Reading Log Meeting 7 (Synopsis Film/Drama)

PRE-READING

No	Day	Titles/episode	Why I am interesting to read	Questions before I read
1	Wednesday	Flu	Last week I watched this film with my boyfriend. This film has very good rating, so I am curious about how the synopsis of this film can attract many viewers.	How the synopsis of this film can attract many viewers?
		The Influence	Last week when I was looking for a flu movie, I saw this movie poster next to the flu movie.	Does this film have the same plot as the flu film?
2	Thursday	Eli	Because I saw the poster in Instagram.	How good is this film?
		The Platform	Because I saw one celebgram recommending this film.	What is the relationship between food and people in the film poster?
3	Friday	Forgotten	Because I am planning to watch the movie.	Is this a horror movie or thriller movie?
		Contagion	Because the posters of this film are interesting to me.	Is this film the same as the flu film?
4	Saturday	Incredibles 2	This film is very good and funny.	Is the story in this film a continuation of The Incredible film?
		Gerald's Game	Because of recommendation from my favorite celebgram.	It is about game or not?

Day 1 Wednesday Date : 1 April 2020
Time	19.00-19.05
Title /Episode	Flu
Sources	Layar Kaca 21 application
Characters	Ji-goo, In-hae, Mirre.
Main points of the story	Ji-goo (Jang Hyeok) is a firefighter and saves the life of female doctor In-hae (Soo-ae). At the same time a shipping container with illegal immigrants arrives at Bundang. Aside from one single person no one survived the transport as a mutated virus developed in the container. Soon the virus spreads in Bundang as well. When In-hae is presented with the first case of this virus at the hospital she is working at she instantly draws the right conclusions. Together with her superiors she discusses what measures need to be taken. The city of Bundang has to be closed off right away and all sick individuals have to be put under quarantine. The city council doesn't want to hear anything about this until officials see the extent of the outbreak with their own eyes. A quarantine station is set up at which sick people are seperated from healthy ones. There In-hae runs into Ji-goo again, who meanwhile became friends with her little daughter Mirre (Park Min-ha). The only hope the infected have is finding the survivor from the shipping container since he apparently has developed antibodies against the virus.
New Vocabularies found	Shipping, mutated, city council, extent,  survivor.
Comments	This film is similar to what is happening in Indonesia and several countries in the world. Where the virus spreads quickly and takes many victims. This film is highly recommended for people who still underestimate corona virus now.

If you can exist on the story, in what scene do you want to appear? and what will the story be? If I could appear in the story, I would like to appear in the part where In-hae and Mirre were reunited at the city limits and In-hae had to get shot, while Mirre cried and shouted "Don't shoot my mother" OMG was very sweet. If I were in that story I would want to be Mirre who protected her mother from the crime of the South Korean Prime Minister.

Day 1 Wednesday Date : 1 April 2020
Time	19.10-19.15
Title /Episode	The Influence
Sources	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4008566/
Characters	Alicia, Victoria, Sara, Mikel, Nora,
Main points of the story	Alicia (Manuela Velles) is going home after a lengthy estrangement. Her mother, Victoria (Emma Suarez), is comatose, kept alive by a respirator. Alicia’s nursing skills will help relieve some of the caretaking burden from her sister, Sara (Maggie Civantos). So Alicia and hubby Mikel (Alain Hernandez) and 11-year-old daughter Nora (Claudia Placer) move into Mum/Grandma’s house. It’s where Alicia and Sara grew up. It’s a three-story brick thing isolated in the woods, and it looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1887.. On the third floor lays Victoria, ashy and in need of a manicurist who’s also a part-time necromancer. Young Nora pokes around in there, finds a nifty spider locket and pockets it. Victoria’s a witch, see, and flashbacks tease the disturbing stuff she did to her daughters a decade or three ago — hence, Alicia’s damage. Meanwhile, in school, Nora is the new kid and object of cruelty; she looks outside and sees a grubby moppet named Luna (Daniela Rubio) watching, and also keying the living crap out of some cars. Soon enough, Nora becomes extra surly, uncharacteristically pummels her bully about the face until she bleeds a lot and starts hanging out with Luna, who wants Nora to join her for much more than just committing light-to-middling vandalism.
New Vocabularies found	Dying, haunted, struggle and force.
Comments	I think this film is very scary and I plan to watch this film later.

If you can exist on the story, in what scene do you want to appear? and what will the story be? If I'm in the film I want to be on Alicia's part and her husband decides to go home to their mother. If I were there I would not move to her mother's house and look after her mother in another way.

Day 2 Thursday Date : 2 April 2020
Time	19.00-19.05
Title /Episode	Eli
Sources	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5294518/
Characters	Eli, Eli’s parents, Dr. Horn, Haley.
Main points of the story	Eli is a very sick 11-year-old. He’s forced to wear an astronaut’s suit most of the time because his immune system is so weak that ordinary air could kill him. In a final effort to cure their son, Eli’s parents take the boy to a creepy old house that has been turned into a medical facility run by Dr. Horn. She convinces Eli’s mom and dad that she alone can save their son, and Eli begins what appear to be brutal, painful, bizarre medical procedures. You see, this old mansion isn’t just out of “haunted house location scouting 101.” There are definitely a few things that go bump in the night in its long, underlit hallways, as Eli quickly learns. Eli becomes convinced that there’s a force in the home that’s trying to tell him something, but he (and we) are never quite sure if it’s trying to hurt him or warn him. He also befriends a girl who keeps showing up outside the home named Haley, She warns him that the good doctor may not be so good after all. From the very beginning, “Eli” accentuates the likelihood that everyone in it has a secret. Whether it’s the weird way in which Haley keeps showing up, how Eli’s parents discuss his treatment, or the obviously shady Dr. Horn, the poor boy is caught up in a world of confusion.
New Vocabularies found	-
Comments	I think this film will make me confused if I watch it with what's actually happening in the film.

If you can exist on the story, in what scene do you want to appear? and what will the story be? If I could be in the film I would like to be in Eli's part of meeting Haley, and if I were Haley I wouldn't say that to Eli because I thought without Haley saying that, the film would be more interesting and confusing.

Day 2 Thursday Date : 2 April 2020
Time	19.10-19.15
Title /Episode	The Platform
Sources	https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-platform-movie-review-2020
Characters	the prisoners, Goreng.
Main points of the story	Hundreds of floors tall, it is a prison in which people are placed on floors two at a time. Every day, a platform descends through a large hole in the middle of the building, and it’s the only chance for food for the entire day. On level 1, the prisoners have access to a feast of lovingly prepared dishes. If everyone only ate a small ration, it could make it all the way to the bottom with something for each prisoner. It never does. Our eyes into this nightmare belong to Goreng, who volunteered to enter the prison to quit smoking and read a book,  without fully understanding what he was in for. His first cellmate explains the process of The Hole to Goreng as the film opens on level 48. By that time, there are usually some leftovers on the platform. But the evilest part of this system, and arguably the film’s most clever societal insight, is that inmates change floors every month. So you could be relatively happy on 8 one day and then on 133 the next day.
New Vocabularies found	Undeniably, entire, prison, descends, leftovers,  the evilest, arguably
Comments	Maybe this film is very interesting especially watching to fill quarantine time like now.

If you can exist on the story, in what scene do you want to appear? and what will the story be? If I were in the film, I wanted to be a Fried in part, I had to volunteer to go to prison for the title of a diploma. I chose not to do that because there are still many ways you can do to get a diploma.

Day 3 Friday Date : 3 April 2020
Time	14.05-14.15
Title /Episode	Forgotten
Sources	http://www.asianmovieweb.com/en/reviews/forgotten.htm
Characters	Jin-seok, his father, mother, brother Yoo-seok.
Main points of the story	Jin-seok, his father, mother and brother Yoo-seok move into a new house. He is preparing for an important entry exam and shares a room with his brother who serves him as a role model. However, there is a certain room in the new house where the former tenant has stored a few things and which no one is allowed to enter. Jin-seok often hears sounds from the room and he is also plagued by nightmares. One day he witnesses his brother being kidnapped. The efforts of the police come to nothing, though, and nineteen days later his brother turns up again and doesn't remember what happened during his kidnapping. Then, Jin-seok notices his brother leaving the house. He follows him and sees him meeting with a few gangsters which appear to be very close to him. Jin-seok is now sure that something is very wrong. His brother has been switched with a doppelganger. When he confronts him about it he pretends to be unaware of what he is talking about and asks him if he has taken his medicine regularly. In fact, Jin-seok just forgot to take his pills and so he has to ask himself what's reality and what imagination.
New Vocabularies found	Tenant, plagued, witnesses, kidnapped, doppelganger.
Comments	WOW, this film makes me very interested.

If you can exist on the story, in what scene do you want to appear? and what will the story be? I think I want to watch this movie while staying social distancing because as long as I watch Korean horror films there is nothing bad, even though this is a film with two plots I'm sure this film is very good.

Day 3 Friday Date : 3 April 2020
Time	14.20-14.30
Title /Episode	In The Tall Grass
Sources	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/plotsummary
Characters	Beth Emhoff, her former lover, her son Clark and her husband, Mitch,  the doctors.
Main points of the story	Beth Emhoff (Gwenyth Paltrow) returns from a business trip to Hong Kong with a stop over at the Chicago airport, where she has sex with her former lover. Beth feels ill, but thinks the problem is jet leg. She travels back home to Minneapolis and spreads the virus to her son Clark and her husband, Mitch. When Beth and Clark die, Mitch goes in quarantine where the doctors realise he is immune to the mysterious virus. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, London and in a small province, cases of the mystery illness are cropping up, as the American CDC and the World Health Organization give their best effort researching the virus. A race against the clock begins, as the virus is spreading in a geometric progression, and if no solution is found - very fast - humanity will cease to be.
New Vocabularies found	cropping up, race, against.
Comments	This film is like corona virus in the present, but i still wonder if this film is the same as a flu film.

If you can exist on the story, in what scene do you want to appear? and what will the story be? If I were in the film I would not have sex with my ex, and the film would be a happy ending ehehe.

Day 4 Saturday Date : 4 April 2020
Time	10.15-10.25
Title /Episode	Incredibles 2
Sources	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3606756/plotsummary
Characters	Bob Parr (Mr Incredible), Helen (Elastigirl), Deavor, Devtech, baby Jack-Jack's, supervillain, Screenslaver,
Main points of the story	The Incredibles hero family takes on a new mission, which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world. While the Parr family has accepted its collective calling as superheroes, the fact remains that their special heroism is still illegal. After they are arrested after unsuccessfully trying to stop the Underminer, their future seems bleak. However, the wealthy Deavor siblings of Devtech offer new hope with a bold project to rehabilitate the public image and legal status of Supers, with Elastigirl being assigned on point to be the shining example. Now having agreed for now to stay at home to care of the kids, Mr. Incredible finds domestic life a daunting challenge, especially with baby Jack-Jack's newly emerged powers making him almost impossible to manage. However, Elastigirl soon has her own concerns dealing with the menace of a new supervillain, Screenslaver, who is wreaking havoc with his mind control abilities. Now, Elastigirl must solve the mystery of this enemy, who has malevolent designs on the world with the Parr family and friends key targets of this evil.
New Vocabularies found	Underminer , bleak, wealthy, daunting, emerged, concerns, menace, havoc.
Comments	OMG this film is very exciting and managed to make me laugh out loud.

If you can exist on the story, in what scene do you want to appear? and what will the story be? If I were in the film I would be an Elastigirl, so before accepting the invitation of the superhero I would make sure that the invitation was correct or a trap, it would make the film more interesting.

Day 4 Saturday Date : 4 April 2020
Time	10.30-10.40
Title /Episode	Gerald's Game
Sources	https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748172/
Characters	Jessie Burlingame, Gerald Burlingame, Young Jessie, Moonlight Man, Tom, Sally, Maddie, James, Judge McGarnagle
Main points of the story	A couple tries to spice up their marriage in a remote lake house; after the husband dies unexpectedly, the wife is left handcuffed to their bed frame and must fight to survive and break free.
New Vocabularies found	Spice, handcuffed.
Comments	Can’t wait to watch the movie. OMG, just by watching the trailer I'm very interested in this film.

If you can exist on the story, in what scene do you want to appear? and what will the story be? If I were in the film, I would not kick my husband and make him die. then we will live happily through old age.