Category: Cinema

Metropolis is a German silent film directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1927. It tells the story of the main character Freder living in a world divided into two classes: the elite and the workers. While the elite lives a wealthy and carefree life, the workers struggle for a living. The main character falls…

Introduction Hotel Rwanda and Equilibrium are two much-spoken movies centered around the controversial issue of questioning the option for choice in nowadays realities. The movie directors and scriptwriters convey diverse meanings in their works and want people to comprehend them carefully when they are overwhelmed with controversial emotions in a decision-making process. These movies portray…

Introduction This paper dwells upon the film which goes under the title Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music. The film features Bill Monroe and a number of famous musicians talking about bluegrass and the impact Bill Monroe had on the development of this genre of music as well as other genres. The film is biographical,…

Various attempts are made to create a modern version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. However, it is also important to retain the original emotional and moral conflicts explored by the author. The Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation directed by Gregory Doran achieves this goal due to the excellent cast of actors and camera movement. Some of the artistic…

Many folktales, particularly the account of “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” contain one of the only surviving elements of Jase folklore. In 2013, producer Yoshiaki Nishimura adapted the story into “The Tale of The Princess Kaguya,” retelling the myth of a princess who was banished by the moon to live with an earthly family…

Table of Contents Introduction A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick Conclusion References Introduction A Clockwork Orange is a controversial film brought to the screen by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, based on Anthony Burgess’s eponymous novel. One of the apparent movie conflicts that can be observed is between the values of individual choice and society’s need…

In the history of world cinema, the 1980s were the heyday of mass culture, not just in the United States but all over the Western world. Movie theaters made record profits, and the movie business market became a real Klondike for many dreamers and glory-seekers. Martial arts films were very popular, especially oriental martial arts,…

Discrimination and prejudice always result in pain and suffering. The magnitude of these can vary from the Nazi genocide of Jews, the American use of Blacks as slaves – which could involve e.g. using them as test subjects, for instance, to perform more than thirty gynecologic surgeries on a 17-year-old girl (Cohen, 2009), – to…

Table of Contents Introduction The Rubber Film Analysis Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Rubber was filmed in 2010 and directed by Quentin Dupieux, and it is a quasi-horror movie about a tire. The latter is presented as the film’s main ‘monster’ or villain, and it is named Robert (Dupieux). The narrative is unique because it introduces…

Ethical Conflict: The Tuskegee Experiment Opening with the narration of Eunice Evers, the nurse, the movie poses a conflict between the principles of respect for persons of a nursing specialist and the selfish goals that the institute pursued (Houser, 2015). As the story unwraps, it becomes evident that the Tuskegee Institute committed a crime against…