Void

NAME OF THE FILM: TOUCHING THE VOID. DIRECTOR: KELVIN MACDONALD YEAR: 2003 This documentary talks more about climbers. To start with, the journey started as a routine climb for two professional mountain climbers, but was quickly transformed into a disastrous ordeal that tested both climbers’ strength and mental fortitude. Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald created a documentary film touching the Void, which is based on a book written by Joe Simpson recapping the events of this historic…

In A.O Scott’s article “Facing a Pitiless Void”, he makes a strong argument on why Americans enjoy the films that are being produced today. Speaking to the average American that has seen all the block buster movies, and trying to convey to them the reasons why they have such a pull to movies that all follow the same archetype. Three major movies were repeatedly mentioned through out this article, those being “All is Lost”, “Gravity”, and “Captain Phillips”, all which have the same undertones.…

As I am someone that has no interest in mountain climbing, Kevin Macdonald’s interpretation of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’s intrepid journey, ‘Touching the Void’, is a powerful film that is sure to turn heads and has definitely made me reconsider spending time mountain climbing. This docudrama follows a tragic incident that results in one man’s fight for survival after Joe and Simon’s descent up the unclimbed Peruvian Andes and ends with the audience questioning what they would do. To achieve…

Space. The Everlasting Void. I gazed into its overwhelming depths through the small crack in my blinds as I lay in my bed. I was, no doubt, the only person in the household currently unable to find rest. There was always so much to do, always so much to plan for. Whenever I found the time for a break, there would always seem to be something to be done that would build up in the meantime. I returned my attention to the world above. There was a certain peace to be found, peering into the night sky…

“Come out, Void!” I called into the inky darkness of the cinder city rooftop. “You can’t hide tonight!” “How did you know I’d be early?” A deep, cool voice was carried over to me, as if it belonged to the night wind itself. “I knew you’d be early because you like to anticipate my every move, and evaluate my tactics in order to find a weakness you can use against me,” I answered quickly, knowing the answer. Void’s cold laughter confirmed my answer. “Always the long explanations. No wonder you…

detrimental. Mankind lives in a world that is covered with almost infinite miles of space and stars and galaxies and humans know less than a fraction of what is out there. Meaning that there is almost always a certain amount of fear. In “Considering the Void”, by President Carter, reveals his relatable fear of the unknown through the use of strong figurative language, negatively connotated diction and syntax. Carter uses negatively connotated diction to show his fears in the universe. For…

Warren uses a mixture of tone and tension to emphasize the content and to help develop the theme. The author creates a tone of sadness throughout the poem. One example can be seen when Warren writes, “she sat In front of the drugstore, sipping something Through a straw. There is nothing like Beauty. It stops your heart. It Thickens your blood. It stops your breath.” Here the ‘boy’ seems to be truly in love with the girl and also has the desire to speak to her but can’t seem to go to her. The…

this way, they expose a void that runs through this museum and through architecture, a discontinuous void.” These voids are throughout the building only to be seen from small windows or as a whole up in the air. These voids create emotions of something missing in one’s life. Libeskind describes it, “as an emblem where the not visible have made itself apparent as a void, an invisible…. The idea is very simple: to build the museum around a void that runs through it, a void that is to be…

spring2life - how substance addiction stems from voids in our lives Life is a beautiful and complex process that all of us work to conquer for our whole life. We all have a purpose and a goal, no matter how great or small, that we were born to fulfill. Unfortunately, it is often hard to see the forest of our destiny through the trees of our setbacks. And that often creates a feeling of “void” in our lives that are hard to fill. Sadly, an increasing number of people are turning to substance…

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