Melancholia The movie Review Rollercoaster ride To some‚ this movie may be one’s vision of apocalyptic theories or a big bang bound to happen or a grandiose of colliding planets and personalities. One thing is certain‚ this movie will take you on a rollercoaster ride of psychological highs and emotional lows. The end of the world is hard enough to think about‚ but Lars Von Trier isn’t afraid to explore his imaginative possibilities. According to Sigmund Fraud‚ Melancholia is described as
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Tagolimot‚ Ma. Arvie 2012-52221 Movie Review THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE “May the odds be always in your favour.” This is the famous line in the Hunger Games movie 2012. This movie talks about the game of life which is to survive. Hunger Games is an annual ceremony of Panem in which there will be two tributes in every district. This game declares only one winner so the tributes can do anything they want‚ just like killing their opponents‚ in order to stay alive. This year‚ 2013‚ Francis
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REVIEW: “Jobs” The movie is based on the real- life story of Steve Jobs‚ an innovative and creative CEO of Apple company. This movie takes place in 2001 with Steve Jobs‚ played by Ashton Kutcher‚ introducing the iPod at an Apple Town Hall meeting. Then it jumps back to 1974‚ when Jobs attended classes in Reed College‚ even though he is not really a student there. Jobs were friends with Steve Wozniak‚ who is the actual person who built the first personal computer‚ Apple 1. Then the story of Apple
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Movie Review on "The Egyptian" The movie "The Egyptian" (1954) depicts many Egyptian values throughout the feature. Although the movie is strongly based on myth‚ there is a little historical accuracy to the plot. The movie follows the actions of the main character‚ Sinuhe‚ who is physician and companion to the pharaoh‚ Horemheb. Sinuhe longs to be with Nefer‚ an upper class noble who takes everything that he offers her‚ only to leave him with nothing to his name. After fleeing Egypt and
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The title of the movie should actually be "Salieri"‚ because the whole movie is really about his jealousy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and how Salieri was overshadowed musically by Mozart. In the beginning‚ Salieri makes a "deal" with God so He will make Salieri a musical genius‚ and Salieri believes he has been granted this gift until the day Mozart comes to Vienna. Salieri immediately becomes jealous that God has bestowed upon Mozart the power he himself worked so desperately to achieve. From that
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getting and highly developed film Avatar is a one that delves into serious moral‚ social‚ and economic issues; ones that directly reflect the same issues in our society today. After “The Matrix was released in 1999‚ Mr. Cameron furthered his movie cyborg movie pattern with the construction of what would become another example of his effort in a paradigm shift of Science Fiction films‚ Avatar‚ finally exposed to the public in 2009(Dargis‚1). The idea of the alien universe first emerged into his train
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The movie that I choose to review is Amistad. I think this movie would be very appropriate with our course and subject. Set in 1839‚ a group of Africans take over a Spanish slave ship: directed by Steven Spielberg. Two abolitionists‚ Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard) and Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) hire a real estate attorney Roger Baldwin (Mathew McConaughey)‚ who is convinced he has the key to set African free. But pro-slavery President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is on the
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December 30‚ 2011 Catherine Cox Oliver! Movie Review Grade 9 Drama A The movie watched from November 18th to the 21st in Mr. Sheridan’s drama class was the 1968 musical‚ Oliver! This musical was freely adapted from the book “Oliver Twist” by Charles dickens‚ with screenplay written by Vernon Harris. The film was produced by John Woolf‚ directed by Carol Reed with music by Johnny Green‚ choreography by Onna White‚ and costumes by Phyllis Dalton. The talented cast was chosen by Jenia Reissar
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Splice Movie Review The movie was about two rebellious scientists‚ Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast who had been achieving fame by slicing DNA’s of different animals to create new hyrid ones and futher decided to add human DNA. Since their company was not interested with such an experiment‚ they secretly did it. They injected human DNA to one of their creatures to see if conception was possible. Their experiment was a success‚ they named it Dren. It was a female. She began to grow and learn fast‚ so
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“I Tweet Therefor I Am” Section Two “I Tweet Therefore I Am” is an article explaining how twitter is changing everyone’s day to day life. In the overall essay Ms. Orenstein is taking irreplaceable moments of her life with her daughter that are priceless for granted‚ and instead of focusing her attention on these priceless‚ moments her conciseness slips away and thinks about the feed she will get back if she were to upsell this moment and make it viewable to the whole world via twitter. It has become
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