Conflicts in Films
...s. Throughout the movie each conflict is solved. All the students end up with a friendship that will never be forgotten. If the audience members are college students all the conflicts are easy to understand no matter what language the movie is in. Every college student goes through one of these problems therefore making the character more credible and easier to side with. However other movies that were seen did not have such easy conflicts to understand. The conflicts themselves were too hard to understand or the audience had never been in a situation like that of the main character(s). In Rabbit-Proof Fence it is hard to understand why the main characters are taken from their home and brought to this school. The director of this film makes it a little easier on the audience by presenting both familiar and alien conflicts. One conflict that is easy to relate to is being away from home and scared or a mothers sorrow. Anyone watching can see why a child and mother might feel that way even if they have never experienced it before. Seeing a familiar conflict helps make the bigger more alien conflict easier to understand. Most people will never be in the middle of the Australian desert trying to find their way home with an army of people ready to capture them at any moment. So the director uses conflicts such as finding food, being in a new setting, and a political structure to connect the audience to the character. This helps the audience better understand the struggle that the characters are going through. In the movie Cup Final the main character has two main conflicts. One is personal the other is political. The political one happens to be that he has been captured by PLO guerrillas. The other conflict is that all he cares about is that he has tickets to the final game of the world cup soccer game. The two very different conflicts get shown to the audience throughout the movie. When the character is in the PLO’s hands the director always reminds the people watching of the soccer game by either having them listen to the radio or even having the characters playing soccer. One specific moment in the movie is when the group are watching a soccer game with their favorite teams and the main character and the leader of the PLO are excited about their team getting a goal. The main character goes to give the leader a hi five and the leader is about to do the same but they realize that one is the captor and one is the captive. This detail in the movie shows the audience that even the characters will forget one conflict until they are faced with it. It also reminds the audience of the conflict that is presented. In the movie Central Station the main characters are faced with two conflicts. Not wanting to be with each other and trying to get the boy to his father. From the beginning, the boy and the woman, don’t want anything to do with each other but as the second conflict arises the woman and child start to bond. The director uses actions in this movie to present the first conflict to the audience. He shows the woman bring the child to a place where she gets paid as one example of not wanting him. After getting the child back the child is shown not wanting to ride the bus with her and calling her ugly. This helps to present the feeling between the two to the people watching the movie. The relationship between audience and characters grows as the relationship between the two main characters grows. Every fight that the characters have the audience lives through with them. The conflict is brought to the audience very realistically. As the second conflict of trying to get the boy to his father goes on the fist conflict begins to be solved. The people watching the movie can easily see this happening because it is human nature to bond if you are in a situation like that of the characters. Every time they have a bonding moment they become closer to the fathers house. Every disappointment brings the characters closer together also. After both conflicts are solved the woman has one more conflict to solve: where will she go. ...