Single handedly the greatest movie ever created, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Yes, I know it is not within the date range of 1990 and before but most of the items that we have talked about in class relate to this movie. For those that haven’t seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, it is the journey of one kid skipping class to enjoy a day with his friends. Even though the film was made before all of us were born, it is still relatable to our lives because we all want to just take a day off of class, take our friend’s dad’s 1961 Ferrari GT California out for a spin in downtown Chicago. Yes, some shenanigans might occur like the valet taking the car for a cruise, attending a Cubs game, pretending to be the Sausage King of Chicago, and racing to beat your parents and your sister home. Be honest, everyone has skipped a class at least once, whether your parents knew it or not, and we may not have done the things in the movie but maybe we did similar things. Faked a sickness to stay home and play video games, left class and walked around for an hour, or even left for school but never arrived. It happens to the best of us. One thing about the movie that is different than most other movies is the fact that the fourth wall is constantly being broken by Matthew Broderick as we routinely interacts and speaks directly to the camera. This is super unique for a movie made in the 1980s when filming techniques were still “traditional” and it was uncommon to see the fourth wall broken often in a movie. There are three instances when Ferris speaks or stares directly into the camera during the film. They. of course, remain humorous and add comedic value to the movie as we don’t expect him to directly look at the camera and speak to the audience that isn’t supposed to be there.

This movie is a timeless classic that can be viewed by many different generations and it will still be relevant. The humor of the movie is exquisite and keeps you rolling throughout the entire movie. An instant cult classic that can be played over and over again and won’t get boring, old, or stale. Every line is finely crafted to be humorous and keep you waiting to find out what is going to happen next in the feel good hooky story of the 1900s. The way the characters handle themselves and perfectly pull off a day of skipping school is something that has not been able to be replicated in the last 20 years and I do not believe that there will be another movie that will have this kind of impact on the world as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off had. The quotes that come from this movie are instant classics and understood by most anyone that you would find on the street or in a classroom. Ferris Bueller is the man that I strive to be in life.

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At first, I didn’t really know how to feel about this film. The story of a man killing his mother, and playing psychological mind games is something that makes me a little uneasy when watching it. I am not one to watch horror movies but Peeping Tom was an exception. Although there was limited violence or brutal scenes that you generally see in horror movies, Peeping Tom played with the audiences emotions by messing with their brain. You never knew what was going to happen in the next scene. The film has more of an impact, to me at least, than one that solely contains brutal and violent murders.

Mark begins to kill from the beginning of the film when he murders a prostitute in a hotel room, capturing the whole thing on camera. Mark’s life was greatly effected by his father when he would film the look of terror and fear on Mark’s face when he placed a lizard on him. When the girl walks into the studio and she has a broken face, Mark sees the beauty that is in her and doesn’t mind taking her picture. He enjoys seeing pain and fear in someone’s eyes when they are with him. He captures these moments with his camera that he allows has in his hands. The suspense throughout the movie about what Mark is going to do next is off the charts. When he meets Helen, she is super casual about getting cozy with a psychotic killer! Why do you not run Helen?

Even after Helen views the movies that Mark has made, she still sticks by his side and is not deterred from the actions of Mark. She is enamored by a psychotic killer that could potentially kill her. This love affair adds to the suspense of the movie because we become fearful of what Mark may do to Helen. At the end of the movie, we see Mark impale himself with the knife that is attached to his camera and this rounds off the production that he was trying to produce. The ultimate look of fear is the one that comes when you go to kill yourself. Helen weeps over Mark’s impaled body even though she knew that he was a terrible person that murdered many people, including his own mother.

This film is one that I would watch again because I feel that there are elements that you do not pick up on during the first viewing of the film. I enjoyed this film to a certain extent because it held a little bit of comedic value in how blind Helen was to what Mark was doing with the video camera and just how messed up he actually was. The suspense was what progressed the whole movie because you were constantly wondering what would happen next to Helen and Mark. Mark was always a nice guy to Helen and I believe that he was in love with her and was not simply using her for her reactions. Was Helen in love with Mark or  scared of what might happen if she decided to ignore Mark and go about her life?