Inquiry 1
- For this Inquiry, a major take-away from the overall assignment that I had learned from said Inquiry is the ability to follow a complicated story, such as The Departed, understand its complexity, and impart that understanding to other readers. I stated in Inquiry 1 that, "...trying to portray someone who is slowly losing their grip on reality and who they are as a person. That motif has a large contribution to the overall of theme of identity and the subsequent consequences when someone loses their sense of self" that motif is the the complicated story in and of itself. It is both a large contributing factor of the film, but at the same time it has been searched for and the film has to be dissected in order to find it.
- A major take-away from this Inquiry, is the very important skill of source integration, but its more than just that, its good source integration. Instead of just a presenting a source, and leaving it there with no explanation, a writer has to explain the info. It doesn't make a lot of sense to just present something important and not expound on it. For example, I had said that, "James Livingston, a writer for the History News Network, brings up the point that Bigelow directed a movie that “presents itself as a pro-warrior movie—as you might have gathered from Kathryn Bigelow’s repeated thanks on Oscar night to all the men and women in the American military” (Livingston). The way Bigelow presented the film brought a new angle into the aspect of a “war” film; the human angle and the effect war has on the human psyche, which brings me to this crucial point. While The Hurt Locker is a war film, it is neither about the war in Afghanistan nor is it about the politics of the war; it is about the psychological effect war has on its combatants, its warriors." Now I'm not saying that this is the epitome of source integration, but its a good foothold in my opinion.