Tres Bellezas is a Spanish satire movie with English subtitles that came out in 2014. It is about a mother and her three children (two daughters and a son). The mother is a previous beauty queen and wants her daughter Carolina to be one also. Her other daughter, Estefania, wants to be a beauty queen as well but her mother tells her that she is too skinny to be one. Estefania and her brother Salvador are pretty much ignored by their mother, meanwhile Carolina needs to lose weight for her school pageant so her mom locks the fridge and cabinets and teaches her to puke after eating. Carolina hangs herself after losing the competition and being made fun of by the school. They rush Carolina to the hospital and she survives. Then the family finds…
Do you think about the foods you eat before you consume them? Do you look at the nutrition facts to see if this food will actually help your body or damage it? Most people don’t. However, Joe Cross, the main focus and director of “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead,” which follows him through his 60-day journey of weight loss, is extremely health-conscious. Joe suffers from an autoimmune disease, causing his to develop itchy rashes all over his body, due to his unhealthy food choices prior to his weight loss.…
The things that impacted me about the movie are the fact that it is based on a true-life story. The filmmakers did a good job of being realistic in the fact that not everyone is going to support a mentally challenged individual all of the sudden being a part of a…
The 1991 movie “BOYZ ‘N THE HOOD” is written and directed by John Singleton, and the director of photography is Charles Mills. The movie is edited by Bruce Cannon; music by Stanley Clarke,and produced by Steve Nicolaides. Columbia pictures released the hour and seven minutes movie. The main characters of the movie is Doughboy, Tre Styles, Ricky Baker, Furious Styles, Reva Styles, Brandi and Mrs.Baker. The movie is rated R and is considered a drama film, but also considered an action movie. The film setting is in los angeles south central neighborhood.…
Laggies basically talks about Megan’s life more about her high school sweetheart and her high school friends. Megan’s boyfriend, Anthony, proposes to her during her friend’s wedding but ended up being disappointed after seeing his dad cheating with another woman. This event had made her confused that she drove away where he met Annika and her friends. These group of teens asked her a favor to buy them drinks due to their minor ages. After helping Annika and her friends, she became closer to her and met her father, Craig. They later fell for each other that had made her to break up with her boyfriend and pursue her life with Craig. Most evident type of conflict that can be found in the movie, Laggies, is the approach-avoidance conflict which…
With this movie it shows a lot of the good and the ugly in people. It shows that most people can change because of the…
To know that he was capable of moving and getting through all the setbacks that arise makes me feel like I’m capable of enduring any challenges in life. For him to constantly get rejected even by his family shows how strong of an individual he is. It seem like he went through everything that you could go through to create a successful movement from the strikes to the grape boycott to the fast that he endured for 25 days. For someone with the health that he already have last 25 days without food really shows what someone is capable of doing when there mind is set on the goal. The film overall taught me a lot about the Mexican culture and the things that they went through throughout their history in California. I now have a different perspective on farm workers and what it takes to be able survive such horrific circumstances. The presentation made me feel as if I don’t know as much as I should know about history for every race and class throughout our history. This occurred not that long ago and is still an issue in the United States today. We see numerous people working for starvation wages that cannot improve the circumstance that their almost stuck in. It inspired make a change within the area that live and make sure everyone has their rights to the basic necessities of life. It also offended me that we as a nation could treat a group…
know the struggles that the main character was forced to go through, but inspiring to see the…
Sister James and Sister Aloysius play a very important role in John Patrick Shanley’s movie Doubt, which is about the mistrust that takes place in a school directed by the church on priest Flynn command. There, sister Aloysius is the principal, so she is in charge of the student’s rights and responsibilities. On the other hand Sister James is a history teacher. Both characters are important for their way of handling the doubt.…
The feeling of connectedness to the world will bring happiness on any journey. In the movie “The Way” Tom gains meaningful companions on his pilgrimage journey. The unity of Tom, Joost, Sarah, and Jack taught me the importance of companionship and building relationships that are powerful enough to get through any hardship.…
This essay will take an in-depth look at the history of Hollywood during the late 60s and early 70s. This period of time is considered to have been a renaissance for American cinema, and was titled the ‘New Hollywood’ by cotemporary critics of the time. In order to understand the changes that Hollywood went through the late ‘60s, you first have to examine the preceding era of Hollywood filmmaking during the 30s and 40s. This was a period that is commonly referred to as Hollywood’s Golden Age; when the dream factories were in full swing and the audiences were in regular attendance. This period of time could be defined by a number of social, political or economic contexts, but it’s the filmmaking practices that were employed at the time which…
The entire film was motivational. It brought history into the mix, research studies and actual lives of human beings living in the world today. The story that I found to be particularly motivational was the story of the woman diagnosed with breast cancer. When a person in our society is…
This paper will focus on interpersonal relationships; more specifically, romantic partners and the development of a relationship in a scene from the movie Up. Relationship development has two spectrums of stages: coming together and coming apart. This paper will focus on the stages taking place in the coming together phase, the relational norms and outcomes, speed of stage advancement, character role in each stage and how they could improve on their interpersonal relationship.…
The answer to this is question is – “Hits” are about both. It dramatically depends on the time frame in which we talk about this question.…
In the two movies of the week Some Like it Hot by Billy Wilder and My Week with Marilyn by Simon Curtis The idea of the gaze was presented heavily in many scenes in both movies. Marilyn Monroe is well known for playing the role of the sexy, erotic goddess that attract both the attention of men and women, audience and cast. Marilyn Monroe was portrayed in both movies as a character that directors apply the idea of selective use on, In other words she was selected to play certain characters and personas and had to hide the other traits and not show them on camera. To clarify Marilyn was selected to play the role of the girl that is searching for the millionaire who she will marry and will change her life forever, which is also related to the idea of the american dream.In addition she was selected as a star in many movies for…