Rhetorical Devices In The Iron Flaw

The movie The Iron Claw focuses on the Von Erich brothers and the struggles they face throughout their lives from the expectations of their father and how these pressures affected their lives. This movie is engaging, creates interesting dynamics, very effectively portrays interesting characters, and shares its main theme. The story follows the Von Erich brothers through the highs and lows of their lives and how their father's pressures on them eventually lead to their downfall. Each of the four movies that we watched had different main themes and a different way of portraying it. Out of all the movies, The Iron Claw is the most effective at creating an engaging story and sending its message about how expectations can affect one's identity through

The use of tone shift throughout the movie is a way to reflect on the lives of the Von Erich brothers. In the movie, the director creates a transition between high moments in the brother’s lives, like wrestling with each other and winning the world championship, to a more dark and depressive tone, like when Kerry loses his leg or when David passes away. In the beginning part of the movie, the family seems happy since Kevin, Kerry, and David are wrestling in the ring together, but after David’s death, the relationships in the family begin to fall apart. After David’s death, the father starts to put more pressure on the other brothers to be successful in wrestling, which causes issues to rise. Juxtaposition is also used to further send the message by contrasting the brother's successes with their struggles. By doing this, the movie highlights how the brothers struggle in their private lives compared to their public lives. For example, when Kerry becomes world heavyweight champion it shows everyone cheering for him then it cuts to him back home just looking at the belt and drinking alone, which leads to his

The movie The Iron Claw focuses on the expectations that the Von Erich brothers’ father places on them to be successful and how these expectations and pressures push them over their limits and lead to their self doubt and downfall. On the other hand, the movie Kiki’s Delivery Service also focuses on expectations and pressures, but instead of placing expectations on others, Kiki places expectations on herself. What makes The Iron Claw more effective in sending its message is that it is more dramatic, relatable, and harder hitting. In Kiki’s Delivery Service, the story mainly focuses on Kiki's own pressure she puts on herself and how it causes her to have trouble with her identity. While it does a good job of sending its message about how expectations can affect identity, it mostly is a lighthearted film that is fantasy based and lacks realism. On the other hand, The Iron Claw portrays events that actually happened, making the message about the impact of family expectations on identity more