Essays on Cinematography Page 72

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Al Gore has a mission. The documentary An Inconvenient Truth has been his catalyst to travel around the world in order to raise awareness among people that the change in climate of our planet has gone awry. Gore says, “I’ve been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as if…

The year is 2012 and the technologically advancement now compared to previous centuries is remarkable; however, with that increase of technological advancement came a decrease of society’s intelligence. Neil Postman, author of “Future Schlock,” points out how mediocre American human intelligence is due to all the technology around us. According to Postman, America was once…

The story opens with Meursault, a clerk living in Algiers within the 1940s, reading a message stating the passing of his mom. While at the funeral the guests are surprised at his strangely calm behavior. He goes on a date with a woman he hardly met, helps a pimp, and goes to a beach outside…

Nowadays, many movie stars stage extravagant weddings, weddings that have sky-high cost. I do agree that the money “spent” could be put to better use. If the movie stars cut their expenses and rain millions on different charities, I am sure the wedding would just be as beautiful and memorable compared to hosting a billion-dollar…