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Grant Sputore’s debut film ‘I Am Mother’ is a science fiction thriller that circles the story between a child and her mother living in an advance bunker years after the self-destructive behavior of humans that caused their extinction. Giving a hint that the world outside the facility is no longer fit for human life. The film starts following a robot,...
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End of Life The end-of-life concept identified in this movie was assistance with end-of-life decision-making. The nurse in this movie Wit was the first one to initiate the discussion with the patient about her options if something were to happen during her treatment if her heart stopped beating (Bosanquet & Nichols, 2001). The patient did become aware that her treatment...
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Introduction The 2015 film, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, portrays Marilyn Monroe’s family, work, social, and everyday life. The movie does a great job portraying the struggles she faced. It tells her story as it shows her growing up and how she got the jobs she did. During the entirety of the film, Marilyn is talking to her therapist...
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Directed by Tate Taylor, and created on a novel written by Kathryn Stockett, The Help (2011, [film] Directed by T. Taylor. Hollywood: DreamWorks Pictures), explores the themes of belonging through the lens of discrimination, including aspects of civil rights, race, gender, and class. The social context in which we are born directly correlates to the sociocultural construction of what it...
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The film 'The Pursuit of Happiness' is a text that illuminates and conveys ideas, attitudes, and values of the 'American Dream.' In the Oxford Dictionary, the 'American Dream' is defined as the traditional social ideals of the United States of America: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It exposes how the protagonist is devoted to obtaining their desires and...
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The Help adaptation of the novel of the same name was released on large screens in 2011, directed by Tate Taylor. According to IMDb, the film's rating is 8 on a scale of 1 out of 10 (IMDb, n.pag.). The film has incorporated many topics and problems that concern almost all of humanity. Even though this is a rather severe...
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The Help is of the most popular Hollywood films about segregation and racial prejudice, released in 2011 by Tate Taylor, and based on Kathryn Stockett's novel, it tells about racial relationships in the United States in the 1960s. The movie presents multiple situations of injustice and violence against the black population, points out relationships between two races, and on unequal...
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We’ve all heard studies claiming that “Money can’t buy happiness.” Google it and 138,000,000 results pop up. But what’s harder to believe than a scientist who says “money can’t make you happy”? When it’s coming from a rich person! If a billionaire told you that money can’t buy happiness, we’d all be thinking the same thing. “Who are you kidding?”...
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Before I dive into the actual analysis of ‘Thank You for Smoking’ the movie, I’d like to start with how this movie has changed my perception towards public relation professionals and their ability to use a model communication called persuasion as their secret weapon. ‘Thank You for Smoking’ is I think by far the best movie that explains this particular...
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‘Her’ (2013) explores the relationship between Theodore Twombly, a lonely, recently divorced young man and a sentient artificial intelligence named Samantha. Set in the near future when the rapid developments of AI have reached a point where computer systems can mimic a human consciousness, with all its unique quirks and flaws, to an indistinguishable degree from that of a human....
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The movie 'Titanic' depicts this ship, which is considered unsinkable, on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, USA in 1912. There is a girl on the boat (Rose DeWitt Bucart played by Kate Winslet) and a rich man (Carlton) she has never loved. Despite the engagement, Rose meets a poor young man (Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio)...
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Everyone watches them. Everyone enjoys them. From psychological thrillers to rom-coms, film is a part of everyday life and the industry is developing and growing every single day. This results in the massive influence that film has on today’s society. Society is reflected in movies and turn, movies influence society by changes in representations, challenging the audience’s morals and transforming...
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In literature, a quest is a mission the protagonist goes on to achieve a stated goal while he unknowingly completes another desired task. The five elements of a quest are: “a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason to go there” (Foster). The quest is one of...
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Movies shine a light on current issues in society. A society is a group of people united in culture, location and language based on their identities. Anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists present various explanations and interpretations of the behavior and cultural patterns of individuals and the groups they belong to. This is portrayed in the five films watched in class. The...
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The movie ‘V for Vendetta’ is based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. It’s a dystopian political thriller, set up in the year 2032, in England. The protagonist named V is trying to instigate a revolution against the ruling government. V convinces a young girl Evey played by Natalie Portman, to join his mission. This dystopian...
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Woman are goddess and a miracle. ‘Hidden Figures’ makes a very big impression and an inspirational movie for us. The movie addresses the issues of racial segregation which was reflected in the location of the West Area computing division where the women or blacks worked, about half a mile away from the rest of the Langley Research Centre. It also...
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The journey of a hero is an imperative part of any quest narrative. It shows not only the development of the character but allows the reader to feel part of the story. Within this essay, I will be analyzing Bilbo Baggin's journey as well as describing Bilbo in relation to an archetypal hero. Lastly, I will be making a comparison...
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Picture relaxing just before bed, getting ready for the next morning. Then all of a sudden you feel this big push against the ship. Everyone is saying it is nothing because the Titanic cannot sink, but the next thing you know you are floating in a rescue boat watching everything you had sinking to the bottom of the ocean. What...
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Disney movies have been criticized in the past for promoting an unrealistic beauty standard through their princesses as well as constant reinforcement that a man is needed in order to complete a woman. However, in the 2013 movie ‘Frozen’, Disney seemed to have attempted to listen to some of these gendered critiques. The main characters, Anna and Elsa, do still...
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What does happiness and suffering means to you? That is very board topic as everybody have their own perception towards it. Personally, humans must experience both happiness and suffering during its lifetime as it is a part and parcel of life. We cannot say that we are only seeking pleasant experience and feeling. Feeling of suffering helps to shape a...
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“Hope is a good thing, may be the best of the things. And good thing never dies” (Andy Dufresne). ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella ‘Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption’. In 1947 Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and...
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When it comes to the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, I was able to come across several examples of communication theories and how they applied to the movie in each scene throughout the whole movie. The paper is about the exploration of the symbolic interactionism theory and Aristotle's rhetoric theory and how each theory relates to the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’....
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‘Scream’ is a movie where director, Wes Craven, utilizes multiple elements to create this movie and make it scary. One way he does this is by making everyone in the movie a possible culprit of the murders. This paper shows how the Craven uses certain parts of directing to emphasize certain parts of his movie. Specifically, he applies sound, camera...
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The movie, ‘Boyz n the Hood’ (1991), was directed and written by John Singleton and produced by Steven Nicolaides, this movie was based off John’s life and the lives of many African American youth in urban communities (Needham, C., 2008). The movie takes place in South Central Los Angeles during the mid-1980. South-Central Los Angeles was considered a hot zone...
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