Category: Cinema

Table of Contents Introduction Social Construction of Gender in the Movie Cultural Expectations of Asian Women Female Identity and Patriarchal Ideology Conclusion References Introduction The movie Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), directed by Rob Marshall, is based on the book of the same name, written by Arthur Golden in 1997. The film represents the life…

The movie Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati attempted to draw parallels between traditional France and its modernized counterpart, showing that the latest domestic gadgets might not always be considered a positive invention. The movie director’s ambition was to critique the idea of owning objects and being obsessed with various technologies (GetIntoThis 2015). Even though the…

Legalization of cannabis remains one of the most disputable issues in contemporary American society. Some people claim that the use of cannabis in medicine can help thousands of people, suffering from terminal diseases, endure their pain. At the same time, others argue that legalization of cannabis can lead to corruption of the American society as…

Background Film production in China and Taiwan has evolved over the years because of the changes in socio-economic and political forces. According to Poujol (2019), the evolution of the film industry in the two countries can be traced back to the period when the region was under Japanese rule. The imperial rulers used films to…

The book and film versions of I Am Legend differ. Changes were made in the film for adaptation to the characters, plots, and connection to the title. First, the characters in the novel feel more real and include five main characters; Robert Neville, Kathy, Virginia, Ben Cortman, and Ruth. Kathy and Virginia were Neville’s daughter…

Table of Contents Introduction Denzel Washington’s Fences Film Based on Wilson’s Play Conclusion Works Cited Introduction For this creative, analytical essay, I decided to take the work of Fences, which proved itself worthy in many iterations. As for comparison, I chose to use the movie by Denzel Washington and the original play from the film,…

Freedom hits different when one has a life outside the walls of a prison, whereas those in prison are only free within their cells. On top of that, there is a different feeling for those set to get life in prison and those condemned to death, whereby a shooting squad, lethal injection, or by hanging.…

Introduction Systematic thinking has helped to understand people’s way of thinking as well as assist them in solving many social problems that they face. Psychology has been in so many ways used to treat many mental illnesses. Psychiatrists should therefore be open-minded so as to give therapeutic help to those who need their services. A…

Table of Contents My Character Character Dynamics Political Dynamics My Opinion Favorite Quote References Said and Khaled, two Palestinian garage mechanics and closest friends, are hired to cross into Israel and detonate themselves up in the film. They both had rough lives and blamed Israeli persecution for everything that went wrong. They become separated while…

This is a movie reaction paper on “Far from Heaven” by Todd Haynes examining the following question: how has gender changed since the 1950s and why? The story describes the traditional family of Whitakers living in 1957. The wife of a successful businessperson Cathy finds her husband Frank in an unambiguous situation: husband is cheating…