An important aspect of the film is that characters from both sides of the yard trespass to each other´s side. As described previously, Lisa and Stella go to the yard to discover what is in the box Throwald burry and this way Lisa becomes part of Jefferies´ fantasy. On the other hand, Thorwald at the end goes to Jeff´s apartment, it could be said that he “goes out of the screen” is materialized in reality. Thorwald assaults Jefferies; he is aggressive and tries to kill him (Stam & Pearson, 203). This could show the aggressive way in which art and the story shocks the audience by not only showing a theme about murder but by leading into a behavior that in real life wouldn´t be performed such as spying on other people, but at the end of the film…
Such history has seen a thousand times, stealing money to the Mafia, murders, thieves, mixed again and again in different ways, the only difference here is that they are two lesbians.The most striking aspect of the film is that it is a bloody film, which deals with the mafia and money, but ends up being a lesbian relationship that in the end they are the real winners because they make with what they want. The Celluloid Closet is a documentary that examines the history of the presence and treatment of gay characters in major Hollywood films. This film documentary interviews several men and women connected with the Hollywood industry to discuss various segments of different films, and their own experiences with the treatment of gay-themed personas…
The film takes place in two timelines and involves two couples from different continents. The Australian couple, Walt and Ruth, lives in the present and are bickering on account of the husband’s obsession to catch flies that to his wife’s dismay, resulted to the neglect of his household chores. The Filipino couple lives in the memory of the husband, Jessie. He remembers his wife, Appollonia, as an activist writer who died during the height of martial law in the Philippines.…
A 1946 German Film called, in English, “The Murderers are Among Us” presents a black and white film that is about learning to deal with the past. For a person, they can either let the past destroy them and take away their future, or they can work through the past and move on to their future. This story is about love that has formed between two differently individuals and how they dealt with their past to move on with their future.…
In the movie The Rookie, directed by John Lee Hancock, the director tells a story about a high school baseball coach from Texas named Jimmy Morris. Morris’s dream throughout his life was to make it to the big leagues and play with the very best in the game. He faced multiple challenges that tried to hold him back from his dream. One of the challenges he faced was his dad, his father disapproved of him playing baseball and didn’t support him playing at a young age. Another big challenge was the town Morris’s family moved to, they didn’t care for baseball and there was nowhere to play. In the end, an injury ended his career and he knew it was time to give it up. Eventually, Morris got married and had three children,…
Miss Representation was an accurate depiction of the media’s influence in our society, especially in women. The film showed how women are subjected in the media, in particular the mass media, and how the development of young women is altered by the media. This film was entered in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and achieved praise from many viewers and critics. This is why I selected to review Miss Representation.…
Over a period of time, specific audiences construct expectations of different types of media, related to either what they have been told, or perhaps what the media have exposed them to in the past. Indeed, it could be argued that the success of a film to a large degree, rests on whether or not such expectations are met, surpassed, else the audience successfully surprised. Certainly, such expectations have to be addressed by the film, if it is to be considered satisfying for the audience, and in this way, elements within the film, such as character representations, the narrative and cinematography are all important components which allow this to be achieved. Additionally, the social and political context in which the film is being viewed must be considered, as it is against this background that their expectations will have been formed.…
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…
Do the Right Thing took place in one of the hottest days in Brooklyn, New York in 1989 where race relations were the “talk of the town.”. Many people like Mookie, Sal, Da Mayor, and Mother Sister tried to accommodate with the heat, however at the end of the film Sal, the pizzeria owner and others attacked the African Americans and eventually the police ended up killing one African American. This film “presents a case for both violence and nonviolence in racial conflicts” (Haas, Christensen and Haas). Both famous and ordinary individuals, and events left their mark in history like Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcom X were the ambassadors of the black movement. These individuals invited the people to hassle out the contradictions. One ordinary…
How funny it is, to think we could ever really know another human being. Oh we muddle through all right, mostly in peace, at some level of adequacy but you never have a clue as to what exactly is going on in anybody’s head, or as to why another person does anything. Nobody understands anybody, heck, nobody understands themselves. I doubt our minds could even grasp the whole truth about anything, let alone a person. One mind can only think up its own questions and biases; it rarely surprises itself. Our mental frameworks are never quite perfect, everything’s blurrier and everyone’s uglier up close. This is correspondingly illustrated by Director Sofia Coppola’s film, The Virgin Suicides, a town where ideas are real and reality is shadow. She…
My first experience watching a Coen brothers’ movie changed how I viewed film. Upon my first viewing of The Big Lebowski, I realized it was much more than a film about a middle aged stoner who lost his rug. I was able to identify different characteristics from a wide range of genres represented in classic films I had seen over the years. After numerous viewings, I could piece together a message the Coen brothers were trying to communicate to their audience through the film’s narrator: “Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, the bear eats you” (The Big Lebowski). This lesson embedded in The Big Lebowski resonated with me because it speaks to the nature of life; the positives and negatives that follow us around as we meander through…
80% of women say that images of women on television, movies, fashion magazines, and advertising make them insecure (Dam). A visually stimulating documentary such as in Jennifer Siebel Newsoms’ documentary “Miss Representation” provides a logic supplemented presentation of gender in media driven by the emotions evoked from the images of the film resulting in readers thinking of gender in a more personal way as face to face interviews with teenagers who feel negatively affected by this problem are shown. On the other hand, a scientifically based academic journal such as in Rebecca Collins’ “Content Analysis of Gender Roles in Media: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Go?” delivers an extremely logic based presentation of the gender discussion…
Dystopian films are famous for presenting outrageous, typically end-of-the-world or post/pre-apocalyptic scenarios. While many viewers look at these films and see them as fun, sometimes scary adventures with their exciting, fascinatingly dangerous ideas, a closer look at the issues in these films reveals something about the societies they were made in. As a whole, there are certain things that we, as human beings and as a society, generally fear. While there may be general shared fears among individuals - things such as fear of heights, clowns or spiders - there are also more deep-seeded psychological or existential fears that reside within all of us. Such things could include the the body turning against itself, the fear of advancing technology, and the fear of death or that human existence as a whole will cease to exist someday. These types of social and existential anxieties are what make dystopian films so unique and so utterly fascinating.…
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."…
This film revolves around many ideas and themes. One of these is the value of life. “I have lost something. I'm not exactly sure what it is,…