Comm 229: Shattered Glass

For my Comm 229 class this week, we had to watch the movie, Shattered Glass. I thought it was a great movie, and I felt the acting was decent (most of the time when I was watching Hayden Christensen I just saw him as Anakin Skywalker; especially the scenes where he whined a lot). However, his acting was still good. He did a good job at appearing innocent and somewhat fragile with a different state of mind. I've heard and I'm one of the few that will say that I do a lot of thinking while I'm in the shower. After watching the movie, I felt that the scene where the class is applauding him then suddenly disappeared was extremely important. Then while in the shower, I realized why it was such an important and pivotal scene. During the scene, we are watching Stephen thank his teacher and thank the classmates as they are applauding him after giving his speech. He then looks back at the classroom, almost as if the camera was now his eyes and the class is empty, signifying that, the whole time it was all in his head. I then realized it was so important because when we see Stephen earlier in the movie, he's in a hotel room and some guys are partying hard and another scene he's at a conference for hackers. The point I'm trying to make is that he may have been there, but all the people around him did not exist; they were all in his head, and he pictured things happening around him. He sat there alone, scribbling made up notes as he played scenarios through his head. It really was a masterful job, to do that and to do that to such great lengths. It was a great movie, but the greatest part of all was definitely the ending.