Cruelty Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
The film, Goya’s Ghosts (2006), is a seminal work in the history of cinema. The director, Miloš Forman, creates an ever-lasting impression on the minds of the audience with his quintessential depiction of the life and works of the eminent artist. The central thrust of the film is the issue of state-sponsored usage of torture that was prevalent in Spain in 1792.
Forman and Jean-Claude Carrière, the co-writer of the film, have depicted the character of the protagonist as an inspired artist who endeavors to balance between earning his ...

English 225 Introduction To Film

The film “The Elephant Man” is an iconic and powerful humanistic filmmaking endeavor. Released in 1980, the film relates the story of Joseph Carey Merrick, the real-life figure who was born with a horrible deformity and had to deal with issues of humanity and discrimination in 19th century London. Through the use of compelling performances, assured and minimalistic direction, and a stark, Victorian Gothic aesthetic, director David Lynch forces the horrors and sadness of deformity onto the audience in a way that leaves the viewer tear choked with sadness and sympathy. Most people who watch the film are touched in a way that ...

The film captures the atmosphere of alienation of people who have been taken away from their own being, people who have been forced to adopt new methods and cultures which are not part of them. The “new home”, which happens to be the school where the children are taken is a place filled with cruelty, fear, and abuse. The original home of the children was a place built with love and care, where people were proud of their culture and languages (Miller, 84). The children lead a dull life, full of mistreatments and agony while the teachers enjoy everything. ...

Shot in 2008, “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is a historical drama film by the British director Mark Herman on the Holocaust during the World War II. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by John Boyne. The theme of a fine line between those who happened to be on the aggressor’s side and those on the victim’s side won the audience’s hearts and made the film noticeable among others dedicated to the World War II. The movie stars David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend. “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is ...

The situation on the HSM Bounty presents an excellent opportunity for studying organizational behavior, administration, and organizational decline. In particular, the film Mutiny on the bounty deals with issues such as attitudes towards leadership, toxic leadership, communication, ethics, and organizational culture. In the film, the HMS Bounty was commissioned by the English government on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. William Bligh served as captain, the first time he was holding that position on a ship. Fletcher Christian, a man from a distinguished and wealthy family, serves as his second-in-command. Before ...

The movie Rabbit Proof Fence was released in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce. It is about the treatment of Aborigines and their children in Australia. This movie depicts the policies which the government introduced in 1970. The plot revolves around the issue of slavery at the time when this practice no longer existed in the democracy in West. This is a very realistic story based on true facts about racism.
The film succeed in telling the story because it describes the hardships of the children of Aborigines who used to be separated from their families in order to be ...

What makes a human? Is it supreme power above all other creatures of the Earth or the highest compassion and responsibility? Which of them is genuine to human nature and our attitude to the world we live in? The documentary Earthlings is dedicated to finding the right answers to these questions. It tells about the way we manage our relationships with nature and its inhabitants. It tells about and shows unpleasant things most of us not only did not know about but moreover would not like to hear about or see. The way we behave with animals be wild ...

The movie “Ma vie en rose” raises serious enough issue of modern society. Ticklish story of gender identity of the child is shown through the prism of funny stories, which often raise a smile, but not leave aside seriousness of the problem of lack of society`s understanding of people who are not like others. This movie through a story of a seven-year boy, who did not do anything bad to anyone and wants to be a girl, but faces the cruelty of the world, shows one of the most critical issues of genderization.
This film is a stunningly ...

For a long time, I have wanted to watch “Precious”, and I finally did that. I did not expect that it would be so heartbreaking and abstruse. I did not expect that “Precious” would affect me so strongly. What I saw shocked me, and no other film has accurately managed to realize my idea of the cruelty of life.
The film impressed me because it was filmed sincerely, and the purpose of it was to show people what life can be and to evoke a response from viewers` hearts, protecting them from similar errors that could be made. Therefore, "Precious" ...

in the Movie “Vénus Noire” by Abdellatif Kechiche

Abstract

Sarah Baartman is not the name known by every person, only a few are aware of the facts about her ordinary but at the same time, tragic life. Among the different sources of getting to know the biography of Sarah Baartman, there is a fabulous feature film "Vénus Noire", which exposes “the Hottentot Venus period” of life of this woman till her death. The film review presented in this paper was influenced by the Africa study. Although the world cinematography covers a wide variety of films dedicated to the race discrimination "Vé ...

Movie Review

Review on Pulp Fiction movie by Quentin Tarantino.
Pulp Fiction is a movie directed by a Quentin Tarantino who is famous for his non-standard approach that can be hardly confused with any other movies. Pulp Fiction was released in 1994 and, undoubtedly, it is the best incarnation of all Tarantino’s unusual ideas; this is the movie which brought a fresh air into the world of cinema and led to appearance of such movies as “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, “Snatch” and many other great movies which were shot in the same manner under its influence.
So, the first ...

The film Full Metal Jacket was directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1987 (IMDB), 20 years after the events described in the movie. It depicts several crucial moments of the Vietnam War, the Battle in Hue and the Tet Offensive, and trainings before. First of all, soldiers’ training does not seem to be realistic because of its cruelty and sarcasm from Hartman, the Senior Drill Instructor. Hartman treats soldiers in a way that hardly can be called humane. Yet the main aim of these episodes is to show that training is not a holiday and that soldiers should be prepared to all ...

12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen’s film, 12 Years a Slave, is an adaptation of the autobiographic novel, Twelve Years a Slave, penned by Solomon Northup. The film documents the life of the protagonist, a free black individual, who is tricked by a duo and sold off as a slave. How Northup bears with the brunt of life and copes up with the drudgeries and torments of slavery evokes the emotion of the audience and quintessentially portrays the evil of slavery which has left a lasting mark in the lives of the community. Chiwetel Ejiofor acts well in the role of the protagonist.
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