Participants’ Number : 19070915710022

Name : Ulises Esterlina Sinaga

School : SMK Swasta Clemen Tapiannauli

Task 1
Read these two movie reviews, then analyze them by comparing the social function,
generic structure and language features between those reviews!
Movie Review 1

Peace of Autumn
Cliff (Joseph Arnone) is a suicidal war vet.
Kora (Daniella Alma) is a street artist with a penchant for truth-telling and meaning.
When their paths cross, they change each other's life forever within the short span of a
unique yet believably authentic friendship. It's a friendship that leads them down a path they
could have never anticipated.
A Peace of Autumn is an intellectually satisfying and emotionally resonant film that
tackles the challenge of two quite substantial characters within the span of a short film
running just over seventeen minutes in length. Both characters end up being people you want
to know, Cliff's despair obvious and real and filled with the kind of rage that intimidates yet
compels. It's also easy to understand exactly what draws Kora into the situation, perhaps
something within herself as both a human being and an artist - if, indeed, one can actually
separate those two anyway.
Joseph Arnone, who stars in the film along with serving as writer and director, creates
such a multi-layered character that you're never completely clear where everything is going,
while Daniella Alma's Kora oozes compassion and vulnerability. Together, the two create a
story that draws you in even when you think, and I stress think, you have everything figured
outArnone also lenses the film and he does so with an eye toward the awkward intimacy that
exists between these two, a friendship borne out of what is both spoken and unspoken
between the two A Peace of Autumn has only recently been finished and should have no
problem finding a home on the indie and underground film fest circuit where its heartfelt
story will companion a program of dramatic shorts quite nicely
http://theindependentcritic.com/a_peace_of_autumn

Movie Review 2.

A Beautiful Silence

It was only a year or so ago that I found myself reaching yet another crossroads in my
faith journey. After having attended seminary and grown in ministry within my Anabaptist
denomination, I found myself disillusioned by not just belief systems but how those belief
systems were being lived out within the life of the denomination.
 The more I grew in leadership, the more it bothered me.So, I turned in my ministry
license and moved away from a ministry path that I I found conflicting even as I loved the
many people I'd gotten to know over the years.

I thought about this faith journey often while watching Steven Adam Renkovish's
meditative and thought-provoking short film A Beautiful Silence, a film that he professes was
at least partially borne out of his own disillusionment with the church and the legalism
contained within. What A Beautiful Silence projects so beautifully is that divine awkwardness
found between faith and doubt, an awkwardness that longs for authenticity yet reaches and
too often finds artificial expressions of the divine experience.

While it may sound like A Beautiful Silence is a faith-based film, it is not a faith-based
film. While it may very well resonate most deeply with progressive Christians, I'd also dare
say that those who've led a more disciplined spiritual life will identify with the doubts and
fears and anxieties expressed by Brittany Renee Smith in the film. Smith, who also co-wrote
the film, gives a relaxed, natural performance that feels less like performance and more like
we've become observers to a journey deep within her soul.

While some who've praised A Beautiful Silence have mentioned Malick and Von
Trier, I found myself contemplating the works of Van Sant, especially films such
as Gerry and the recent The Sea of Trees, the latter being a film a good majority of the world
seemed to hate yet I adored.

A Beautiful Silence is a refreshingly honest film, not entirely devoid of hope yet also
refusing to create a false sense of hope for the sake of somehow honoring the faith journey.
The film has already been an official selection at over a dozen indie film fests, while it
Renkovish picked up the prize for Best Director at the Franklin County International Film
Festival. The film has also been nominated for prizes at the Blackbird Film Fest and Smoky
Mountain Film Festival.

Filmed in and around Greenville, South Carolina, A Beautiful Silence captures the
simple beauty of the surroundings yet also captures the wounded soul of a young woman
struggling with God, faith, meaning and the world around her. It's an experience that is likely
familiar to many persons of faith, yet an experience not often portrayed with such honesty on
the big screen.

A Beautiful Silence doesn't project easy answers. Indeed, that appears to be an

intentional choice as the journey itself isn't easy and the answers you may discover will be
uniquely your own. If there's a divine purpose behind A Beautiful Silence, it's the realization,
perhaps, that we are not alone in our faith and we are not alone in our doubts and wherever
we go there's at least a sliver of hope that we can discover somewhere, someway within that
beautiful silence.

© Written by Richard Propes

The Independent Critic
http://theindependentcritic.com/a_beautiful_silence
Complete the Following Table Analysis

No Component A Peace of Autumn A Beautiful Silence

1. Social to appreciate or to critic to appreciate or to critic a movie.
Function a movie.
2. Generic Orientation/Introduction: Orientation/Introduction:
structure Cliff (Joseph Arnone) is a It was only a year or so ago that I
suicidal war vet. found myself reaching yet another
Kora (Daniella Alma) is a crossroads in my faith journey.
street artist with a
penchant for truth-telling
and meaning.
When their paths cross,
they change each other's life
forever within the short
span of a unique yet
believably authentic
friendship. It's a friendship
that leads them down a path
they could have never
anticipated. Evaluation:
A Beautiful Silence is a refreshingly
Evaluation: honest film, not entirely devoid of
A Peace of Autumn is an hope yet also refusing to create a false
intellectually satisfying and sense of hope for the sake of somehow
emotionally resonant film honoring the faith journey.
that tackles the challenge of
two quite substantial
characters within the span
of a short film running just
over seventeen minutes in Interpretative recount:
length. A Beautiful Silence captures the
simple beauty of the surroundings yet
Interpretative recount: also captures the wounded soul of a
The two create a story that young woman struggling with God,
draws you in even when faith, meaning and the world around
you think, and I stress her. It's an experience that is likely
think, you have everything familiar to many persons of faith, yet
figured out. an experience not often portrayed with
such honesty on the big screen.

Evaluative summation:
A Beautiful Silence doesn't project
Evaluative summation: easy answers.
Arnone also lenses the film
and he does so with an eye
toward the awkward
intimacy that exists
between these two, a
 friendship borne out of
what is both spoken and
unspoken.
3. Language Adjective: Adjective:
features Clear, awkward. Faith, doubt, good, hate, honest, easy.

Complex Clause : Complex Clause :

When their paths cross,  I thought about this faith journey
they change each other's life often while watching Steven Adam
forever within the short Renkovish’s meditative and thought-
span of a unique yet provoking short film A Beautiful
believably authentic Silence.
friendship.  While it may sound like A Beautiful
Silence is a faith-based film, it is not a
faith-based film.
 While it may very well resonate most
deeply with progressive Christians, I’d
also dare say that those who’ve led a
more disciplined spiritual life will
identify with the doubts and fears and
anxieties expressed by Brittany Renee
Smith in the film.
 While some who’ve praised A
Beautiful Silence have mentioned
Malick and Von Trier, I found myself
contemplating the works of Van Sant.
Metaphore:
A friendship borne out of Metaphore :
what is both spoken and An experience not often portrayed with
unspoken. such honesty on the big screen.

Tense: Tense:
Present simple and past Present simple and past simple
simple