Brief Analysis of the Film "Carol"

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The movie Carol is a romantic movie involving a young woman, Therese Belivett, who feels like her life is a mess, meaningless, and lost in that she is not going anywhere with it. The film follows the romantic life of Carol and Therese, who are from different backgrounds and find themselves entangled in a love affair in the 1950s. During these times, the conventional norms challenged such affairs, and theirs was not an exception. Yet, in their undeniable attraction to each other came an honest story that revealed the flexibility of the heart when change is on the forefront. In Endgame, Samuel Beckett focuses on a blind, incapacitated man and his servant. The play consists of four characters; Hamm (main character), his servant, and his parents. This paper will review these two films focusing on these two main characters and the paths they decided to follow.
Carol Film Brief Review
Carol is a movie involving to beautiful women (Therese and Carol). Carol is married but is not happy in her marriage, and she is older than Therese who is in her 20s. Carol lives a comfortable successful life, and has a daughter but Therese works in a Manhattan store as a clerk; she has a boyfriend as well who she is somewhat confused whether to be with him or not. The meeting of the two women, Carol and Therese, took place in Therese’s place of work, where they first make it look like a business meeting and interacted professionally. Still, in reality, the scene is flirty, sliced with ecstasies of danger. Then again, Carol forgets her gloves during this first encounter, which makes us question her intentions: maybe she did it on purpose, or maybe not (Haynes, 2015, 00:09:00-13:08). As the movie progresses, we still question Carol’s motive, and the audience starts to have an idea of what her motive is when Therese tells Carol about Richard’s plans of marrying her over their lunch date. Carol, in return, asks her, “would you like to marry him?” but Therese’s unclear path of life is evident in her response because she seems like she is not sure of what she wants in her relationship with Richard. She replies, “…well, I barely even know what to order for lunch…,” (Haynes, 2015, 00:22:00-20), then they both look at each other suggestively, possibly with questions in their minds.
Then again, Therese gets an invite from Carol and is to go to New Jersey, where carol stays. At this time, Carol had already separated from her husband, and the ongoing fight they have is accessing their daughter. So, when proceedings begin to determine who is to get sole custody of their daughter, Therese and Carol whisk away on an impulsive road trip into America. However, their road trip begins to run from something and towards a place where their bond shows possibilities of existence but turns out to be awful after their relationship is known, which annoys Carol (Haynes, 2015, 1:19:00-24:12).
Endgame Film Brief Review
Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, is a one-act play in that it only focuses on one act done in one scene, and comprises of only four characters Hamm (the master), Clov (his servant), and Nagg and Nell (Hamm’s parents confined to trash cans). By reflecting the issues that humans face in his play, Beckett can be persieved by the viewers as a protuberant absurdist, and his play is a distinctive absurdist play that portrays the characterists of this type of drams and demostrates the alienations and emptiness experienced in the modern world. Beckett chooses to use the theme of “finished” and “end” in the film, whereby, “finished” is evident at the beginning of the play’s opening line, and is repeated several times throughout the play.
Based on the narration of the play, it is evident that it is undoubtedly and undeniably a tragedy, and that it is not possible to get around it. the play takes place after the world’s ending where everyone is dead escept the four characters who are unbelievably cruel to each other. From the four characters, Hamm seems to be the hero in the play because the play revolves around him, and he is seen as a bossy character who is always demanding and expects his demands accomplished.
Relationship Between The Two Films
In Carol and Endgame, Therese, Carol, Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell share the same path of loneliness and opt for adapting ways to deal or do away with this feeling. In Carol, Therese is living a clueless life in that she does not have any hopes of living a better life before she meets Carol. Despite him having a boyfriend, she goes ahead to choose a love path forbidden by the people in those times of falling in love with another woman who suffer...