"Philadelphia" is a movie that enables the audience to visualize an alternative perspective of discrimination against HIV positive homosexual man. Throughout the movie‚ one can get an understanding of how a HIV positive homosexual is treated in society and the portrayal of him. "Philadelphia" stars Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett‚ an intelligent and sharp lawyer working for a large firm in Philadelphia. Andrew is diagnosed with AIDS and does not tell his supervisors in the firm of his sickness and
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modern India still takes refuge in the ancient wisdom of its forefathers. It is now comprised of both western and eastern elements that are locked in a constant struggle to achieve dominance. I have chosen the movie Swades for exactly this reason. Directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar and starring Shahrukh Khan‚ the movie follows the story of a non-resident Indian (Mohan) living in the United States of America and working for NASA. He decides to come home to the village in which he was raised and the consequent
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The movie‚ Titanic‚ opens with treasure hunter Brock Lovett‚ who is searching the Titanic wreck for a necklace named the Heart of the Ocean. Lovett hopes to find the Heart of the Ocean contained within a safe he uncovered from passenger Caledon ‘Cal’ Hockley’s safe. He instead finds a sketch of a naked woman wearing the desired necklace. A woman of 101 years‚ named Rose Calvert‚ sees this photo shown on the news and contacts Lovett. He is uninterested at first in what she has to say‚ but becomes
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afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory‚ and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands; love a woman‚ build a house‚ change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.” Jarhead is not a war movie about a physical war between countries; it is about an internal war a soldier faces during‚ and following a physical war in which he is a witness. The main character‚ Tony Swofford tells his story starting at boot camp‚ through the first Gulf war‚
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main character in the movie‚ Richard Neville‚ only had. He had hoped that he can save the humanity and with determination‚ he did. The movie itself shows to us many values and lessons that each one has to learn in life. Like him‚ sometimes we also need to think of others first before ourselves‚ as what he did to save the mother and the child on the last part and also by doing his best to discover the antidote alone shows his integrity to humanity. Next‚ throughout the movie he treated his best friend
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The movie Burn! is a 1969 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The main characters are Marlon Brando starting as Sir William Walker and Evaristo Marquez starting as Jose Dolores (The Internet Movie Databases). The movie takes place during the mid-19th century on the island of Queimada‚ a Portuguese colony located in Antilles(Burn!). The British send Sir William Walker to Queimada‚ an English secret agent‚ to start a rebellion against the Portuguese regiment‚ to benefit the British Sugar traders. In
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This movie is a biographical look at the life of Howard Hughes. It gives fairly accurate look at this man ’s life from the 1920 ’s through the 1940 ’s. During this time Hughes was involved in directing movies‚ and piloting test planes produced by his own aviation company‚ Hughes Aircraft. This movie shows a harsh reality to Hughes ’ overwhelming affliction with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)‚ and how he coped with the disease. Hughes was an orphan by the age of 17. Hughes father was an inventor
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Film Review By: Rutba Rahman Avatar is a 2009 science fiction film directed by James Cameron. The movie stars are Sam Worthington‚ Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver. James Cameron’s movies have grossed approximately US $2 billion in North America. James Cameron’s previous films that he is known for are The Terminator (1984)‚ True Lies (1994) and Titanic (1996). The purpose of Avatar is incarnation‚ in the movie it means that the future human technology is capable of injecting a human’s intelligence
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The behavior of Russ‚ the main character in the movie‚ can be described by using four different theories of development. Firstly‚ we can describe Russ’s behavior by Psychoanalytic Theories. In this case‚ Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory will be used to explain the behavior of Russ. According to Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory (Cherry‚ 2011a)‚ there are eight stages of human development and people will experience a conflict that serves as a turning point in each stage of development. People who had overcome
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THE MISSION: MOVIE SUMMARY In this 1986 Dramatic Movie‚ Jeremy Irons plays the role of a Spanish Jesuit Priest named Father Gabriel. Father Gabriel goes to the forests of South America to build a Christian mission for the natives who live there‚ and convert them all to Christians. A Spanish Mercenary‚ Mendoza .(Robert De Niro)‚ later goes there with Father Gabriel in hopes of getting mercy for murdering his brother. They grew very fond of the community they were staying in‚ defending them from
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