Movies Analysis Essay Examples and Topics

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Mother India: A Representation of the Whole Country

The movie Mother India can be considered the film that represents the whole country in a particular period of its evolution, which makes it an essential piece of art that embodies problems, hopes, and views [...]
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Violence in Movies and Its Effects

Some people claim that violence in movies negatively affects people, whereas others argue that violence in movies does not lead to violence in life.
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Analysis of the Movie “Wit”

The film describes the experimental treatment of ovarian cancer with metastases, showing the situation from three sides, the patient's feelings, the doctors who need to experiment, and a caring nurse.
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A Beautiful Mind

By using the events in Nash's life and his condition, the movie accurately depicts schizophrenia, which will be the major subject of interest in the review of this movie.
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“Shakespeare in Love”: Movie Analysis

The movie is set in the late 16th century, which aligns with the existing historical accounts of the events that took place in the life of the poet in reality.
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Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis

Forrest Gump is a motivating movie about the struggles that we go through in life and it gives hope that there is always a way out of every quagmire.
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Lessons Learnt from the “3 Idiots” Movie

3 idiots do not contain fantasy elements or episodes; it is a story of the maturing protagonists, Farhan, Raju, and Rancho, and their overcoming of life path hardships related to tertiary education and young adulthood.
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Forrest Gump Character Analysis

It should be noted that the most important meetings for Forrest happen on the bus, and it is while waiting for the bus, the hero tells his story. Gump remains faithful to her mother forever, [...]
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Social Problems in The Godfather Movie

Although at some points the main characters of "The Godfather" are represented as honoured and fair, the analysis of the events constituting the movie's plot make it clear that the criminal behaviour can be proliferated [...]
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Wall Street (1987): Ethics Analysis

As anticipated, Gekko takes Bud in and offers him a big opportunity to make good money; however, Bud has to play the game according to rules.
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Fisher King Case Assessment: Review the Film

In this paper, we will analyze the treatment plan based on the DSM TR diagnosis of the main character Perry. American Psychological Association is currently in the process of coming out with DSM-V.
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“The Great Gatsby” Film by Baz Luhrmann

The Great Gatsby is a film that stars Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan, and the Southern Belle Daisy. The influence of the past comes out throughout the course of the film.
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“2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick

The setting of "The Sentinel" is in the moon's plains of the Mare Crisium-the sea of Cries. There are also disparities between the two form used in telling the science fiction story in regard to [...]
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Lessons from “The Pursuit of Happyness” Movie

The struggle of Chris Gardner to survive in this world financially and emotionally is a core theme in The Pursuit of Happyness that proves the correctness of choice to sit and watch the movie.
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The Film “La la Land”: Argument Scene

The subject of the dispute of this couple is first the amount of time they can devote to each other, and then the more sublime question of the dream, whether it is really the motive [...]
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Exploring Autism in the Drama Film Rain Man

Charlie Babbitt, the brother to Raymond, is the actor who portrays Raymond's autism on the way to Los Angeles to secure his fair share in the Babbitt's $3 million fortunes in form of inheritance.
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Children of Heaven: Family Values and Norms

While credit to the quality of the piece of work has been noted to embed the scriptural work and the high performance of the characters who interpreted the story, it has been argued that the [...]
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Analysis of “Sholay” by Ramesh Sippy

The idealized cooperation between a police officer and two thieves to resist attack and their further relations are not common in the real world, but it helps to appeal to the ideas of brotherhood and [...]
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“Freedom Writers” by Richard LaGravenese

The main protagonists of this movie are Erin Gruwell and Eva Benitez, and it is important to compare and contrast these characters to understand the main message conveyed by this motion picture.
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“Eve’s Bayou” by Lemmons

In the Batiste family, in addition to Eva, there is also her younger brother Po, who was doted by mom, and Louis's favorite, Cisely, the eldest of the children.
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Ancient World: Wolfgang Petersen’s “Troy”

To begin, I learnt about the types of weapons used during the period of the Trojan War, not just the weapons, I got to learn of the mode of transportation of the Greeks during the [...]
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“Gone with the Wind” Film Analysis

The first issue is the hardships she faced, the second one is the rejections she had to face from her two lovers and the third one is the meeting and eventual falling in love with [...]
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Fireproof the Movie

From the producers of Facing the Giants, Fireproof is a Christian drama film about a firefighter and his wife, married for seven years and on the brink of a divorce.
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The Movie “Run Lola Run” by Tykwer

When Jutta Hansen, the mistress of Lola's father, tells him that she is pregnant, she can say her piece in such a way as to get empathy from Lola's father and he decides to leave [...]
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Conflicts in Social Work Depicted in Movies

The newly crowned king must reunite the rest of the tribes of Wakanda and use the might of Black Panther to gain victory over his enemies and assure the safety of Wakanda and the whole [...]
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The Before Sunrise Film: A Story of Utopian Love

It works fundamentally on two central mechanisms, realistic acting and an immense script that draws the audience towards the characters through their emotions and thoughts. The script was written in a way that makes an [...]
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Film Character Analysis

Rushmore is a brilliant example of a boy's life where it is necessary to perform a number of particular roles without considering personal ambitions and interests; the boy finds it interesting to use his funny [...]
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Cinema and Its Impact on People’s Behavior

In this essay, I will argue that cinema affects human life from three points of view: the association with characters, the emergence of subcultures, and the redefinition of the perception of certain events.
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Philadelphia: Prejudice About Homosexuality

Philadelphia is the movie that touches upon numerous themes, and one of them is the development of the relations between two men with absolutely different interests and principles: one of them is Andrew Beckett, who [...]
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“The Babadook” by Jennifer Kent

Interestingly, the movie uses the signature figure of The Babadook not just as a simple monster, but as a way to promote emotional growth to resolve the problems that continue to the family.
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Donnie Darko by Richard Kelly Review

He feels that he is living in a world of his own, a problem that is evident as the movie opens in the morning when he is found asleep in the middle of the road.
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The Film as Art and Entertainment

In some of the instances, in the process of portraying and representing culture, the film ends up glamorizing and popularizing the ideas, attitudes, beliefs, and values within the culture.
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Irish Culture and Stereotypes in The Quiet Man

Instead of focusing on capturing the essence of the Irish culture and interpreting it with the help of the means that cinematography has to offer, the director resorted to the traditional tropes, therefore, reducing the [...]
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“Wag the Dog” Film by Levinson and De Niro

The main functions of ideological narratives are the interpretation of social, political, and economic contexts to common people, evaluation of the current state of affairs, orienting the masses, and giving people directions regarding their personal [...]
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“A Bronx Tale” by Robert De Niro

Adapted from a play of the same name, the movie has left me quite surprised and fascinated due to the unique artistic choices and especially the one-man-show perspective carried form the play into the film [...]
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Film Adaptation: Alice in Wonderland

Alice later realizes that she is in the hole for a reason that is to overcome the good virtual evil and bring back the rightful queen to her throne.
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Caramel (Sukkar Banat): Made by a Woman About Women

This fact is not highlighted in the movie too much: the filming spots are mostly restricted to the inside and the outside of the salon, the inside of Rose's flat/tailor shop, apartments of the other [...]
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“Inside Out” by Docter

The movie employs the character of Riley, a young girl full of the blast while growing up in Minnesota to describe her subsequent struggles managing a family relocation to San Francisco.
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Semantic Message in “Death Sentence” (2007)

The very concept of law rests on the notion that the perpetration of every crime must be followed by an appropriate punishment, in order to prevent people from considering the perpetration of similar crimes in [...]
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Children of Men: Durkheim’s Understanding of Religion

As a polemic work, Children of Men can be considered an explicit example of Durkheim's understanding of the social structure and an implicit example of religion as a contributing factor to the health and continuation [...]
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Generation Y in the “Matrix Reloaded” Film

Televisions large and small with cable boxes and satellite dishes, all kinds of audio cassettes and compact disc players, video games, the video cassette recorder, the computer, and the portable telephone have changed the way [...]
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American Youth in Films Since 1980s

In fact, the producers of films recognized the import of teenage experience as one of the biggest tools of marketing films to young people globally.
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Steven Spielberg: Behind the Scenes

Later on, Spielberg's work as the director of a full episode of "The Name of the Game" impressed studio bosses and Universal Studios signed him on for a four-film contract.
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Memory by Analogy: Hiroshima Mon Amour

It is quite painful to recall the events that took place in Japan during the Second World War in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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Musical Themes in “Conan the Barbarian” (1982)

The viewing of Conan the Barbarian leaves very little doubt as to the fact that, semantically speaking, the conceptual genre of this movie closely relates to the genre of Scandinavian sagas, which glorify the virtue [...]
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Independent Study: Tim Burton

It is believed that the flow of the fluids in his films as in the rivers of chocolate in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or the gushing blood from Sweeny Todd: The Demon barber of [...]
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“28 Days” by Betty Thomas

All other inmates assisted her to realize herself as she tries to come back to her senses and deal with her alcoholism, at the end, she tries on giving up the alcoholism. She ended up [...]
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Film and Multiculturalism: Zack Snyder’s “300”

Apparently, the cultural uniqueness, on the part of White people, does not solely refer to their talent in baby-making, as it is usually the case with people in Third World countries, but to their acute [...]
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Decision-Making Process in “Twelve Angry Men”

The twelfth juror is not interested in the case and changes his opinion many times, tending, therefore, to the prevalent decision, as the second one does, because of the lack of confidence.
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“The Great Gatsby” by Baz Luhrmann

The filmmakers never stop depicting Gatsby’s wealth and his otherness. He throws money around and he is a topic of heated debates in the society.
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“Charlie Wilson’s War” by Nichols

The 2007 movie, featuring award-winning actors Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, portrays the involvement of the US in the Soviet-Afghan conflict."Charlie Wilson's War" is based on a true story and presents the [...]
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“Pocahontas” and “Moana” by Disney

It is still difficult to create the uniquely correct way to show the image of the race in the cinema since this process requires simultaneous attention to the details of ethnicity and a film genre.
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