Julian Matthew J. Quiblat 11 STEM-B Big Hero 6 review Hiro Hamada is a smart kid. He was able to graduate high school at 14 years of age. His brother Tadashi does not think he is living up to his potential because all he does in his free time to earn money is participate in bot fighting tournaments. Tadashi thinks that he should go to college so he takes Hiro to the University of San Fransokyo science lab to get him interested in science. Tadashi is able to convince him and it seems that Hiro wants to enter the school but then Tadashi is killed in a fire, and Hiro becomes depressed. Now it is all up to Baymax(Tadashi’s Invention) to make Hiro happy. Baymax indirectly helps prove that Tadashi's death was not an accident and Hiro feels that he needs to take action. He starts out by teaching Baymax fighting moves. Then he gathers together some of Tadashi's school friends and together they all set out to stop the evil doer. Doing all you can to help others seems to be the main theme that runs throughout this film. We see this when Tadashi saves his little brother from a gang of thugs and inspires him to look at problems from a new angle, When he hears that somebody's trapped in a burning building, he says, "Someone has to help!" And he charges in and loses his life in the process. Eventually, Hiro learns what it takes to make that same kind of self-sacrificial choice. Hiro's new friends—Go Go, Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred—all step up to help, too. And it's Baymax who actually calls them in to raise Hiro's spirits. Baymax looks like a marshmallow man dreamed up by a balloon-animal sculptor. He's "non-threatening and huggable," Tadashi said. He can diagnose diseases and perform over 10,000 medical procedures. And he clearly reflects his creator's ethos, evaluating Hiro's vitals and doing whatever he can to set the boy on a healthy path. As Tadashi programmed him, Baymax is a character of great sensitivity and purity. "They could potentially save thousands of lives," Tadashi says of his invention. In that vein, whenever Hiro is in danger of physical or emotional harm, the robot quickly uses his own body to warm and/or shield the boy. (Baymax later saves the entire Big Hero 6 team.) In fact, Baymax will only power down and stop his relentless quest of healing and protection when he hears the words, "I am satisfied with my care." This relates to the subject Personal Development because this movie shows how being depressed can be fixed by going to people that love you and care about you. I recommend this movie to everyone because there are a lot of lessons that can be learned from this. Silver Linings Playbook Review This is a romantic comedy that was nominated for eight Academy Awards however it is not just about cute crazy behavior (though there’s plenty of that) but about real mental illness. This movie approaches it in a non-generic way, but this makes us empathize more. In Silver Linings the mania and the meltdowns have a serious side, and a diagnosis. Our main character, Pat Solitano, is a young man with bipolar disorder who’s just been released from a psychiatric hospital to which he was forced into after beating up his wife’s lover. He’s returns to his parents’ home, with new knowledge about his disorder, required visits to a therapist, and medication that he does not want to take. With the hope that he’s going to win back his wife—who has formed a restraining order against him, spends a lot of time running around the neighborhood to keep in shape, wearing a garbage bag over his clothing to induce more sweating so that he can burn some of his energy. From the beginning, Pat is relatable and scary at the same time. When he meets a depressed widow named Tiffany, the result is an intense and unpredictable relationship The depiction of mental illness is well put out and the cast of actors was a good choice like Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, playing bad but likable people. Part of the message of the movie is that it takes a lot of mutual support for people to be their best selves, whether or not mental illness is involved. And that if we’re not afraid of mental illness, and we don’t try to hide it, we can help people manage their symptoms and live up to their potential. It’s when Pat realizes who his real love interest is that he is motivated to take his medication, and give up his delusions. Mental Illness is the main theme in this movie and that is why we can relate it to our subject Personal Development. I recommend this to people who may know people suffering from this illness. Black Swan Review Nina is a ballerina who is very passionate about dancing. When the company's artistic director decides to get a new ballerina for their opening production of "Swan Lake," Nina is his first choice. She has competition with someone named Lily however. While Nina is perfect for the role of the White Swan, Lily is considered perfect for the role of the Black Swan. As the rivalry between the two dancers transforms into a friendship, Nina's dark side begins to emerge. Nina is beautiful, vulnerable, naive and susceptible to mental illness. To play the role she wants, Nina must dig into her dark side. As her hallucinations and anxiety attacks keep coming with her rehearsals, she starts getting more and more nervous breakdowns. This is a movie about fear of penetration, fear of your body, fear of being supplanted in the affections of a powerful man, love of perfection and love of dance. As time progresses, Nina finds herself crumbling in the face of odd hallucinations. However, she is given a chance to play the role that she wanted and she receives praise from the crowd. But she slowly realizes that her hallucinations have been growing increasing. In the end, playing the role of the white swan who kills herself, Nina receives applause from the audience. Nonetheless, the truth is revealed and she ends with the perfect performance, embodying the role to the extremes and almost killing herself. The Black Swan explains why we are so bad at predicting the future, and how unlikely events dramatically change our lives if they do happen, as well as what you can do to become better at expecting the unexpected. This movie once again connects to our subject Personal Development because it talks about mental illness and goes into the life of a person that has to live with it. I recommend this movie to people that are interested in what mental illness can make a person do.
