Me and this fat kid / We ran we ate and read books / And it was the best

The title Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Watiti expansive sense of human beings allows his characters to endure loss and hardship without forcing them to be wholly limited by their suffering, as Mr. Waititi knows that we love to cry at sad and bad times, but he also knows that people in pain need to get on with their lives. They’re romantic and pragmatic, eccentric and utterly ordinary. They’re also reasonably flawed, as is this movie, but Mr. Waititi transcends the essence on ordinary people yet down to earth feelings.

The story started with odd-couple adventure is the well-acted story of a down-and-out Maori kid and his grouchy foster parent. Quirky and offbeat it is a little movie that showcased moments of surprising emotions and magic , Hunt for the Wilderpeople has bring very familiar yet strange especially regarding orphan or foster children, but it manages to stay between Ricky and his foster parents chemistry, well played with human nature and movies. The film is funny, heartwarming and doesn’t leave the viewer feeling cynical or hopeless.

But his foster aunt Bella breaks down his defences with down-to-earth love and affectionate mockery. Bella honest and pure affection making sure Ricky has a "hottie" (hot water bottle) on his pillow every night to keep him warm and cuddly. But she's also fierce enough to slit a wild pig's throat and then casually say to Ricky "well, that's dinner." Her foil is the hilariously hard-nosed child protective services' case worker Paula, who will stop at nothing to "rescue" a boy she considers a "bad egg." But this isn't ultimately their story. It's the story of city-kid Ricky, who learns to appreciate and even love the bush as much as his "uncle" Hec, a man who may not know how to read words but knows how to survive -- something they both become adept at doing together. Gradually they realized the two rejected loners will only be accepted by such gold-hearted Bella.

But after the sudden death of Bella has leave us all in stunt where audience are expecting the chemistry and love between Ricky and Bella, as well Ricky transformation to accept a family and a home but the death has leave all of us to experience the same grief as Ricky does. However, when a tragedy threatens to steal back the life that Ricky has come to love, 13 years old Ricky has changed him a little or less for him to decide taking an adventure into the bushes to send Bella to the top of the mountain. And of course he do not want to go back to children welfare service knowing that Uncle Hec do not want him to stay with him. Deep in the forest, Ricky plans a life living off the land with his dog Tupac. He was found by Hec, who gets injured because of Ricky, delaying their return to civilization long enough that the authorities come looking. Ricky writes haiku. Hec hunts. And the two become famous, all over national news and tracked by the incompetent Paula. “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” becomes a road movie with no road, a film about two people who may seem entirely different but have both been discarded by society.But the real heart of the story rests in the between Ricky and Hec. Forced into a relationship neither really wants, they eventually grow to a place of true friendship and respect. Alone together they must grow beyond their own way of thinking and see things from the other side. Eventually they do, with Hec's proclamation that we didn't choose the skuxx life, the skuxx life chose us sealing the deal.

 The comedy in “Wilderpeople” showcased in a very quiet yet funny ways, which strengthens the story’s realism. Ricky is a funny kid. He’s amusing to look at, for one thing, like the bad-boy haikus he creates as part of his therapeutic training. As a child of social services, he throws words like “processing” around, though this abandoned children has not much chances to expressed his emotions and haikus might be the only way he know could help him. 

Despite the claims of Paula (the social worker tasked with ‘hunting’ Ricky down) that ‘no child should be left behind’, her treatment of Ricky does not stem from care and/or a sense of responsibility as much as it shows an exercise of state power and containment. Indeed, paula actually take all these 'problematic' children as problematic and might be a threat to country so she did her best to contained and controlled Ricky. She uses 'No Child Left Behind' as she seen as a threat focusing Ricky as problem that needs to be solved. As she said Ricky and Hec as not people so much as problems to be solved. She is the one that sets Ricky as failures by listing all his problems instead of qualities even when she first met with Bella (his new foster mother). 

‘He’s not just a child, he’s a spanner in the works’ – a reflection of the existing colonial mentality in New Zealand, where Māori children are treated as older and less innocent than their Pākehā counterparts. 

Waititi’s film never judges its characters. Ricky isn’t a “bad egg” or a “dumb kid.” The film finds joy in scenes like the one in which he creates a fake Walkman and dances to the music in his head. It’s essential to the film’s success that Ricky’s not just the bumbling idiot he could have been in another filmmaker’s hands. We feel honest affection for Ricky. Waititi and Hec find depth within the characters, as small moments become the foundation for the film’s emotion. They don’t play the coming-of-age arc, they play the reality of each scene. It may sound obvious, but so many films like “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” try to play the emotion instead of grounding it in character.

He breaks “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” up into chapters, making it feel almost like a memory or the story that an adult Ricky is telling his kids later in life. It almost approaches fairy tale mythology, especially the surprisingly action-packed finale, one in which we honestly care about the fate of our two protagonists.

So much of “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” looks easy. It’s not until one considers the number of places it could have gone awry that one truly appreciates it. There are so many minor beats that produce laughs and major moments that create surprising emotion. There’s a great scene halfway through in which Hec and Ricky are high enough in the mountains that they can almost touch the sky and Hec calls it “majestical.” It’s not a real word, as Ricky corrected him but at last even Ricky prefer the wrong one. And indeed, it's a downright majestical movie.

Grace is gone

Director by James C. Strouse

This is a story regarding a family’s grief, and how this family with different personalities come together to cope with the grief and mourn over the death of their beloved one. Director chose to shared something intimate within a family to shared across to let audience witness the truth of reality. This is not a story regarding right or wrong but its a movie about grief and sometimes we just need to let intuition led us.

It hits audience from the first place when Stanley can't even move out of denial and it is totally understandable right from Stanley opens the door to find two officers from the Army base. Stanley is ex-Army himself and this is the only time in his life he has ever been unhappy to see the uniform. Because he knows what it means. 

The moment he saw them, he left in state of shock and could not response in a moment at the same time he is afraid to awake his daughters. He do not let the officers in because he afraid his daughters might come down but then he still let them in to let situation a bit clearer to let him shaped his mind. Yet as long as he doesn't tell their daughters what happened, it hasn't really happened yet. He even reject and do not let the officer to pray with him, he is in a state of denial or delay a few moments to not accept the death of his wife.

We all know Stanley from the moment he walks into the first scene, stiff and awkward in his own skin, it's not that Stanley doesn't feel, it's that he doesn't show. He then knew he need to take up the role to raise his two daughters without her wife at the same time he knew her daughters have closer relationship with her wife instead of him. He confirmed he need to formed a good relationship with his daughters first before disclosing to them, at least Heidi and Dawn felt that they have someone close to them to shared this grief with. Very well-thoughts and meticulous in thinking his daughters feelings as well as coping his grief over his wife.

So Stanley takes them on an impulsive, indulgent road trip to Florida. And he bites his tongue, and smiles, and whenever they're not around he calls home, just to hear their dead mother's voice on the answering machine. He is trying to linked or have relations back with his death one by hearing Grace's voice and in a meanwhile hope Grace will tell him what to do because he is too afraid to screw this up and his daughters might hate him forever.

Before the day, he feeling a bit depressed so he decided to attends a support group for soldier's wives, he mentioned that he is proud of her. Stan and Grace met while they were both in basic training and over the years have created a good marriage based on friendship. He misses her decision-making abilities and her closeness to their daughters.

This has come up with a tender and touching story about family, grief, and the challenges faced by a nervous and sad father who feels his way slowly into a deeper relationship with his daughters. Stanley has been doing his best, we sense, providing some order for his children, but he is not naturally nurturing. He's concerned about Heidi, who, like him, is fun challenged and is having trouble sleeping. He knows Dawn misses sharing important moments with her mom, which becomes apparent when she hides out in a little house in a store just after she has her ears pierced.

There are stages of grief, and Stanley goes through shock and numbness, accepting the reality of the loss, and beginning to work through the pain. Although some, including his brother, think it's wrong that he delayed telling his daughters, he seems to know that until he can face it and until the girls have come to know him in a different way, he will be no help to them in their grief. Instead of following social customs about death and grieving, we have to trust our intuition. There is a right place and a right time for everything.

That stage of life is dramatically one of the most fraught with all sorts of complications and emerging consciousness. Heidi is bursting with confusion and emotion and her father is trying to bury it as much as he can. What she was doing when she wasn’t talking was really subtle, always small. She would never overdo it, an amazing instinct to have. When she called back their house phone, she knew something was wrong but she knew her father is planning on something and she knew if he does he must have a very good reason so she never probe questions anymore further.

And when the time finally comes Stanley tell his children the truth, grieving over until the sunsets and i loved how they watch chime moment in front of Grace's graveyard and the family spent a moment of each and every living day thinking about her.

And you can't really understand the essence of agonizing unless you have had the experience of living through them yourself.

Stanley Milgram

The life of social psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) conducts controversial experiments designed to measure conformity, conscience and free will.

In this movie after his obedience experiment his results was not appreciated by majority and he struggles with the public objection about the ethics of his experiments and how his career advances as he becomes a professor in New York City and continues to study social interactions and social pressure in more benign experimental settings, including the small world experiment, the lost letter experiment, the street-corner (or gawking) experiment, familiar stranger experiment and various experiments that he makes his students carry out. He tried to move on with other experiment but his friend reminded him the importance of obedience experiment that he could run again in different culture to obtain more accurate results. 

His experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.
His experiments idea came from his childhood experience and hope to find the answer regarding human nature. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders of their superiors.
Milgram did more than one experiment to prove his results, he alter the situation (IV) to see how this affected obedience (DV).

The conclusions we can get from his obedience experiment is that ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extent of killing an innocent human being. Obedience to authority are ingrained in us all from the way we are brought up. People tend to obey orders from other people if they recognize their authority as morally right and / or legally based.
This response to legitimate authority is learned in a variety of situations, like in the family, school and workplace.

Milgrams' Agency Theory
Milgram explained the behavior of his participants by suggesting that people actually have two states of behavior when they are in a social situation:
The Autonomous State
People direct their own actions, and they take responsibility for the results of those actions.
The Agentic State
People allow others to direct their actions, and the pass off the responsibility for the consequences to the person giving the orders. In other words, they act as representative for another authority’s order.

Agency theory says that people will obey an authority when they believe that the authority will take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. This is supported by some aspects of Milgram’s evidence.
In the film many of the participants asked for assurance and confirmation regarding who should take the responsibility if there is anything happened to the participants that receiving shocks. Once they found out the responsibility will be taken by the experimenter and not up to them they all mostly go all along till 450 volts intact with Milgram's expectations.
The Milgram studies were conducted in laboratory type conditions and we must ask if this tells us much about real-life situations.
We obey in a variety of real-life situations that are far more subtle than instructions to give people electric shocks, and it would be interesting to see what factors operate in everyday obedience. The sort of situation Milgram investigated would be more suited to a military context.   

Milgram's sample might be biased towards male only, the participants in Milgram's study were all male. Do the findings transfer to females?
Milgram’s study cannot be seen as representative of majority population as his sample was self-selected, where they became participants only by electing to respond to a newspaper advertisement (selecting themselves). They may also have a typical "volunteer personality" – not all the newspaper readers responded so perhaps it takes this personality type to do so.
Milgram’s findings have been replicated in a variety of cultures and most lead to the same conclusions as Milgram’s original study and in some cases see higher obedience rates.
But the majority of these studies have been conducted in industrialized Western cultures and we should be cautious before we conclude that a universal trait of social behavior has been identified.

Ethical Issues
Deception – the participants actually believed they were shocking a real person, and were unaware the learner was a confederate of Milgram.
However, Milgram argued that “illusion is used when necessary in order to set the stage for the revelation of certain difficult-to-get-at-truths”.
Apparently after the experiment Milgram claimed that 83.7% said that they were “glad to be in the experiment”, and 1.3% said that they wished they had not been involved.
Harm to participants - Participants were exposed to extremely stressful situations that may have the potential to cause psychological harm. Many of the participants were visibly distressed as decsribed by Milgram such signs of tension included trembling, sweating, stuttering, laughing nervously, biting lips and digging fingernails into palms of hands.
In his defense, Milgram argued that these effects were only short term. Once the participants were debriefed and it was obvious after the 'teacher' have seen the 'learner' was not receiving any electric shocks and was in fine condition, the 'teacher' feel much better and decreased in stress level.

Free will of participants and humans in this context has raised questions regarding how much free will one possess to the extent our actions and behaviors is it necessary came from our self-determination or being controlled by social laws or prior causes? If then do we human consider to have free will or act upon free will? This movie depicts the struggle of experimenter in all fields fight against the norm of society and the readiness of our society to receive new or threatening idea on the concept of human living. Societies work in a circle and human tend to follow the circle or norm so that they feel same with others and not easily out cast, if then we all live in a system that repeating itself and not our own life we have control of. 

This movie provoke questions regarding human nature by using fact-based story. Milgram will remain inspiration to us all to question about human nature and life.

Amadeus

The film, Amadeus, written by Peter Shaffer and directed by Milos Forman, is a not only an Academy Award winning film, but is also a surprisingly accurate portrayal of Mozart’s life. Antonio Salieri was a contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791). An accomplished musician, Salieri competed with Mozart for recognition and employment. This film is a fictional exploration of how Salieri might have felt when he realized that despite all his hard work, talent, and popularity at the time, he could not hope to approach Mozart's genius. Driven out of his mind by jealously, Salieri is confined to an insane asylum, and fantasizes that he has killed Mozart. "Amadeus" provides a thoughtful exploration of an existential and moral dilemma.

 Moral Ethical Emphasis

In the light of ethical principle of responsibility, Salieri's thinking flawed and responsible in Mozarts' encounters. Instead Salieri get jealous at Mozart's genius and being enemy with God that 'choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation'. Salieri could appreciate and persevere in his own music along with Mozart to learn from him and to improve self but instead he let jealousy covered up his eyes and speaks bad about Mozart in front of the royals and people. Salieri showed that he did not have clear thoughts before he act he did not think about the consequences, if he did not speaks bad about Mozart, Mozart could get few students and will not faced financial crisis and his wife wouldnt left him and he would not be alcoholic. Humility is the key but Salieri did not shows.

Salieri is a very religious person as he refers the music to the voice of God, but if he is really truly serving for God he should not have envy and betrayed Mozart. As Salieri described Mozart's music as the very voice of God, but instead he did not work along with Mozart as they are both the voice of God but Salieri think there should only be one and that is him he could not accept God make him witness the birth of Mozart that his music is nothing to compared with. If he is truly religious he will cared and never let jealousy covered his eyes, so he just want God to give him the gift of music but he never walk the path God wants him too. The creation of beauty by God should not be a competition.

Mozart in movie showed symptoms of personality or neuropsychology disorder, his rapid speech and catatonic movements has raised few questions relating to Tourette's Syndrome but research has found that gifted or extraordinary individuals especially in musical abilities shown suppression in mental and emotional in brain plasticity therefore in sensation, perceptual, imagination and movements will experienced heightened over excitabilities. 

In relation with Mozart's father, Leopald Mozart possess controlling and obsessive nature controlling and preoccupied with his son life and career has created certain amount of pressure and stress on Mozart and in addition to his environment, financially challenged and his abandonment of his wife has make him drink more than usual therefore he become alcoholic. His biology nature and environment nature as a gifted individual has make him vulnerable to stress and failure there he developed depression and loneliness. In addition to the problems, the death of his father has much impact on him and he is even afraid to compose the Requiem Mass because he is fear of his own death. His father death haunt him about his own death and as well the person he loved is gone left him alone in facing the world. The disintegration of him and his world happened after all the problems occurred but he feel helpless, all he ever did it just his piece of music, socially he is not good in relation with his genius, gifted child is not good in socializing. Mozart spend too much time asking questions regarding injustice, unfairness and morality but all this are written on his music and so majority people and the royals could not accept his 'socially inappropriate behaviours'. If he was born in a right culture, meeting the right people will his life be longer? Such great man that has died leaving us all in pain.