Film Review Essay

For the purpose of this essay I chose to watch The Grapes of Wrath, I have not seen this film previously. The movie is based on a novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The focus of the movie is the Joads family from Oklahoma, a poor multigenerational family affected by the hard times of Great Depression leading to bank foreclosures on their land, as well as the drought and severe dust storms leading to agricultural changes and significant economic hardship. As a result of these…

In “Waiting for Superman” by Davis Guggenheim was very astonished to see how good teacher and bad teacher has a tremendous impact on student’s life and their education. This film was well made and charismatic where I learned a lot of new things. One of the things I learned from this film is how parents were always there to help and encourage their kids not to give up even though they have to face some obstacles and work hard to have the bright future. Therefore, parents were motivated that they…

What issue was discussed The campus event I attended was a showing of the film titled “13”. The film analyzed the incarceration history within the U.S. and had the 13th amendment as its main focus. Mass Incarceration is a subject rarely discussed in Social Work classes, nonetheless is a huge concern.Today the total population of individuals who are serving time in jail is estimated at 2.3 million, and the majority of them are Black or Hispanic men. Despite the crime rates decreasing, the number…

A determined scientist on a mission of peace to help a planet suffering from famine discovers that the villagers are killing a rare species, but is forced to flee when she’s accused of poisoning their water supply. STORY COMMENTS ON THE EVE OF EXTINCTION is a thought-provoking character driven, sci-fi environmental drama. The script explores the harmful consequences of man’s destruction of its natural habitat. The story centers on a peaceful mission to help another planet suffering from…

We chose to watch the movie “A Beautiful Mind”. My preconceptions of schizophrenia are that people with this illness have a hard time coping to normal daily living as well as having trouble maintaining a job. The movie shows how a person with schizophrenia can overcome the illness and accomplish great things. This movie will give me a general idea of how the illness affects the person and the people around him. This is a story about John Nash, an extraordinary man well known for his academics,…

shows him being in the crowd for her one woman show. It shows them in Paris together. It finally shows them together at the end. Then, they are brought back to reality, with Mia still being there with her husband and Sebastian playing at his bar. The film had me smiling and laughing and completely engulfed. The heart wrench of Mia and Sebastian fighting and ending up to split up had be on the verge of tears. The final scenes of them not ending up together, then the magical reverse of scenes, and…

The movie that I decided to watch was Crash. The reason I picked this movie was because of the actors in it and I felt that this movie would be a good movie to watch for this diversity class. There were numerous racial issues in this movie. First, was Ludacris’s character (the Black man with braids) who believed that all white people were racist and especially towards Black people. Second, was Sandra Bullock’s character (white woman who was married to the attorney) who was racist towards people…

Life is not only about love, dreams, diamonds, champagne, and luxury cars, but also the tiny little louse called fate that are biting you whenever you are satisfied with what you’ve already owned in that period. Gatsby, one of those rich gentlemen in New York, came back from where he didn’t want to mention and to be known. Yet he have had everything he thought he could catch Daisy’s love again, the only thing he don’t have was so called his “blood” as Tom Buchanan said. He is the outsider who…

The New comers to the study of the Caribbean ought to see this film as a result of once viewing Life and Debt, the audience's manner of seeing things has been quietly and powerfully modified. As documentaries regarding social science go, this one is far, far at the highest. Its potent message deserves to be detected…

Instructor: Rosanna Maule Friday, December 4, 2017 Concordia University Elliott Touikan Instructor: Rosanna Maule FMST-322-2173-A 4 December 2017 Fall Written Report: A Clock Work Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 136’) A Clock Work Orange is a 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick adapted from the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess. It follows the story of a teenager named Alex. He along with his three friends, which he calls droogs, robbed, rape and pillage the town every…