In the film They Live‚ the director John Carpenter criticized 80s America on how it treated poverty and the working class. President Reagan established the idea of supply side and trickle down economy through Reagonomics. This was used to fix stagflation‚ which is a combination of inflation and unemployment. Through his film‚ Carpenter shows what the effects were from Reagonomics in the city of Los Angeles. Carpenter’s stance is that he is against it due to the fact that poverty is growing while
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thesis of Sicko‚ the film in which Moore traces the HMO system back to the Nixon administration and shows how Republican politicos defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton’s initiative for universal health care coverage. He also follows several middle class Americans who’ve been denied treatment by their profit-motivated health care insurers and have‚ as a result‚ gone bankrupt or‚ worse yet‚ die. Moore travels to Canada and Cuba‚ among other countries‚ where socialized medicine provides free health care
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D.) THE PROGRESSION 1.) Parallel Points I.) Scarface - Tony’s rise to power is a notable rags-to-riches story‚ only that it involves drugs and dead bodies. The dark and criminalized American Dream was a strongly implemented backbone of the story‚ wherein an immigrant comes to the US to find his fortune and future. Tony eventually succeeds for a moment‚ but when his judgement and pure unluckiness started to overwhelm him‚ he became a cautionary tale of excesses and greed II.) The Godfather - The story
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The 1987 classic is set in a futuristic‚ crime-ridden Detroit. The film centres on a Detroit police officer‚ Alex Murphy‚ who is transformed into a crime-fighting cyborg known as RoboCop. RoboCop is a creation of the Omni Consumer Product (OCP)‚ the corporation who has OCP wishes to create a utopian “Delta City”‚ a shining beacon of consumerism they hope to erect from the crime-ridden ruins of Detroit. Officer Alex Murphy‚ who has been recently relocated to Detroit’s most dangerous area‚ is brutally
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The movie was very inciteful and funny by the way that Michael Moore reveals the insidious role that Capitalism has played in America. The movie brought a question to my mind which is “What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism?” it seems to me as though that a plethora of Americans dreams are looking more and more like nightmares as families all over America pay the price with their jobs ‚ their homes and any life savings. In the movie Michael Moore showed several families
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Literary Elements Book/Movie Analysis Activity Have you ever thought why most of us are interested in the stories we read or the movies we watch‚ the characters‚ the action‚ the suspense and the love stories? The writer has to think of how the story must be told‚ what effect it must it have on a reader or movie-goer‚ and what is the best way to present his/her ideas. To get the reader’s attention‚ literary elements‚ the techniques or kinds of writing‚ are used by authors/screenwriters. The
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In our society‚ presently‚ persons’ with disabilities as a whole are often stigmatized as broken or useless (Michalko‚ 2002). This is no different for women with disabilities‚ as strong cultural assumptions for this population have been formed. These assumptions are formed due to attitudes and beliefs‚ especially focusing on body image‚ religion and language (Charlton‚ 1998). In general‚ women in our society are already oppressed‚ for example women make less money in the workforce then do men (Katz
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Dr. Jones HUM1020 March 30‚ 2014 Critical Analysis of Kara Walker Kara Walker is an artist that is known for exploring controversial themes of race‚ gender‚ sexuality‚ and violence. She is best known for her appropriation of the silhouettes‚ which she has used in room-sized installations‚ sculptures‚ and smaller works on paper (artnet.com). Her art work is very criticized based on the themes that she illustrates. Kara Walker is a very accomplished artist though. She was the youngest person
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powerful tool to get to the hearts of the viewers. Most people have had pets in their lives‚ or experience with animals. When a movie uses any animal it causes the view to instantly relate to the film with past experiences. If a person can relate to a film in some way they will most likely enjoy what they see. The use of animals‚ specifically dogs‚ in cinema makes the movie lighter and more entertaining because instead of dissecting a character’s personality traits you just look at the puppy and laugh
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Movie Analysis “Jose Rizal” By: Marilou Diaz-Abaya Submitted by: Elvin James N. Plata III-Grasslands Submitted to: Mrs. Yoly Alejandre JOSE RIZAL José Rizal is a movie of Tatay Jerico Romero 1998 Filipino biographical film of the Filipino national hero José Rizal directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and starringCesar Montano as José Rizal. At the time of its release‚ it was the most expensive film in the history of Filipino cinema with a budget of over PhP.80 million
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