The recurring motifs common to these two films. Leaving Behind In both the films‚ the protagonist at a certain point in their life goes through an event where they decide to leave the routine of their life and pursue‚ out of intuition‚ something else that is away from their past. In Double Life‚ Weronika leaves to visit her aunt in Krakow after telling her father that she doesn’t feel like she’s alone in the world. She leaves her lover and father behind to arrive in Krakow‚ where she spots her double
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The film‚ Distant Journey‚ directed by Alfred Radok‚ follows the young protagonist‚ Dr. Hana Kaufmanova‚ and her family’s journey during the Holocaust. The film begins with scenes of official signs around the city telling the Jews to "get out"‚ followed by all of the Jews forced to wear a yellow star on their coats. Soon all of Hana’s family has been deported. Hana was originally exempt from being deported because she married a non-Jew. The community faces rising terror as people are soon singled
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Neorealism films were shot on location‚ with non-professional actors‚ using various filmmaking techniques like the long take. In the case of Bicycle Thieves‚ its focuses was on poverty‚ as the main character and his son travel in order to find his missing bicycle so that he can obtain a job. Throughout the film we are shown how poor the characters are as we see his wife gather all of her most cherished items and pawn them to get her husband the bike. Afterwards once obtaining the job the film reveals
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Spurlock follows a 30 day diet in which he only eats McDonald’s fast food in order to expose how the negative effects the toxics in fast food has on the body. Not only does the unhealthy diet affect him physically but psychologically as well. The film goes further to examine the fast food industry’s influence on society and how it encourages poor diet for profitable gain. Spurlock’s diet consisted of indulging in McDonalds fast food three times a day (breakfast‚ lunch‚ dinner) and eating item that
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fire the whole short film is based on Chad Jones’s overcoming a very tough experience to come out the other end better overall. The use of non-diegetic music that is played and changes from intense and lingering music during the beginning of the short film to motivational and hopeful music at the end when Jones’s is doing his rehabilitation at the end of the film‚ the transition of the music shows that Chad’s mindset had changed. The non-diegetic music changing throughout the film show that at the beginning
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The film‚ Even the Rain‚ is about a Spanish film crew that travels to the underprivileged city of Cochabamba‚ Bolivia during the intensifying Cochabamba Water War to shoot a film about Christopher Columbus‚ his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians during the conquest of Latin America. Executive producer Costa (Luis Tosar) convinces film director Sebastián (Gael García Bernal) to shoot in Bolivia because of the film’s tight budget and so they could also hire the local people
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2012 film poster Introductory paragraph A film poster is a marketing product and is used to advertise a film. There may be several versions for one film‚ with variations in regards to size and content‚ also some posters are designed specifically for particular countries. It usually contains an image with text‚ but with the development of technology and software many film posters today have much more to them. The text usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of
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Black and white film noir evolved in the 1940’s during World War II. This time period of film replicated the post war tensions and anxieties that plagued American society during and after the war. The repetitive trend of these films was dark and almost always based on crimes that involved love and betrayal. 1941- Citizen Kane Director- Orson Wells This film was one of the earliest film noir’s produced and was budgeted at $800‚000. Wells was the director‚ star and producer. Wells also collaborated
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Sociology 100 Miss Representation Movie Review 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. Television‚ newspapers‚ books‚ and social
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