Essays on Movie Analysis

High school.  A time period common for many people where lessons are learned as people grow. The story of Mike Mitchell, a teenage boy in a unique world of super-powered kids who fight vampires, gods, and immortals is told in the novel written by Patrick...

‘Avatar’, directed by James Cameron, was a fifteen year in the making project that would forever change the cinematic landscape by following the journey of a paraplegic marine who is torn between following orders or fighting for the native people of Pandora as a Human/Na’vi...

The movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron, takes place on the alien planet Pandora home to the indigenous population of the Na’Vi, a blue skin humanoid. The Na’Vi appear to be primitive with the lack of technology but are surprisingly advanced. Since the environment is...

It is filled with action and other components that make a movie great. It has well-developed characters as well as making them change throughout the movie. It makes the audience reflect on the way they change in their perspective and how we all can change....

Psychological Analysis of Black Swan One of the roles of movies is to educate and inform the audience. The intent of this essay is to explore the manner in which movies play this important role, within the context of Black Swan. Throughout the film, various concepts...

Black Swan (2010) is a psychological thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky that tells a story of Nina Sayers, a beautiful young girl who is completely obsessed with her career as a successful ballet dancer.  At the start of the movie, Aronofsky (2010) shows that with...

Clint Mansell is described as a method composer, an English musician/composer and a former lead singer/guitarist/keyboard player for the band “Pop Will Eat Itself”, from 1986 to 1996. His trademark is combining orchestral music with electronic instruments. Mansell was introduced to film scoring when director...

Hidden figures, a biographical film based on historical events, shows three women – Katherine Goble, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson who influenced the way N.A.S.A. treated women and men of different races.  After World War 2 drew to a close in the mid-20th century, a...

After watching the movie ‘Life and Death of a Serial Killer’ starring Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s first female serial killers; I started asking why people are becoming serial killers? What’s so special about killing, and what’s triggering the anticipation, urge, and desire? Which exactly...

What if the reality you are used to see is not the real one? How would you feel if you discovered that during your whole life you have been controlled and used as entertainment? The aim of this essay is to compare the film The...