The film for this week was “The General”. The main protagonist in this movie is Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton). In short, the film display an engineer, Johnnie, who has an internal conflict with his girlfriend, Annabelle, and at same time gets his train stolen by Union spies where he tries to retrieve it and succeed. To add with it, his girlfriend accidentally gets involved it as a prisoner of war. In the end, he saves his beloved train named “the General”, his lover, and is promoted to a lieutenant- even though he had no military experience. Basically, this film shows the rites of passage as mentioned in Chapter 8. A rites of passage is an event that is centered on “birth, puberty, first love, first job, marriage, painful separations, and death.”
