Run Lola Run

The film begins in Germany and lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He was supposed to bring 100,000 DM from a diamond peddler to his boss by noon.Manni tries to keep an eye on the money but is distracted by the ticket patrols so he panics and gets off the subway. Soon after Manni realizes that he left the money on the seat and a homeless man finds the money on the seat and takes it. Manni then finds a nearby phone booth and asks a blind women for her phone call so he can call Lola. Manni asks if Lola can pick him up.But Lola fails to pick Manni up because her scooter was stolen earlier that morning.

So after the phone call with Manni, Lola imagines three different cisneros of acquiring 100,000 DM's. Every cisnero starts out with her running out of the apartment building, too her father's bank. On the way to the bank everything she does effects the aftermath of someone elses life. So after fixing the mistakes in each case it ends up with Lola gambling and winning 100,000 DM. So Lola then runs to meet up with her boyfriend Manni, to prevent him from stealing from a grocery store. While Manni was waiting he just so happens to run into the homeless man that stole his money. He ends up trading a gun for his money and giving the money to his boss in time. So in the end Lola and her boyfriend end up keeping the 100,000 DM that she won at the casino.

This movie was a very well put together action movie. It defiantly shows the difference of what would happen if you did a certain action. It shows good decision making and the consquences of certain actions.

The color of paradise

The film takes place in India. It's about a blind boy named Mohammed. He is released from a special school in Tehran for summer vacation. Mohammed's father is ashamed and feels like Mohammed is a burden. His father picks Mohammed late and tires to convince the head principle to keep Mohammed for the summer. The head principle believes that its a bad idea and forces Mohammeds father to take him home.

Since Mohammed's father is a widower. He now wants to marry a local girl and has been preparing for the wedding. He comes to the girl's parents with gifts. So they approve. He tries to hide the fact that he has a blind son because he fears the girl's family will shame him.

Mohammed roams around the hills of his village with his sisters. He touches and feels everything around him, counting the sounds of animals, and imitating them. Mohammed goes to the local school with his sisters and reads the lessons from his textbook in Braille, which amazes the children and the teacher.

The father fears that his brides family with be ashamed of this "bad omen." So his father takes him away and leaves him with a blind carpenter who agrees to make Mohammed like him. The blind carpenter mentors the boy who wants to see God. Mohammad says God doesn’t love him and thus made him blind and tells him how his teacher told him that since they are blind, God loves them more. He also tells him that God is everywhere and that you can feel God. The carpenter then just says that he agrees with his teacher and walks away.

Mohammed's grandmother is heartbroken when she realizes that the father has given Mohammed away to a blind carpenter. So she then gets sick. She leaves the family home but the father Hashem tries to convince her to stay back, questioning his destiny, wondering why he lost his father as a young boy, asking why God has taken away his wife and cursed him with a blind boy, and asking his mother what she did for him. Mohammed's grandmother faints on her way so Hashem carries her back home. Eventually Mohammed's grandmother dies. The bride's family sees this as a bad omen and the wedding is called off.Mahammed ends up dieing and his father realizes that he loves him.

This was an inspiring movie that teaches you to love and treat everyone as you wanted to be treated and not to send them away ungraciously. The movie helps people to understand others that aren't like them.

Persepolis

The film begins in an airport, with a female character named Marjane Satrapi. She is unable to board a plane to Iran. She lights up a cigarette and starts to remember her childhood from the age of nine in nineteen seventy eight.As a child, Marji is a young girl living in Tehran with dreams of being just like Bruce Lee. But can't because of the conservative society and family she lives in. She goes to a school for girls and learn the proper ways of being a woman in this society and she eventually gets kicked out and runs away from home and now is living in the street. She lives with friends and couch hops from time to time. She fell in love with a man but he cheated on her and she gets very upset. Soon after living on the streets she catches bronchides from smoking cigarettes. She then realizes that she needs to go home.

She goes home and learns about the communist society and gets depressed she takes anti-depressants and she attempts to commit suicide but fails. She realizes that she has a good life going for her so why screw it up. She then gets up and goes back to college and meets a man who she has a liking too. She gets got for public displays for affections and has to spend time with him in private. She then gets married to him and then divorcing him because she isn't happy.

This was a very good movie. It helps others to understand what happens in other countries and the circumstances they have to put up with. Everything in Iran is stict and its a good way to show how others live and deal with life.

Maria full of grace

In a small village in Colombia,is where a seventeen year old girl named Maria resides. Maria lives with her mother and her sister who has a child. Maria and her family struggle with financial issues. Maria works at a flower company where it does not pay well. Maria is involved with a boyfriend, who soon later gets her pregnant. Maria quits her job at the flower company and tries to figure out different ways to support her family.
Maria runs into a boy named Pacho. Who she met at a party. Maria tells Pacho her struggle with financial issues. She told him that she could get a job as a maid with a friend a couple cities away from where she lives. Pacho offers her a better deal. He tells her that she can become a Drug Mule.
A drug mule is someone who gets paid five thousand dollars to smuggle drugs into the United States. Maria goes through this process of becoming a drug mule. She meets the drug mule dealer and he said he could take care of her and her paper, passport and money issue. Maria takes up this offer and runs into a woman named Lucy who also is a Drug Mule. Lucy has smoggled drugs into the U.S twice already and soon with be her thirf.
Maria must be able to swallow sixty two pallets of cocaine in her stomach. She must fly out to new york. Once Maria arrives to new york. Events start to happen that was unplanned. Maria gets caught for smuggling drugs because they found it in her x-ray and she ends up getting out.