Sofija Mijalkovic

There are two reasons why everybody works, has hobbies or just does actions that are needed to be done in order to survive.

1.    Survival – In order to survive you have to do a number of actions that guarantee your well being like sleeping, going to the bathroom, working to make money, to be able to pay for food, house, taxes, etc. You don’t have to love these actions and they don’t have to make you happy, but nevertheless you still have to do them.
2.    Happiness – Everybody wants to be happy, and we are happy when we do  actions we love and want to do. These actions don’t have to be necessary but we still do them because they make us happy. Happiness isn’t the same with everybody, somebody might like and be happy when watching movies and somebody when cooking. Let’s say Mark’s hobby is reading and he reads a book every three days, but he doesn’t do it because he has to, he does it because he loves reading and it makes him happy.

Of course you can’t be happy all the time. You’re going to feel as much sadness, anger, envy, fear as happiness, and that’s perfectly normal. All we have to know is how to get back in our happy mood and that is very easy – just do what you love.

Hegelian dialectic is a method to help people realize the problems that were a consequence of an event and help them come up with ideas that can solve the problems.

It consists of three dialectical stages:

1.  Thesis that gives rise to the reaction or let’s say a problem
2. Antithesis which contradicts or negates the thesis
3.  Synthesis which resolves the tension between the thesis and antithesis

The simpler way to look at it is to change thesis-antithesis-synthesis into problem-reaction to the problem-solution for the problem.

An example of the Hegelian dialectic:

Although it is called the Hegelian dialectic, Hegel did not come up with this dialectic as we know it today. He did come up with something similar but not exactly the same. He didn’t use the terms thesis, antithesis or synthesis but the terms: abstract, negative and concrete. The flaw in that formula is that it is too abstract and lacks the negative of trial, error, and experience. Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus was a german philosopher who thought of the formula for the Hegelian dialectic as we know today (thesis-antithesis-synthesis)

Hegel had ascribed that terminology to Kant. Continuing Kant’s work a german philosopher Fichte greatly elaborated and popularized the synthesis model.

Social media are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. There are three ways to use social media: 

1. You could be a publisher and share the content you make or repost on social media,
2. A consumer and just look at content made by others without making your own original content,
3. Or you could be the person who does both.

A lot of people, especially teenagers, use social media, but are they using it properly? There are two most important rules that everybody should know.

I’m going to count movies from the late 60s,  70s and 80s as the movies from the past and the movies from the 90s, 2000s and 2010s as modern movies.

It’s hard to compare those movies,  let alone say which ones are better because they are so different and better at different things. Modern movies have much better special effects while the movies from the past have a lot more classics.

I think whether you like the past movies and the modern movies better also depends at which time you were born. A lot of times movies use a lot of references popular to the time of the movie so if you are younger than the movie you just might not get it and not enjoy the movie as much as someone who does get it.

Let’s compare the movie from the past and the modern movie which are the same gender.

2001:A Space Odyssey and Interstellar. Both are sci-fi/adventure movies about going to space and meeting aliens. Interstellar obviously has better special effects but I think that 2001 has a better, more complex story that has a bigger impact on your way of thinking.

Personally I think that a lot of modern movies are made with the intention of relaxing the viewer and that more movies from the past focus on making the viewer think, be it about life or about aliens. I’m not saying that all the modern movies are dumb and don’t make you think or that there are no relaxing movies from the past, but there are more modern movies that are made to be relaxing and more movies from the past that make you think. So if I want to relax while watching a movie I will first search for modern movies with better CGI and if I want to watch a complex movie I will search the older movies.

Roman Polanski is a french-polish movie director. He’s famous for Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, The Pianist and other movies, he’s also been involved with a lot of disasters in his life, for which he was both responsible for and just a helpless bystander. In 1969 his second wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered along with four other people in their home by the Manson family . What’s even worse was that she was eight and a half months pregnant when she was murdered.

For the next eight years Roman Polanski stayed off the media, and then came the year 1977. On the 10th of march that year his reputation went on a downhill and it never got up to where it used to be. He was charged with multiple charges which stated that he drugged and raped a 13 year old girl.

Now that we know what happened in the past, we can answer the question ,,Is it alright to like Roman Polanski’s movies?”

Well there are of course 2 ways to answer that question. Yes or no. Some people are going to say: ,,Yes, it doesn’t matter who the director is and what he does, the movie should just stand for itself and the people should criticize the movie without considering the facts that have nothing to do with the movie.”, and the people who would answer with a no would probably say that it’s not okay to watch and much less like anything made by such a monster.

I personally think that liking Roman Polanski’s movies is okay because you should like something for itself and not because you just like the person or hate something just because you hate the person who made it. No matter what horrible things Roman Polanski has done, I still like the movie ,,Rosemary’s Baby”, not because I like Roman Polanski, but because I just simply like the movie.

2001: A Space Odyssey was directed by Stanley Kubrick and is without a doubt my favorite movie. I like everything about it but if i had to single out 3 things it has to be these three things:

1.   A lot of movies today are made with the intent of being fun. You watch them not because you want to learn something new, but because you want to rest, take your mind of off something and just simply have fun. I used to watch just those kind of movies, but when i first watched 2001: A Space Odyssey my point of view changed. It wasn’t just a regular movie that made laugh, it was a movie that made me think.
2. When I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey i was still relatively young. I did understand somethings but not enough to understand the deeper meaning. When I watched it again i was mesmerized by the story so much that I could only think about it.
3. Stanley Kubrick is one of the best movie directors of all time, so of course almost all of his movies would be amazing including 2001. It had so many stunning and beautiful visuals and scenes that you can only wonder how they made it especially when it was made in 1968, when there wasn’t computer CGI. How did they do the scene where Frank Pole is exercising in the centrifuge? How did they even come up with the monkey scene, that was able to tell so much in such a small amount of time?

I think it’s safe to say that 2001: A Space Odyssey was a beautiful movie that was way ahead of it’s time.

One of the things you could do is make an at home cinema. Instead of just watching movies on TV you can set the mood that feels like you’re at the movies.

I use a projector but watching on TV is good as well. Of course you first need to choose the movie you’re going to watch, choose snacks like popcorn, chips and candy. You can even take it to next level and make posters and movie tickets. I’m confident to say that if you love going to the cinema, you’re going to love this.