A Clean, Well-Lighted Place In  Film

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway is much different than the short film made afterwards. The book by far is better than the movie. I felt like the actors had no emotion and they were just reading lines. Also, the characters didn’t look as how they were described in the story.  The older waiter actually looked pretty young.

Along with the characters appearances, the music was also kind of…not fitting. It was eerie with sharp and high notes. The music sounded like something that would be in a horror movie. There was also barely any music, just the waiters talking in a silent café.

The screen shots were actually pretty right on. It gave it that sad kind of feel which Hemingay portrayed in his story. They were long shots that would not really moved at all as the characters either walked into the distance and talked.

A Clean, Well Lighted Place Response

Write a brief analysis of the two waiters.  What do they represent about life? What does the café symbolize?

The waiters kind of represent the old and young generations and how they don't get along and the cafe is kind of like life or where people will meet. The young waiter represents the disrespectful teenagers that are kind of selfish and dont understand the more elderly.  The old man has a story behind being there but the young one dosent give him a chance.

Text Analysis

 This is a piece for language arts analyzing how a text or song in this case reflected the society, politics, or experiences of a time period.

Every group has that one person who thinks they rule everything but they really don’t, and in that every group theres everyone else. Everyone else is the reason why the group stays together even though the leader treats them like the minority and the punks. The Punk and The Godfather by The Who is the perfect song to describe situations like this, and these situations aren’t just examples or fakes, they exist in all of society all around our world.

The Punk and The Godfather really reminds me of most countries societies. There is one person who controls everyone, kind of like the relationship in the song. A mean and controlling godfather is always controlling and manipulating the minor and smaller teenage punk. The godfather knows he is the leader but he also knows he is wrong.

I have to be careful not to preach
I can't pretend that I can teach,
And yet I've lived your future out
By pounding stages like a clown.
And on the dance floor broken glass,
And bloody faces slowly pass,
The numbered seats in empty rows,
It all belongs to me you know.

In those lyrics the godfather, or leader knows his teachings are wrong and that he has ruined his own nation. He knows that it belongs all to him, that it is his fault. Just like a country with a government that treated their countries the wrong way, the leaders know what they did. Though they might not admit it because they fear they will come off as weak, they do know they are wrong. They know they are just like a mean godfather.

Just like Libya or other nations, protesting against their leader Khadafi, they have destroyed their own nation and the lower people know it. The people know that the leader has nothing to say so he only sees what the people have showed him, so he knows he knows nothing.

We tried to speak between lines of oration
You could only repeat what we told you.
Your axe belongs to a dying nation,
They don't know that we own you.
You're watching movies trying to find the feelers,
You only see what we show you.
We're the slaves of the phony leaders
Breathe the air we have blown you

The Punk and the Godfather makes a connection to almost everywhere. The Godfather is the government and the punk is the citizen. If you look anywhere in your city, a nearby place, even a neighborhood; you could find a place that has a relation to the meaning of this song. Everywhere you look, there’s always those lower people controlled by the one that should be equal to them.