New Breed: The Animals (Film Review)

The Animals

Elements of A Story Review

As I watched the movie “The Animals”, I honestly thought that the first few shots showed the introduction of the characters and their personalities. Like how one girl is constantly combing her hair, a male character memorizing what seemed to be initiation facts and smoking weed while another male was concerned with how he looked, these scenes showed that the characters that we were dealing with were part of the upper class because of the environment they were in, the type of rooms, the mere fact that the boy could afford weed and the physique of the personas showed the audience who they were. This was then strengthened with the giving of the allowances and the talk of parties that the siblings Trina and Alex would attend and the lead Jake would host. The list goes on and on about the characters and how they were constantly portrayed as the privileged youth of today and how they would soon turn into the animals that they truly were with their generation and the social web that they themselves weaved.

            Basically, the story is about the world of socialite high school students who live their lives partying, becoming parts of fraternities, indulging in vices and abusing their parents’ money. As I have said, the introduction of the story is when the students and the main characters are introduced and are shown through the various actions that they were doing. At first, they all seemed like the nice but not necessarily innocent kids who partied but then didn’t go to the extremes. When we saw Trina stealing and her brother Alex memorizing for the fraternity, it showed that they were much more than the images that they were showing to their mother. When we meet the other cast members, we see that they are the type of students who live the nightlife and who splurge on vices and parties that occur within the social world. The progression of the story starts when we see the rising action where Alex is seen with the fraternity members and the initiation that he had to go through, Trina and her friends start to have problems at the party because of their excessive drinking and Jake getting it on with another woman. Another rising action is when Jake’s best friend tries to drug Trina with ecstasy and Trina escapes and stands alone in a dark street with no lights.

            For me, the climax is when Trina gets raped; Jake gets into a fight with Trina and when Alex beat up an innocent guy because of the master’s instructions. What’s sort of different about this film is that you can barely tell the falling action and the conclusion apart from each other but for me, the falling action is when Trina’s rapist gets hold of her belongings and hangs her necklace on the rearview mirror to show that the deed has been done and that all hope is lost. The conclusion is that Jake is clueless of what happened to her girlfriend and Alex apologizes to their mother. What really did it for me is the fact that the last frame of the movie was the corpse of Trina lying around in the grass behind some concrete construction cylinders or tubes that signified the consequences of their decisions and the conclusion of the story.

Me with Albie Casiño

Me and my friend with Bryan Homecillo

Posted by: Micia Roxas of 202A