The Documentary

named Jiro Ono through various high definition pictures of food. Agnes Varda’s film The Gleaners and I show the action of gleaning leftover food, which all started from one famous painting by Jean-Francois Millet in 1867. Both of these movies are documentaries based upon real life situations. These foods based films are known to be…

watch. This document had a total of six sections. In each section, Werner Herzog directed the crime that was committed, people involved, the affects and after math of the crime. The first section is labeled “The Crime.” Werner Herzog begins the documentary by showing a man named Michael James Perry who was on death row in Livingston, Texas for crimes he and a friend of his, Jason Burkett, committed ten years ago. The crimes he received death row for was capital murder and triple homicide. Damon…

up. Other than midterms, this is the most stressful time of the semester and not everyone makes it out unscathed. What a perfect time to watch a documentary and learn about stress. Stress, the silent killer, is with us every minute of our life. Originally it was our bodies way to save us from death but now it’s killing us. What did this documentary teach…

best interest to help others in order to receive help in return. However, throughout the documentary the two volunteers who portray the most drastic change are Charles Rodgers “Boston” and Anthony Middlebrook. They both represent the both ends of a pendulum, Charles was raised in a criminal family, whereas Anthony was raised in a wealthy family. Charles Rodgers demonstrated social maturity throughout the documentary, at the end he was marked with the ability to empathize with others and was…

Fictional and documentary photography There have been many attempts by photographers to challenge the line between reality and fiction. Cindy Sherman is one of the photographers who create images that ignite the speculative relationship between reality and fiction. Through her photography, Cindy Sherman develops a new path where she fosters a visual discourse and opens up a discussion on the power of images and the message that the image communicates to the viewer. In many of her images, Sherman…

status in America. Amador Bernal, a farm worker starring in the documentary, came from Mexico at the age of 21, an age which played a crucial role in his ability to assimilate into his new surroundings. Bernal works at the Kaolin Mushroom Farms at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania; although the job does not pay much, it is the only position he could obtain, despite his higher work status in Mexico. According to statistics provided by the documentary ¾ of Americans in the 1980s at the bottom of the…

As observed in the video “Sworn to secrecy” a Jamaica film, the video portrayed a son and daughter that was abused and then abandon by their drug addict mother. They were left at the home of a father whom they have never met before, by their mother, with the hope of being accepted. Their abuse did not stop there but it continued as the daughter was sexually abused by a relative that lived at the house and the son was exploited and forced to do work that he did not wish to participate in. Some…

To survive is to continue to live typically despite of difficult or life- threatening situations. There are many circumstances that could threaten the survival of people. We were all born with the survival instinct, but the ones who are willing to get out of really bad situations, are the ones who lived by fighting life or death choices. Survival can also be in unexpected conditions which arise suddenly such as African refugees escaping from a brutal civil war, a father navigating his wife and…

What the Health? 1. Prior to the film, I consumed a lot of animal based products. On average, I would consume three to four animal products per day. For breakfast, I generally consume a banana, cereal, and bacon. For lunch, I normally get a sandwich, with turkey for the meat, and a side of yogurt. For dinner, I normally make a wrap which contains chicken as the meat and a fruit. Before this film, I did not realize the amount of animal products and animal biproducts I ate on a daily basis. After…

The documentary “Fat’s New Frontier” certainly opened my eyes, and basically put into perspective that there is an epidemic on a global level. This seems alarming to me because the greater part of these countries where encountering starvation in the relatively recent past. There is no doubt about it; we require an alteration in society and the economic system. It is foreseen by 2030, that there will be one billion individuals whom are obese. This is perhaps the most shocking statistic which…