Essays on Film Analysis

The scary tone of Industrial Revolution is in the air of London, where everybody is living the refinement from the rich and fashionable to the educated and well mannered. This is not the real London, this is not our setting, our setting is a little...

Transport your mind to India, where in David Grubin’s Emmy nominated documentary, The Buddha, you can find Buddhists practicing their religion and see the story of the Buddha’s life and teachings transform. Grubin, who won 4 Emmy’s, is known for his documentaries about presidents, but...

According to Crawford (2012), any women who is not white, young, thin, rich, feminine and sexually available remain under-represented and invisible in media, these women are called invisible women. In the film Real Women Have Curves, two types of invisible women are depicted: bigger women...

When I first read what this assignment entails I became very excited because I knew I would get the chance to talk about great films from different decades that really showcase the “flavor” of their time. These movies that I am choosing to write about...

The film Norte, The End of History is a 250-minute film that is a loose adaptation on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1866 novel “Crime and Punishment. Directed by Lav Diaz, a Filipino director and one of the leads of “slow cinema” movement in the Philippines. It is...

Surviving an apocalyptic scenario caused by an alien invasion, zombie attacks or natural disasters, such as the end of the world, is a reoccurring theme explored in the Western film industry. John Huddles’ film After the Dark (2014), a science fiction and psychological thriller film,...

“The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and has not helped users or addicts” – Victor Mitchell. The war on drugs have created big life changes to people in the United States. It is not a war that can be...