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MOVIE REVIEW
1.
Introduction
a.
Title : THE
GIFTED HANDS
b.
Genre : Biographical
– Drama
c.
Casts : Cuba
Gooding Jr. as Benjamin “Bennie” Carson (Lead
Role)
2.
Synopsis
THE GIFTED HANDS
The movie begins in present day (with the set of year1987), where
Dr. Ben Carson (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) goes to Germany to visit a couple named Peter and Augusta Rausch, who have twins conjoined at
the head. Ben
knows that chances of saving them both will be at risk, because one baby always
dies in situations like that. Ben agrees to do the operation, but he will wait
four months so he can come up with a plan to save them both.
While looking into some of his books, the movie flashes back to the
year 1961, where 11 year old Ben Carson (Jaishon Fisher) starts out life as an African American child from a one-parent home with failing grades at school. Ben has an
older brother named Curtis. His mother, who dropped out in the third grade,
starts making decisions for him. When her boys need to learn multiplication
tables, she has them swear to learn them while she is gone to check herself
into a mental institution. When she sees her two sons' success hindered
by TV, she schedules timings to watch TV, boys show great interest in watching
only a quiz show later on and commands them to read two books per week from the
library and give her a book report, she also moves them to better schools.
Meanwhile as time passes, Ben learns how to multiply and to spell.
He starts to explore the world of books, and he grows in it. He begins to show a temper; Ben almost hits his mom with a hammer while arguing with her
about what pants he should wear for school and almost kills his best friend as
a teenager. His friend was saved as the knife that he used to stab him broke
when it hit the buckle of his belt.
Having almost killed someone because of his temper, he realizes
that he can't do anything about it. He runs to his room and cries out to God,
praying that He delivers him from his temper.
He becomes the top student in his eighth grade class, third in his
high school class and with hard work and strong determination, he got a scholarship to college, passed the MCAT and went on to medical school. He meets his girlfriend Candy, whom he falls
in love with. One day, when he struggles with a test study, she helps him out
and Ben eventually passes and gets an A.
In the year 1976, Carson faced adversity from fellow doctors and
students while working at Johns Hopkins
Hospital. It is
here where he performed an operation as a resident without supervision, risking
his medical career to save a man's life. Then in the year of 1985, he saves the
life of a girl who has seizures 100 times a day, by removing only half of her
brain that was responsible for seizures, procedure called 'hemispherectomy".
Candy later becomes pregnant with twins, but loses the babies from a bloody
miscarriage. Ben's mother later moves in with the family.
Then the movie goes back to where it began: the year of 1987. Ben
is eventually convinced to operate on the two twins, and he manages to make the
operation successful, and both twins are saved.
3.
The
Elements of The Plot
a.
Exposition
Dr. Ben Carson (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) goes to Germany to visit a couple named Peter and Augusta Rausch, who have twins conjoined at
the head.
b.
Conflict
Ben knows
that chances of saving the twin babies will be at risk, because one baby always
dies in situations like that.
c.
Rising
Action
Ben
Ben agrees to do the operation, but he will
wait four months so he can come up with a plan to save them both.
·
d.
Climax
· The scanner was getting fixed and Chris sold it.
· After the internship test and succeeded in grabbing
some significant clients, Chris was called by his manager and was told that he
got the position as the staff of Dean Witter’s stockbroker.
e.
Anti
climax
There is no anti climax and resolution
because this movie
uses an open plot.
4.
Character
and Caracterization
a.
Protagonist
1) Chris Gardner : a patience, tough, smart, loving and
caring guy with a good sense of humor.
2) Linda : a loving but short tempered mother.
3) Christopher : smart and cheerful boy.
4) Jay : a doubtful man
b.
Round
character
1) Kurt : a kind hearted businessman.
5.
Law
of plot
The movie
uses suspenses, because it uses chronological narrated events.
6.
Kind
of Plot
The plot
of the movie is an open plot. It leads the story that ends at the climax and lets
the viewers conclude the story by
themselves.
7.
Setting
·
Setting of time:
around 1981
·
Setting of
place: Illinois, U.S.
8.
Theme
The toughness of a
struggling man to get a better life for his son.
9.
Moral
Lesson
·
We should not
let ourselves lose mind when worst time get us.
·
“Don’t ever let
somebody tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta
protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t
do it. If you want something, go get it. Period”
-Chris Gardner
·
We should not
give up no matter how hard the situation is. Tough times don’t last, but tough
people do.
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