Beyond Sorry

I attended the folm Beyond Sorry in this week's Oceania Film Festival series. It was more of a documentary of Zita Wallace. Her family is in an aboriginal tribe in Autralia but over 50 years ago under the Government, she was taken by white men from her family and forced into schools and made to learn to live in white society. This story is of her finally return back to her home land and regain her culture which was stripped from her.  I found it interesting that the parents of the kids taken were told that their kids were dead so in their culture they were not allowed to talk about dead children.  Zita is one a few that come back to their true home and family even though they are nothing like it used to be. It is a touching tale that is a very interesting story that I never knew took place. Come connections I got were that this story reminds me a lot of the assmiliation and oppression put on the Native Americans by the English and Spanish settlers of the old days. Often we sometimes overlook what bad things we have done in the past.

Copycat Film

I really enjoyed the movie with Bill Curtis we watched in class last week.  After other blogs I think everyone pretty much hit it on the head that this individuals that commit these crimes and sick and mentally weak. These people do not know how to take responsibility of their own actions. I believe that these people have mental problems that are overlooked in the earlier stages of their development. I think the copycat acts can be avoided if the propers actions are taken when they show signs of not knowing right from wrong or understanding the consequences of their actions. To them, watching these people do it on movies only makes them feel like it can be done and they can maybe get some recognition and have a movie made about them possibly. Some of these offenders want just that, to be acknowledged. Either way they are all sick in the head and I feel if the people who surround them take the proper steps to get them help then the whole "copycat" excuse can be laid to rest.

Halo Murders

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10141467-235.html

This weekend I was watching the E! channel and they had another countdown of the 15 Most Shockingly Crimes commited by children or something like that and one of the stories was the story of the video game addicted, Daniel Petric.  He was the son of a preacher and lived in a religous household which forbade him to play violent video games. He sneeked in halo and played it religously for a while. His parents found it and his mom took it away from him. In October 2007, he shot his mom and dad while they were watching tv. He tried to make it look like a murder suicide but his dad survived the attack.  He claimed that he was dangerously addicted to the video game. This is not recognized by the American Medical Association as a psychological disorder. He tried as an adult and convicted for the crime.  His father, who I said was a preacher, forgave his son after plenty of soul searching and actually testified for him in his case.

The Samoan Wedding

This past Wednesday I attended one of the Oceana Film Festival Series movies.  This week the movie was the Samoan Wedding.  It was a pretty funny and clever film based in New Zealand.  Its about four friends named Michael, Albert, Stanley, and Sefa.  They are four samoan friends that get crazy when they party each other, which seems to be every night. Even though they are thirty they still act like they are in college. Michael's little brother, Sione, has always been accepted in their group and he is about to get married.  However, since the boys have a bad rep about ruining wedding by being the MVP of the party, they are banned from Sione wedding unless they can all bring a date that is more than just a hookup.  The priest has to believe that the woman they bring are their girlfriend and see the light in the boys.  They all have their struggles trying to find dates.  Each guy goes through their own kind of choas while trying to find a date. Whether its an angry girlfriend, trying to find a right girl even though the right one was right in front of him, talking to a girl who everyone believes is fake, or being such a ladies man that he is scared to commit, every different story has its own ups and downs and is very funny. Through their journey, however, they figure out that they are able to find people they really care about and that they need to calm down become more responsible.  Eventually they all make it to the wedding by the skin of their butt.  I really enjoyed the film. I liked their accents and the way they had their own slang. It was an entertaining film that kept my attention the entire time.  It was a good choice by Dr. Castle.

Free Blog

http://www.aetv.com/cold_case_files/ccf_about.jsp

I just wanted to take this free blog to talk about one of my favorite shows, called Cold Case Files.  Its a show that comes on A&E that presents cases of murders that go cold, which means a case where there is nothing else left to investigate and cannot be closed. Then randomly some new evidence, another crime will spark interest, or something will happen that will bring the case back up. It shows steps detectives use to track down these criminals.  There hae been over 100 episodes and there are some very interesting cases included.  Not to mention with Bill Kurtis as the narrator, this show will keep you entertain. So I'm sure that most of you already watch this show, but if you don't i recommend you check it out.

October 7, 2010

http://crime.about.com/od/current/a/van_der_sloot.htm

This link is a couple of articles in one that play out the events in the Natalee Holloway case. The most recent update is a small overview on the basics of the case and that after 5 years Jordan van der Sloot was identified as the killer. After being arrested twice previously but let go, he was finally arrested in Chile and was flown back to Peru to face his murder charges.  

Although I believe that at the beginning of this story the media was trying to make it more entertainment than anything, I think that now that all the information has come out and they have identified the killer that the articles you see on the news and in the newspapers are more informational than entertaining.