many years‚ and he goes to war. And 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
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Most people are born with good hearts‚ but as they grow up they learn prejudices. “Crash” is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles‚ a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The story begins when several people are involved in a multi-car accident. Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters‚ a police detective with a drugged out mother and a mischief younger brother‚ two car
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Goonies Movie Review The Goonies is set in a neighborhood right off the coast of the ocean‚called the goondocks. Their neighborhood is in trouble because of a rich person wanting to buy off all the houses in the area for some country club. On their last days their spirit is lowered because of Mikey’s older brother‚ he was mad because he failed his driving exam again. The goonies decide to go through things in the attic when the find a old news paper with some bad people. Then one of the boys finds
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Nurul Hazwani Bt Hatta M12L THE OTHERS Movie Review The Others is one of the psychological horror movies that impress me with its good story plot and suspense elements. It was written‚ directed and scored by Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar‚ starring Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston. It is inspired partly by the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw. Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) is a Catholic mother who lives with her two small children in a remote country house in the British Crown
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If These Walls Could Talk I watched a movie called If These Walls Could Talk‚ which follow three different women‚ and their experience with abortion. All of the three stories took place at the same house throughout a 22 year span in between each of them. Each segment of the movie was created to show the popular views of society at the given time they were in. First I am going to give a synopsis of the three stories. The first segment of the movie deals with a women called Claire Donnelly‚ a
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not for us. Indeed‚ we see a society that is resigned to the fact that one can never be immortal‚ in its strictest sense. Still‚ we see people constantly trying to battle out natural forces just to come close to that which we have always hoped‚ but could never really get. Coinciding with the genesis of society thousands of years ago also came the inception of inequality‚ one that has always been present to fashion dyads flashing an obvious‚ recurrent trend—landed- landless‚ man- woman‚ learned-
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Troy directed by Wolfgang Petersen 2004 The movie Troy is about the conflict between the Greek city-states‚ led by Agamemnon‚ and Troy‚ ruled by Priam. These two have this conflict because Paris‚ Prince of Troy‚ fell in love with Helen‚ wife of Menelaus who is Agamemnon’s brother and king of Sparta‚ and took her back to Troy against the wishes of his brother‚ Hector‚ who‚ with his father‚ had been trying for years to make peace with Sparta and had finally gotten that peace. Agamemnon had recently
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Beer started out as gruel‚ and as the gruel fermented it turned into beer. Now it was not the first form of alcohol‚ but it was an important kind of alcohol. Beer was made from cereal crops‚ which were very abundant‚ and because it was so abundant it could be made whenever it was needed. They then found an even easier way to make beer by using beer-bread. Beer bread is basically everything needed to make beer in a loaf‚ making it convenient to store the raw beer materials. Beer started as just a social
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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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The movie‚ Gallipoli‚ is about Australia’s past and the beginning of the ANZAC tradition. Gallipoli‚ the movie was released in 1981. The movie demonstrates ’mateship’. The director Peter Weir took too very different Australian’s‚ with two very different views on war and made a friendship from it‚ and the friendship grew throughout the film. Although Archy and Frank were both athletes‚ this is the only thing they have in common. As a typical Australian film‚ a main or important character die.
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