Staying Together 1989
Director: Lee Grant
Lauren Potts
Warm
Facing adversities
can be hard enough, but having a family to go through them can make it easier. Staying
Together is a movie about a family trying to keep its self together after
losing its family business and father. This
movie illustrates how people can overcome hardship, and satisfying yourself
should always be a priority.
Dealing with
a death and loss of and business is no laughing matter, but it is a sour lesson
to learn. Being able to handle adversities
allows you to mature more as a person. In
the first half of the film the three sons were young carefree men taking life
day by day. Flashed forward to the
ending, they are all on their separate path, one is going to college another is
running a marathon in New York, and the oldest is settling in to family
life. None of them thought the death of their
father and loss of their family business would bring them to the men that they
are in the end, but that is was adversity does to a person. That made me think about my own journey and
the adversities I faced. It still shocks
me today that I am in college; I didn’t even pack until 12 hours before I left
for school. 2011 was a scary year for me
and my family but as we are in 2012 we have grown a lot.
Their father
decides to sell the family fast food restaurant, because he doesn’t “want die a
chicken man.” For many years he has given
himself to his family and restaurant, but now it is time for him to stand on
his own despite his son’s anger. I
thought this was very admirable for him to do, no matter how old you are or
what position you hold in your family, going against your clan is a tough pill
to swallow. It made me think of Say Anything toward the end of the fill
Diane made it clear that she only wanted to be with Lloyd, despite her father’s
refusal. When you believe in something you fight for it
no matter what.
Some shots
that interested me were when the brothers were together. It was three of them total but I mostly saw
two shots of them. When they were all
on the screen the camera was in a wide shot, sometime the shot was narrow in
few scenes. A series of reaction shots I
noticed was when the mayor (who had a physical relationship with the oldest
brother) saw him at a weeding with his new girlfriend and her son. It showed Brian and his new girlfriend, cut
to Nancy expression her looking sad and walking away. Overall I really enjoyed watching the film
and seeing the characters grow.
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