Film Analysis

The 2004 French film Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, stars Audrey Tautou as Mathilde, a young girl searching for her fiancee Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) who has disappeared in the wake of World War One. Everyone believes he has died after being court-marshalled, but Mathilde refuses to believe it, clinging to little […]

The film Crash by Paul Haggis is a film involving issues of race and gender, which is viewed through the intersecting lives of strangers seen through an auto accident/crash in Los Angeles which opens the film. This film is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. […]

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning   “Million Dollar Baby” and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie symbolizes what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make […]

Directed by Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption tells the Story of Andy Dufrane, a man who has been wrongly convicted of murder and must endure life inside the harsh and corrupt Shawshank prison, but despite this he never loses hope of finding freedom. Hope is an important inspiring idea in this film, as it is […]

Is it natural for people to act outside the boundaries their gender? In today’s society the answer is “no” and most people see it as unacceptable act. In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss must endure a brutal competition where the last kid standing wins. Throughout The Hunger Games several characters such as Katniss […]

The movie Girl Interrupted gives a glimpse into the world of the psychiatric hospitals and their patients in the late 1960’s. Each of the characters exhibit symptoms of various psychological problems, while still being personable enough to allow viewers to sympathise with them. At some point in our lives, each of us feels as if […]

The film starts by showing a middle-aged man, Salvatore, surrounded by society’s symbols of success: bright city lights, a Mercedes Benz, a luxurious mansion, and a beautiful woman in the background. These symbols gave the impression that life was good. “Cinema Paradiso” is a reminiscence film about a famous film director, Salvatore Di Vita (Marco […]

The movie I’ve selected to analyze, which I feel provides a rich moral context, is Shawshank Redemption. The movie focuses on main character, Andy Dufresne, a banker in 1947 who was wrongfully charged with the murder of his wife and her lover. Due to the lacking of his lawyer, Andy was convicted and sentenced to […]

‘The Castle’, directed by Rob Sitch, is a film about a community whose houses are being taken by the government. Darryl Kerrigan, one of the main characters in this Australian film, fights for his house and his community. The moral of the film is that a home is more than just bricks and mortar. Firstly, […]

“The Devil Wears Prada” is a movie about a naive, yet smart young woman named Andrea Sachs, and her journey to becoming a journalist. Andrea, also known as Andy, graduated from Northwestern University and interviewed for a job at Runway, a major fashion magazine in New York City. Being a simple young woman, Andy wasn’t […]

America is a country of many ethnicities, colors, races, and backgrounds. Within this multicultural society, life and various situations bring these cultures together, forcing members of different groups to interact. This intercultural mix however, invites conflict as differing opinions, values, traditions and behaviors often create misunderstandings and barriers between groups and individuals. The film, My […]

The Great Debaters is an inspiring true story of the Debate Team consisting of four students and their professor from Wiley College, in Marshall, Texas. As an all black school, Wiley College during the 1930’s trained young minds to believe in themselves and to use their educated minds to change the hearts and minds of […]

In the 1991 comedy, What About Bob? Bill Murray portrays a peculiar and anxious man that is isolated by his multiple phobias and excessive dependence on therapists. Bob Wiley’s (Bill Murray’s character) fears range from germs to fear of having a heart attack or his bladder explode spontaneously. He will pretend to have Tourette syndrome, […]

The Library of Congress lists the nine minute 1951 movie Duck and Cover as one of the most significant films of all time. Produced by Archer Films, the film was designed to teach children what to do in case of a nuclear attack. The clip of Duck and Cover was very amusing to watch, it […]

Whale Rider is a 2002 drama film directed by Niki Caro. It is based on the novel of the same title and tells a modern story about love, rejection, and triumph. The movie follows a young Maori girl who defies her grandfather’s refusal to acknowledge her predetermined path. The film whale rider tells the story […]

From 1661 to 1722 the emperor of China, K’ang-hsi, has lived a strenuous yet fruitful life exceeding above and beyond the standards that a normal emperor usually lives up to within his ruling time. The author of the book “Emperor of China” by Jonathan D. Spence has translated documents written by the emperor himself (K’ang-hsi) […]

Teenage years or adolescence as the more appropriate term is marked by the adjustment, excitement, and misadventures in high school. This is the main theme of the movie “Mean Girls,” which is about the struggles of an average high school girl in order to belong to the crowd of popular teens in the campus. At […]

Despite not being heavily promoted or advertised as a must-see blockbuster, Million Dollar Baby received positive word-of-mouth from viewers and managed to earn over $100 million in box office revenue (IMBd) within a few months. Additionally, it garnered praise from even the toughest critics. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter likened Clint Eastwood’s filmmaking to […]

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell, explains the characteristics of the hero’s journey. This journey consists of a hero leaving his or her ordinary world on an adventure to later return as a changed person. The movie Django Unchained tells the story of a newly freed slave, Django, in the world of […]

The movie “Mississippi Burning” is in one way or another based on real events. The plot in the movie is about the murder of three men in a small local town of Mississippi. Therefor Agent Rupert and agent Alan are sent to investigate the events in the little town. Rupert and Alan ere very different […]

Iron Man is a fictional character, a brutal superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. An American boastful billionaire, industrialist and ingenious ambitious engineer, Tony Stark suffers a severe chest […]

Animated movies come in all shapes and sizes, with different goals, ideas, and aims. Pixar’s movies, for instance, are usually focused on making an emotional connection with the characters. You cried during the first ten minutes of Up, go ahead and admit it. Other animated films are played primarily for laughs, others pitch some moral […]