Satellite TV Brings the Academy Award Nominees to You
Every spring, the Academy Awards is welcomed into the homes of millions around the world. The coveted Oscar is the most widely recognized award given. Certainly the Nobel Price and Pulitzer rival the Academy Awards in name recognition, yet the award itself, the Oscar, is far more recognized.
Theatres around the country generally offer the entire Best Picture nominee list for moviegoers leading up to the awards ceremony. They show the entire list of movies, generally ten in total, for weeks prior to the Oscar being handed out. However, after the fact, the movies are quickly pushed out of the theaters for newer, recently released movies. If you want to catch all ten nominees from this year's Academy Awards ceremony, then you will need to rent or watch them with satellite TV. In many ways, watching the movies in HD from the comfort of your home can be much better than in a theater. However, before you start your movie marathon, inform yourself about what you are about to watch.
Two of the Best Picture nominees this year were Precious and A Serious Man. Each follows the main protagonist through life's trials and tribulations. Their main characters, however, couldn't be any different. One focuses on an overweight black girl in the inner city who is pregnant with a second child from her own father when the movie begins. The other movie focuses on a middle-age family man who seems to be confronted with all of life's problems all at once.
Precious is the name of the main character, played by Gabourey Sidibe. Rarely does a film tackle so many issues at one time. With this movie, you find yourself confronted with a girl whose life seems to have the worst imaginable things thrown at it at once. She is habitually raped by her own father. Her mother is not only aware of it, but even encourages it. Precious is pregnant with her second child from her father. The first child is mentally handicapped, a product of the incestuous violation. She is verbally, emotionally, and physically abused by her mother. Precious is uneducated and illiterate. She then learns that her drug addict father passed HIV to her. In other words, every bad thing seems to happen to Precious. Yet Precious battles through it all, leaving the audience emotionally drained and heavy. The neighborhood of Harlem is portrayed as a hard environment with very little room for light and hope. Precious appears to find hope nonetheless.
If Precious represents all the unlikely tragedies befalling one person, then A Serious Man represents all the common and mundane falling upon one man at one time. Save for the uniquely Jewish themes of the movie, this is a movie of mundane things building up and troubling a man no matter what his ethnicity. It equally touches the viewer in an emotional way, though in a different manner. The movie tells the story of Larry, a professor at a Jewish college in Minnesota. His wife leaves him for a male friend, his daughter steals money from him, and his son smokes too much marijuana. He moves into a motel with his brother. A former student bribes him for a passing grade, his tenure is placed in jeopardy with anonymous defamatory letters about him sent to the committee, and he enters deeper into a state of detachment and brooding.
With satellite TV, you can watch these and the other eight movies nominated for Best Picture at the 2010 Academy Awards. While a theater will offer you stadium seating and overpriced drinks and candy, satellite TV will deliver the movies to you as you eat a home-cooked meal in your favorite recliner.
Theatres around the country generally offer the entire Best Picture nominee list for moviegoers leading up to the awards ceremony. They show the entire list of movies, generally ten in total, for weeks prior to the Oscar being handed out. However, after the fact, the movies are quickly pushed out of the theaters for newer, recently released movies. If you want to catch all ten nominees from this year's Academy Awards ceremony, then you will need to rent or watch them with satellite TV. In many ways, watching the movies in HD from the comfort of your home can be much better than in a theater. However, before you start your movie marathon, inform yourself about what you are about to watch.
Two of the Best Picture nominees this year were Precious and A Serious Man. Each follows the main protagonist through life's trials and tribulations. Their main characters, however, couldn't be any different. One focuses on an overweight black girl in the inner city who is pregnant with a second child from her own father when the movie begins. The other movie focuses on a middle-age family man who seems to be confronted with all of life's problems all at once.
Precious is the name of the main character, played by Gabourey Sidibe. Rarely does a film tackle so many issues at one time. With this movie, you find yourself confronted with a girl whose life seems to have the worst imaginable things thrown at it at once. She is habitually raped by her own father. Her mother is not only aware of it, but even encourages it. Precious is pregnant with her second child from her father. The first child is mentally handicapped, a product of the incestuous violation. She is verbally, emotionally, and physically abused by her mother. Precious is uneducated and illiterate. She then learns that her drug addict father passed HIV to her. In other words, every bad thing seems to happen to Precious. Yet Precious battles through it all, leaving the audience emotionally drained and heavy. The neighborhood of Harlem is portrayed as a hard environment with very little room for light and hope. Precious appears to find hope nonetheless.
If Precious represents all the unlikely tragedies befalling one person, then A Serious Man represents all the common and mundane falling upon one man at one time. Save for the uniquely Jewish themes of the movie, this is a movie of mundane things building up and troubling a man no matter what his ethnicity. It equally touches the viewer in an emotional way, though in a different manner. The movie tells the story of Larry, a professor at a Jewish college in Minnesota. His wife leaves him for a male friend, his daughter steals money from him, and his son smokes too much marijuana. He moves into a motel with his brother. A former student bribes him for a passing grade, his tenure is placed in jeopardy with anonymous defamatory letters about him sent to the committee, and he enters deeper into a state of detachment and brooding.
With satellite TV, you can watch these and the other eight movies nominated for Best Picture at the 2010 Academy Awards. While a theater will offer you stadium seating and overpriced drinks and candy, satellite TV will deliver the movies to you as you eat a home-cooked meal in your favorite recliner.
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