just because of your condition. These are the things that we should take a closer look at as we watch the wonderful and touching movie Awakenings. The film is based on Oliver Sacks’ book in 1973. Sacks is a clinical neurologist who in 1969‚ administered a drug called L-Dopa to a group of catatonic patients with whom he diagnosed with post-encephalitis syndrome. The movie adaptation centers at Dr. Sacks‚ who is fictionalized as Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ and Leonard Lowe‚ a patient who suffers from the said
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When this movie started‚ I automatically rolled my eyes thinking of over dramatic vegetarian PETA advocates and animal lovers. I never understood the concept of not eating something and cutting out a whole food group just because people refuse to accept the cycle of life. These ignorant pre conceived notions were quickly forgotten once the first scene was of‚ Michael Pollan‚ who was a great contributor to this movie. He was shown at a diner‚ eating a juicy hamburger‚ which he claims is his favorite
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Voices that Spoke Out The movie “The Help” was published in 2011‚ the director Tate Taylor‚ who is also the writer‚ with Kathryn Stockett‚ who wrote the novel “The help”‚ talked about maid’s’ life in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ in The United States of America during the sixties. How the Whites treated the Blacks. They used to be maids for Whites in the 1960s before getting their civil rights. Aibileen and Minny were the main characters as Black maids‚ and Miss Skeeter the white female‚ who wrote their
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This movie shows a great struggle done by the Odysseus in order to return home after the Trojan War. In the beginning of the movie‚ his wife‚ Penelope gives birth to a child‚ Telemachus. After sometime‚ the kings‚ Agamemnon and Menalayer forced him to join the war. This moment was very sentimental and tragic. He thought that he might be killed in the war and therefore Odysseus convinced his wife to marry with another guy if he didn’t come back from the war. It would be very difficult for a single
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easier place to not only live in‚ but to also clean and take care of your family. If so then you are exactly like the main character Joy Mangano in the movie Joy. In this movie‚ Joy faces many problems at home and with the people she works with for producing and wholesaling the mop she makes to make cleaning up after her family easier. The movie starts when Joy is working at a normal job with a big lower middle class family to support. Her dad in the beginning get divorced to his second wife and
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2012 Summary The movie starts with the surface of the sun‚ where giant solar flares erupt into giant question marks‚ setting the ominous mood as we scan across the universe to all the planets aligning for the first time in 640‚000 years The global destruction of the movie is based on the "Earth’s Crust Displacement Theory" and in the movie; it’s stated that neutrinos are bursting within the Earth’s core‚ causing the crusts to be rapidly displaced. The neutrino explosion is in turn supposedly
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weren’t thinking about everyone safety shows a lot on how it really everything works but it’s normal at the same time. Because I found jaws aesthetically pleasure and believe it was a great film and enjoyed it due to the fact that it was a thriller movie and those are my favorite made this whole assignment very excited because it was something i liked. Every scene they would get very close to show how scary and big the shark was and would scare you and not to mention the creepy theme song they would
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I saw Braveheart for the first time a couple years ago right before I turned seventeen. Since then‚ I have seen it three times‚ for a total of four. Although the movie may be a little less captivating just by the very nature of repeat viewings‚ I can still happily say I love Braveheart and consider it one of my favorite films of all time. This picture tells a fictionalized story of William Wallace‚ a 13th century Scotsmen who would go on to make his mark on history. As Braveheart tells it‚ Wallace
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However‚ the end results of the movie came up only 1‚809 feet due to the use of two reel film that could only be used for less than twenty six minutes (Sklar 18). Due to the shots Chaplin had took to create these films it usually cost more to make‚ however the idea was that the longer it took for the movie to be produced‚ the higher the profit he’d expect to get back. I would mostly expect those who are immigrants‚ lower
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A. Watching this movie was very eye opening. I knew it was bad in Mexico but never like that. I learned a lot of new things that I never knew prior to the movie. The first term I linked the movie to would be Absolute poverty‚ the condition of having too little income to buy the necessities‚ food‚ shelter‚ clothing‚ health care. The people would have very little money if any and wouldn’t have anywhere to work at. It was sad seeing them get caught by boarder control or the police for trying to sneak
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