Jack Parker Analysis

The voice that delivered by Jack Parker has British accent and is able to speak French fluently. Those two different languages were presented by Jack when he helped the policemen dealing with French smugglers. Jack’s British accent revealed his own geography; a guy who was born and raised in Blackpool, England along with having the ability to speak French fluently inherited from his mother who is also French. The bilingual ability shows that he has a close relationship with his mother since it is quite peculiar for Jack who claimed himself for not having a proper education to learn on how to speak French by himself. It is then revealed later on this film that Jack is a mom’s boy when he told the psychiatrist that the reason he stayed in Blackpool is just to be close with his mom. Nevertheless, the ability to speak French gives him advantage to communicate effectively with the French smugglers who were also shocked by Jack’s fluency in speaking French.
Apart from that, Jack’s voice was sometimes delivered in depressed intonation and pushed tone accompanied by the mixture of sad and angry emotion through his facial …show more content…
According to his brother, Bruno, he has not spoken for 12 years because of depression. However, during the scene where Jack got dead-locked and depressed for not having the same chance that his family got; to perform in the ring, Thomas finally speak up. The embodiment of Thomas’ voice at that time creates different mixture of amazed, touched, and grateful feeling in Jack and other characters including the audience which is their first time to hear Thomas’ voice. When he finally speaks, he speaks a few beautiful lines that gave Jack the catalyst to strive for the best. The words that came out from Thomas’ mouth were so powerful to the extent that everyone gave attention to him including the dog, and provide a paradigm shift to Jack to perform reasonably well at the end of the