Film Analysis Essay

effects on whitewashing in films and has lessened it happening more so every year. In Hollywood’s early years, whitewashing was extremely prevalent in films and while we can still see whitewashing in today’s films, there has been a significant difference made ever since the amount of disparagement regarding the whitewashing of roles meant to be played by people of color (Screen Rant, 2015). These critics have given blunt commentary on the whitewashing in Hollywood films. The Variety (2015)…

boundaries because it makes the younger people ask their parents about it and if they knew that, this stuff was going on, on the other side of the world. When I asked my parents about it they didn’t know any of the stuff shown in this film was to that extent. The film is a timely reminder of the racial divides that still seem to be so apparent in the U.S.A. by what we see on the…

Régis Dubois begins his second chapter “ The “New Jack” years” with a list of events that show recognition and a better status of the Afro American. In 1983, Vanessa Williams became the first Black Miss America. A year later, the Afro American politician Jesse Jackson ran for the presidential elections. Another significant event in 1986 is the declaration of the Martin Luther King Day, specifying Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday . All this episodes echoed in the Hollywood industry. We show more…

Movie Review The film starts by stating that everyday objects, such as toys and foods, can contain toxic chemicals and that there are no restrictions in place for this problem. It follows the life of Edward Brown, who says he is on this journey to learn more about the chemicals found in objects. This journey is motivated by his wife having Crohn's disease and two miscarriages. We are essentially exposed to many harmful chemicals on a daily basis, which is very detrimental to our health.…

of the way Kar-wai tells their story and the stories in his other films is through the technique of framing. Filmsite describes framing as “the way a shot is composed, and the manner in which subjects and objects are surrounded ('framed') by the boundaries or perimeter of the film image, or by the use of a rectangle or enclosing shape (such as a shadow, mirror, door or hallway) within the film image.” Kar-wai uses framing in his films to enhance the visual and narrative aspects in order to…

The last five minutes of the film made the most impression on me. Here I saw how the lives of the people he met were. Many of them seemed happy, whereas in the same moment Chris McCandless was dying. I also saw the impact Chris’s disappearance had on his father, which you do not really see much in the rest of the film. However, what really stuck a chord with me was when in his last dying breaths, Chris McCandless wrote “happiness is only real when shared.” This made an impression on me, because…

From the title of the film I expected the two-hour real-time portrayal of Cléo to be fairly dull. I personally cannot recall a two hour period of my life that would have made for an riveting movie. Though with this I expected the film to have heavy social commentary. I was surprised from the start of the film with the use of color in the opening scene. Though this excitement was short lived as the movie continued in black and white after the fortuneteller scene cut to the actress’ faces. Despite…

enough to the point where I put short films that I planned to make on letterboxd before I made them (I still cringe when I read the scripts for them). The reason I bring this ups is before watching "Penis Boy" I went back and watched "Mindless" to see how Healey has matured as a film maker, and not only is Mindless better then I remember but Healey has come a long way. Out of the three Healey films I've seen (The third being Worth It) this is by far the best. The film feels much more original,…

that they want to start a family but Phoebe is unable to hold a child so, they decide to go through a long, stressful adoption process, which ends up very rewarding in the end. At the end of the film, you see a revelation within Phoebe because despite that originally her mother did not want to be in the film and thought it was a bad idea to do, she was pleased with the information that she had discovered and also pleased with the other relationships that she…

approaches to discuss the film, The Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948). Of the six approaches, I chose the “National Cinemas”, “Auteur”, and “Ideology” approaches. The “National Cinemas” approach to analyzing film takes into account the culture and national characteristics that influence how a narrative is filmed. To understand and fully appreciate a film, one must understand the historical and cultural conditions that surround it. The writer must distinguish what makes a particular film…