Response to Class On 11.3

       In today's class, we discuss that a good editing should make the stories grow organically instead of making it synthetic or manipulated. Our discussion is based on the movie "Seven Psychopaths", which contains two different versions of the revenge of the vietnamese. 
       In Marty's story, there are two characters including the vietnamese priest and the hooker. The vietnamese is vengeful and full of anger. The hooker is naked and objectifies. It seems that she is not intelligent at all because of his terrible voice and wrong English speaking. This characters in this story are very simple. The woman lacks depth of emotion, and is very awful. The man just has one feeling, and finally kills lots of people. 
       By contrast, in Han's story, despite of the same characters, there are some changes. The hooker wears clothes and gains the respect. She has intelligent speech with the vietnamese and conveys her voice in reason. The vietnamese chooses to burn himself as a buddhist monk, which leads the violence direct inward to show the extreme selflessness. 

       The Han's story is more complex than Marty's. One reason is that the characters have more emotions and are more complicated. In addition, there is a turning point in Han's story. The woman's voice transforms the story into reality, and then the scene changed. The vietnamese realized the reality and then has the self-immolating. The  combination of these two stories promote the quality of stories, which sets up a good example for us.