Today in class instead of having a guest lecture we were fortunate enough to have a film day. The film we watched is DamNation, which is a documentary created by Ben Knight and Travis Rummel. Much of the information relayed by this documentary focuses on...
The 2010 Disney animation Tangled enculturates young girls to question their potential and ability to be independent. While Tangled is a film the whole family can enjoy watching, it teaches young girls that they need a man to “save them”. The film makes girls believe...
‘PERFECTION’ - this is the word that has popped up in my mind when I first came across metamorphosis, the idea of ‘transformation’. During these two months of lectures and tutorials, we have been constantly asked to brainstorm ideas of how ‘transformation’ has taken place,...
The documentary video “The New Asylum” (Frontline, 2005) focuses on the fact that prisons have been getting filled up with more and more mentally ill inmates ever since America’s psychiatric hospitals shut down. They have nowhere else to put them, so they put them in...
“Love passes, friendship breaks up and only blood ties are indestructible forever”- these words are fully expressing the idea of the novel “The Godfather” written by Mario Puzo. His novel caused a great resonance in the late 1960s. Our generation know this novel by eponymous...
Benny & Joon is a movie about a pair of siblings living in Spokane, Washington. Benjamin Pearl, the eldest of the two, is the primary caretaker for his sister Juniper “Joon” Pearl, who has schizophrenia. The movie is classified as a romantic comedy, but does...
The most extraordinary Vertov’s work. Maybe even the unique in its kind. It seemed completely different from all that he did before and that he even did later. Finally, we have Vertov’s creation, in which there is no smell of Soviet propaganda either. Here comes...
The film opens in an upscale apartment in New York City, where Melvin tries to take his neighbor’s dog into the evaluator. After that does not work, he picks up the dog as it starts to pee and throws it down the trash chute. Later...
Hitchcock once again demonstrated his phenomenal work in the 1960’s film Psycho, a horror/thriller film that depicts multiple personality disorder through his main character Norman, who Anthony Perkins plays. While he focuses on his protagonist through the first half Marion – played by Janet Leigh...
The film, “Bend It Like Beckham”, was directed by Gurinder Chadha in 2013. The film does not only focus on football but also using a sense of humor to reveal how culture influences on personal identity. Many of the first generation Asian American feeling stuck...
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