Salam...we meet again..this is the third entry for the CRITICAL LITERACY class. This week, Miss Wani had let us to watch the 'BEAUTIFUL BOXER' movie. At first, I quite confuse with the title.. but i had made the prediction that this is the story about a women that want to be a good boxer. YES, that's what i'm thinking actually. But after i watched the movie, totally i'm wrong.. Let's we go briefly about this story.
First of all, the title of this story is BEAUTIFUL BOXER. It is the story that tell us about the transvestite that is looking for their meaning in their life. The content of this story is this is the Thai story and absolutely tells about the transvestite's life. The main character is NONG TOM. Actually he is a man, but with some incident during his childhood, he want to be a women. The other characters in this story is the family, his friends, his villagers and so on. He start want to be a women when he was attracted to the woman's thing. Start with the lipstick, the make up and also the opera. This story is originally from THAILAND. The best part of this story is he want to be a true women and he decided to do a surgery..
Second, I think the source of this story is based of the true story. Which is the person that had experience all the things and then they decide to share it and the producer make a film towards the true story.
When i think about the audience, i think the audience of this story is average. It is not specific to the focus group only. It is wider to everyone that do not know what is transvestite true life. And at Thailand, the transvestite is not wrong and it is acceptable. This is what i think, because in the story, i saw a lot of transvestite near the road. It just like a society. This is what we call the rhetorical function. The producer of this story want us to know that this culture of life is acceptable at Thailand.
Third, the purpose of this story is want to tell us about a guy's life that really confuse about his identity and start from day to day, he tried to fulfill his dream but in the same he want to make all people surrounding him is happy with him. But the story also arise the confusing and wondering perspective. Is it is good to be like that? is it valid? Is it can be a good example towards the future generation. The impact of this story is quite sensitive. In my opinion, the story is give a little bit impact to my life. I can't imagine if i in NONG TOM shoes? Is it i can be a strong like him. Life is not easy. It is full of confusion and we do not even know what is the truth actually.
The visual literacy of this story is explain briefly about what the confusion that play in my mind when i first read the title..
In a nutshell, this story is really interesting. It help us to understand what is life is exactly..
It is really critical to think..
Thank you Miss Wani for the best effort that you have done to make our class not too boring.
As a critical thinker, u should analyze what is the perspective and positioning taken in the assigned material. Taking an indifferent stance is a characteristic of an uncritical thinker. Try to look at the assigned material more thoroughly next time. :) And also, I'm concern with the paradigms of your grammar. MUET is just round the corner. You should be more careful when you write and proofread your work too.
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