Stephanie Ann F.

Porteza
TR31- BSIT-DA

After

watching this video essay about the Whiplash and Black Swan, I’ve learned new things for me to

apply it in my real-life situation, the way these movies became more interesting because they

have similarities situation in life and how they became obsessed to achieve the success they

want. I realized that when creating or producing a movie we have to get the attentions of

people by how they will be affected about the

currently situation that they have in that

movie.

We can reflect our life in

First Act: they are dedicated in pursuing their
dreams.
watching this because most of us want

to pursue our goals for us to be successful

and become dedicated to achieve it. In the First Act of these two movies Andrew and Nina are

both passionate on what they love, the desire to become successful and it showed how they

became devoted to their dreams and I’ve learned that if we wanted to do something just go for
 it because we will feel the completeness that we’ve never feel before in ourselves in doing

things that makes us happy.

Second Act 1.1: We know that too much is really bad.

I also learned that if we are giving ourselves too much dedication on something, we didn’t realize

that we are hurting ourselves and the struggles that we are facing we realized that we are no longer

taking care ourselves anymore because we are committed in our goals. In the second act of the movie

both protagonists are now sacrificing their selves they are eager to become a successful but at some

point, too much of anything is bad and it might lead us in a very complicated situation. This parts of the

two movies became more interesting for me because this is the beginning of the challenge of their lives.

Sometimes if we feel that we are fulfilling ourselves we thought that we are now over in the hardest part

but it’s not, so we need to be ready and prepared to face the consequences because everything in this

world is not that easy.

Second Act: 1.2 They are starting to become

obsessed and turn into madness.
 We people did not mean to become obsessed but because we wanted to be great, we are no

longer see our surroundings and the only thing matters is ourselves. This act is the most important of

these movies they both became obsessed and uncontrollable in getting what they want and I learned

that no matter how good you are we have this fear that it will take away from us, the victory that we

earned and even the hardship that we sacrifice but in the end we feel that we are not good enough to

others and we tend to become more aggressive to satisfy ourselves but in reality we have to put

ourselves in the situation that we can handle or to control ourselves.

Our

life

Last Act: We are giving ourselves to have a

perfect performance.

is not perfect but we are trying for us to be better and the last Act of these movies gives me realization

and a lesson that giving your best to become perfect isn’t that bad, the only thing is not good is we’re not

controlling ourselves in the situation. It is okay to feel sad but it doesn’t mean that no one believes in us

like in these movies, their parents are supporting them throughout their performance and in reality

someone’s out there is supporting us and we have to believe that we can do anything as long as we are

not hurting someone specially our self. We can achieve anything in a perfect timing we just have to wait

and work hard for it.

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