Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Hostel


After watching the movie Hostel, directed by Eli Roth I thought that the movie was excellent scary or horror movie. I do not find much interest in movies like that, but Hostel is one of my favorite movies. One scene that stands out to me is when Josh played by Derek Richardson and he is begin torture and one of the surgeons cuts the back of Derek ankle, this part of the movie make me feel so squeamish. But the scene that I want to look at, is that there was a scene that I thought I was very interesting. It has to do with the one of the scene towards the end of the movie where the character Paxton played by Jay Hernandez where he follows the Dutch business man into the bathroom.


In a way it reminds me of a event where a U.S. senator of Idaho named Larry Craig. In where the senator was at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom and he got caught by undercover sting trying to pick up another man, to have sex with in the bathroom. I see the comparison this to Paxton roll in the bathroom scene because it was in a public place where allegedly a lot of gay men pick each other up in public bathrooms. In the movie there also a scene where he meets an American Client that is ready to kill someone, and he compares the act to sex. The reason that I think that Paxton might be a bi-sexual is because in one of the begin scene of the movie it looks like he is having a three some with one of his friends.


So to me it seems that he could be exploring with some homo-sexual tendency even though thru out the movie he might seem he is not a homosexual. So I can see the connection that Paxton is having a gay experience by doing this act in bathroom. Because he is getting he revenge and is begin satisfied with the enjoyment of killing the Dutch business man, because if he just wanted to get even then all he had to do was caught the man fingers of but he went on a step further and killed the man and he is not relieve till the man is dead and lying in his puddle of blood. Just like a man might dehumanize a person after sex.

Friday, January 30, 2009


Welcome to Jose’s blog site. Well to start off with the purpose of having this site is because of the class I am taking called LRS 491, which focuses on The Politics of Violence. I am currently a senior at California State University Northridge. I am majoring in Liberal Studies and also getting a minor in Chicano Studies. As you can see I love food, especially In-N-Out. I am a big sports enthusiast; I love football, basketball and baseball. I prefer college football over the professional stuff any day. I am a big Dodger fan as you can see by the photo. Some of my hobbies include collecting Air Jordan’s, working on my Subaru WRX Wagon, and spending time with my children. Well, thank you for visiting my blog page, and do not be shy to leave a comment.