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Moreover, the film raises questions about death and immortality, justice and belief in it, meanness and unfairness of reality, evil and kindness."The Green Mile" is about the miracle.

The most powerful part of the film was when Malcolm X started his 'Nation of Islam' campaign in the streets of the ghetto.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the philosophical foundation of that theory and see how it is tied to the basis behind The Matrix.

The main point of the film was to demonstrate the social, political and cultural traditions of New Guinea tribes and illustrate the tradition of Moka. One of the main themes in the film is the [...]

The use of the camera in this scene serves three purposes: to introduce the theme of voyeurism, to show the perspective of Marion, and to follow the plot.

The serial killer is captured by the criminal gang, and by a twist of fate, he ends up in the custody of the law enforcement authority.

As the name of the archetype suggests, the "rebellious daughter" is typically a young female character, whose rebellion is usually defined by her relationship with a parent, who represents an authority figure in a position [...]

The director has employed different elements to make the film more captivating while at the same time relay the major themes to the audience.

The foundation of the media and concept theory generated from his unending research and argument on the importance and significance of the theory in communication.

The most notable quality of the film is the context of the story's origin, which is presented to viewers with a melodramatic feel that could not have been achieved in the text.

The scene of the meeting responds to developing the idea of the people's interactions and gender opposition in relation to the changing urban life, and it is characterized by rather long shots and by the [...]

They are considered to be one more proof of the marketing perspective of the movie that demonstrates purchasing and consumption patterns of the audience.

The creators of "The Aimless Bullet" used the stories of their characters as symbolic demonstrations or the destinies of the whole generation of Korean people struggling with the harsh circumstances of the 1960s.

The establishment of a social correlation between the play and film adaptation contributes to a revelation of the author's time's spirit.

With the key idea concerning the clash of a personality and the society, Haggis managed to reinvent people's perception of a criminal drama, introducing such issues as racism in the present-day society, the way in [...]

The themes of purity and contamination woven into the story of alien refugees are also addressed in other works by observers of South Africa's problems, for example, Too Late the Phalarope.

The movie Wall Street is basically the story of Bud Fox who wants to be in business with Gekko, but there is a difficult journey of achieving his mission that prompts him to look for [...]

One of the major promises in the film is Nawal's promise to find her son. It is possible to distinguish one of the points of no return at the beginning of the film when the [...]

In this film, the producer has used the comic effect to elaborate on the message he intends to deliver to the audience. The function of a dog is to serve the master.

We discover, through Gittes, that right and wrong bends to the will of money, power, and influence in the world of L.A.film noir.

The goal of a movie producer of comedy is not only to achieve all of the above but also to make people laugh and thus score a success not only as a movie that audience [...]

Following the events that are depicted in the movie in the quest of achieving the goals that each of the two main characters have, the film reveals central themes.

Both the ethnical minorities' and the "white" children's perceptions of the world around and the social roles it offers are influenced by cartoons.

Roadkill, an armadillo who is seeking for a mysterious spirit named "the spirit of the west" informs Rango that the only solution to the problems facing the animals of the desert is "enlightenment", which can [...]

Television is used as a metaphysical channel that links the worlds of the dead and the living. Rachel leaves her job to take care of her son and in the process breaks the curse.

From this point, the rules of the city's planning in Rio de Janeiro are developed to divide the population into social classes and increase the stratification which affects the development of the social life in [...]

The sequence of the story and the characters unfold almost immediately and most of the actors overact, perhaps because overacting was the trend at that time.

Nonetheless, she soon discovers that in a boarding school life is not the same and she has to take care of herself.

Eventually, the movie unwraps the secret of the Fourth Truth, which is the path to the cessation of dukkha, as the leading character fights his personal demons to become the Enlightened One.

It is the second in the said trilogy with The Marriage of Maria Braun being the first and Veronika Voss the last.

Some people may say that the city is an ordinary urban settlement which is no different from the rest of the cities in the world, but such film as Before Sunset proves that there is [...]

Gossip Girl's innovative representation of technology as a character, via the faceless narration of the blogger, Gossip Girl herself, and the literal aural depiction of gossip as it goes viral via personal mobile devices in [...]

The story described in the movie is one of egoism and a self centered person who will resort to anything just to win the case.

The theme of gender is also presented in the movie since Brandon is in search of identity; she wants to identify with the male gender.

The movement of the actors on the set is also included in the definition of mise en scene. Aspect ratio-The dimensions of the rectangular bounds that are used to present the image help define the [...]

Thus, involving several storytellers in the process of portraying the characters, the author allows the audience to collect separate fragments and scattered facts that help understand the fractured personalities of the main characters. The film [...]

Although Miller has never consented to the historical accuracy of the story, most of the events in the story match up with the occurrences in Salem, Massachusetts during the seventeenth century.

Children of heaven's planning, is sequential and progressive because the initial incidences that transpire in the earlier sections of the movie act as a background to the events that follow.

Rose's family is an example of groups of people with an unhealthy obsession that dehumanize black people in the same manner as slavery.

The main strength of the peoplehood matrix is that it encompasses everything and provides comprehensive analysis, and that is why it is adopted in this paper to analyze the Little Big Man film in regards [...]

The film by Mexican director Mariano Barroso In the time of the Butterflies, revealed the story of the life, struggle, and tragic death of the national heroines of the Dominican Republic, the Mirabal sisters.

Therefore, this article's primary focus is on how the viewer and the characters in the film perceive the appearance of movement and time-lapse as a form of science fiction.

The film "71" offers a nuanced and complex portrayal of the conflict in Northern Ireland, which challenges simplistic and one-dimensional depictions of the conflict as a straightforward battle between good and evil.

First, the entire mood and appearance of the film embrace the macabre, eerie, and mysterious nature of the Bly estate and the characters present in the narrative.

It is also mentioned in the lecture that the absence of intention to promote logical comprehensibility is a characteristic feature of surrealism. It is the first scene, and it immediately demonstrates that the film intends [...]

This is one of the qualities that make the show art: a sense of detail, revealing the complex elements of different cultures, and understanding the intricacies of cuisine and its role in everyday life.

The musical accompaniment significantly affects the scene's atmosphere and how the audience will perceive it. This scene reveals the development of the protagonist's madness, the Joker takes control of Arthur for the first time.

Plunging with his character into the bosom of a foreign culture, Kevin Costner not only calls to admire the simplicity, sincerity, and spiritual breadth of the Indians.

One of the vivid examples of false and stereotypical representations of the East is in the film Iron Man. Thus, the supremacy of the West over the East is visible in the film.

The film covers the topic of the sense of living and the art of being true to yourself. The efforts of the characters to build the relationships helped them to find the compromise and the [...]

This cartoon Embodies the main motives of Miyazaki's work - childhood, the fidelity of friends, the dark side of the personality, and the power of fantasy.

He is a caring and dedicated father to his minor daughter Tatiana, and a devoted son to his parents and the rest of his family.

The central romantic idea of the movie is that the protagonist is that Charlie matures, and his view of the world, experience, and environment changes.

The adequacy of the plot, courage, and common sense of the main character are the main reasons why the picture resonates with the audience. It is noteworthy that people and their clothes in the real [...]

In this complex story, the themes of guilt, shame, and responsibility for actions are revealed."The Reader" raises the topics as attempting to find a balance between the condemnation and acceptance of vices.

Cady's attractiveness is central to the plot, which qualifies her to the alpha group, "The Plastics". Ultimately, Cady supplants both Regina and Gretchen to be the head of the alpha group.

The Great White Hope is a film based on Jack Jefferson, the protagonist in the film and the first black man to win the heavyweight boxing championship.

Helgeland revives the images of the Kray brothers, Reggie and Ronny that at some point become one of the leading players in the brutal games of the gangster side.

Arguably, the existence of cultural differences between families across the lifespan is the most significant problem affecting the family of Rusesabagina as he attempts to play the role of a corporate manager and a family [...]

The long shot, when she is standing in front of the audience, is changed by the extreme close-up focused on the main heroine.

Resembling the controversy and multifaceted problematics of the historical time, the director brings the crowds of the gangs to the screen, which presents a fruitful background for the analysis.

Thus, the opening scene allows the viewers to plunge into the atmosphere of the film from the first seconds. The described usage of lighting and colors in the movie contributes to the image of cyberpunk [...]

Its story, cast, and professional work of the filmmaking team made the movie one of the best works not only in India but in the world as well. The complexity of the genre makes the [...]

In contrast to the freedom of accepting disabled individual in the community, the movie depicts the destructive effects of prejudices toward a mentally impaired person through the prism of high school bullying.

The most impressive for me is the example of Brazil that has achieved the greatest success in international representation and the home market among other countries in the region.

The popularity of the topic in the 1990s can be explained by the fact that alcohol consumption significantly increased in the previous decade in comparison to the overall XX century situation in the States.

This theory is called the ABCX model; in this model, the family crisis is viewed as the result of the interaction of several factors affecting the family in a stressful situation.

The brightness and the colors of the scene demonstrate the inner light that Ju Dou has. The clear message of the scene is the delicate and beautiful nature of Ju Dou.

Zahra fights her bitterness; she is loyal to her brother Ali and does not reveal the secret of losing her shoes to the parents.

The end of silent era films came in the 1920s with the synchronization of sound in films. The development of the script in the film displayed a great deal of technological innovation of the time.

The sweetness of this story is not in what the eyes see but it's in the scripts. The picture of the movie is slightly more to a drama as it reflects real life.

This is a movie review of the movie "Door to door" it is based on the true story of Bill Porter authored by William H.

The movie comprises definite quantity of basketball and scenes of college life, but first of all it is a sport movie where nothing depends on the winner of the game. His team is not a [...]

First, it is necessary to discuss the first thirty minutes of the film that present the Omaha beachhead assault in 1944 as the scene of the battlefield is a powerful means of the depiction of [...]

The issue of war and violence, clearly stated in the movie, gave the audience not only the idea of what is going on in the world now, but also a possible solution for this problem.

Negative for its lack of realism and positive in that it is a real thriller, entertaining and will have you glued to the screen to its end to know the fate of the actors.

The firm's task is to introduce the viewer to the unknown world of a film, to make the film's events and worries penetrate into the person's subconsciousness, and to leave the imprint there.

The film not only provides deep insights into the life of the United States during the Civil War, but it also explores the relations between different cultures in this country.

The film's main purpose is to show that "people power," "the seed beneath the snow" in Pilger's words, is the most effective antidote to Washington's imperialist agenda.

Then the woman feels a Puritan guilt before her husband, the part of that guilt is pictured by the spirit of labour.

Thesis: This paper analyzes the film "The Last Samurai" in the context of interpersonal communication and examines how the film expands on the meaning of the terms "high context versus low context communication styles", "ethnocentrism" [...]

We have already witnessed Derek killing the black kids in the first scene, and we have heard about the problems Danny is having in school, and we know what happened to his brother.

Dana Scully, also a special FBI agent and a partner of Mulder, is working together to solve the cases in the movie and the series.

In the movie Spanglish, Flor wanted a better life for her daughter and for her daughter to keep her native language and heritage.

The movie presents the viewer with all the trials and tribulations that he had to overcome, from a divorce, extreme poverty, and the eventual payoff that he got from his seemingly endless patience and perseverance [...]

While it is true that policymakers and politicians are behind the war, the linkage to the theme of the lions and lambs as seen in the movie creates confusion.

The movie was mostly shot in France upon the insistence of Frederick Loewe as a condition of his writing the lyrics for the score by Lerner.

Shore focused on the utilization of flute, clarinet, and vibraphone in this piece to emphasize a kind of mystery and uncertainty.

For twenty-five minutes, the scene of the introductory battle continues with the enemy dug in at the coastal height, and this episode contributes most to addressing the theme of the film.

Therefore, the popularity of American cinema and, particularly, the Hollywood cinema, may be defined by the general appeal of the broad themes that they choose for their movies."The Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol.

In the time after the Japanese occupation and the Korean War, the country finally had a sense of peace and began its path to modernization and development, influenced by an influx of Western values and [...]

The aim of this paper is to explore the overlapping of oil and politics in the context of the movie. In scene 20 when discussing the negotiations of the prince's brother with American lawyers, Woodman [...]

There is even more to the film in this regard along with exposing the unsightly aspects of how the Nazis proceeded to implement the 'final solution' of the 'Jewish problem' during the WW2, Schindler's List [...]

Besides, Kubrick performed a great task of deciphering the polysemantic code of writing and then, encoding the same message using the means that the movie disposes of the picture, the speech, and the music.

In addition, the viewer also observes the work of the guerrillas, the organization of the underground, and the very scenario of the revolution, which almost turned into a civil war not on the scale of [...]

In the end, it is necessary to say that there are a lot of factors that make the discussed movie popular all over the world.

The main character is the leader of the place where he lives, and he is bored with the regular way of celebrating Halloween.

When discussing the main ideological attributes of neorealism, the following characteristics can be outlined: a new essence of democracy emphasized by the significance of simple people; a compassionate view on the world without lightweight judgment [...]

The movie also underlines some changes in the culture of young people, who got access to mass media and the Internet and the way they are influenced by traditions and believes of the West.

Almost immediately after the ceremony, the main villain and the key antagonist of the lead character, Uncle Scar, the brother of King Mufasa and the uncle of the newborn lion, Simba, was revealed.

This paper uses the movies, Raise the Red Lantern and The Story of Qiu Ju, to explore the changing status of women in 20th-Century China.

The scenes of the film mainly represent the situations on Maersk Alabama ship, and they are focused on the interaction between Captain Phillips and the Somali pirates; thus, the light is used extensively to reflect [...]

The film was directed by Tarsem Singh, and the actors Lee Pace and Catinca Untaru were in the lead roles. One of the major features of the film that sets it apart from others is [...]

The film, Young and Restless in China, is a documentary directed by Sue Williams that follows the lives of nine young Chinese women and men in their struggle with ambitions in a society that is [...]

A lot of the movie shows the road trip and how the father and his son communicate. The element that reinforces the scenes and the theme of the movie is the way the camera is [...]

Some of them, as listed and explained below, include; The business touch to every aspect as distinguished from a personal perspective, the difference in the worlds of men and women then, and the difference that [...]

However, this was disputed as there was the suggestion that the depiction of an object through another medium could not be held as evidence of the original existence of the object, and this led to [...]

The paper will present the comparison and contrast of the ways the directors used to show these themes in both films.

The film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind explores the nature of people's memories and romantic relationships. The film makes the viewer understand that memories are pieces of people's lives and it is impossible to [...]

Perhaps the most talented and successful man in the filmmaking industry is the English filmmaker and film director, Danny Boyle. Much of the movies that Danny Boyle directed reveal his unique philosophies in the field [...]

In the epilog, the viewers learn the occurrences of the coaches and the team members following the episodes. Bill and Herman also get to know the evil plans of the school board.

Despite the fact that by the end of the film the character changes his job, his nature remains the same: he believes himself to be born to talk and convince people.

In the first two thirds of the movie, it seems that music as the tool for analyzing the stratification of the American society is the angle that the director is going with the protagonists are [...]

The main conflicts in both works are the same the relationships between women and their daughters, career and love matters, and, of course, the most important issue brought up in the films the racial self-definition.

The film The Agony and the Ecstasy by Carol Reed is devoted to the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarotti, the outstanding Italian artist of the epoch of the Renaissance.

In about 1991, the period of the Cold War came to an end, and that ushered in the period concerned with the war on terrorism.

Memories of Murder is one of such movies; by making the ending unclear and the fates of the characters uncertain, the moviemaker managed to relate the content of the movie to the political situation that [...]

From the very beginning of the film and the story, the main characters start noticing the unusual behavior of the wild birds.

The President warns Katherine and orders her to follow the syllabus failure to which she would lose her job. Also, she agrees with her because she does not like the fact that she is among [...]

It is however clear from Korean films related to the socio political and economic situations in their country, a clear indication of the journey to democratization.