“The Do-Over” is a comedy only released on netflix about a year ago starring Adam Sandler as “Max Kessler” and David Spade playing “Charlie McMillan”. This movie is mainly about two high school friends reconnecting at a high school reunion and making their lives much more interesting than it is at that point in time. Max plans to fake both of their deaths and start from scratch. A new life… Literally!…
The Breaking Away movie portrayed a lot of themes from Cinderella. They are so similar in so many things if not the same themes but different story plot. In the “Cinderella” and the loss of the father love there was a little girl named Ginny who always came second in her parents mind “’Cinderella’ was her chosen tale” (schectman 290) Just like Ginny, Dave’s chosen tale was being Italian, calling his dad, papa and his mom, mama and telling the girl that he liked that he is Italian. Not only that but also in paragraph four in the article Schectman said that every member of the family was responding to a loss (Schectman 291).…
In our society there are a lot of ways people look at one another. Society and political views often affects the reputation of others based on their current situation, appearance, actions and how they’re involved in the community. The social construction of reality of the person judging the other is basically what they feel that is a real in a certain situation which is frequently negative. Hope is the driving force that often causes people to migrate to a different place, where they seek for new opportunities like as jobs. Moreover, there is a documentary called Farmingville and a documentary called The Overnighters that portrays the central idea of having hope and the cause of people migrating to other places to pursue the key to success.…
The movie “Our America” there has been a lot of differences and similarities in the book and in the movie. In the book and the movie they have different plots,characters and other things. In the movie and the book the main differences and similarities is in the book David Isay did not have a big role in the book and there were different events that occurred. First,One difference from the movie to the book was David Isay did not have a big role in the book.…
This movie can be described using the sociological term “generalization.” This term can be applied to the film because the vast majority of the border patrol guards – whether official or self-proclaimed – believe that either the Mexicans are malicious creatures trying to invade the United States, or they are so desperate they would be willing to do anything in order to cross the border. The guards do not consider individual cases and they judge the Mexican people trying to come to the United States as a whole. They heavily generalize these Mexicans and the majority looks down on them; however, this movie did tell at least one story of a kind border patrol guard who let a family cross, but, despite this, the inhumanity toward the immigrants…
The Review The film Couples Retreat (Billingsley, 2009) introduces Jason and Cynthia, a married couple who love each other, but have had distress over the past year conceiving, and it is creating marital stress in their marriage. They both are considering a divorce. However, before they finalize the marriage and call it quits, they agree to try and restore their marriage by going on a vacation, and inviting a group of friends to come as well. Ronnie and Dave happily married a couple with two children, Lucy and Joe who have been married since they find out Lucy was expecting on prom night, and recently divorced Shane.…
The Coen Brother’s, Inside Llewyn Davis presents a new perspective of the American Nightmare for Llewyn after the death his parter informs his new perspective of his personal American Dream. Through the use of visual techniques the Coen Brothers reveal how Llewyn’s past is corrupting his future. The brothers strove to create an image with limited contrast and a wide palette of gray tones whilst maintaining firm grasp on contrast ratios in interiors and exteriors. Ethan stated that the goal was “obtain a reduced latitude”. Through the use of these visual features it is clear to further Llewyn travels from his past the darker his future becomes.…
Both “12 Years a Slave” and “Amistad have their fair share of the true history behind each film. In “Amistad” Spielberg somewhat abuses history to make the film more entertaining. A prime example is the scene where we see the salve on the slave ship going through the middle passage and we witness how they are being treated. While that the film tells a true story of a group of Mende people from Sierra Leone, who take over a Spanish slave ship named A La Amistad, it is mainly A film of white hero worship. Much of the movie is occupied with the all white Supreme Court and where white lawyers defend the poor basically mute Africans.…
The 2007 film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman, chronicles the life of a teenage girl who, after one night and a chair, discovers that she is pregnant. Juno MacGuff is a quirky, off-beat teenager who doesn’t really care about what others think of her. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she knows that she isn’t ready to be a mother, but isn’t sure how to feel about her most recent dilemma. After talking to the baby’s father who happens to be her best friend, Paulie Bleeker, they both decide that it would be a better idea to get an abortion. However, Juno ultimately decides that she can’t go through with it.…
The brothers Joel and Ethan Coen and Wes Anderson are known for their distinctive visual and thematic styles of film making. Although their respective films The Big Lebowski and The Royal Tenenbaums both have a unique style all their own they do share a theme. This shared narrative motif is a nostalgic yearning for, or perhaps even obsession, with the past. In The Big Lebowski this obsession with the past can be seen at the very beginning of the film as we follow a tumbling tumbleweed, an iconic symbol of the old west, as it tumbles through the California desert.…
The 2007 film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman, chronicles the life of a teenage girl who, after a one-night hookup with her best friend, discovers that she is pregnant. Juno MacGuff is a quirky, off-beat teenager who doesn’t seem to care what others think of her. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she knows that she isn’t ready to be a mother, but isn’t sure what to do about her most recent dilemma. After talking to the baby’s father, who happens to be her best friend, Paulie Bleeker, she decides that it would be a better idea to have an abortion. However, Juno ultimately decides that she can’t go through with it.…
Films are type of visual communication which uses moving pictures and sound to tell stories and information. Romantic comedies are usually love stories about two people from different worlds. “Coming to America is a romantic comedy type of film” the movie was about a black African Prince that traveled to America to find a wife who will respect his personality and not his title as a Prince On the day of his 21st birthday, Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy), heir to the throne of African country of Zamunda is introduced to the bride-to-be. Wedding was arranged by his parents the King and Queen of Zamunda kingdom that befits a crown prince according to tradition of the country and a bride who is suppose to serve and listen to him in all possible ways…
The Namesake is another immigration story, which was adapted a book titled the same name. It is about a middle class immigrant Asian Indian family living in New York. Although the movie tells the story of an Indian family’s struggle in the US, essentially their adjustment problems could be true for all the immigrant families regardless of ethnicity. For example, yearning, adaptation process of the new culture while protecting your own culture and generation gap might be universal fact for all immigrant families. On the other hand, the movie introduces minor details of the Indian culture to the audience.…
My first film reviewed is Girl, Interrupted in 1999. This movie was based on a true story of Susanna Kaysen. It is stories of her memories when she was in hospitalized in mental hospital in the 1960’s. This movie stars Winnoa Ryder and Angelina Jolie. This movie shows the characteristics of borderline personality disorder, and find your way through difficulty and challenges.…
The daily life of an incarcerated individual is spent wasting away the hours, searching for a glimpse of hope in their personal lives. The media, especially in the film industry, has portrayed what can be defined as a “utopian” life, as life outside of prison, a complete opposite of the dystopian characteristics of being incarcerated. The search for a “utopian” lifestyle is “analogous to a quest for grace which is both existential and relational” (Klonowska). To an average person, an incarcerated individual is not typically perceived as someone who searches for greatness. Although prison films may serve as a source entertainment, they distort the image of a prison in order to appeal to the audience and to enhance the plots.…