It was premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival‚ where it received the United States Documentary Audience Award. The film features interviews with veterans from multiple branches sharing their stories surrounding their assaults. The veteran’s stories showed mutual themes which include; a lack of recourse to an impartial justice
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American Meal. The director and Sclosser wanted to turn Fast Food into a movie‚ and I think Food Inc covered much of the same material. With my research into obesity and reading the book nothing in the film was surprising. The film I think served to re-ignite a passion in me that I had lost. The film also put visuals to much of the book‚ and the visuals are disturbing. The movie starts with reinforcing that the images of pastoral society that food labels often carry is not reality. I think this traces
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The legal issues presented in this film are as follows: the effects of the media on citizens to ridicule lawsuits such as Stella Liebeck’s‚ the effects of limiting the amount of money that can be awarded by a jury in damages to the plaintiff otherwise known as caps on damages‚ such as the case of Colin Gourley‚ the corporations’ influence and power in judicial elections as well as the extent they will go to as experienced by Oliver Diaz‚ and the effects of mandatory arbitration in the work place
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One of the biggest milestones reached in the film industry was the narrative‚ movies that actually told a story. The first narrative movie was The Great Train Robbery‚ created in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter. The silent film is only about 10 minutes long‚ but was the precursor to the action and western genres. The popularity of the movie proved that motion pictures could be commercially successful. The plot of The Great Train Robbery was actually inspired from a real event. On August 29‚ 1900‚ four members
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Within the industry of film there are countless genres. Each genre has specific characteristics that make it unique from the rest. For example‚ action is filled with fight scenes and explosions‚ comedy make us laugh so hard we cry‚ and suspense leaves us on the edge of our seat in anticipation. There is one genre of film that not many people are aware of but one that is intricate to American society; Film Noir. Noir is a unique blend of dark iconography‚ tough guy characters‚ and criminal investigations
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that reason‚ the theme of the 2009 Brisbane Film Festival will be Australian Identity in Film – A Retrospective‚ as we hope to explore the ways in which Australian feature films have helped shape the complexities and diversity of Australia’s culture and identity. In particular‚ the festival will explore the diverse representations of homosexuals in Australian film and how this has influenced society’s perception and acceptance. For many years‚ Australian film has formed a consistent stereotype for men;
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in this film. Dax tries to get them out of the trenches but the soldiers will not move because they know they will die. When Dax goes up the ladder out of the trench to try to lead the charge shows why the soldiers won’t move because Dax can’t get out of the trench without a dead body rolling onto him. Another infuriating scene in Paths of Glory‚ that’s shows how greedy the people in charge during the war is the trial scene. This scene is why this film is highly regarded as a great film. This scene
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10 Top Conspiracy Theory Films Humans have always been intrigued by secrets. From the earliest times we’ve tried to find conspiracies‚ sometimes even where none exist. There are thousands of conspiracy theories‚ ranging from the esoteric and the paranormal to regular assassinations and wars. And cinema too has had its fair share‚ some of which are definitely worth looking into. Here are the ones that have conspired to get into the top 10 list. “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) is a political thriller
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When looking at the film Citizen Kane‚ it uses mise-en-scene to help paint a better picture throughout the film. Mise-en-scene‚ better known as staging‚ is the overall look and feel of a movie (Barsam;Monahan p.542) The first example that comes to mind when thinking about mise-en-scene is when Charles Kane Foster is running for office‚ he is giving a speech and in the background is a large poster of his face. For the majority of the film there are very few shots taken where Kane is not present
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Conrad Jarrett is the protagonist of this film. He is a teenage boy who has just came back home after staying in a psychiatric hospital for a few months. He was placed in said psychiatric hospital because he had wanted to commit suicide. Now that he is back home‚ Conrad feels distant from his friends and family members. We find out later in the film that Conrad is actually dealing with post-traumatic stress which was brought on by a sailing accident that took his own brother’s life. Beth Jarrett
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