Company Movie Reviews Samples For Students

1). What message does the movie deliver regarding regulation versus “free markets”? Do you think this message is appropriate?
The message that the movie is driving home is that the free market is a hub of corruption. The movie also points out that regulation is necessary to wipe out dishonest tendencies. Throughout the echelons of history, research has shown that markets operate well when there are no regulations. Markets should be self-regulatory to the extent that the principles of demand and supply should take courses. When markets are regulated, it makes it possible for other forces to invade ...

The Corporation is a documentary film that examines the present-day corporation. The film provides information about the advancement of the current business corporations. The film shows how corporations changed from legal entities that originated as chartered institutes by governments to commercial institutes that are entitled to legal rights of a natural person. The film concentrates on corporations in North America. The core theme of the film is the assessment of a companies as ‘personalities’ following the 1886 case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 U.S. 394. In deciding the case, the court based its finding on the Fourteenth ...

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Ethics is an integral part for any organization as all organizations deal with human beings. Ethical theories are put in place by the system so as to protect human and animal rights. This paper discusses the ethical theories that are prevalent in the agriculture and food industry. The purpose of this ethical code of conduct is to protect the animals, the workers and the consumers. There are regulatory bodies such the FDA and the USDA that were set up to ensure that the companies followed a particular code of conduct. The paper analyzes the popular documentary Food ...

Summary of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

In the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, director Alex Gibney tells the story of the fall of the energy company through a series of stories on the characters involved, using a lot of archival videos. Enron was basically a Ponzi scheme, and the scandal was similar to the Bernie Madoff saga of 2008, which was another conspiracy, based on exploiting deregulation and preying on investor greed. The timing is also interesting. Madoff’s scheme fell apart during the recession of 2008, while the Enron bankruptcy occurred right after the “dot-com” bust of 2000. As long as the economy was ...

The tale of the Great Recession is one that has been told and retold countless of times. In the years following the 2007-2008 financial crisis, much has been said in retrospect, and numerous conversations have been initiated with the key players that have made a significant impact in the event. And yet, the story of the financial crisis, and the recession that followed it, is still rife for exploration, particularly in considering the steps which are to be taken to prevent it from happening again. In this regard, it is important to question the matter of accountability. Who were the ...

“The Wolf of Wall Street” is about the glorious uprising and eventual downfall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Based off a book by the real Jordan Belfort, director Martin Scorsese shows us what it was like to work on Wall Street in the 90s. Belfort’s story starts off as him being the typical self-made-man, beginning at the bottom of a tall ladder and being let go after his employer’s firm closed. He takes a job selling penny-stock for companies no one has heard of and quickly creates a niche allowing him to open his own firm, Stratton Oakmont. With commission on penny-stock ...

Documentary Food Inc., directed by Robert Kenner, is telling a story about food industry that is in control by huge corporations. Documentary itself is divided in several smaller portions that are connected. Every topic is well covered and explained, with appropriate witnesses and facts. Sometimes documentary is shocking and hard to believe. Shocking to see enormous fields full of cows that are waiting to be slaughtered and transformed to products. Fields full of corn, so long and wide that seems as there is no end to it. Hard to imagine how is possible to keep human population in dark and ...

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The film ‘Erin Brokovich’ is a true to life story that portrays how a struggling single mother, desperate to have an income and works in a law firm by accident, uncover numerous violation of a certain company called Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) that lead to several unwanted health conditions within the community of Hinkley. The film showcased how Eric became interested with some of the information she learned while working as a clerk and volunteered to conduct her investigation. Erin, not a lawyer herself, visited many residents of Hinkley and won her trust to support ...

Question 1) The ethical issues observed in the video

There are multiple ethical issues observed in the video. They include:
Chuck, who is VP of Engineering at Phaust, has a brother-in-law who is the sales representative for Lutz and Lutz (L&L), a company that sells controls. Fred is initially instructed to purchase controls from L&L, though Wally informs him that the existing relationship has no bearing.
Fred is faced with having to determine whether to line the ponds – a practice legally required in the US – to reduce or avoid toxic/dangerous waste from entering the soil in the area. Even though local laws/regulations are “clearly inadequate,” this is an issue, ...

Movie Review

Like the movie states, “No one in 1744 ever would have thought two Scottish ministers would have created a financial milestone.” Wallace and Webster were two Scottish ministers just as the above sentence declares that established the Scottish Widows Fund, which was the first insurance company. It only became possible after they deduced the exact calculations for how many widows and orphans would remain after their husband’s deaths. They went over and over the formulas until they determined the exact number. Also, they developed the idea of a premium and a pay-out plan from a fund of the premium payments that was ...

Drag racing refers to a form of motor racing where automobiles and motorcycles prepared for the task, two at a time, to cross the finish line first. The race uses a short and straight strip from start, over a measured distance. The most frequently used distance includes the quarter mile range of Nitro methane powered vehicles. The competitors use electronic timing and speed sensing systems to record race results. The origin of drag racing could have started on the dry lake bed. Racers congregated since the early 1930s and raced at speeds of up to 100 mph.
In the early 1940s, the ...

Movie Review: “A tribute to Alvin Ailey with the American Theatre”

Alvin Ailey lived between 1931 and 1989 and in the 58 year, he lived left a legacy in the dance theatre industry. Ailey had a passion in theatre and dancing which led him to pursue choreography as a profession. His passions led him to establish the American Dance Theatre, which he named after himself. Today dancers pay patronage to Ailey`s activism in revolutionizing and popularizing modern African-American dance. Other dancers refer to Ailey as the cultural ambassador from America (DeFrantz, 2004). Apart from dancing, Ailey also served as an activist for the participation of African Americans in the dance concerts that ...

The “Best of Both Worlds” has two storylines adapted from Star Trek: The Next Generation, American science fiction television series. It aims to describe the struggle between the two opposing factions, the Enterprise and the Borg. The Borg intends to conquer Earth, whereas the Enterprise is determined to prevent the Borg from accomplishing this. Before the cube can reach Earth, the Enterprise can destroy the Borg’s protective shield, leaving it/them vulnerable to attack and, therefore, increasing the Enterprise’s chance of success in preventing it/them from conquering Earth. This paper will analyze the second thesis in Cohen's Monster ...

The “Best of Both Worlds” consists of two storylines adapted from Star Trek: The Next Generation, an American science fiction television series. It aims to explain the struggle between the two opposing factions, the Enterprise and the Borg. The Borg intend to conquer Earth, whereas the Enterprise is determined to prevent the Borg from accomplishing this. Before the cube is able to reach Earth, the Enterprise is able to destroy the Borg’s protective shield, leaving it vulnerable to attack and therefore increasing their chance of success in preventing it from conquering Earth. This paper will analyze how the ...

Movie Review: Bhopal Express

The film Bhopal Express is an account of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984. The tragedy which led to the death of more than 8,000 people and systemic injuries to more than 500,000 others was caused by leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide Factory in Bhopal, India (Hazarika, 1987). The film Bhopal Express tells of that sad event through the story of a newlywed couple that is threatened with the genetic aftermaths of the gas tragedy (Nayar, 2004). Against this background, corporations have a duty to protect the communities in which they operate and at all times ...

Business practices comprise numerous standards and principles, which guide the conduct and behavior in the realms of business. There are different stakeholders in the business world such as stakeholders, customers, employees, legal system and various interest groups among others who determine the credibility of certain behaviors. These stakeholders play an imperative role in the society’s determination of what is ethical or not. Boiler room is a movie presenting the story of a young, ambitious and hardworking college drop out offered a position at an off-wall-street brokerage firm. He was assured that he would be able to make millions of dollars, before ...

In the 2010 documentary Waste Land, directors Lucy Walker, Joao Jardim and Karen Harley focuses on the modern artist Vik Muniz, whose works are created with the garbage and recyclables found in one of the biggest landfills in the world – Jardim Gramacho in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Muniz employed people to pick out material from the landfill that was recyclable for Muniz to make mosaics from. The film is an uplifting piece that focuses on the importance of art and conservation at the same time, while also demonstrating the strength of the human spirit in the lives and thoughts ...

Introduction

Lion king is a musical theatre play produced by Disney Film Company in 1994.this was the original play that was produced by Disney Film Company; however, there was a screenplay version of it that was later released by the same company. Therefore, I agree that the original version released in 1994 was theatrical.
Secondly, the way the original play was written describes the whole play and justifies the point that it is a theatrical play. The play style of writing involves a prologue, act one, and act two and for that reason it justifies the point that it is theatrical (Farndon 2000 ...

What is corporation?

In the very beginning a corporation, as an institution, is being compared with many things or animals. The narrator in the film stated, that: “a corporation is one form of business ownership; group of individuals working together, to serve a variety of objectives, the principal one of which is earning large growing sustained legal returns for the people, who own the business” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw). As the understanding of the law evolved, and with the 14th Amendment passed in Congress, a corporation became a “legal person” that has a right to sell and buy, take a loan or lend money, sue anyone and be sued, basically all of ...

Business Law

Facts: The documentary began by showing the lead character of Kenneth Lay who later became the founder of the company called “Enron” that was incorporated in 1985. His credentials include a degree in business course in at the University of Missouri and University of Houston, where Lay completed a Ph.D. degree in economics in the year 1970 (Clinard and Meier, 2008, p. 180). Prior to the incorporation of Enron, he started as an executive in an energy company during the 1980s at the time of then President Ronald Reagan. This became his stepping stone to merge two companies: Houston Natural Gas ...

The youtube video found on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_L8efaJ-E is called “Psychoanalytic Therapy Session” and is produced by Dr. Glenn Gabbard in 1988. It purports to show a clinical vignette that portrays “Free association, transference, resistance and dream interpretation.” In it’s portrayal it is largely an accurate overview of the themes while remaining short enough to be digestible and comprehended quickly. The movie is oriented in psychodynamic theory that was originally put together by Freud.
The movie clearly showed free association with the patient laid out on the sofa and the therapist just encouraging him to relate anything, from which we ...

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This paper is based on the analysis of videos related to marketing. In order to analyze the videos, ideas from ‘the successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies’ have been used. According to Abrams and Abrams (2003), marketing plan and sales strategy are the core component of a business. In order to stay in business, it is important for companies to reach customers as well as to secure sales. The sales strategy and marketing plan of an organization are reviewed closely by investors. The potential funders want to identify whether the methods used for generating sales are appropriate ...

(1).Typically, anyone one who has been injured because of the negligence of another is entitled to recover two types of damages, compensatory damages and punitive damages. Compensatory damages are meant to compensate for the emotional, financial, and physical damage that the victim has suffered. There are two types of compensatory damages, monetary losses (financial losses), and non-monetary losses (pain and suffering caused by injury, etc.). Punitive damages are meant to punish the person who has caused the injury, and these damages are only awarded under special circumstances. It is apparent that the damages that a plaintiff in a personal injury ...

One of the most intriguing facts about the dystopian genre is that it did not appear until humanity had almost reached its apex in terms of knowledge and technology. The horrors of the First and Second World Wars showed that humanity would use its very best in terms of technology to do its very worst to one another, as mustard gas, hand grenades, nuclear bombs, and death camps made their first appearances on the planet. Led by such writers as George Orwell, the early practitioners of dystopian literature showed us our own future as it would be if human ...

Inside Job Questions

In Inside Job, the 2007-2010 financial crisis is examined over the course of five sections, noting the deregulation of the American economy and its effects on financial security and the ethical practices of many large corporations. In essence, the financial crisis and America's major economic woes are painted as a result of substantial changes in policy environments on the part of big banks and the financial services industry. The theme is about the dangers of privatization and lack of government oversight, as the banks are shown to be incredibly opportunistic and greedy. Deregulation is shown to facilitate major corporate crime ...

The consequences for granting exemptions to U.S. federal labour laws to garment subcontractors operating on Saipan was that they could pay the workers a fraction of the minimum wage, work them harder in poor conditions and for longer hours.
This proves that the neoliberal agenda breeds the growth of inequality as the multinational corporations will naturally move their factories to countries that allow exploitation of third workers, free trade only benefits the one percent, the other ninety nine percent are left without jobs in their own countries because all the factories have moved to third world countries to save ...

Introduction

The film, The Secrets of my Success, is a viewed as a comedy that presents a young and determined business man who continues his business ambitions by strategizing on business oriented plans that consequently brings his company into a better position and outweighing the competitors. By just reading an email that passed through his hands, Fox devises a defined and brilliant project of streaming his uncle’s multinational corporation. The film presents the ladders that brilliant business individuals should undertake in moving a company to better heights. However, one can clearly see the integration of personal issues in business where Britney interacts sexually with a fellow ...

Introduction

When a company outsources a product or service to another company and that company that has been outsourced with the service/product performs poorly, there are ways to correct this. Hanfield and Krause (2007), argue that there are three ways to correct low services from the supplier: either improve the supplier, change the supplier or bring the process to internal developmemt. Hanfield and Krause (2007) further argue that it is better to developthe supplier becaue of cost and logistics. When undertaklinmg supplier development, it isimportant to ensure that both parties commit to the process both in labor and resources and cost. Supplier ...

‘Startup.com’ is a 2001 documentary film that features Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman. The film documents the rise and fall of GovWorks, an e-commerce website founded by the above mentioned characters. Kaleil and Tom created the website GovWorks just when the internet phenomenon had begun to pick up speed around the globe. The purpose of their creation was to allow the government to carry out business transactions such as filing building permits and payment of parking tickets with its constituents. The business idea aimed at making it easier for constituents to avoid the hassles of interacting with their governments ...

The video, Big Bucks, Big Pharma, really went into detail about how the shift of approach on how drugs are marketed has led to a very compromising involvement of the pharmaceutical companies, well beyond just marketing, but into every aspect, from initial drug development and throughout the entire process. Pharmaceutical companies has become a major influencing force in how people view even the most minor of issues into major ailments that need to be treated, all for the sake of profits. Even natural character traits, such as shyness has been distorted into “social anxiety disorder” that can be treated with a prescription. ...

Essentials of Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior is a study that has something to do with the way how people or groups of people inside an organization interact (Dalton, 2000). The different groups of people and how they interact is the bread and butter of this field of study. There are several principles and variables that affect how people interact in an environment. Most of these principles have psychological and sociological roots (Fill, 2003). Organizational behavior is often confused with other fields of study like Human Resource Management, and Organizational and Industrial Psychology. While there may be similarities and links between these fields of study, ...

The first evidence is given where the film featured the production of different categories of meat, pork, chicken and beef by many food companies. This showed how these companies destroy the food by adding different preservatives and how the food is processed using different chemicals, which are very harmful environmentally and to humans. The second evidence is given where the film focused on the production of vegetables and grains. It gave a specific example of production of soya beans and primary corn. It also labeled this as environmentally and economically unsustainable.
The other evidence used in the film is ...

The movie starts with the statement of W.H. Auden “Thousands had lived without love, not one without water”. The opening quote has given the movie FLOW, short for “For the Love of Water” a brief message of what to be expected from the documentary movie by 2008 Irene Salina. The documentary movie is a timely tackles the global issue currently faced by everyone – that is the continuously diminishing supply of fresh water and potable water used by humans. Aside from showing how valuable water is for humans to live, it also investigates how water is being wasted and polluted by various ...

Part I Clip 1

1.The primary focus of the clip is the organization, where Carter works. However, it also looks at a bigger picture with the consideration of organizational stakeholders, such as its employees, business partners, who were influenced by the political issues around the company, etc.
2. Carter’s understanding of the relationships within the organization and in particular towards employees is extremely pragmatic. The need to cut costs by firing people has been evaluated by him only from the financial prospective, while the ethical aspect of the issue does not seem to concern Carter. This attitude, however, does not fit into ...

Movie Review

In this clip Teddy K is quite forceful in his leadership characteristics as he seems to take hold of the situation and provides a rather forceful attempt to solve it. Still his use of words is occasionally quite hollow and he is definitely more out to impress than to actually cut to the core of what is happening. So in a sense Teddy is both offering leadership qualities but is rather short of charisma anyway.

What kind of leadership does Dan (Dennis Quaid) represent in this scene?

Dennis is a quiet and rather reserved person but he can also be of firm disposition. Although he is less blustery than teddy he still seems to ...

HealthSouth Corporation is located in Birmingham, Alabama and it is the largest operator of the inpatient hospitals. Their business model incorporates three major businesses: rehabilitation, hospitals and surgery. Lower cost and the atmosphere, which reminds a spa rather than a medical institution, made HealthSouth one of the most successful companies in Alabama already in the first few years of its existence. However, the outstanding performance of the company was not always supported by the actual success. Today Aaron Beam, co-founder and former CFO of HealthSouth, remembers the time, when he was forced to falsify accounting reports in order to meet performance ...

The Merchants of Cool is a PBS documentary which deals with how young people are completely influenced by the material culture which surrounds them every day. The principal problem Rushkoff presents is the fact that young people are extremely gullible and will do anything to look cool and please their peers with the resultant fact that they end up purchasing things and gadgets which they do not really need.
Under the Radar marketing is continually practiced by several firms who make use of sophisticated marketing techniques to enquire what young people deem to be cool thus then passing on ...

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In the documentary film, “Fed Up,” there is a frightening look inside America’s health crisis involving obesity. The lack of real food in American diets is to blame. The entities behind creating this problem are the big corporations in America that manufacture these foods. These “foods” are processed foods, with high sugar content that can lead to numerous health problems including heart disease and diabetes. Advertisers are marketing processed foods made of high sugar content to young children and putting sugar into the formulas to get them while they’re young. They have people hooked on sugar, ...

Corporations have been blamed for so many problems in the world. Chief among these is air, land and water pollution. Mining firms and oil companies have also been blamed for vast, environmental degradation. Not only have they abused nature, but also they have abused people as well. To lower costs, they exploit impoverished workers in developing countries. Corporations clearly have a great influence on government, the entire community and even the environment. Unfortunately, this influence has been used in a bad way, mainly for the benefit of the corporations especially their owners and senior officers, leading to the abuse ...

Watching the movie, “The Corporation” is an eye opener for me. One of the things that struck me is the statement made by Michael Moore that the main motivation of corporations is the bottom-line, that is, to make as much profit as they can. It is saddening that most corporations only take into consideration their stockholders, without concern for their other stakeholders such as their employees and customers. Moore mentions further that for corporations, “there is no such thing as enough”. From the movie, I also learned that it is legal for corporations to put profit over the public ...

Assignment # 1

Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

This documentary provides a challenging environment to the economy of America. This documentary shows a competitive relationship between producers and big retailers represented by Wal-Mart, who contribute to some of the American businesses becoming bankrupt and increasing the rate of unemployment. Wal-Mart came up with low-cost shopping at outsourcing at large sellers after lesser local companies. Those who are winners or losers are examined as discussed as shown here;

International retailers have superseded producers in decision making concerning the type, quality of products, and price.

They ensure that the Americans can afford to purchase Chinese goods which are low priced as compared to products made in America. This is a ...

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Introduction
The following paper is a movie review for the movie “Inside Job” used as an example to discuss various aspects of business ethics. The paper will discuss what ethical or unethical business decisions were taken into account in the movie along with the stance of the movie maker or characters about those ethical or unethical practices. The paper will also analyze the rationales behind those decisions and what lessons can be learned and what steps can be taken to ensure more ethical business decisions by an organization.
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Assignment 1

1. Amazon changed shopping by changing the value proposition for the consumer by facilitating them with online shopping experience, providing convenience, low price, and selection from a wide variety of merchandise.
2. Amazon’s value proposition is to focus on the matters, solving problems of prime members, identifying pains and gains of prime members, never running of necessary items or essentials, and providing comfort and peace of mind to customers.
3. Amazon’s strategy was different as compared to other companies at the time it started because it focused on selling books online, and then strengthened its ...

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In “The New Rules of the Game” episode of the “Commanding Heights,” it asserts that trade in the context of globalization is uncontrollable. It said that the governments in the third world countries should adapt to the fast developments or else their economies will collapse. The documentary made it appear that after the fall of communism, capitalism flourished through free trade that caused governments’ economies to thrive. Although it presented that the system has further widen the gap between the rich and the poor, it did not suggest solutions that will control the unpredictable ...

The video highlights the activities of the National Public Health Week with the overarching theme being the transformation of the systems in order to achieve a healthy nation. The American Public Health Association organized different themes for the various days of the week (American Public Health Association, 2014). The themes reflected the focus areas and the goals of the association towards the achievement of the Healthy Nation 2030 objectives. Even with the different focus areas, one aspect that transcended all the themes and focus areas was the aspect of sustainability in health care. One of the themes entailed promoting ...

One of the top most grossing industries or sectors in the contemporary society is the entertainment industry. Increasing standards of living around the world have allowed individuals to accumulate bigger disposable incomes. Lifestyle changes continue to arise within the contemporary society owing to the growing, improving incomes. Consumables that were previously unprofitable have since become among day-to-day products. The growing entertainment industry is one such sector. The focus of this paper is to analyze the industry, growth process, and evolution of the cinema industry in India.
The growth of the movie sector is one of the indicators of a ...

The documentary film Mardi Gras: Made in China was directed by David Redmon and won a large number of awards. There are many films about the pros and cons of globalization for the USA and China, but this film is in many ways unique. The director shows how difficult the production process of the beads is and at the same time how meaninglessly the beads are used in New Orleans during the Mardi Grass celebrations. By means of the contrast scenes and focus on the beads, which are useless products, the film makes the viewers sympathize with the Chinese ...

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For the CEO position, I choose “Gordon Gekko” from the movie “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”. This is because Gekko possesses the qualities of an organizational leader who can make everyone in the organization move with with just a snap of the finger. In the movie, Gordon was able to get the attention of the people after imprisonment by writing a book. Even though Winnie did not accept Gekko, Gordon never stops to please Winnie with the help of Jacob. However, there is an instance where Gecko needs to cheat Jacob because Gordon wanted get the money which ...

The movie I chose to analyze is Save The Tiger. The movie revolves around Harry Stoner (Jack Lemmon) and his life as his company nears ruin. The biggest issue facing Stoner is what he will do to keep himself afloat as his company begins to fall apart. It is a strange position to be in as it is at this point, when money and coldly logical decisions need to be made, when ethics matter the most. It is easy for a person to be ‘good’ and attempt to become a better person when everything is going their way but when trouble comes ...

Movie Review of Erin Brockovich

Introduction
“It only takes a single act of kindness to turn the world around and put yourself at the center of it.” If there is one statement that could describe the plot of the film Erin Brockovich, the beginning statement captures everything. Erin Crockovich is a true story of a woman who fought the ill practice of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). Released in 2000, the film that stars Julia Robert was a biographical sketch of how a single mother has been able to overcome the challenges presented her coming from an accident and an unsuccessful lawsuit. While the film was a success, ...

The film is an illuminating illustration of the dearth of ethical and legal frameworks of operations in some businesses. While the case is an extreme exaggeration, it nonetheless presents some ethical and legal issues that current industry players fail to observe. This paper shall discuss some of the legal and ethical issues that surface and briefly recommend the ways to go about solving these issues. However, before proceeding to the issues, it is essential to address the two questions presented at the end of the film. The questions are what one would have done as the CEO instead of ...

The Name of the Class

Cross-Cultural Experiences in the movie “Outsourced”
The customs and cultures of India were developed by the country’s traditions that date back almost a few thousands of years. The significance most of these cultural behavior and traditions have in the people of India can be elusive to the average American. For instance, the picture of Kaali (the goddess of destruction), carrying the severed head of a man, hung on the wall of Todd’s (the protagonist) bedroom, is quite a disconcerting picture for the average American. But in India, it is a picture of relief. Similarly, the intermittent animal ( ...

Sicko is a documentary film with the focus on depicting cons of the U.S. health care system. The primary theme of this movie is a failure of the U.S. government to create an effective health care system, so all U.S. citizens receive adequate and affordable medical treatment. Moore, the author of the documentary film, shows that in other developed countries, such as Canada, France, Great Britain, health care system is publicly funded, and governments provide various services and reimburse all out-of-pocket payments. Moore states that according to the World Health Organization, health care system of the United States is ...

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The case that was tried in “A Civil Action” pertained to a case that was based on events that happened in Woburn, Massachusetts, (A Civil Action). The events that led up to the court case were the fact that six families filed suit against W.R. Grace & Co. due to the fact that their chemical plant that manufactured food-processing equipment had improper disposal of toxic chemicals that polluted the local ground water that flowed to the two local municipal wells, (A Civil Action). This improper disposal of these chemicals was believed to cause leukemia for several local residents, (A Civil ...

Inside Job: Story of the Crisis

The Oscar winning movie “Inside Job” is a documentary on the financial crisis of 2008, showing a chain of events leading up to the final crisis and the aftermath following. Inside Job takes its cue from the Reagan administrations move to relax rules on banks and other business during the 1980’s, leading to a huge boom in the financial sector. Over the next 30 years, the gradual removal of rules continued such as the dropping of the Glass-Steagall barrier between deposit and investment banking. The growth of the securitization market at the same time lead to a boom ...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a film directed by Ben Stiller. It is worth noting that he is also the lead actor and producer of the film. It is based on the best-selling book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty authored by James Thurber. The objective of this paper is to look at the story of how Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) gave meaning to the various objects scenes that can be found and watched (respectively) in the movie. This theatrical analysis will focus on two things: the meanings and story and plot analysis.
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The movie I have selected to analyze is The China Syndrome. This movie highlights how journalism and media play a huge role in checking how large and potentially dangerous corporations work. At the beginning of the movie, Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon) is seen putting the Ventana nuclear reactor into an emergency shutdown because of the coolant going to dangerously low temperatures. The whole idea was that if the core had melted and drained into the earth (which is called ‘China Syndrome) it would have contaminated all the groundwater in the area and made the whole place radioactive. This means that ...

One lucky elephant is an American film that was directed by Lisa Leeman. This film is about the human-animal relationship and focuses on the story of the founder of Flora animal circus Mr. David Balding- and an endangered young elephant from Africa. David names this elephant Flora, and the story unfolds about their journey to find a good ad nurturing home for Flora the elephant. David had rescued the animal when it was very young and decided to keep it in his circus where he used it as the star attraction. He had brought up that animal that he sometimes ...

The Great Depression was a severe global economic meltdown that happened in the decade that preceded the Second World War. The time of the recession differed from country to country, but it was from 1930 till late 1930s and mid 1940s in some countries. The second film in the Great Depression Series by PBS, The Road to Rock Bottom, critically looks at the problems that faced farmers in United States before and during the Great Depression. The film examines the predicament of farmers, agricultural workers and sharecroppers. The focus is on the effects of harsh environmental factors such as drought ...

‘Black Gold’ is film about the production of coffee in Ethiopia which is the known to be birthplace of coffee. It focuses on the plight of the Ethiopian workers who spend endless days and nights harvesting a crop that is their only source of income. The coffee industry is a multi billion industry that has seen the GDPs of International countries rise as the major exporters of this treasured commodity continue to remain impoverished (‘Black Gold’).

My take on the movie

With America being the country that consumes the most coffee in the world .This movie was an eye opener for the way the role of ...