In the Mood for Love

In the story “White Angel,” by Michael Cunningham, love and death is widespread, and it follows the story of two brothers - a nine-year old narrator, Bobby Morrow and his sixteen year old brother, Carlton. Both brothers are outgoing, and they have a strong relationship together. Cunningham uses both point of views and symbols to promote the theme.The Morrow’s house, which borders the cemetery becomes the symbol of both love and death. Bobby and Carlton often visits the cemetery to smoke…

that take place throughout the film, several elements of film noir were used in the filming of this movie. Double Indemnity utilized film noir by setting a dark mood, high-contrasts shots, and villainous characters. The setting elements established in Double Indemnity are excellent demonstrations of film noir style and certainly add to the mood of the film. The movie takes place in downtown L.A, which is perfect for…

Psychodynamic Case Scenario Question 1 In a clinical situation as the one described in the case study, transference refers to a situation where the client tries to form relationships with the therapist where they unconsciously expect them to behave like important people they have had in their lives in the past. In the interview between Mallory and Dr. Santos, there is a great extent that the behavior exemplified by Mallory is an indication of transference. She exemplifies transference by…

person, or group of people, that make them happy and encourage them. People who make others happy are normally confident in themselves, feel confident and are positive. When someone who is sad interacts with someone happy, they boost the sad person’s mood because happiness is contagious. If anyone has seen the “Skype Laughter Chain,” they will notice that seeing and hearing the other people laughing will cause them to laugh as well. Laughter, joy, and smiling is all contagious and can improve…

was made in 2011. The film was written and directed by Ryan Hutchins. It tells the story about a young man being in love with his best friend, unsure if he should express his feelings throughout their friendship. “Too Shy” has won three Hofstra Film Festival awards for “Best Director”, “Best Actress” and “Best Screenplay”. The short film “Too Shy” depicts what it is like to be in love with someone you deeply care about. It expresses the fear and frustration the young man has for not being able…

everywhere you look there is a new set of eyes. Seeing all of these eyes looking at us we also wondered if Allen wanted there to be a certain mood established from the eyes. Our question was, is there supposed to be a certain mood lingering over the paintings? The mods of his paintings reflect on how Allen is feeling or thinking at the moment of him drawing. The mood of the drawing had to do a lot with the lack of color throughout the canvas. Why did he only use primary colors to accent the…

more concerned about protagonist and his decision because he was in a stressful setting. The setting makes the mood tense and stressful. The author uses the phrase “he stood on the ledge outside in the slight chill breeze eleven stories above the street,” to explain the setting. In The Trip and The Leap there are several different settings. In The Trip each of the settings set a tense mood and effects the way the characters feel and act. In the beginning when they are on the boat on the boast…

We can even catch someone's bad day bug or have a better mood after seeing someone smile (Crow, 2015). Moreover, we are "walking mood inductors" that are continuously influencing the moods and the judgments and behaviors of others (Barsade, 2002). These mood transfers can be intentional through the mechanism of empathy, where an individual takes on the other person's perspective purposefully (Vijayalakshmi & Bhattacharyya, 2011). Whereas mood is distinguished from emotion as it is usually longer…

same. This story connects the to song “Hold on Tight” by Greg Holden. He sings about how he does not take things in life for granted even though he may have more than what other have. Similar themes can be found in different ways, character change and mood are the two different strategies out of…

when they are played in the dance club every night, a lot of other songs are written with specific people or subject matter in mind. Every love song that has ever been written was based off a person that the musician found attractive and worthy enough to write a song about. Music has no limitations, it can be either sad or happy, loving or angry, and any mood you can think of can be expressed through a musical interpretation of it. The free form of music allows everyone to express themselves…