I chose to reflect on the film 42 (2013) which we watched in class. This film presents the obvious racial turmoil going on in the United States post-civil war but pre-integration in the South. The main issue in diversity is Equal Rights which are defined as “rights inherent to all human beings, whatever nationality, sex, race, ethnicity, religion, language, or...
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This essay will deconstruct the children’s film Aladdin (1992) produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and how animation and Disney films, in particular, can internalize false ideologies on children and young women. This essay will be structured about Laura Mulvey’s essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and her theories on ‘The Ways...
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As Janwilliem Van de Wetering states in 'Just a Corpse at Twilight', “Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough” (2003, p.118). Greed is the insatiable desire to possess more than we need or deserve, especially concerning material wealth, in other words, it is a dangerous sin. Yet, it is instilled...
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Perspective This assignment was required to watch the documentary called “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”, and to explain the theoretical perspective that was assigned to us. The two theoretical perspectives that will be talked about more in depth in this essay are psychoanalytic theory and trait theory. Sigmund Freud was a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis created a better...
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“On Wednesdays we wear pink!”. This is a phrase that most teenage girls know by heart. This iconic phrase belongs to the 2004 released movie ‘Mean Girls’. This film, directed by Mark Waters, stars Lindsay Lohan as the main character, Cady, who along with the other characters portrays the theme of reflection. Through the exhibition of the consequences of being...
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Textual analysis is a way of understanding languages, symbols, and pictures for presentation in texts, designed to gain information about how people understand and communicate life and life experiences. Visual, written, or verbal messages provide clues about how to understand communication. Moreover, it is a way for those researchers who want to understand the ways in which members of various...
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‘Pearl Harbor’ is an American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay in 2001. The film presents a heavily fictionalized version of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, focusing on a love story that unfolds in the run-up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid. Historians have found multiple inaccuracies in this film....
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In the film ‘Inception’, Dom Cobb is an extractor who has the ability to enter into people’s dreams and get information from them. He is given a job to implant an idea inside the mind of Robert Fischer and so he gathers a team to help him design an elaborate plan to complete the task. Along the way, the team...
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The importance of family. Two or more people who may share a genetic connection, but also an unbreakable social bond. As teenagers, the concept of family has influenced our lives from our first moments of living till now. We rely on our family for a sense of protection, endless moral support and inspiration, whilst constantly strengthening and intensifying our shared...
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In this essay I will try to reveal some of the intentions I think the directors Fernando Meirelles and Guillermo del Toro had, and I will write about what I, as a spectator, think they tried to convey in their films. Del Toro uses mise-en-scene in ‘Pans’ Labyrinth’ (2006) in the scene of the Pale Man’s lair and we see...
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In the films ‘William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ by Baz Luhrmann, the use of signature tunes between Romeo and Juliet, and Satine and Christian, is evident and can be observed by the viewer. In both films, the tunes are used to symbolize the characters’ escape into their forbidden romances. The signature tunes and their symbolism in both...
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Spider-Man's amazing rise from comics to film has changed a lot. He has grown up from being a short small scrawny boy in the comic, which was made in 1962, to a medium height muscular elderly teenager, which was made in 2019. In the comic, he is made up to be quite a shy individual who has very minimal friends...
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The Coens frequently test the morality of their characters in their films to see whether their principles will come before a temptation of the criminal or immoral variety. These temptations are primarily of the monetary variety, however, but also encompass the duality of justice and loyalty to one's companions, friends or family. The consistent presence within this theme is the...
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Are illusions a negative or positive aspect within one’s life? Set in 2010, the film begins with Gil and his fiancee Inez vacationing within the city of Paris as Gil struggles to finish his first novel. As Gil is walking back to his hotel after dinner one night, he finds himself lost in the streets of Paris. Eventually, as the...
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In both Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Brother I’m Dying’ and Stephanie Black’s ‘Life and Debt’, the concept of the afterlives of slavery and colonialism are fundamental. In both, black countries that were previously colonized by a white European power. Danticat and Black shed light on how these people readjust to life after colonialism and slavery, but also the repercussions to the civilization...
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘Blade Runner’ directed by Ridley Scott both take place in dystopian societies that demonstrate power over their citizens. In both texts, those lower in power are controlled by their representative state and taken advantage of. In ‘Blade Runner’, power runs over humankind and freedom, while ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ demonstrates a similar plot, including...
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The film ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ tells the story of two eighteen-year-old girls who dream of becoming professional soccer players. The movie does not only focalize on soccer but also on the role gender plays in the lives of the characters, and how cultural differences can impact each person throughout the film. It also shows how race is still an...
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In the film ‘Divergent’, directed by Neil Burger, an important character is Tris. Tris is an important character because of her bravery in overcoming the fears she had, her relationship with Four, and her stopping Jeanine because of her trying to overthrow Abnegation. Firstly, Tris is important because of her bravery which isn't the absence of fear, but you need...
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Public policy can be defined as a statement of intent, which guides decisions and contains goals and the means to achieve them, this can be the action taken by a government to maintain order or address the needs of citizens. According to Dye 1972, a public policy is anything a government decides to do or not to do. Therefore, a...
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For some, home is a plate of kimchi and white rice. For others, its borscht, a warm cup of tea, beef bourguignon, or tamales. Such preferences are not only personally meaningful but culturally significant as well. These meals map who we are, where we come from, and what happened along the way. Certain meals can act as a way to...
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Human experiences are the all-encompassing actualities that humanity endures that consists of the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions in life. It is a significant aspect of our lives and the way in which we become who we are. Every person is able to relate to human experiences whether it is individually or collectively. From these experiences, human qualities...
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Ever since the Europeans landed on Indigenous Australian’s land they have lost so much of their identities. What started with their land being called Terra Nullius and being taken away from them, Indigenous Australians then had to endure years of loss because of colonization. Both the film ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ by Phillip Noyce and ‘Arthur Corunna's Story’ by Sally Morgan...
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According to Ella Shohat, culturally and geographically colonialism effected the way different genders and ethnicities are portrayed in media. Historically colonialism invaded other cultures and brought with them their ideologies and views. Views that were in example depicting women and the world, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the...
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Transformations of myths have materialized over centuries and are dependent on the source material for the provision of commonality between storylines, themes, characters and motifs upon which they ultimately traverse. Through these adaptations and re-interpretations of myths to contemporary frameworks, audiences can engage with and appreciate the rewriting undertaken by the adaptive text, whilst simultaneously enjoying the underlying congruity between...
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Coen’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ and De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thief’ are both two films that are using similar cinematic language. The way both directors are using cinematic language to emphasize the theme of each film, is fascinating. The camera shots, angles and sound, all work together to make the themes stand out. Both films have titles that make...
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‘Inception’ (2010) is praised for its originality, determination and success, and is one of Christopher Nolan’s best-known films, winning 4 Oscars. Although the concept of ‘Inception’ is extremely compelling, with astonishing performances from DiCaprio and Watanabe, the portrayal of women in this production is disappointing, and poor, objectifying its female characters and portraying prototypical female mania. In this essay I...
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Throughout a lot of research, the conclusion that I have come to, seems that ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ surpassed ‘Yolngu Boy’ in presenting cultural collision. This was reached by showing what life was like for Aboriginal kids back in around 1930 and how white culture effected their lives. The part about this film that stood out to me was the fact...
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The documentary chosen for this critique was ‘Generation Like’, which focuses on a generation which is completely engrossed in social media. The documentary follows how social media is used by everyone, how it’s used by marketing companies to make money, and how companies use is to get their products and content out into the hands and mind of the people....
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The comparison of similar themes within varying mediums of text, in addition to each composer’s diverse individual perspectives on these issues, reveal the universality and importance of these ideas. Through the exploration of the themes of the importance of supportive relationships and the contrasting impacts that the suppression of free will can hold in differing mediums of text, Malorie Blackman’s...
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Essentialism is a philosophy that believes all things have a set of attributes in order for it to be recognized and to know its function. Moreover, it believes that before anything could exist, there should be a purpose unto why it is made. This philosophy has been very evident in ‘The Matrix’. The trilogy is an American sci-fi movie that...
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