Lord of the Flies
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Movie Reviews of Lord of the Flies
Movie Review: Good vs. Evil
Summary: 4 Stars
William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, was a very enjoyable book. It started out when a group of boys got in a plane crash on an island. Ralph and Piggy were the first ones on the island. Piggy started out being the odd ball of the group. "`He's not Fatty," cried Ralph, `his real name is Piggy'" (21). From then on he was called Piggy, which he hated. The boys built forts to survive and a fire for rescue. They used Piggy's glasses to start the fire, "His specs. Use them as burning glasses" (40). Once they became more comfortable on the island they started hunting, painting their faces, and becoming barbaric. They accidentally killed Simon at the bonfire, and after this there was more death and violence. Roger pushed a rock that killed Piggy and Jack's tribe was trying to kill Ralph. All of this ended when a navel officer saw the smoke from the fire, landed on the island and rescued them.
One theme in Lord of Flies is good vs. evil. One of the characters, Simon, represented good. He always helped, and he never got into fights with the other boys. He also took are of the littleuns. Jack was one of the boys who represented evil. An example of this is when Jack and the boys were at the bonfire and saw a thing crawling out of the woods. They had been dancing with their faces painted and thought the thing was the beast. Jack encouraged them to beat the figure. They started chanting, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" (152). The boys started stabbing the figure and after it was all over they noticed it was Simon. Ralph was involved with this and he realized that evil was taking over the boys. Ralph said, "I'm frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home" (157). I believe that this book does a good job of showing how people can turn to evil without rules. It made me think about how easily one bad thing can lead to another.
Movie Review: What Happens When There is No Adult Supervision?
Summary: 4 Stars
OK! This DVD is not TRUE to the book. The book is a classic work of art. It depicts, in chilling detail, how civilization breaks down when a group of school boys, none over 12 years of age, are marooned on an island, with no adult supervision.
The DVD gets that part right.
It can be read as an allegory for adult society in which there is no responsible supervision, for example, when the government appoints people to head agencies who have no experience, like Brownie, or appoints people to agencies that the government wants to destroy, or when the government appoints a person to represent us in the UN and the person has said the UN should not exist. Does this sound familiar?
However, the book first appeared in 1954. It was a work of art. It and the DVD may be just artistic descriptions of some school boys slowly descending into a violent abyss of their own making.
The DVD is a little soft on the violence.
Either way, it is a disturbing DVD. It shows, clearly, how thin the veneer of civilization is, and what ugliness lies beneath that veneer.
Movie Review: Relax, it's a good movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
So many of these reviews have really piled on the sludge. Relax, this is a good movie! All right, so it's a rather loose cinematic interpretation of Golding's novel. That's what the film medium allows for. The cinematography is sumptuous, the pace of the movie quick, the story absorbing, the message of malicious cruelty's natural advantage easy to read. The young actors give very fine performances--the villain Jack is superb--and they should all get extra credit for having to do so much of this movie in their underwear. As their uniforms and their old sense of selves deteriorate, the boy-cadets are reduced to their jockeys: and then in turn their jockeys are reduced to filthy scraps of cloth once they run off to join Jack's camp in the wild. With their painted faces and matted hair this virtual nakedness makes the transformation to the savage state disturbingly complete. If you like movies with a strong story-line and good cinematography, I recommend this (with reservations for children under 12).Movie Review: I'm glad I was never trapped on an island w/ these kids...
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a very good movie that came from an even better book. When I was younger I didn't understand people who would claim that the books were better than movies. Now, I do. However, I feel that for this statement to be true, one must have a vivid imagination and be able to immerse themselves in the world that the author created.
Anyway, I loved the book and I thought the movie was well done too. The kids are pretty good at acting. Almost too good, as if they were actually dropped off on an island and told that they had to figure out a way to survive. I would recommend watching this movie w/o children because I think it may be a bit much.
Movie Review: It is an ok movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This updated version of this movie is quiet a change from the book. But, just because it is a change from the book isn't a good reason for me not to like it. I did like the movie over all and I thought that the point that the director tried to make came across fine. Even though there were no adults there, the children did develop a "government" and those differences came out in the group that won compared to the group that lost followers. Also, in developing a "government" there was a hierachy of leadership and blood shed. See the movie for yourself and come to your own conclusions about the movie. For myself, I did enjoy it and will probably see it again.