1.
Introduction
a.
Title : Gifted
Hands
b.
Genre : Biographical
– Drama
Based on a true story of Dr. Ben Carson (world-renowned neurosurgeon) from 1961 to 1987. It was also made
into an autobiography about his life as a kid to a surgeon.
c.
Casts :
Cuba Gooding Jr.
as Benjamin “Bennie” Carson
Kimberly Elise as Sonya
Carson (Benjamin’s mother)
Aunjanue Ellis as Candy
Carson (Benjamin’s girlfriend/wife)
Gus Hoffman as Teen
Bennie (Teenage Ben Carson)
Jaishon Fisher as
Bennie (Young Benie Carson)
2.
Synopsis
GIFTED
HANDS
The movie begins in present day 1987, where Dr. Ben Carson (Cuba
Gooding, Jr.)
goes to Germany to visit a couple named Peter and
Augusta Rausch, who have twins conjoined at the head. Ben knows that chances of saving
them both will be at risk, because one baby always dies in situations like
that. Ben agrees to do the operation, but he will wait four months so he can
come up with a plan to save them both.
While looking into some of his books, the movie flashes back
to the year 1961, where 11 year old Ben Carson (Jaishon
Fisher) starts
out life as an African
American child
from a single-parent with failing grades at school. Ben
has an older brother named Curtis. His mother, who dropped out in the third
grade, starts making decisions for him. When her boys need to learn
multiplication tables, she has them swear to learn them while she is gone to
check herself into a mental
institution.
When she sees her two sons' success hindered by TV, she schedules timings to
watch tv, boys show great interest in watching only a quiz show later on and
commands them to read two books per week from the library and give her a book
report, she also moves them to better schools.
Meanwhile as time passes, Ben learns how to multiply and to
spell. He starts to explore the world of books, and he grows in it. He begins
to show a temper; Ben almost hits his mom with a
hammer while arguing with her about what pants he should wear for school and
almost kills his best friend as a teenager. His friend was saved as the knife
that he used to stab him broke when it hit the buckle of his belt.
Having almost killed someone because of his temper, he
realizes that he can't do anything about it. He runs to his room and cries out
to God, praying that He delivers him from his temper.
He becomes the top student in his eighth grade class, third
in his high school class and with hard work and strong determination, he got a scholarship to college, passed the MCAT
and went on to medical
school. He meets
his girlfriend Candy, whom he falls in love with. One day, when he struggles
with a test study, she helps him out and Ben eventually passes and gets an A.
In the year 1976, Carson faced adversity from fellow doctors
and students while working at Johns
Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, Maryland. It is here where he performed
an operation as a resident without supervision, risking his medical career to
save a man's life. Then in the year of 1985, he saves the life of a girl who
has seizures 100 times a day, by removing only half of her brain that was
responsible for seizures, procedure called 'hemispherectomy". Candy later
becomes pregnant with twins, but loses the babies from a bloody miscarriage.
Ben's mother later moves in with the family.
Then the movie goes back to where it began: the year of
1987. Ben is eventually convinced to operate on the two twins, and he manages
to make the operation successful, and both twins are saved.
3.
The
Elements of The Plot
a.
Exposition
· In 1987, Dr. Ben Carson goes to Germany to visit a couple named Peter and
Augusta Rausch, who have twins conjoined at the head.
· Ben knows that chances of saving
them both will be at risk, because one baby always dies in situations like
that.
· Ben agrees to do the operation, but
he will wait four months so he can come up with a plan to save them both.
b.
Conflict
· The movie flashes back to the year
1961, where 11 year old Ben Carson with his brother, start out life as African American child from a single-parent who dropped out in the third grade, starts
making decisions for them.
· When her boys need to learn
multiplication tables, she has them swear to learn them while she is gone to
check herself into a mental
institution.
· Seeing her two sons' success
hindered by TV, she schedules timings to watch tv, boys show great interest in
watching only a quiz show later on and commands them to read two books per week
from the library and give her a book report, she also moves them to better
schools.
c.
Rising
Action
· As time passes, Ben learns how to
multiply and to spell.
· Ben starts to explore the world of
books, and he grows in it.
· Ben begins to show a temper; Ben almost hits his mom with a hammer while arguing with
her about what pants he should wear for school and almost kills his best friend
as a teenager. His friend was saved as the knife that he used to stab him broke
when it hit the buckle of his belt.
· Having almost killed someone because
of his temper, he realizes that he can't do anything about it. He runs to his
room and cries out to God, praying that He delivers him from his temper.
d.
Climax
· In 1976, Carson faced adversity from
fellow doctors and students while working at Johns
Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, Maryland.
· Ben performed an operation as a
resident without supervision, risking his medical career to save a man's life.
· In 1985, he saves the life of a girl who has seizures
100 times a day, by removing only half of her brain that was responsible for
seizures, procedure called 'hemispherectomy".
· Candy becomes pregnant with twins,
but loses the babies from a bloody miscarriage. Ben's mother later moves in
with the family.
e.
Anti
climax
· The movie goes back to where it
began; the year of 1987. Ben is eventually convinced to operate on the two
twins, and he manages to make the operation successful, and both twins are
saved.
4.
Character
and Caracterization
a.
Protagonist
1) Dr.
Ben Carson:
a patience, tough, smart,
loving and caring guy with a good sense of humor.
2) Sonya
Carson:
a
strong single parent, loving,
tough and has
a mental problem.
b.
Round
character
1) Candy
Carson: a patient, caring wife
2) Teenage
Ben Carson: a tempered, smart teenage
3) Young
Benie Carson: smart, patient young man
5.
Plot
The plot
of the movie
is a close
plot. It is
strictly chronological.
6.
Setting
·
Setting
of time: around 1987 and flashback into 1961, 1976 and 1981
·
Setting
of place: Germany, Maryland
7.
Theme
The toughness of
a struggling woman
(a single parent) to get a
better life for her sons.
8.
Style
Gifted Hands, The Ben Carson Story
is told in the first-person perspective. Ben Carson tells this autobiographical
story of the African-American boy from the Detroit ghetto who rises to stellar
achievement as a world-class pediatric neurosurgeon. With this personal
perspective, we are able to key in on the emotions and events that touches and
impacts this gifted man's life. Ben tells of his pain and anguish when he
learns that his father left them and will not return. He relates the hard times
he, his mother and brother endured after being abandoned emotionally and
financially by his father. The audience learns how important his mother's
influence is to his eventual success. Even though Ben does not start out as a
good student, his mother instinctively knows he and his brother, Curtis, are
smart and can excel.
9.
Tone
:
· Sadness
(when Sonya and her sons struggled to achieve a better life)
· Happyness
(when Dr. Ben Carson can save others’ live
)
10.
Symbol
:
·
Books: it shows that books are the
windows to see the world.
11.
Moral
Lesson
·
There are some miracles that we can
achieve in our live if we believe in it, we should not give up no matter how hard the situation
is.
·
We should see inside us, if we want to
be optimistic in catching our destiny.
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