Roman Polanski’s 1965 thriller film, Repulsion, follows the character of Carol Ledoux, a single manicurist living in London with older sister Helen. The film captivates Carol’s transition from a serene woman to a psychotic who falls victim of insanity Her illness causes her to break apart from reality, endure personality changes, and experience hallucination all leading up to the death of two men. Through the arrangement of mise-en-scene, visual elements, the film helps filmmaker’s captive audiences. The specific combination of acting, sound, and lighting in Repulsion work together to construct tension and terrorize audiences.…
The Hmong cultural group is always targeted as the racial discrimination especially by the white people of the America. The same concept is shown in the film Gran Torino where the white American Walt who is actually an overt racism personality makes fun of the people that are belonging to other race and his main focus is always his neighborhood Hmong family. The family shown in the film that belong to Hmong culture are shown as very scared one and that are not even independent and beside the rude behavior of Walt they ask for his intervention in their every decision. The cultural group of Hmong race in the film revolves around certain…
Do you like funny/action movies? In my opinion, I love funny/action movies like “The Secret life of Walter Mitty”, about a young man and everywhere he goes, he daydreams of a girl name Cheryl Melhoff . One day Walter was pasting around in New York. He had received a phone call from a random man on the phone, but surprisingly it was Todd from E-harmony. Todd was helping Walter with his profile and explaining how he could send a wink to Cheryl to capture her attention. After a while Walter imagined that he smelled burning fire in the building, so he quickly ran and saved the love of his life, Cheryl. Cheryl was impressed by how he took the time to save her and how he waited to finally get that kiss he been waiting for. Walter ended up daydreaming about Cheryl everywhere he went. I found this movie really thrilling and enjoyable.…
Lastly, the cinema was considered to play a significant role, and Stalin himself liked watching films and had his personal cinema. Cinemas came under the control of the Politburo’s economic department. The objectives of films were to gain understandings by the masses and promote the state. Plots and storyline were prescribed by Stalin. Accordingly, many documentaries supporting the First Five-Year Plan were produced. Moreover, all the films had to be precensored in the State Committee for Cinematography and previewed by Stalin. As a result, the number of production dropped and only about sixty films were made per year. Nonetheless, the cinema was the most popular form of entertainment and had a great influence on people. Plus, the development of the sound technology made films even more influential and beneficial form of propaganda.…
Ronald Joffe, the director the The Killing Fields, including various scenes of children in the film to create compassion in the viewer for the struggles Cambodians had to endure.…
Good Night, and Good Luck covers the McCarthy era, the severe anti-red period in the 1950’s and takes place within CBS studios. The main character of the film is Edward R. Murrow who reports for CBS news. Upon the events of harsh McCarthyism, Murrow chose to use his public power to challenge senator McCarthy and his strong anti-communist ideology. The reporter argues on behalf of a person in the United states Military who is somehow connected with communist people. In a following broadcast, he makes is clear that the senator is given the opportunity to refute and defend what is being said about him over their airtime. After a week or so, McCarthy responded by discrediting Morrows statements by telling the American people that Murrow has ties to communism himself: that he has worked for Russian organizations and was “engaged in propaganda for Communist causes” twenty years ago.…
The Cold War was a clash between the Capitalists in American and the Communism in USSR, which are both to blame for the starting of the war. In the latter half of the twentieth century is the central place of American civilization in which Stephen Whitfield gives us an inside to the world as it once was and how it is now a thing of the past. Stephen’s goal was to open the eyes to those who were not around during this time and to those who were, might bring up ancient memories of how things used to be.…
“ I will fall like an ocean on that court! Fear nothing, Elizabeth.” - John Proctor, “The Crucible” pg.45. John Proctor tells his wife, who is accused of witchcraft, that he will not stop until he frees her. This can be compared to the Majestic, Peter Appleton, the main character in the movie, was accused of being a communist. He was driving after he was told he was blacklisted. He crashed his car into a river, he lost all of his memory and washed up in a small town. The people in the town thought he was a soldier, who was lost in the war. He took up a alias of Luke Trimble. I think that the story the Crucible is comparable to many parts of the movie, the Majestic.…
The point that Huxley is making in this seen is how something new and unknown to you and your ways might come off as uncivilized. Although they do have homes and mean of climbing to get to those houses. From the beginning Lenina is not excited. She begins to pick at basic things that the savages don't do but what Bernard and Lenina were trained to do.…
Many similarities can be observed between the tactics used historically in the battle of Stalingrad and the strategies described in each of the works chosen. The most prevalent battle strategies was hand-to-hand combat in order to siege control over buildings. In the movie, Stalingrad (2013), hand to hand combat is used many times – primarily when the German forces are attempting to invade a house belonging to an innocent Russian girl named Katya’s. This is also the building in which a small Russian platoon is residing. The Russian and German troops battle using bayonet charges (a form of hand-to- hand combat) as well as by using small knives – methods commonly used during this historic battle. In addition to the form of attack, these building…
Nevsun Resources Ltd, a Canadian mining company, has been accused of modern slavery after partnering up with Eritrea. Their collaboration with an unlikable dictatorship may be rewarding, but allegations about promoting terrorism emerged. This documentary explores the consequences of such partnerships.…
I decided to write this letter in order to understand Lenina´s feelings, during the whole story. Which were told by an omniscient narrator, but in my article I want to give a perspective of one of the characters, in this case Lenina, who I wanted my readers to know more, and to describe her with her different thoughts and feelings and her immoral and illegal behavior, and the most important, her thoughts for John ideals of love.…
A commonality in Soviet film was subtle propaganda. While Ballad of a Soldier and The Cranes are Flying are mostly entertaining films, they had subtle hints of propaganda. For example, in died a liberator. However, this is all based on the perspective of the Russians. To those nations that the Soviets took control of, he may not be seen as a liberator, rather an enemy. This was best contrasted with the use of the word liberator in Come and See. The Nazis are liberating the Soviets from the inferior. However, the Soviets did believe this to be true. The Nazis were portrayed to be terrible people who were stealing away Mother Russia.…
The film Lincoln, produced by Steven Spielberg and released in 2012, stars Daniel Day-Lewis as President Lincoln. Written by Tony Kushner, the film was inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Set in 1865 the movie focuses on President Lincoln’s struggle to get the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed through the House of Representatives, all while facing challenges presented by the American Civil War. Lincoln won two Oscars and 108 other awards, with a total of 242 nominations. The film was a success, achieving an overall score of 86/100 (“Lincoln”). The film successfully portrays various qualities of the U.S. Government and reveals the lack of bipartisanship and the necessity and methods to whip votes that are present in the U.S. Government through history and also today.…
As much as I can say, it was interesting, as a member of one of the minorities that make up the population of the United States, to watch *** movie, Freedom Writers. In fact, this movie delivers a great message to those who take the risk to watch a controversial movie that criticizes our society and how we treat others, mainly because they (those we critice) look different that usn . In fact, this risk we take cannot be compared to the risks the people shown in this movie take.…