Movie Blog

      The blog that I am doing today deals with a movie.  How can you apply a sociological point of view from watching a movie.  There should be much more thought in watching the movie rather than just watching it to tell your friends you saw the newest movie.  I have always seen movies in a different way than most people.  A lot of thoughts run through my head, and I give more personalities and more reasons for a character to be in that movie, even more than what the character was already intended to have.
      I recently watched "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", and this movie deals with teen angst for the most part. It deals with how somebody is in the lowest level of the social levels in that particular school.  We have all seen it.  In schools more often than not, the athletic teams are at the top, and the people that are actually making something out of their lives (like the math team), are rated at the bottom.  In this movie which is based on a very, well written book, the main character is at the bottom of the level  with a group of friends that he meets.  A lot of the characters in the movie are born  in to families that have expectations.  Even though it does not say that in the book, one can analyze and come to a conclusion.  I will now list some of the more important characters and try to give my sociological opinion on them.
      The first one is Charlie and he is the main character, and he is also narrating his writings that he writes in a type writer.  Charlie went through a pretty bad depression when he was in middle school, partially because I think he put very high expectations for himself and he couldn't meet them.  For example, his brother was a really good football player for Penn State, and his brother was also a very popular kid in school.  When Charlie goes into high school he has social anxiety and is hard for him to find friends.
    Patrick and Sam are the ones in the lowest level in the high school.  They also have a very good way of seeing life, and they are the ones that take in Charlie when no one else would.  They met when their parents married each other, which forced them to be family.  The reason I think that they are such free people is because their parents were going through a hard time while their kids were growing up and they wouldn't pay attention to Patrick and Sam.  Sam and Patrick instead of becoming depressed they went the opposite way and lived a stress-free life.  Sam is really free, she loves nature and is a really friendly person.  Patrick is a gay senior taking the freshman classes he never passed.  They have no troubles in their life at all.
     Another one is Brad, and he is at the top of the level in the school, because he is a football player that will eventually play for Penn State.  He lives a perfect external life, but internally he is gay and loves Patrick.  His dad expects too much from him.  He wants Brad to be the perfect jock with the best grades, and when his dad finds out hes gay, the dad beats Brad.  You can see how much Brad's dad expects out of him.  You can see in what type of family he grew up in.