Film Analysis

In this 20-minute film by Roman Polanski, he features the rather odd team-up of two men, who emerged from the sea with a huge luggage, a wardrobe which they prefer to carry off top town. This short silent film showed the different reactions of people towards the two men carrying a wardrobe. Some of these […]

The movie “Mean Girls”, featuring Lindsay Lohan and Tina Fey, is a comedic film about a girl in high school who has to deal with all the problems, pressures, and choices of growing up in American society in comparison to that of being homeschooled in Africa. This motion picture was the perfect platform for showcasing […]

At first glance, the film Milk is a movie about the gay rights movement in SF and across the nation. It is promoted in a manner that makes it seem like a mouthpiece for increasing tolerance and denouncing stereotypes. However, the characters are portrayed as so ‘stereotypically’ gay, feminist or right-winged, that it becomes challenging […]

I decided to base my clinical assessment of a movie character on Conrad Jarrett, the lead character of the film Ordinary People. Conrad is seventeen years old and is the only child of Beth and Calvin Jarrett. The Jarrett’s live in the affluent suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois, where Calvin works as a successful tax […]

The movie Simon of the Desert portrays religious themes that touch upon penitence and temptations, as shown through the behaviors of Simon and Satan. The movie is also a testament to the views of the director regarding human pretension and hypocrisy, which are elements that the director repeatedly showed the public through different movies (“Luis […]

Karate Kid presentation The construction of the “New” Hollywood as a distinct period in American cinema history. The features said to have distinguished the New Hollywood as a symptom of a “Blockbuster mentality”. High concept as a series of economic/aesthetic strategies said to have characterized the New Hollywood blockbuster era, to the extent to which […]

This renowned made-for-TV movie is based on Candace Bushnell’s book, which she penned while working as a columnist for the “New York Observer.” Originating in 1996, the TV show “Sex and the City” is an adaptation of a renowned column sharing the same name. The column has gained fame for its intelligent and captivating content. […]

What do you do when someone does you a favor? Instead of paying him back, Trevor McKinney tells you to pay it forward. Pay It Forward is about a 7th grader Trevor McKinney, the son of an alcoholic and single mother Arlene. Mr. Simonet is Trevor’s unconventional Social Studies teacher who gives his class an unexpected assignment […]

Boys Don’t Cry Synopsis: The film depicts Teena Brandon’s journey as a transgender woman assuming the identity of Brandon, a man. In search of acceptance and love, Brandon develops close relationships with her male friends in a blue-collar neighborhood in 1990s small-town Nebraska. The story revolves around Brandon’s strong bond with this group of young […]

Anytime one chooses to compare a movie to the novel that inspired it, there are always, for various reasons, major differences between the two. Probably the one constant reason in every instance is the sheer amount of information presented by the average novel; it would simply be impossible to cram it all into the ordinary […]

A long walk home is a film based on the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. It is a film involving an African American girl, Odessa employed as a maid by a financially stable white woman known as Miriam Thompson. The film’s story is told through Miriam’s daughter, Catherine, to whom Odessa is nanny. Odessa and her […]

The film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920s literary piece, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” depicts the life of a man who is born in his eighties and ages in reverse, causing people to observe that he appears to become younger with each passing year. The theme of the time travelers tale of Benjamin […]

Would you ever accept a leadership role to a group of beat down patients at a mental institution knowing the consequence would be death? Randle Patrick McMurphy does just that. McMurphy, a con man who seeks institutionalization, becomes a role model for the inmates at a hospital. These male patients are lifeless human beings who […]

The film “The Freedom Writers” is a dramatized version of Erin Gruwell’s real-life experience teaching English at Wilson High School, a diverse school with students from various racial and cultural backgrounds. As a newly appointed teacher, she is assigned the group of students with the lowest academic performance. Many of these students are affiliated with […]

In this paper, I will evaluate and analyze Walt Disney’s production of the film Pocahontas. In my opinion, Disney’s Pocahontas based from the historical encounter between the colonist of Jamestown and the natives of the Powhatan tribe, has given inaccurate historical accounts. Based on the articles, “The Myth of Pocahontas” by Chief Roy Crazy Horse […]

The Turning Point Finding out who you are and maturing into an adult happens in different ways for different people. In John Updike’s “A&P”, it is very interesting to see how the theme of coming of age slowly starts to unravel in the main character as the story progresses. The story portrays the protagonist, Sammy, […]

The film Bad Education, like all films, is judged in two separate facets of the filmmaking process, the films structure or its formal issues and the films real world concerns or its social issues. This intricate film’s plot and timeline make for an interesting and methodically thought out effect on these issues. Bad Education’s use […]

In this movie Henry (Harrison Ford) is a hard-driven lawyer whose only aim in life seems to be his professional success. He is a tough and cold lawyer who walks over people and totally neglects his wife Sarah (Annette Benning) and teenage daughter Rachel (Mikki Allen). Although idolized by his boss and co-workers, he is […]

The film “Michael Collins” is devoted to one of the brightest personae in the turbulent history of Ireland of the 20th century – the legendary Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins. The movie was directed and written by Neil Jordan, who fostered the idea of this film for 13 years before finally making it. The role […]

In the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou? ”, issues that pertain to racial supremacy such as the existence of the Klu Klux Klan are fleetingly exposed whereas the larger theme that revolve around racial issues lay hidden in the context of the adventures of the three main characters throughout the story. The recurring attempts […]

The issue of abortion has caused a rift among Americans, resulting in two distinct factions. However, the release of the movie Juno in December 2007 has presented a more nuanced viewpoint. Juno MacGuff, a sixteen-year-old girl known for her independence, takes center stage in this film as she navigates an unplanned pregnancy. Coming from a […]

The Hays Code in Film Noir The Motion Picture Production Code, commonly known as the Hays Code, was adopted in March 1930, though it was not truly enforced until four years later in 1934. This set of rules had tremendously influenced the way Hollywood movies were made for a number of years. This code was […]