Intro

     Hi, my name is Dakota Drew. I'm a sophomore from San Antonio Texas. I am also on the wrestling team, an Army cadet, and study Sociology. I came to North Central because of the great coaching staff and team. In my free time I like exploring new places outdoors like hiking and camping. I really like movies and I'm hoping to get a better understanding of scenes, plot, and the different ways of filmmaking! 

    I like mostly scary movies, but it is a struggle for me because a lot of horror films follow the same structure for jump scares and lead ups which are not scary or entertaining. I like good plots or ambiguity for these movies because the human mind can make it scarier when you let it wander. A few movies that I really like are So above, So below by John Erick Dowdle which has a pretty good plot. Another is Hereditary and Midsummer by Ari Aster, which both have good plots that doesn't give you all the answers in the first watch.   
 
    A few movies I want to see are Avatar: The Way of the Water by James Cameron and Everything Everywhere All at once by Daniel Kwan. A movie I'm planning to watch now is Pulse (2001) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa which is a scary movie. Kurosawa also directed Seven Samurai which inspired the Magnificent Seven (1960). From what I have seen in trailers and reviews it's a slower paced movie with more emphasis on frames, interpretation, and symbolism. It tells its story through the lens of Japan's main issue of sadness and isolation for their population.