Creative Problem Solving

CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING EXAM
Movie: THE LAST FILM SHOW

Description:
Samay, a 9-year-old protagonist living in a rural hamlet in India with his family, sees cinema
for the very first time and is completely captivated. Despite his father's desires, he visits the
theatre regularly to view multiple films, and he even befriends the projectionist, who allows
him to watch movies for free in exchange for his delicious lunch box (rotten tomatoes, 2022).
He soon learns that stories turn into light, light becomes films, and films turn into dreams
(rotten tomatoes, 2022). Samay and his crazy bunch of folks move heaven and earth to
capture and project light to create a 35mm film projection. They brainstorm on an inventive
hack and triumphantly create a cinema projection system. However, pursuing
one's aspirations frequently entails leaving everything behind.
Storyline:
The film takes us back to the celluloid period when films were shot on 35mm stock, kept in
containers, and delivered to single-screen cinemas to be inserted into spinning projectors
(Ramnath, 2022). The nine-year-old boy is inspired by a mythological film played at Galaxy
when his father took the family to the theatre for the last time, the sole theatre in his town,
and is enthralled by the beauty of light and shadows.
The relationship Samay has with Galaxy's projectionist Fazal enables him to access the
sacred space where light is projected. The critical thinker Samay exchanges his mother's
delectable cuisine to watch daily movies to win Fazal's confidence. Samay's enthusiasm even
inspires him to pursue independent filmmaking. His compelling blend of passion and cunning
holds beautifully progresses through the storyline. The film deftly draws the audience into
Samay's downtrodden world, which is separated between the Galaxy cinema where Samay
receives his initial filmmaking lessons, his impoverished house where his mother evokes
culinary miracles, and the railway station where he assists his tea-seller father (Ramnath,
2022). Some scenes were purposefully blurred at the edges as if to mimic the lousy movies
that mesmerize Samay. Some of those scenes are just as contrived as Samay's clumsy lighting
experiments.
The most moving moments stem from the director's conviction that watching movies is like a
pleasant fever from which the sufferer never wants to escape. Samay, brilliantly performed
by an unafraid and brave boy, is so convincing that even his most insane plans find
supporters.
Fazal portrays a complete secular eutopia that prevails in that region of Gujarat. Fazal also
spins in the projection room like the movie's monarch, mesmerized by the spiritual song
Khwaja Mere Khwaja from Jodha Akbar.
Soon the reality hits Galaxy and Samay. Even here, the director finds a creative way to relate
the inexorable demise of single-screen cinemas with the realm that has irreversibly opened up
for Samay (Ramnath, 2022).
The film reminds the audience about the potential of cinema and amazes and inspires us via
Samay's never-ending curiosity.
ANALYSES & APPLICATIONS OF CONCEPTS
1. Osborn-Parnes Problem-Solving Model

In Osborn Parnes problem-solving model involves 6 steps that are mess finding, data
finding, problem finding, idea finding, solution finding, and acceptance finding. All
the steps of this model can be seen in the movie in the following manner:
 Mess finding:
In the movie, the child artist finds a challenging situation when his father doesn't
want him to be a filmmaker as they belong to a brahmin family.
 Data finding:
To pursue his dream, Samay identifies all the facts about how movie reels are
shown in the theatres.
 Problem finding:
He want to make his projector kind of thing to run movie reels so he identified all
the problems like the capturing of light, the motion of the reel, and sound.
 Idea finding:
To solve the problems identified he tried to identify possible solutions like he used
mirrors, tires, and other stuff to combine them and make a projector kind of a
thing.
 Solution finding:
After trying many things he come up with a solution and asked his friends to
gather all the things like a bulb, a fan, white cloth, water, cycle rings rims, and
tires.
 Acceptance finding:
After setting up the things together they were able to run the film on white cloth,
and he was able to show his village friends and family, the movie, hence his work
was accepted.
2. Brainstorming
In the movie, it was shown that the child artist was able to make a projector-like thing
and for this brainstorming the different things that will be required to make it was
done. He used to observe the projector when he was with Fazil in the backroom of the
theatre and find alternates to the things which were used in it to project the film.
3. Four Ps of creativity
i) People:
Here the main protagonist, Samay builds his relationship with the projector
operator of the theatre Faizal and his friends from his village.
ii) Processes:
He keenly observed the process of projecting the film in the theatre and tried to
apply that process with alternative things.
iii) Place:
In the movie, the place is a poverty-ridden village, and their secret place is the
ghost station. the ghost station was a place that has no visitors, so they started to
collect things and store them there.
iv) Product:
The protagonist was able to create a projector on his own by applying the
observations that he gathered in the backroom of the theatre.
4. Positive and negative emotions
i. Positive emotions
He was mesmerized by the process of making films which was shown in one
of the instances where he was playing with his friends in the village and he
tried to show a man riding bike and his clothes swinging in the air and he
showed this by tying the clothes and on the other end his friends were seeing
through a box which was only showing the upper part so it was perfectly
showing a person riding a bike.
The second instance was the jail scene, he was sent to the juvenile center, as
he robbed the reels from the railway station which was to be distributed in the
big city theatres, but in jail, he found a solution to the no-sound problem of he
is designed projector.
ii. Negative emotions

In the end, when Galaxy cinema adopted the new projectors and the old
projectors and reels were sent to the recycling center and were converted into
spoons and bangles, he was very sad, his life took a 360-degree change and he
suddenly focused on studies and behaved like a good boy. He realized the
value of knowledge and study in the life and he wants to study light. his father
realized his mistake of not letting his son pursue his dreams so he made an
arrangement in Rajkot for further studies of his son.
5. Thinking hats
i. White hat: Initially he collected waste match boxes and glass from the
railway tracks which he used to tell stories to his friends. the matchboxes have
pictures on them which he used to connect his storyline. then after discovering
the fact that light is used to project the film, he started finding ways to collect
light.
ii. Yellow hat: He did not fear failure initially when he was not able to catch the
light, he used many ways but was not able to make it but he didn't step back
until he was able to project the film on the white cloth.
iii. Green hat: When the 9-year-old was in the juvenile centre, he used to hear a
lot of different wavelength sounds, and his creative mind thought to use the
sounds as an effect while projecting the movie. Also in the end when he was
going to Rajkot and saw women wearing different colored bangles, his
creative mind thought of the different actors according to the colors as in his
mind the bangles were made from the reels.
iv. Blue hat: When the police arrived at the Chalala station and discovered that
the gang of children have theft the reels, Samay took the charge solely, and
alone went to the juvenile centre.
v. Red Hat: When Faizal Lost his job, the 9-year boy took him to the station
master show so that he can get some work. he understood the emotions and
acted in full faith.
6. 4 C Model
i. ‘Little-c': putting talent into action that is everyday creativity which the
protagonist possesses as he used to find different alternatives to capture the
light.
ii. ‘Mini-c’: expert creativity, by discovering the faults and new perspectives to
problems. in the movie, Samay was able to link the actual projector with his
temporary kind of thing, but both are showing films, quality was different.
7. Divergent thinking
Samay was a divergent thinker, he thought out-of-the-box ideas like capturing the
light and using waste material for making a projector-like thing. He discovered many
ways through which he can make the reels run and at last, he was able to make it.
When Faizal called Samay and asked him to come urgently to the Galaxy theatre then
despite no train at that time he managed to reach there with the help of friends. They
used a Baggie on the rail track and were able to reach it in time.
References
Ramnath, N. (2022, october). scroll. Retrieved from scroll.in: https://scroll.in/reel/1034796/last-film-
show-review-a-misty-eyed-ode-to-the-magic-of-cinema
rotten tomatoes. (2022). Retrieved from rotten tomatoes.com:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_film_show

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CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING EXAM

Movie: THE LAST FILM SHOW

ANALYSES & APPLICATIONS OF CONCEPTS

1. Osborn-Parnes Problem-Solving Model

4. Positive and negative emotions

ii. Negative emotions

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