Challenge surrounds Caleb (Domhall Gleeson) in the fictional sci-fi movie Ex Machina. He is invited to the secluded home of Nathan (Oscar Issac), an IT god, to conduct a Turing test with a robot, Ava (Alicia Vikander). But as Caleb gets to know her better, he starts to trust Ava, potentially being lured in her unscrupulous plans. Will he listen to Ava who expresses her feelings of seclusion, loneliness and hopes of integrating with human life, or will he listen to Nathan who has the power to ‘turn off’ Ava, basically terminating her life? To find out, you must look and search deeply into the long and windy film to get an answer and it can be somewhat quite boring for an impatient watcher; but this film definitely questions our mind of thought…
Gone Film Critique The film Gone is directed by James Puckett. The film is about two friends, Eric and Tommy, have had a rough friendship. Jimmy ends up taking his own life and Eric has a lot of built up anger towards the other.…
Pop culture 's mythology theory, discovered by a Frenchman named Roland Barthes, appears in many forms of media today. An example of this would be The Legend of Zelda, in which Link must rescue the land of Hyrule similar to how many Greek heroes had to save the world. People use mythology theory every day and don 't even realize it. From naming their dog Zeus after the Greek god of lightning to watching the anime Hetalia to understand history and cultures better. One movie that uses this theory is the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.…
As a practice-heavy field, social work may not appear to place much importance on theory; however, theory should dictate every decision social workers make. Perspectives for practice include the well-known theories of psychodynamic and systems, as well as lesser-known perspectives such as existential. Though some theoretical perspectives are better suited for either a micro or macro setting only, social workers should possess a diverse and readily available knowledge of theories to aid their work in any setting. This expanded repertoire (of many, but not all theories) allows social workers the ability to apply at least one theory to literally any situation in any environment with any number of participants. To demonstrate the necessity…
My story, Escape, is a science fiction action thriller about a group of friends trying to save their captured friend, Samie. Samie and her friends are a group of teens that have special abilities they call powers. Only a select few are born with these abilities. If the Searchers know about their power, they will remove that citizen. Their powers are abused and used to further suppress the society.…
Gender inequality in the workplace is prevalent now and has been for hundreds of years even with the presence of laws and policies that forbid it. Kristen Schilt the author of “Just One of the Guys?” targets how natural difference schemas shape today’s workplace and reinforce gender inequality. She does so by using both open and stealth transmens’ experiences in the workplace to provide examples of how natural difference schemas are prevalent and hard to undo. Schilt also highlights how race, height, sex, and masculinity can benefit or hurt one's place in work world. Before understanding how natural difference schemas shape the workplace, fully understanding what a natural difference schema is necessary.…
Evil Within In the book “A long way gone” by Ishmael Beah, evil emerges from people unexpectedly. The rebels take over and terrorize each village they go through. “Their arms and legs are missing; their intestines spill out through bullet holes in their stomachs; brain matter comes out of their noses and ears” (18). Attacking the civilians, taking their necessities, and leaving no one alive unless they turn them into one of their own.…
Ishmael lives a peaceful life, he wakes up and enjoys the time he gets and love every part of the sun he sees. He didn’t get to have this privilege when he was 16 years old. He had to face all the devastating events that left him despondent. Ishmael was useless, he was forced to join one of the child soldier armies to fight for his side. Ishmael joined the army with his innocence as a kid, but as he proceeded through days and days of being a child soldier, he became more violent with killing people in his sight and leaving people with wounds.…
As well as being relevant repair is also prevalent in the reading about the Social Contract. Rousseau does a great job with uniting his people. He enforces that slavery should never be accepted. The author makes a point saying that all people are born at the same level of value. One is not great born to be automatically better than another.…
Family can drive you insane. Families have certain qualifications and characteristics that define them. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, “The Best Locker Room Speeches of Week 17”, and in “My Gang, My Family” Rowenna Davis all show and explain these things. The characteristics of a family are people who complete hardships together, gives safety for one another, and they share the same pride.…
The last critique that I have is they did not show any troubles that he had when he got on the boat what did eat did he have many troubles with his tooth did he have trouble eating because he had not eaten very much…
What Would Happen If Chuck’s Plane hadn’t Dropped Down? During this week, I have watched a movie called Cast Away in the theology class. It is a movie that showed us a systems engineer’s plane have dropped down in the movie, and he floated to an island where he gradually understand how to live and work, then he went back to modern society. It is a really good movie, but sometime I have thought about that if his plane did not go down what would happened in his future?…
In this paper, we will discuss the movie Away from Her. We will talk about different problems encountered in the movie, their solutions and how the movie would look like today if it was set in Las Vegas. We also hope to share our own thoughts about how we would deal with Alzheimer’s disease if we were the patient. Away from Her is a very interesting movie about a fictitious couple named Grant and Fiona Anderson.…
One of the most fundamental aspects of humanity, is the need for community. The process of socialization is crucial for survival. In Yann Martel 's Life of Pi and the movie Cast Away, the severe effects of social isolation are depicted. Pi Patel is a young Indian boy in search of faith and Chuck Noland is a grown man whose identity revolves around the concept of time. Between the two narratives lies a similar message regarding man 's will to live.…
Spirited Away, the anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, depicts a fantasy story of a young girl Chihiro accidentally enters a town ruled by witches and gods. Chihiro need to find a job in order to survive and save her parents who are turned into pigs. During her stay, Chihiro works hard and finally finds a way to save her parents and go back to the real world. In this essay, I want to discuss how does Spirited Away reflected issues of Japanese society in 1990s. Japan experienced strong economic growth in the second half of the 20th century.…