Essays on Film Analysis

Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton was set in an impossibly utopian suburb in 1990. An elderly inventor builds an animated human being – the kind and benign Edward Scissorhands. However, the scientist dies right before he can finish assembling Edward, leaving him with long...

Edward Scissorhands is written by Tim Burton who is also famous for Beetlejuice and many more. Edward Scissorhands is a movie of a young man is machine turned and pulled from the comfort of his isolated mansion into the world of the local suburbia. Edward...

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 film directed by Roland Emmerich which depicts the earth experiencing a new ice age because of global warming and climate change. The film has been criticised heavily for its scientific inaccuracy since its release, however it was one...

A viewing of John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side reveals that while Michael Oher may originally appear to be the individual that has the most control over his own life and decisions, the authorities and powers within the film are actually both his adoptive mother...

High brow texts are viewed as high quality and advanced while a teen comedy amidst lingo such as “fetch” may not be regarded as a fit in that category, Mean Girls, the universal phenomenon transforms those conditions. The film, produced in 2004 with the screenplay...

Moulin Rouge (2001) starts off with setting the tone of the film, the first few minutes are a roller coaster. Everything about the film is over the top, from Satine’s dresses to the set design With a combination of real sets and computer generated images,...

Barry Jenkins’ film Moonlight exposes the issues associated with traditional masculinity as a mere social construction. By following the protagonist Chiron through three different significant stages in his life, the film demonstrates the ways in which he struggles with navigating the distorted expectations that come...

Inside Out ​is a 2015 film directed by Pete Docter. The 1-hour 42-minute movie is about an 11-year-old girl named Riley and the emotions in her head. There are five emotions in the movie – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. This movie explores a...

The characters in gangster films have many similar characteristics to Aristotle’s “tragic hero ideas”. In the 1990s gangster film Goodfellas, the main gangster reached to a very high position in the gang. The superior authority brought the protagonist extreme happiness but also the excess of...

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 movie that was an Academy Award Nominee for Best Picture that same year. It follows Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, who recently got himself in trouble with the law over a case of assault. A professor at the...