Blog #6

The movie, Beautiful Girls, was on that I had never seen.  I actually enjoyed the movie and would probably watch it again.  When writing the critical analysis about this movie, I found it to be kind of hard.  It was so easy to fall into summarizing the movie instead of analyzing it.   I think that if I was to write my paper again, I would try even harder to not summarize.  For some reason, while I was writing my paper I wanted to let people know about important parts of the movie before I analyzed them.  I learned that I should assume that my "audience" has seen the movie and they do not want to be told what it was about again! 

I also found that I did not cite enough throughout my paper.  I did not realize that you have to cite so much, even when you use your own words!!!  I missed a lot of places where I needed to cite, so that is something that I would fix as well. 

I think that I would not change my stance on the movie and the flow that I used.  I believe that my opinion is important and the way that I see the movie can be way different from the way someone else views it.  This helps people see different perspectives and maybe even see or understand something in the movie that they did not notice before.  Same with me, I would like to see other people's views on the movie just in case I missed something, or misinterpreted something to get a better understanding of how the movie was supposed to be displayed.    I really liked the flow of my paper.  I think that the way I wrote the paper flowed nicely.  I started out by acknowledging the director and writer and the name of the movie.  I then moved on to talk about the different characters and how I analyzed each of them.  For my conclusion I summed up what I felt about the movie and what I thought the movie was portraying.  I think this is a good flow because it is organized and written in a way that is easy for someone to follow and know where I am going. 

All in all, I think that I wrote a good paper, but it could have been better.  I think that if I correct my missed cites and take out some of the summaries that I had in there it would be a better paper.  Oh, and I need to remember that "you" should not be used, especially in the title!!!!!!  :)