#THE ELITE CORE FOUR REUNION IS COMING

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Ok it's time for my insane little brain to go overanalyze the fact Renee called Hangman an ELITE level performer and Hangman made an odd face and then later said Renee said something that reminded him where he would like to go and he needs to mend fences and have tough conversations.

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Review: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

“I wanted them to see perfection. I ached for it in the deep, dark core of me: to be so good I left other people in the dust.”

Book: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

Author: Ashley Winstead

My Rating:✯✯✯✯✯ (5 Stars)

Read: November 17, 2021

Synopsis: 

Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent—not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year. Ten years ago, everything fell apart, including the dreams she worked for her whole life—and her relationship with the one person she wasn’t supposed to love. But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. When the six friends are reunited, they will be forced to confront what happened that night—and the years’ worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden. Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive read you won’t be able to put down. 

My Review:

Yes! That is what I’m talking about! I feel like I’ve been stuck in mediocre thrillers lately and I am so ecstatic that this one totally blew me away! The only reason it took me longer to read this book is because I wanted to savor it, I wanted to fully feel every single page deep in my soul. Also, this is the only book in a school setting that left me feeling somewhat anxious and a bit nostalgic for my own school days, that’s something I’ve never gotten from a book before this. I just think this is as close to perfect as a thriller can get for me- from the atmosphere to the pace of the plot and the twists and turns, I will be recommending this book to anyone and everyone that will give me the time of day!

To begin with, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife is about a girl, Jessica, who is going back to her college homecoming reunion, 10 years later, and she is desperate to prove herself as a woman who got it all, even though ten years prior a lot of messed up things happened on campus and her roommate was killed. Things take quite a turn, when her old roommate’s brother corners Jessica and her old college friends, desperate to find answers about who really killed his sister all those years ago. I freaking loved this plot! School settings tend to not be my favorite tropes in thrillers and yet this one proved just how good that trope could be if done right. I thought the pacing was masterfully done and I was literally anxious to find out what actually happened all those years ago, and yet I also couldn’t stop reading the book. The dual timelines are also masterfully crafted and I loved going between the now and then skipping around between all their four years in college. We also got a few chapters from the other friends’ perspectives and I really appreciated that, since I grew attached to every single one of them. I will definitely be reading all her future works, she has instantly become an auto-buy author for me, that is for sure.

Further on, the characterization in this book was beyond superb. All the friends from the friend group had complicated backgrounds and I loved seeing how these backgrounds were able to come together into a rather messed up friend group and the dynamics that formed as a result. We are really able to dive deep into the psyches of these complex individuals and understand why they acted the way that they acted at certain times and what really drove them to end up in the place where they were now, in the present moment, at the reunion homecoming. There were so many layers to each of them and quite frankly, I would have been ecstatic if this book would have been made into a series or if we even got books from any of the other characters that we have read about in here. 

Finally, the writing style was top notch, at least in my opinion. It was a bit sophisticated but not overly complex and definitely gave of a rather charming and dramatic vibe, but that’s what I find I love in my thrillers. Each and every chapter flowed so smoothly and even though the chapters weren’t the shortest I’ve ever read, the pages felt as if they were flipping themselves, effortlessly. Also, the end of every chapter left with a bit of a cliffhanger and I was hooked! There were also so many deep thoughts and pondering in this book that it’s one I would like to reread in the future, to catch what I didn’t catch the first time and I NEVER reread books. This book literally moved me that much!

In conclusion, I would recommend this book to EVERYONE! I think that thriller lovers would love it but so would most other readers as well because it left a lasting impression on me and moved me to the point of tears. I believe that anybody can benefit from delving into this story because at the root of it, there are tons of psychological aspects and life truths all throughout it. This is the kind of book that could really make for some profound discussions and conversations. If you haven’t read this book yet, what are you waiting for?!!

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Indian realistic film

下面为大家整理一篇优秀的assignment代写范文- Indian realistic film，供大家参考学习，这篇论文讨论了印度现实主义电影。印度现实主义题材作品通常将人民关注的学校、宗教、女性等热点问题进行揭露，从而引起社会公众的共鸣，达到传递深刻内涵的效果。印度电影在针对教育问题进行揭露时，注重从批判印度僵化态教育模式、反思具有不公平性与商业化的教育体系、关注特殊儿童教育等方面着手。印度现实主义电影采用的也是好莱坞的经典剧作模式，从故事结构来看不会太过于巧合。

Indian realistic works usually expose the hot issues of schools, religion and women concerned by the people, so as to arouse the resonance of the public and convey the profound connotation.

When exposing education problems, Indian films focus on criticizing India's rigid education model, reflecting on the unfair and commercialized education system, and paying attention to the education of special children. Bollywood, for example, challenges the education system and tells everyone how to live their lives.

With the development of India's economy and society, the self-consciousness of Indian cultural elite women keeps improving, but the persistent problems of the whole national mechanism still exist, which further forces the superstructure to reform the social and cultural system. As a result, a large number of films have emerged that reflect women's dissatisfaction with their social status. In the process of film creation, it mainly focuses on showing women's life misfortune, women's grievance and perfection, women's passive awakening, men's voice for women's status, women's active awakening and other inspirational stories. For example, the movie toilet hero, which is adapted from a true story, focuses on the domestic toilet as the main clue and revolves around the core issue of women's status, and finally succeeds.

India is the country with the most religious sects and one of the cradles of world religions. The people of India are extremely religious. India's religion is as binding as the law. Of course, such a binding force has brought many disadvantages to the daily life of the Indian people. More and more movies criticize religion, such as little girl's uncle monkey.

The real realist is idealistic. The movie masters of the world use the character configuration of uncle and girl many times. Leon and matilda from the French film Leon and Leon; Tae-hee and mi from the Korean film "lonely agent"; Darji kawadi and rinka kawa in the Japanese movie white rabbit candy. However, the unique feature of little girl's uncle monkey lies in the allegorical narrative strategy adopted by the film, which places two ordinary characters in the cultural context of religious conflicts and delivers great love across RACES.

In what is a movie, Andre bazin said that movies should be a medium that can reproduce the realistic idea, sublimate the real beauty, educate the spirit, and make viewers noble. Think of two styles in Indian realistic movies.

Indian realistic film inherits many features of traditional drama, incorporating long segments of song and dance. In the movie "little girl's monkey god uncle", the monkey god parwan and the little girl shahida first meet, parwan led the hindus singing and dancing to celebrate the activities of hanuman god. The four-minute song and dance scenes are simple and directly Indian. That is to enhance the religious identity of the audience. It also makes audiences of other ethnic groups deeply impressed by the artistic charm of Indian characteristics based on religion, highlighting the ethnic and regional characteristics of this film.

The film tells the story of shahida, a little girl from Pakistan, who was taken to India by her mother to wish to cure her aphasia. Parwan, a devout follower of the Hindu monkey god hanuman, eventually overcame the odds to send the girl back to Pakistan. The conflict between hindus and muslims in the movie is a legacy of history. With the progress of India's modernization, India realized the humiliation of British colonial rule. India carried out a series of non-violent and non-cooperative movements, and the British colonists intensified tensions between hindus and muslims in an attempt to undermine their independence movement. Since then, India and Pakistan have been divided into wars and conflicts, and the religious gap between hindus and muslims in the two countries has become deeper and deeper. To make serious historical themes of religion is not dull, director to join in the movie song and dance elements, while singing and dancing can be seen everywhere in the movie in India, but its expression and appeal is not a general technique can replace, interested audience with artistic technique, shows the traditional Indian movies, at the same time with special connotation of cabaret to deepen the theme.

Indian realistic films also use the classic Hollywood drama model. The structure of the story is too coincidental. In a short two hours, the main reason for the ups and downs of the character's fate is an accidental chance. The movie "little girl's uncle" is very simple, that is, the uncle takes the little girl home. Little girl with sand or uncle pavan, all may be one person, but for the ordinary one, but this is established by two little simple story model, two entirely different religious beliefs to place it in the specific social and cultural environment, but showed a deep and meaningful topic, complete the critique of religion. The allegorical narrative technique to explain the truth of "love" by means of small characters and small stories is also a strong guarantee for its good box office.

"Little girl's uncle monkey" is full of drama, plot ups and downs, emotion is real and natural, in the performance of the language of the camera is no less. It is worth mentioning the symbolism and montage of the film.

Shahida's mother kissed the flag at the start of the match, which again proved that shahida was Pakistani. The little girl likes the lamb and wishes to return home because the lamb is separated from its mother. When shahida comes home, the mother stands among the sheep, which means the process of shahida's separation to return. Shahida hand bracelet is the mother bought, shahida is very like, in shahida was sent away, is the bracelet to guide pawan found that he found to help shahida home is a human traffickers, finally prompted pawan decided to personally send shahida home, the plot to the climax. Fourth, handcuffs. Shahida loved the ring because the handcuffs were similar to the bracelet. Two attempts to remove police handcuffs, which were eventually discovered by Pakistani police, were the biggest obstacle to bringing shahida home for pawan. These four symbols, deep meaning, just right to promote the development of the plot.

Shahida came home at the same time that pavan was shot. This section USES both a cross-montage and a contrastive montage, alternating images of shahida reuniting with her family with images of pavan being beaten by police. With a warm reunion to highlight the poor pavan, a gunshot sound of the warm background music stopped, the audience's mood to the climax, good works are speaking in the language of the camera.

With the continuous development of the society, the development trend of commercialization and entertainment of domestic films in China is increasingly serious, which leads to the lack of connotation of films. In the development wave of world economic globalization and world cultural diversification, it brings many disadvantages to the development of domestic film industry in China. For this reason, China needs to actively learn from the artistic characteristics of Indian films and improve the narrative ability of localization of Chinese realistic films. To realize the reform and innovation of China's domestic films.

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