Spaces and Exchanges : Road Movies.

A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home to travel from place to place, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives.^[1] The term can still apply to scenarios where it can be a misnomer, such as when the plot of a film involves off-road travel.

The genre has its roots in spoken and written tales of epic journeys, such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid. The road film is a standard plot employed by screenwriters. It is a type of bildungsroman, a story in which the hero changes, grows or improves over the course of the story.
The on-the-road plot was used at the birth of American cinema but blossomed in the years after World War II, reflecting a boom in automobile production and the growth of youth culture. Even so, awareness of the "road picture" as a genre came only in the 1960s with Bonnie and Clyde^{[citation needed]} and Easy Rider.^{[2]
 
                                                                       Extract from Paris Texas.}

^{I think that this film can illustrate the notion of "spaces and exchanges" because it speaks about a man who seems to travel in the desert alone with some water. We can supposed that he is traveled since a lot of time because his clothes are not clean, so may be he came from an other country. Nevertheless he follows his travel, and we see that aroud him there is only the desert so the ending is very far of him.} 

 

 ^{UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA) tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again.}

 ^{This movie can illustrate the notion of  "places and exchanges" because he speaks about immigration to America. A little boy wants to find his mother and he is going to do everything to go to live with her. So he will meet a lot of diffrent people, he will see a lot of different country. He will discovers a lot of things related with this notion.} 

Myths and Heros : The American dream

Definition :

The american Dream is a very strong belief for emigrants from all over the world (and for American themselves) in the ideal that America is a land of oportunity where everyone can work their way up upward mobility through hard work and willpower an make their dreams come true in order to reach material prosperity in pursuit of happiness.

A Witness as a thriller

 From the blog : http://bethrigby.blogspot.com.es/2011/01/section-one-thriller-genre.html

Definition of the thriller genre :
These are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features.  

 

Primary elements of  the Thriller as a genre	Witness as a thriller Illustration in the film
1.Central protagonist The central protagonist(s) faces death, their own or someone else's.	John Book faces his own death when he is shot in the parking lot.  Is also faces the death of this partner, carter.  Samuel  also faces death when he is in the bathroom and then when he has become an eyewitness.
2.Force/s of antagonism The force/s of antagonism must initially be clever and/or stronger than the protagonist.	At the first, the durty cop is more powerfull because there is in the higher position and sheaffer is the john boss, and then John is alone and isolated in the Amish community, where he is vulnerable.
3.Main storyline The main storyline for the protagonist is either a quest or the character who cannot be put down.	The john's quest consists in finding the killer and uncovering the corruption ring. He also wants to avenge carter's death.
4.Main plotline The main plot line focuses on a mystery that must be solved.	The mystery John  has to find out is to find the motive behind the murder of the police officer.
5.Narrative construction The film's narrative construction is dominated by the protagonist's point of view.	The beginning of the film is only concerned with the Amish and there laft time, but then we learn about Carter's Death through the John Point of vue and Rachel and Samuel through is eyes mostly.
6.Action and characters All action and characters must be credibly realistic/natural in their representation on screen.	The Amish way of life it is very credibly depicted through the barn-rising, Rachel sponge bath. When his sister describes John it is also very realistic.
7.Major themes The two major themes that underpin the Thriller are the desire for justice and the morality of individuals.	John takes justice in his own hands in order to avenge his friends and colleagues. The Amish as a whole enbody the highest degree of morality.
8.Small but significant aspect  One small but significant aspect of a great thriller is the presence of innocence in what is seen as an essentially corrupt world.	Samuel and the whole Amish community enbody innocence because their values are basically pure. The corruption and the violence inside of the police represent the corruption of the modern world.