Literary Terms & Movie Review

Main Characters:

Henry – an FBI agent.  He portrays his character as a tough FBI agent and a very protective son to his widowed mother that he really scrutinizes the personally of her mother’s suitor.

Tomy – an undercover CIA agent who infiltrated an international terrorist organization by joining the group who are engaging on some statue theft.  As Tomy pretends to be a bad guy, he happens to become a lover of Henry’s mother, in which later Henry learned that Tomy is on the watch list of the FBI.  The agency does not know that Tomy is an undercover.

Marthy – mother of Henry. Marthy was so reluctant on her life, but became very vibrant lady and “hot” lady/widow after three years of becoming unsensitive to her life, became one of the guys adorned lady because of her personality, not to mention that she become sexy and “hot” as Henry’s co-FBI agents termed it.

Summary:

Upon returning from training after three years, Henry is a full pledge FBI agent now, notice that her mother somehow is not around the house and when he approaches to the swimming pool at the back end of their house, he sees a blond lady wearing a sexy swimming suit laid down facing the pillow and listening to the music while her feet somehow go along with the rhythm of the music.

Henry approached the lady asking some queries, but the lady seems not to hear anybody coming from her because maybe of the loud music stuck on her earns via headphone.  Henry did not even thinking that this lady is her mother because when left home he knew that her mother was a fat lady and doesn’t like to wear such sexy swimming suits like the one he is seeing now.  Henry decided to touch the lady’s shoulder for him to get her attention.  Startled to his astonishment, Henry went off the pool.  The sexy lady is her mother.

One morning, Marthy, Henry with her girlfriend were strolling in the park, while walking, a guy, Tomy is playing with his remote control helicopter happen to bump Marthy’s face that made her fall down on the ground.  Everyone was shocked.  Tomy immediately approached the group and both guys helped Marthy to her feet.

While lying down, as Marthy opened her eyes she saw Tomy staring at him expressing sorry in his eyes in which Marthy reacted and say, “hi”.  Henry seems to get amazed on his mother’s reaction.  They ended up on a café and from then, started a good relationship with Tomy and Henry’s mother, Marthy.

Henry does not know any of Tomy’s personality until one day, in a conference with his sheriff, showed a list of persons who are lurking the town to be watched by the FBI.

Henry becoming paranoid of his mother’s situation reported to his superior that her mother is getting in touched with the bad guy named Tomy and one of the person being watched.  The bureau, while Henry is hesitant, agreed on the idea that they need to install some monitoring devices like tapping his mother’s telephone to monitor Tomy’s calls.

Henry as one of the leading operative in the operation had listened to one of his mother’s intimate conversation with Tomy decided to inform his mother about the situation.  At first, Marhty reacted vehemently, but because of Henry’s elaborative explanation, mother agreed to put on a remote microphone while she will be conversing with Tomy on a date.

From the conversation of Tomy and his mother, Henry and the other FBI agents learned that Tomy and his group will be doing another operation – to steal one of the famous statues in the museum.

On the hand, Tomy’s group is becoming suspicious to him because they learned that he is dating an FBI’s son.  The group is suspecting he is giving information to the FBI, but he is not.  One member mentioned that he, Tomy and his girlfriend will be put to danger if he is doing something fishy to the organization.  The group agreed to do the stealing of the statue the following day.

Tomy and his group, they are all three, manage to enter the museum undetected by maneuvering and later hold on to one the guards on duty.  They tied the security guard and put it on a safe place where the guard could not make for any help from the other guards.  The group got the chance to enter in the room where the prospect statue is installed.

The statue is surrounded with a laser detector that if somebody will touch it, the alarm will be triggered.  The group did not deactivate the alarm instead they hide in one of the exhausts installed in the room.  While in the exhaust, Tomy brought out his remote control helicopter and he drive it flying on the room touching the laser barricading the statue to trigger the alarm.

Since the FBI had installed a monitoring system, they will know any unnecessary event that will happen in the museum.  That night, the alarmed was triggered and Henry while sleeping at home was informed via phone call that the museum alarm is triggered and he was requested to go to the museum immediately.

To cut it short, the group manages to steal the statue, but Tomy was set up and he was left behind.  Henry as the first to arrive at the place caught Tomy escaping.  While Tomy is being instructed by Henry to put his hands up, Tomy explained that he is a CIA undercover and his mother will be put to danger if he will not listen.  Of course Henry, as a tough FBI agent did not believe Tomy’s pleading, but because of Henry’s girlfriend and also an FBI agent manages to comprehend things Tomy is claiming.

After some computer verification, Henry and his girlfriend learned that Tomy really is a CIA agent.  The three rushed to the house where Marthy is because Tomy knew that the bad guys have gone to the house to kill Marthy.

Tomy, Henry and her girlfriend arrived on time and prevented any unnecessary event to happen.

The end.

Characters in the movies or in books display unique performance. From the way they act, utter words, the traits they portray and the way they dress are just examples on how a character is made.

You can identify characters by:

1. Through direct description - it shows the physical attributes that best describe the character. You will notice this by way of another character describing the physical features of the main character. An example of words that could be noted here are: body built, which regards to being powerful by carrying such load which other cannot do it.

2. Through conversation to another characters - you will notice some word expressions being uttered most of the time. This character may have done excellent dialog to the other character which in return had made something favorable to the development of the movie.

3. The character’s thought and feeling - this will be seen provided there’s such event the character shows rage because of the things that triggered him or her to show rage. You can often see this type in movies where the main character has to be disregarded or maltreated in the development in the story. An example of scene that will reflect anger later on the main character is when a love one has been killed.

4. By letting other characters reveal what they think - mostly there are supporting characters that will narrate the heroism or heroic actions of the character being described. The supporting character(s) may tell stories about the character.

5. By showing the character in action - obviously, there are extra-ordinary stunts displayed in the movie. Though computer generated stunts, exaggerated actions will be seen in which serve as distinguishing mark for the character to be described.

Learning English as the Second Language has many sub topics. One of its subtopics is Literature. Though are also another subtopics of Literature itself, I decided to focus on Literary terms being used to evaluate and criticize movies.

Since I am watching movies regularly, I decided to launch this blog to record all the movies I’ll be watching including all the literary terms that could be extracted from a movie. I a going to include book review too if given the chance.