To Save a Life is a story that I feel could transform lives if viewed by teens. Since I first watched this I have shown to my children and my youth group and can honestly say that it impacted at least two. The movie is about Jake Taylor‚ a senior at Pacific High School. Jake is the typical high school jock that has it all popular friends‚ a beautiful girlfriend and is planning on attending college on a basketball scholarship. He parties with the most popular and everyone looks up to him. He is
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Non-fiction historical drama based on the book by Traudl Junge‚ the final secretary to the High Chancellor of Germany‚ Adolf Hitler. The movie opens up with a group of five girls sitting in a waiting room with concrete walls and simple furnishings. They are being briefed about how to properly speak and address their possible new boss as he interviews them. The movie has not yet given away who the employer is. The next person up for the interview is a young teenage Berliner‚ Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria
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a serious law student. The movie relies heavily on the stereotype of being blonde‚ “Blondes are usually associated with both low intelligence and ability and high beauty and femininity.” (Bry. C‚ Follendant‚ A.‚ Meyer‚ T.‚ 2007) Despite getting into Harvard‚ Elle is excluded from the study group after they tell her “It’s a smart people thing.” Her ex doubts Elle’s abilities to which she replies “did we not just get into the same law school.”Throughout the movie she is constantly judged based
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This movie tells us the story of a Pakistani migrant who experiments troubles finding a compromise between his integration and keeping his roots. Indeed‚ we understand his will to impose his family a strict Pakistani culture at the very beginning of the movie‚ when he pushes his eldest son in an arranged marriage. His family is obviously reluctant to his conservative vision‚ which leads the whole family to stand up against the father when he tries to organize arranged marriages for two of his other
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2000 Jersy Film Production‚ staring Julia Roberts is based on a true story that involved Pacific Gas and Electric Company using hexavalent chromium or chromium six as a rust inhibitor to prevent corrosion of pistons used in engines. According to the movie‚ for fourteen years‚ the Pacific Gas and Electric Company had been dumping water containing chromium six into ponds and covering them over. The ponds were not lined and the chromium based water leaked into the local water supply exposing residents
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Pursuit of happiness Pursuit of happiness is a movie based on a true story about a man that is Christopher Gardner. In this movie‚ Christopher Gardner was played by Will Smith. For me‚ this story is very emotional and a lot of thing that we can learned from Gardner. Gardner has invested a lot of his family money in a device that is known as the Bone Density Scanner. Gardner feels that the device would be some sophisticated device that every medical practice would use it and he would
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The movie "Shawshank Redemption"‚ written and directed by Frank Darabont is about Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) who in 1947 is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. However‚ only Andy knows that he didn’t commit the crimes. Sent to Shawshank Prison to do hard time‚ Andy‚ a banker in the outside world has to learn to get by in the brutal‚ cutthroat confines of prison life as he is subjected to vicious attacks from the guards and his fellow in-mates
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This movie is about Aibileen‚ who is one of many black women in the US South who work and raise the children of the prominent or well to do White Southerners. Aibileen with her best friend Minnie and a bunch of other maids work with an inspiring writer Skeeter to write a book of interviews about what it’s like to work for White families from their (The Help’s perspective). The Message of this film hands down is courage‚ courage to stand up and do whats right no matter what the consequences maybe
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focus discussion on a movie called “3 idiots”. The essay provides a brief background of the chosen film. Next‚ it provides a description of the story and introduces the main characters in the movie such as the features on their experience and personalities. Moreover‚ it will illustrate discussion on main themes and ideas in the film. it focuses discussion on the use of cinematic techniques in the film. In addition‚ it will explain how the cinematic techniques used in the movie contribute in bringing
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The movie Girl‚ Interrupted is based on the book Girl‚ Interrupted‚ by Susanna Kaysen. I would like to say that it is loosely based because although the actress‚ Winona Ryder‚ does portray Kaysen’s borderline personality‚ it seems that Angelina Jolie‚ who is Lisa Rowe in the movie‚ steals the spotlight. Girl‚ Interrupted is about a young girl who is put into the mental ward after an attempted suicide which she claims she was basically trying to leave a lot of stress she had from various experiences
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