Secrecy

Jeff Rider

Blog Post

November 19, 2017

Millions

            This past week at the Library, there was a showing of the movie Millions which details the fictional story of two young boys who come across a large sum of money. The two main characters of this movie are brothers who have conflicting views when it comes to what they should do with the money. Throughout the film, they come across many different characters who attempt to persuade them on what they should do with the money. Focusing on the beginning of the movie, Damien and his brother Anthony are raised only by their father and after they move into a new house, Damien finds a large bag of money. Damien has a strong interest in religion and throughout the film, he is greeted by many past saints and important religious figures. These famous figures influence young Damien to donate all of the money to charity and to people who are poor. Damien spends a vast majority of his money on donations which he gives to people all over the town. His brother Anthony spends his money the complete opposite way hiring a team of fellow ten year olds to be his security guards at school.

The two brothers keep their large sum of cash a secret throughout the first half of the movie and young Damien is tempted many times to tell everyone including his father about the large sum of cash he has discovered.

            The secret that the young boys have connects directly to the large secret that Viola keeps from Duke and Olivia. Viola similar to Damien is tempted many times to reveal to Duke that she is in fact in love with him while also revealing to Olivia that her identity is false. The secrecy that both these characters have is impressive as I believe that I would personally reveal the secret in both these situations. In the end of the movie, the secret is revealed and I predict that in the Twelfth Night, the secret will also be revealed.