Essays on Cinematography Page 72

The sense of belonging is something that we will all feel whether we mean to or not, if it is for good or bad, if we feel we belong or alienated. This sense of belonging can come through our family, friends, likes and dislikes, backgrounds and opinions. This belonging gives us connections to other people…

The unspoken challenge posed by “The Black Balloon” is to see if one could handle the same situation as the Mollisons, a middle-class Australian family whose eldest son has severe autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The film, directed by Elissa Down, draws from Down’s own upbringing with two autistic brothers, one of whom inspired…

The 2002 romantic comedy movie “Brown Sugar” is a film written by Michael Elliot and directed by Famuylwa, starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan who both play the leading roles in the movie. This movie starts with the two childhood friends, Andre (Dre) who is a successful Artist and Repertoire executive played by Taye Diggs…

The Odyssey, an esteemed epic poem authored by the Greek poet Homer, is widely considered one of the greatest works ever written. However, this revered status remained unchallenged until Star Wars emerged – a futuristic interpretation of The Odyssey. George Lucas wrote and released this highly successful film on May 25, 1977, which gained acclaim…

March 20. 1941. the Krakow ghetto is liquidated. 1942. German subjugation spills into Transylvania. the Sighet ghetto is liquidated. Two apparently unrelated events in a overplus of decease and subjugation. However. both are turning points in two of the most spectacularly hideous histories of the Holocaust ; Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. and Elie Wiesel’s Night. There…

Super Size Me is an American Documentary film that was day-viewed back in 2004. It was directed by Morgan Spurlock who was an American filmmaker who decided to eat only burger for one month and chose McDonald’s as a fast food restaurant to feed him during his documentary experiment film. The film documented Spurlock daily…

The focal point of The Awakening by Kate Chopin is the story of Mrs. Pontellier, a woman with various emotional needs. These needs encompass material, sexual, intimacy, and the desire to be wanted or needed. Throughout the book, Mrs. Pontellier seeks out and satisfies her needs through interactions with Léonce Pontellier, Alcée Arobin, and Robert…

To be a mother in society women must surrender a portion of their individuality. Mothers who devote themselves to their family offer every part of themselves. All these mothers do are in the name of their children. Once they consume themselves in motherhood, they put what makes them happy aside, and focus on their family….

The main character had a terrible relationship with his father. They didn’t see eye to eye at all. The father just took him to baseball games and left him there with an usher that he paid to watch him. The absence of a father figure was significant to his childhood. When he grew up he…

NotoriousAfter viewing Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious for the first time, the filmdid not strike me as particularly complex. Nothing specific about the filmlodged itself in my brain screaming for an answeror, at least, an attemptedanswer. Yet, upon subsequent viewings, subtle things became more noticeable. (Perhaps Hitchcock’s subtlety is what makes him so enormously popular!)Hitchcock uses motifs…