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There comes a moment when we have to fight for justice to protect someone that’s unable to do so on their own. In the film ‘Nell’, directed by Michael Apted, Jerome, a doctor from a small town in North Carolina, strives to protect a girl that live in deep woods and thus had never meet anybody from the outside world....
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‘Frozen’ is a movie like no other in the Disney industry because it has not one but two female protagonists. This story is about two sisters, Elsa, and Anna, who have this unconditional love and care for each other even when they were far away from each other. They show the power of sisterhood, contradict the belief that ‘true love’...
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‘Food, Inc.’ is an informative yet eerie documentary exposing the truth behind the food industry and its ways behind food production. Directed by Robert Kenner, this 2008 documentary sets out to educate the American population, manufacturers and government on a number of serious matters. Kenner achieves this through disclosing the appalling nature of the working and growing conditions, food safety...
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‘Samson and Delilah’ by Warwick Thornton is a survival love story about two young Indigenous Australian’s Samson (Rowan McNamara) and Delilah (Marissa Gibson) battle, facing difficulties around them and on a journey of finding a better life. To get away from a small and poor community, Samson and Delilah move to the closest town, Alice Springs. The film, also shows...
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‘Sweet Sixteen’ is a drama film directed by Ken Loach. It is set in Scotland, the film tells the story of a boy (teenager) from a very troubled background, Liam, who dreams to have a fresh start with his mother as soon as she has completed her prison term. The film is often shown with subtitles because, as with many...
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The 1960s slasher film ‘Psycho’ set new precedents for both filmmaking and the entire horror genre. The film depicts the harrowing story of Norman Bates, a serial killer with a murderous split personality disorder and Marion Crane; a woman with a guilty conscience and the tale of her gory end. The overall feeling of fear that looms over the film...
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Good and evil are very difficult terms to define. Some would seek help from their religions to help them determine whether a person is good or evil. It appears good and evil is based more on perspective than a set-in stone definition. Sources of good a d evil in today’s society is criminals are the evil and the non-offenders are...
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‘The Dark Knight’ is by far the best superhero movie ever made to this day. Eleven years later to its initial release date it will always remain my top choice. Directed by Christopher Nolan who has helped produce many famous movies like ‘Inception’, ‘Interstellar’, ‘Dunkirk’, and as we know the Batman trilogy. The Batman trilogy has changed the superhero movie...
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Abel Gance's silent film titled ‘La Roue’ (1923) or also known as 'The Wheel' is a masterpiece that will take the viewers into another perspective of film where creativity and imagination plays a significant role in its entirety. This epic melodramatic film centered on three main male characters who are fighting over a woman whom they love. Sisif, a widowed...
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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time” (Thomas Edison). “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. Success is an attitude” (John Wooden)....
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The movie ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, is one of the most significant in the filmography of the director. His innovation lies in the fact that Kubrick was able to aestheticize violence at the audiovisual level. Using the technique of using classical music in ultra-violent scenes, the director creates something truly great....
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Introduction It's interesting how people can be drawn to horror movies, which are both scary and interesting. According to Stephen King's insightful article "Why We Crave Horror Movies," this strange desire is because these movies help us get rid of our darker urges and remind us that we are normal. This essay will look at King's case along with psychological...
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Introduction: Jane Austen’s bestselling novel Pride and Prejudice earlier named' The First Impressions ' was written between 1796 and 1797 and was published in 1813. The basic theme is love and marriage with social classes, prejudices, and pride. There are several movies made in this novel, a good comparison can be made with the one filmed in 2005 acting as...
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Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey is the story of the discovery of a strange monolith on the moon that prompts a space mission to the planet Saturn. Adapted from a film of the same name the author had also written the screenplay for, the story has been regarded as one of the most culturally and aesthetically significant...
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'Sometimes called popular factual television, reality TV is located in border territories, between information and entertainment, documentary and drama' (Hill 2005: 2). Discuss with close reference to AT LEAST TWO reality TV shows of your choice. Reality Television is a genre of television program that documents unscripted real-life situations of individuals. Biressi argues reality TV started as far back as...
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What many films made in recent years fail to draw in both the critics and the audience and trying too hard to make a great production to please their expectations can have a seriously negative effect on the final product – even though ‘The Greatest Showman’ did not win over the critics as hoped, it won over modern audiences with...
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Films, from the beginning of their invention, have been based on the manipulation of the captured image. Over the years this has only been made easier with the introduction of new technologies, giving visual elements an ever-evolving aspect in cinematography. In this way, digital cinema has brought about a new era in film production and reception. Previously, directors would have...
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Introduction Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) is present almost everywhere and helps us daily, for example in self-driving cars, in virtual assistants such as the well-known Siri or Google Home, or even in the film industry. However, when asking some of my close friends, family, and IB students from around the world if they trusted AI, the most common answer was...
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Bee Movie is a 2007 American animated film. The main character (Barry B. Benson) is a honey bee, his voice is played by the star Jerry Seinfeld. The story follows Barry on his adventure to sue the human race for exploiting bees after he found out humans steal honey from bees. It starts with Barry not wanting to get a...
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Comic book movies have become the customary stock of motion pictures and have been reigning at the box office for the last 20 years. Box office sales are a huge factor in the production of comic book movies and the money spent to produce them is extraordinary. Hollywood has invented a world of fantasy that has become an obsession for...
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The documentary, “The Eleventh Hour” narrated in 2007 by Leonardo Dicaprio a movie actor and a producer, tells us mainly about the current and future state of the world and humans. The documentary gives us a message about how our mother nature is changing drastically throughout the years from human behavior and what can be done to slow or reverse...
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Film Review on A Chinese Ghost Story 1. Records “A Chinese Ghost Story”, means “The Ethereal Spirit of a Beauty”. It is a 1987 Hong Kong romantic comedy horror film produced by Tsui Hark. The plot is essentially based on a short story about Nip Siu-sin, from Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling's “Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio”. The 1960...
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Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film co-written and directed by Park Chan-wook. One of the most important themes in Oldboy is the human concept of the Truth. Oldboy helps us understand the need for truth in our human minds, and that revenge does not alter the painful feelings that have been experienced. Humankind is obsessed with the...
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“Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World,’ said the Rat. ‘And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either if you've got any sense at all.” (Grahame, 1908). In the one hundred and twelve years since the publication of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Wind In The...
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