Sixth Entry - A Sincere Apology

Date : 11 February 2010 - Thursday.
Place: KD-B-6
Time : 9.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.

Yes, I admit that the movie is long, never-ending, slowly tortured my heart and soul. (Just kidding) But still, I sincerely apologize my beautiful lecturer, Miss Shazwani for sleeping in her class. As a students, I believe that we should have manner in whatever things we do. We must also have full respect to our lecturer. I admit that I am very sleepy at that moment, therefore I am very sorry.

In the class, we have discussed critically about the movie and the relation of the message from the movie with our environment, such as Malaysian government and also KPMIM rules. We also discussed about homosexuals, Muslims and terrorist and why these three communities are being banned in the movie. From what I can conclude, every story have their messages to convey to the audience. As long as, we take the good side of the story, and leave the bad ones.

Fifth Entry - Vendetta's 10 Rules.

Date : 10 February 2010 - Wednesday.
Place: K-Broadcast, Library KPMIM.
Time : 11.30 a.m. - 1.30 p.m.

In today's class, we are asked to watch a movie entitled "V for Vendetta" directed by James McTeigue. Here is the 10 rules regarding the movie.

TOPIC - The title of the movie focuses on V for Vendetta, which means, revenge. V also symbolize number 5 and the protagonist of the story, Mr. V.

CONTENT - The story is mainly about a man which is Mr.V who is seeking a revenge after what had happened before this to him and his society. He condemned and against the governments. This revenge is because he was being an experiment subject to create the biological weapon. He really hate Chancellor Suttler, one of the most significant public figure in his country because of his greedy. He is a religious man and a very narrow minded person. The important things is he hate Muslims, terrorists and homosexuals.

SOURCE - The movie is directed by James McTeigue and produce by Joel Silver and Wachowski Brothers, who has earlier produces many commercial success movies such as The Matrix trilogy.

AUDIENCE - The movie targets to people who are involve in political and governments and also to the public.

RHETORICAL FUNCTION - The director and the script writer purpose is to inform and educates the audience about the rights as a citizens or public. The most important thing is to give them awareness about what had happened in the past and push them to take action therefore the situation will not happen again in the future.

PURPOSE - The movie, V for Vendetta wants to educates the public regarding the consequences of just follow the rules without thinking the pros and cons.

PERSPECTIVE - The stance taken in this movie is to describe the rules that been handle by the government had been condemn by the public. This movie also tell us about the misuse of power by the leader on the top position in the government.

POSITIONING - This movie is from the public's point of view. Mr. V as a person that symbolize the whole public about what actually they want, their voice and their rights. Chancellor Suttler is the example of cruel and evil governments who made rules for their hidden agenda.

IMPACT - The most important message of the movie is that the public has their own rights and they can voice out their opinion freely to the governments.

VISUAL LITERACY - The usage of the word V symbolize the whole story is all about. Also, worth mention that they also use fire, which symbolize the anger of the protagonist.

4th Entry - The Presentation

Date : 03 & 04 February 2010
Place: K-Broadcast (Library KPMIM) & KD-1-6
Time : 11.30 a.m. - 1.30 a.m. (Wednesday) & 9.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. (Thursday)

This week, the pair presentation, which is one of the assignment of this subject was started. Each pair have to present one or two sub-topic, which is a peer-to-peer method of teaching. So, for this week, me and my partner, Zunika Samiyah was given the task to present about Barriers of Critical Thinking. We have come up with a powerpoint presentation, a video about H1N1 in KPMIM and a lot of evidance to support the presentation. Luckily, we managed to present it as we have planned. Thank you to Miss Shazwani for her help during the presentation.

For the next class, I could not enter the class because of other commitment. But, as from what I've been told, they are doing some group discussion based on the article in Critical Literacy book, and also present it to the class, about the 10 rules of Critical Thinking. I promise to catch-up with my teammates and hopefully, I will manage to submit the essay to our lecturer.