the writer, producer and director of the film makes sure to film every aspect of the family’s daily struggles and duties. With nearly everything caught on film in the cold weather with limited supply. It becomes very clear that every aspect in their lives serves a specific role aimed towards survival. The family bonds seem to be extremely strong. Even though everyone exercises their own specific tasks, they also help participate in more scary tasks such as help Nanook pulling out the seal from the ice. Life and hope as a whole is run by the pervasive understanding that survival only comes with the idea that it has to be one for all and all for one. Flaherty makes it appear that the family has a general structure, with Nanook as the father and as the head, Nyla who is the wives and as the caretaker. As one watches the movie they notice there is what seems to be a second wife, Cunayou, although she is never recognized or given any kind of title. She is