Crime film

action to true crime. Films such as 10 to Midnight and The Untouchables created a sense of realism that other genres could not provide. An exemplary true crime film possesses certain aspects, such as psychological profile and judicial procedures that make it a captivating and intricate film. These elements are prevalent throughout a criminal’s life as well as capture the audience’s interest. Richard Ramirez is perfect example of a serial killer that contains all of these true crime elements. As…

Death” was one of the biggest, immoral gun runners in the world. In the film Lord of War, Yuri Orlov was the name of this ruthless gunrunner. The business deals with warlords and domestic complications were portrayed in the film, just like they had happened in real life. The persona of Viktor Bout, the real man responsible for the gun trade, inspired the life and actions of Yuri Orlov in Lord of War. Ultimately, In the film Lord of War, director Andrew Niccol kept a lot of the same events from…

There are many social theories and concepts. Yet there are some that are very noticeable in the movie, Freedom Writers. The lives of these students are very difficult. Since the neighborhoods they lived in were very rough, deviance and crime were very common factors that were involved in their lives as gang members. As one character once stated in the movie. To be a member of the gang is not to protect yourself but also protect your fellow “Brother”, in other words meaning the other gang…

Cinematic Depictions There are a few films create a perception of inefficiencies of government as well as how these inefficiencies can lead to harmful if not deadly consequences. In Bryon Howard’s 2016 film, Zootopia, we can use the classic Department of Motor Vehicles (“DMV”) scene to illustrate inefficiency. In the scene at the DMV a rookie cop gets the help of a DMV employee depicted as a slow-moving sloth. The rookie cops need to run a license plate quickly, to track down a lead but due to…

The film introduced Doughboy as an affiliated member of the street gang known as the “Crips”, who has an encounter with another male, Ferris, a member of another street gang known as the “Bloods”. Being that gangs involve several individuals from the same neighborhoods…

The two short films that impacted me the most was the long walk of freedom and confronting discrimination and prejudice. The long walk of freedom tells a story of 12 ordinary young people who joined the civil rights movement to combat racial oppression. Within the short film it described some of the events that minorities had to deal with on their quest to freedom. In particular, some of the topics that the video covered were some of the venues in which minorities couldn’t enter that were…

vigilantes were traditionally upper class males in a group. However, with time, the definition has altered- the modern vigilante is more an individual than a group of people and consists of females as well. In fact, vigilantism is a permissible mode of crime resolution for women backed by the Social Contract Theory. The said theory proposes the existence of a sort of contract between the State and its citizens, wherein the state is obliged to render protection to the citizens in return for…

Within the 2007 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is attempting to help Moss, a man who stole money from a drug deal gone bad, evade the vengeance of Chigurh, a dangerous hitman. The Coen brothers, who directed the film, acknowledge that the novel’s title is a representation of the sheriff’s perspective, but in contrast with the novel, the focus of the movie is the multiple characters’ viewpoints about Chigurh and their reactions to him.…

people have little to no direct personal experience with crime, therefore the mass media represents crime in a certain way to the public. This is media outlets such as newspapers, television, websites, films, video games and books etc. Usually the portrayal of crime is negative or positive depending on who, what and where the crime is committed. Pearson argues that the media has encouraged a fear and fascination with crime. Media content and crime are studied in different ways. For media…

lost and through the element of surveillance, which is exactly what happens in the films Subway and Le Samourai. Transportation technology and surveillance technology come together to create a game between criminal and police force that ultimately ends with not who has the best technology but who controls it most effectively. In 1967, French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville co-wrote and directed a crime film…