blog post 2

Peter Brooks describes moral occult as, "that ethics are now determined, not by virtue but by terror. Her argument (about another author) images a world in which God exists still but, no longer as holy mystery . . . "God" has become an interdiction, a primitive force in nature that strikes fear in men's hearts but does not move them to allegiance and worship (Brooks, 18)." This type of scenario is seen in the television series, The Blacklist, where a man, Raymond Redington, an international criminal finds out that his long lost daughter is working for the FBI. he turns himself in and demand that he will only speak to her, Elizabeth Keen, who doesn't know that he is her father at the time. slowly, one by one, Redington uses the FBI to find other international criminals, which the government was not aware of initially. he calls this list of criminals, the "blacklist". Now eve though Redington is no rich man, he still manages to always wear the best of clothing, and live in the most luxurious of homes. He steals and kills, with no remorse and even makes jokes about his killings. the moral occult comes in this show because Redington claims to be a Christian and goes to an abandoned church every Sunday. Redington, although turns himself in to the FBI, ends up becoming a source for them and allows them to find xome of the most disgusting, brutal criminals to ever live. as Raymond Redington continues to work with the government agency, he reveals criminals one by one, but he never gives his "captors" all the information that they need to catch the criminal that he mentions. through his "games" he helps the FBI rid he world of terrible people who Redington feels the need to remove. 

All that Heaven Allows analysis

The music in the melodrama, All That Heaven Allows plays a large role, in that if the music was even a bit different, the mood would be changed. for example, when Cary was confronted by her son about marrying Ron Curby, we could tell easily, even before Cary entered the house, that the mood was becoming even worse than it already was; at the party that she had just left. when Cary enters her home, even though it is known to us to be the same home that she was in before, suddenly the entrance to their mansion is very dark, even though the fire is burning. here, the music becomes louder almost spontaneously as Cary notices her son standing by the fire. sometimes in the melodrama, the music might get so loud that it almost drowns out what the characters are saying, because what the character is about to say is so obvious due to the lighting, the tone, the preceding actions, etc. As David Bordwell said in Narration and Film Form, . . . music, one of the foundations of "melodrama" as classically conceived, communicates characters' connections and attitudes" (Bordwell 2) Bordwell, in his statement about music is exactly right in every aspect when it comes to the film, All that Heaven Allows. After Cary enters her house, she and Ned talk, but no matter what she says to Ned, he does not want to accept that she will move out of the house and marry Ron;the conversation ends with Ned storming out of the house, saying that he will not come home until she changes her mind