Film Aspects: Film Analysis

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When reviewing a film, it is a hard choice to pick which type of film to watch. The movies come in several different genres and a combination of genres. A film was picked for review and will be discussed below. The review of a film will include different aspects that were used to make the film. These aspects include the genre type, social context, sound effectiveness, cinematography, and editing. The review will also involve some other aspects as well including the meaning of the film, the feeling of the film, personal influences, and whether the film was enjoyable.

Film Aspects

The genre of the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) is considered as an action comedy. The action comedy is one of many sub-genres of the comedy genre. The action comedy genre films works with comedy genre films to make the audience laugh, but an action comedy genre adds action to the film. Comedy films are dramas that are used to amuse, entertain, or provoke enjoyment with exaggerations of situations with humor ("Comedy Films", n.d.), where action comedy films contain less intensive action scenes ("Comedy ",
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As the film shows, people can have secrets to their identity they may not want other people to know about. These secrets could include things the person has done in the past or what they do for a career. In Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) for example Jane and John are secret agents and keep that information away from each other, and try to live a normal life with one another without revealing their secret career.

The film was enjoyable to watch for a few reasons. One of the reasons the film was enjoyable was because of the actors that was in the film. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie portrayed the two main characters in the film. These two actors did a very good job in portraying the characters and during the action scenes. The action scenes in the film were also another reason the film was enjoyable to

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