Essays on Cinematography Page 86

In our society everyone has a different view on how you should act and how they should be raised. When we look at the beginning scene of the movie Divergent, it talks about how the human race is split up into five different groups. Each of the groups were created so that society could maintain…

In The Blind Side, there is a troubled young man named Michael Oher who faces many difficulties throughout his life which later plays into his development as a teenager in high school. Michael’s father left him shortly after he was born, and his mother was addicted to drugs. Michael was seemingly trapped in a dangerous,…

Erik Erikson, a loyal Freudian follower and student developed an eight-stage theory explaining personality through life development. He believed personality to not be a scandalous product of biological sexual turmoil in one’s life due to passed events, but rather having a genetic predisposition with the acceptance of external factors from the environment (Schultz & Schultz,…

The 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird is an adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel of the same name. Lee, as a character, mirrors Scout in a traditional bildungsroman story, enabling the examination of racism and social injustice through the viewpoint of a young girl who directly encounters these problems from her own unique vantage point….

To exercise our sociological imagination, we had a film viewing of the indie film “Ded Na Si Lolo” by director Soxie Topacio last 8 July 2010. This film was all about a family who lost an important loved one—their father. Charing, one of the main characters, is one of the children. One morning while she…

Sometimes, defining science fiction can be maddening, as Quentin Cooper points out in his BBC article. James Gunn defines science fiction as “the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often…

The movie I choice was Finding Nemo it’s a Pixar animation it came in the summer of May 30,2003. It was ranked top ten American film and top ten in the greatest film in animation as of June 2008. As this movie was ranked the top ten how can people not enjoy this movie. With…

On April 7, 1943, he was severly wounded at Sebkhet en Noual, when Allied fighte strafed his vehicle. He lost his left eye, right hand, and last two fingers of his Ie ft hand after surgery. Col. Stauffenberg was sick of seeing Hitler’s Nazi organization in rule of Germany so he took a big step…

In the film The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols, the main character Benjamin Braddock is seeking to find his place in the world following his college graduation. Ben has an affair with his family’s friend Mrs. Robinson, but ends up falling in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Elaine. From a historical, marxist and gender perspective,…

The Glass Menagerie is a four chapter memory play written by Tennessee Williams that reflects upon his own unhappy and dysfunctional family. With this being said, the narrator in the play, Tom Wingfield, resembles Tennessee Williams himself. The setting takes place in the winter and spring of 1937 in St. Louis and symbolically reflects the…