Murder on a Sunday Morning is a documentary that shows the problem in our judicial system concerning the juvenile being accused of a crime. This documentary follows the trial of 15-year-old Brendon Butler from Defense attorney Patrick McGuinness’s and Ann Finnell point of view as he works to prove Butler innocence. This case became America most misleading Cassie's because of its lack of evidence on Mr Butler Butler. This accident took place on May 17, 2000, out of Jacksonville Florida many people say that this case was not handled properly by detective and officers could also represent that the young black teen time to be a stereotype base under skin colour.…
Mary Meyer’s murder has remained unsolved for almost half a century. On a fall day in 1964, Mary, best known for her affair with John F. Kennedy, was murdered in a Washington DC neighborhood, Georgetown. In Lance Morrow’s, “Woman, Interrupted”, he describes the first-hand account of the murder scene and offers two possible theories of why Mary was murdered. He also provides insight to some of the most powerful women in Washington. Lance, a young reporter for the Washington Star, heard the call about a homicide over the police scanner at the C&O canal in Georgetown.…
Arthur miller resurrected the tale with his 1953 play the crucible and identifies the trails of the mccarthyism paranoia in 1950’s. The 20th century’s artists and scientists were facinated by 6 salem witch trials. The hypotheses they found was they had been devised to explain strange behavior that occured in the salem in 1692. They blamed the abnormal habits of accused the fungus ergot foung in rye wheat and other cereal grasses. Toxicologists said that eating er-got foods can lead to muscle spasms, vomiting delusions and hallucinations.…
In some schools across America, the mass murder of Native Americans in California during the nineteenth century is taught as an inevitable, necessary evil (Discussion). However, this notion is false. The mass murder of the Native Americans was systematic and calculated, carried out by white settlers through attacks on the lives, livelihoods, homes, and cultures of the natives. According to both Raphael Lemkin and the United Nations, these actions were genocidal. In the work, Murder State, by Brendan Lindsay, Lindsay, using the definitions created by Lemkin and the United Nations, effectively categorizes this mass extermination of the Native Americans in California as a genocide.…
The historical context of “The Murder in Rue Morgue” is that this story was around during the age of exploration. Many explorers found animals that look extraordinary and recount stories of their adventures that seem improbable. In “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, the historical context was that the country was changing. The railroad of England were just built and industrial revolution was occurring. People were more curious about science and the world around them.…
In 1954, Alfred Hitchcock directed a film which was named Rear Window. In this movie the main characters were Lisa Carol Fremont, L.B. Jeff, and Detective Doyle. L.B. Jeff was played by James Stewart is a man who is confined to his apartment and his only view of the world in looking out his window in his apartment. Lisa Carol Fremont was played by Grace Kelly, she was a model who showed interest in Jeff, but could not get his attention. Detective lieutenant Doyle was played by Wendell Corey was skeptical of Jeff accusing his neighbor of murder until the very end when it was made clear.…
The movie ‘Rear Window’ was released on September 1, 1954, the movie was directed by the one and only Alfred Hitchcock, and the movies plot is that a photographer named Jeff, who is stuck on a wheelchair in his apartment to recover from a broken leg, and the movie gets the name “Rear Window” from the fact that his back window looks out into other apartments from people who live in the area. He observes many people from the area, but the most important is a jewelry salesman and his wife. One night, Jeff hears a woman scream "Don't!" and then the sound of breaking glass, then he falls asleep to later realize that Thorwald makes continuous late night trips carrying his suitcase. Jeff soon notices that the wife is gone and then sees Thorwald cleaning knives, so Jeff assume right after that the wife has been murdered causing him to continue to spy on Thorwald.…
Jeff and Scottie are both similar in the sense that they have very obvious disabilities, and both show us the voyeuristic side of Hitchcocks work which ultimately allow viewers to understand thoroughly about the relations between films. Jeffs inability to move shows his physical disability which leads him to constantly use his binoculars and camera to watch his neighbors. This gives us an insight to his voyeurism which ends up solving a murder case. Jeff watching his neighbors from a far reveal his various futures with or without Lisa.…
The film Murder on a Sunday Morning was a murder case in Jacksonville involving a 15 year old teenager being accused of 1st Degree murder and theft. In the video, it showed the process of the trial and both sides of the case. The lawyer in the video was defending Brenton Butler, the person accused of the incident and the lawyer truly believed that Brenton was not the person that committed the crime. Patrick McGuiness, the lawyer, went out of his way to not only prevent Brenton from serving life in jail, but to also get the real criminal that committed murder. In the end, McGuiness was able to prove to the jury that Brenton was not guilty and that the real murderer was still on the loose.…
The shot being referred to throughout this essay is that between 01:42:05 and 01:44:17 of Hitchcock’s psychological thriller film Vertigo. Before this shot takes place, we ,along with John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson, have been lead to believe that Madeline Elster committed suicide, jumping out of the church bell tower at Mission San Juan Bautista. In the time following the suicide, Scottie becomes emotionally unstable and blames Madeline death on himself, his acrophobia holding his back from climbing the stairs to stop her from jumping. During this time, he is constantly reminded of her in his everyday life until one day his eye is caught by a woman who reminds him of Madeline, despite their difference in appearance and follows her up to her apartment…
SYNOPSIS The film Ladykillers (2004 film), directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen tells the story of Mrs. Munson who like to report to the police if there is someone suspicious behavior. Professor Marcus and his group, Cohort had hired a room in the house Mrs. Munson. Mrs. Munson did not realize that there is a hidden agenda by Professor Marcus and his comrades. Conflict arises when attempting to get money to no avail.…
The ability to kill is not a right for any of the person of the world. The simple injury intentionally inflicted on another person is morally unacceptable . Even an insincere philosophy suggesting that murder is ethical can adversely affect another person’s point of view on this serious topic. Philip, a character in the movie Rope, is manipulated into murdering another person. Brandon literally interprets Rupert’s philosophy and convinces Philip that murdering David was morally acceptable.…
As Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window has been out since 1954, there have been many reviews and speculations about the film as a whole. The reviews are both positive and negative, some going in depth about the plotline and others giving the basics of the plotline as a reason for their opinion. This film is one that has a very good story, but seemingly questionable ethics and standards. In 1983, Vincent Canby wrote a review about Rear Window for the New York Times.…
There are some directors who are well known for the techniques used in certain movies. Example, Michael Bay is known for his use of explosions when he is working on a movie. Then there are the auteurs. An auteur is a director that uses their influence and control of artistic style in a way that becomes their own. This title derived from the French journal by the name of Cahiers de Cinema in the 1950s, however, by 1960, it became well known for filmmakers of the French New Wave (Buckland) of that time.…
Judicial murder made by inequity legal system In the month after “Making a Murderer” premiered on Netflix, more than 129,000 Americans signed a petition to pardon Avery and Dassey for their convictions to the murder of Halbach and in the book ‘in cold blood’ written by Truman Capote, the two murderers were treated by ignoring the mental problem influence of theirs, they stayed in prison for five years and were finally performed death penalty. After reading the book and watching the TV show, I think these crimes sufficiently prove that there is a fundamental inequity at work in countless branches of legal system. Making a Murderer tells a story about the life of Steven Avery, who was convicted of rape in 1985 and imprisoned for 18 years, despite…