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here is the question im answering:
Describe at least ONE important conflict in the text(s).
Explain how this conflict helped you understand an important idea in the text.
text(s), supporting your points with visual and / or oral language features.

Moonrise Kingdom

The film ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ illustrates the important idea of why we need people in our lives. Wes Anderson, the director, helps us understand this important idea by utilising many visual and oral language features. He explores and portrays this important idea of why we need people in our lives through the conflicts that arise in the text. Through these conflicts Anderson shows us that people make mistakes but we should allow them to come back and genuinely apologise and that we must never settle for less that what we deserve. He also tells us that its okay to reach out to those who have hurt us. Although ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ is a whimsical film, Anderson asks his audience a question that resinates with us all; if the pain of living among others is worth the benefits of love and acceptance we receive. We can see this being questioned in our everyday lives when we experience love, loss and betrayal by those we care for.

When Sam and Suzy first meet, they immediately latch onto each other for who they are, not who others think they should be. In the film ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ we see this being challenged when a conflict occurs between Sam and Suzy. During the inventory scene where Sam and Suzy have their first proper conversation together, we witness Suzy storming off after an argument. This is because Sam ridiculed Suzy about the fact that she is a ‘Troubled Child.’ Anderson utilises a close up shot to show us the hurt in Suzy’s face. Sam gave her the one thing she has never had before: acceptance. It is a concept that she has scarcely come to understand, but she realised he was just like everyone else. Subsequently after the fight we hear Sam apologising to Suzy “I am on your side”. Anderson shows us that a simple response as ‘sorry’ can help us overcome our hurdles and conflicts with each other, just like that we see them reconciling their love. Through Sam and Suzy’s relationship, The director paints a soft, naturalistic portrait of love in its most basic form. Anderson utilises the soundtrack “Kaw-Liga” (a song about not overcoming obstacles in love) to emphasise that people can unintentionally wound others and these wounds can make us question if the pain of living among others is worth the benefits of love and acceptance we receive. Wes Anderson, the director, helps us see that though people hurt us we must let them to reconcile the relationship if we believe its worth our time.

Throughout the film ‘Moonrise kingdom’ Anderson utilises visual and auditory techniques to illustrate the conflict between Sam and the Khaki scouts. Sam is an orphan still suffering from the loss of his parents, he desperately desires friendship but is rejected by the other kids in the Khaki Scouts for his social awkwardness and obvious superiority in all areas of scout training. This is shown in particular when Anderson plays a voice over clip of Sam’s resignation letter “The rest of the group will probably be glad to hear this. It’s not your fault.” Anderson implies that Sam has accepted the fact that he will never fit in. We must never accept for less that what we deserve, Wes Anderson portrays this through Sam resigning from the Khaki scouts to pursue Suzy, who will accept him and all his flaws. Later on in the film the Khaki Scouts realise that they've been bullying Sam just for being different, and resolve to atone for it. "They were prepared to die for each other out there.” This is shown when the Khaki scouts hold a meeting to discuss whether they should or not help Sam. Anderson pans his camera from one scout to another in the group to portray the fact that the scouts genuinely regret wounding Sam. Through the conflict that occurs between the Khaki scouts and Sam Anderson tells us that if we don't get what we need (security and love) from the people we surround our selves with we must leave in search for something better as we shouldn't settle for something less that what we deserve.

Wes Anderson, the director, utilises contrast to show how Sam and Suzy overcomes their conflicts in comparison to Mr. and Mrs. Bishops conflicts. The director shows us the main reason why Sam and Suzy are different to the Bishops is because Sam and Suzy fight to keep each other in their lives despite the conflicts that arose and the woulds that were opened. This is shown when Suzy stands up to her parents “I'd be careful if I were you. One of these days, somebody's gonna get pushed too far. And who knows what they're capable of?” Anderson accompanies this dialogue with an over the shoulder shot to portray the powerful effect of love and acceptance they feel in each other and that they have finally found sanctuary from the harsh world in each others arms this is something that Suzy’s parents seem to lack in their lives. The Bishops are wandering through life, bogged down by a quietly dysfunctional marriage that they can scarcely find reason to invest themselves in anything, including their children.Through the use of dialogue accompanied by an overhead shot Anderson illustrates that the Bishops are taking Suzy’s words into consideration to try and mend their own broken relationship “I’m sorry… for which ever ones that still hurt.” The director shows us that the Bishops have gone through so many negative experiences in their lives which made them not to reach out when they need help. But Sam and Suzy teach them why we need people in our lives; to find and rely on a person who makes them feel accepted is O.K. Anderson shows us that it’s okay to reach out to those who we have hurt or been hurt by in order to reconcile our relationships.

Throughout ‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ Wes Anderson developed the important idea of why we need people in our lives. People give us acceptance and love, thats why we bother surrounding ourselves with them. Anderson utilises many visual and oral language features to pursue us to mend our relationships though we are hurt by what others say and do to us. he does this by questioning if the pain of living among others is worth the benefits of love and acceptance we receive. Anderson develops this idea through the conflicts that arise in the text between Sam and Suzy, Sam and the Khaki scouts and Mr. and Mrs. Bishop. This idea is important as it shows us that people make mistakes but we should allow them to come back and genuinely apologise and that we must never settle for less that what we deserve. Also that its okay to reach out to those who have hurt us.