Ethics Movie Reviews Samples For Students

At the point when a youthful lady named Meryem (Özgü Namal) was assaulted, her town custom obliges that she was murdered in place for the disrespect to be erased from her crew. A junior man named Cemal (Murat Han), the child of the town pioneer, is given the undertaking yet ultimately he has questions. The pair goes on the run, emulated close behind by nearby hooligans expectation on murdering the young lady. Fortunately enough, Cemal and Meryem get together with an appealing man named Irfan, an ex-college educator who is leaving on a cruising outing, and needs a group. ...

J.J. Abrams’ serialized television drama LOST follows the stories of a group of survivors of a violent airplane crash on a deserted island, stuck without any hope of rescue and beholden to the mysterious forces that govern their new home. In its pilot episode, the filmmakers of LOST firmly establish the recurring theme of good vs. evil that establishes the characters’ journeys in their island setting. This is done through a combination of visual motifs, symbolism, and character moments juxtaposed through flashbacks and editing. Throughout the course of the pilot, the flaws, alignments and attitudes of the characters are ...

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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 ...

‘The Suicide Plan’ is a ninety minute documentary film that reflects the shadows of assisted suicides. The main focus of the movie revolves round incidents that dictate underground actualities people who assist others to make an end to their lives. The movie portrays personal stories to establish its relevance with the frequency of the suicides around the United States. Assisted suicide is illegal in almost all the states.
The Suicide Plan is directed, produced and written by Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor. It represents a vital conversation which is directly linked with the humanity itself. It is worth to ...

Introduction

Christians have been the radicals at the forefront of the abortion debate that has undoubtedly raged on in a sea of opinions for ages. People are differently opinioned when it comes to the sensitive subject that ignites a lot of medical, moral, and legal debates. The Christians still maintain a negative force towards abortion, which they identify as being against the doctrines of biblical teachings and morality. Christians maintain that an abortion amounts to the murder of an innocent person, and cite this together with other immorality arguments. In a country like the USA today, half of the pregnancies ...

Introduction

Super Size Me, the 2004 documentary directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, explored Spurlock’s own experimentation with going on a McDonald’s-only diet for a consecutive thirty days. Being a vegetarian and generally active person, this transformation became incredibly dramatic, with dramatic changes in weight, mood, chemical makeup, sex drive and more. The documentary poses the question of how culpable McDonald’s customers are in their own health habits, or whether or not McDonald’s themselves are responsible for the increasing obesity and health problems found in America. Looking at these questions, and the documentary itself, through the ...

Communication

Movie Review: My sister’s keeper
My Sister’s Keeper is a movie which confronts the complicated subjects of reproductive and genetic technologies. Anna is the donor child who continues playing this role for the past thirteen years. However, she decides to stop playing this role when her parents want her to donate one of her kidney to keep Kate alive.
The novel displays ethical dilemmas faced by each character. One of the significant ethical dilemma displayed in this movie is whether it is correct to sacrifice one child to save the life of another child. Kate was diagnosed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Movie Review: A Civil Action

Movie Review: A Civil Action
Based on a novel of Jonathan Harr, this movie called “A Civil Action” depicts the story of two lawyers who are at loggerheads—Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta) and Jerome Facher (Robert Duvall). The issue revolves around the death of 12 children who suffered from leukemia. In this movie, Jan Schlichtmann contends that the death of the 12 children could be attributed to the pollution caused by the two major corporations called W. R. Grace and Beatrice. However, Jerome Facher takes the opposite side, and presents his counterarguments against Schlichtmann that neither the pollution nor ...

The Blind side

John Lee Hancock is behind the scenes in the film The Blind Side. Alcon Entertainment produced the sports drama film, and its central character is Michael Oher, a star player in football. The Blind Side is an interesting piece of art top watch with its hilarious and captivating story flow. The film is based on a true story to portray the events that shape and change the starring of the film.
The story is told by use of flash to allow the viewer to link the current action in the film and the reason for them to be acted ...

- Ethical business practices that take into account the needs of the major stakeholders.
- Conclusion
- Cultural differences and racial tensions.
- Peaceful coexistence and doing the right thing’.
- The right thing to everyone

Introduction

The film reviewed, Do the Right Thing. The film is the 1889 creation of Spike Lee. The film revolves around one day in the life of the people of Brooklyn with a focus on the underlying social and racial strains in the neighborhood.
Thesis: In a society, “doing the right thing” is not only relative but also premised on a number of varying ...

“American History X” is a crime drama that was filmed in 1998 by Tony Kaye. This movie is one of the deepest and most powerful films, and it is almost impossible to find weaknesses in it. It is also a heavy social drama that affects one of the acutest problems of modern America – interracial conflicts.
“American History X” is the name of the school essay and also the name of American Tragedy of modern times. The main characters made a mutual hatred as a manner of their life and their thoughts. Hatred is the air they breathe; it is ...

The movie Serpico is a representation of the kind of life that was led one Frank Serpico, who a police officer was serving the nation. At the face value, Frank Serpico seems to be excellent and perfect. This is because all the tasks and duties that he is accorded he accomplishes them in good time and does them to the satisfaction and acceptance of the seniors. Thus, in all respects and fairness, it is worth to mention that Frank Serpico is an outstanding and diligent officer who excels at his duty post or station. This phenomenon presents an ethical ...

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Shakespeare’s Richard III, is a play that has betrayal, murder, power struggles, a little wickedness and, finally, evil; not triumphing at the end.
Although there is a movie based upon the play, the play will be best suited performed in a theater. First of all, the movie was not true to the original text of the play, something that has always been preserved in theater when the play was performed in 1930’s.
Another thing that sets RICHARD III in theater apart from the movie version of the play is the fast pace accumulated throughout the play. ...

The Inconvenient Truth is a documentary movie from Philip Davis Guggenheim, an American film director and producer. He is well known for his professional approach and has produced and directed three documentaries in addition to score of other movies. He has the honor of being one of those filmmakers who released three different documentaries ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. This paper describes the movie in second paragraph, an evaluation of the movie in next five paragraphs and a conclusion in last paragraph.
The Inconvenient Truth is about the threat of global warming and persuasively ...

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 ...

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 ...

Business Ethics

Recent decades have witness intensive debate and researches on the significant of business ethics in modern workplaces. Although researches on business ethics are still at infant stage, researchers have universally agreed on some basic significant of business ethics to both individual’s development and organisation productivity. Business ethics regards to values that focus on moral features in commercial activities. Ethics are also professional and applied virtues that explore ethical problems, morals, and ethical principles that emerge in the business environment. Ethics addresses individual’s conducts in a business while revolving other critical business conducts. Business ethics mainly comprises of ...

Movie Review: “The Emperor's Club” (2002)

Introduction

The Emperor's Club (2002) is an American film produced and directed by Michael Hoffman. The film presents a story of a renowned teacher who fixes candidates’ results in an academic competition. The intension of fixing the results in the competition was to ensure that, a well-connected student wins the competition in expense of other students. The film presents William Hundert as a prominent educator with a strong reputation due to his past character and experience in the film industry. Although Hundert was successfully in developing an educative film, his work presents some weaknesses ( ...

In the 20/20 special “Race and Sex: What We Think But Can’t Say,” host Joel Stossel consults with a variety of experts on numerous topics related to the subject of stereotypes. The segment’s argument is that, while stereotypes are typically seen as harmful, are stereotypes based on truth immoral to vocalize or have? We often have stereotypes about people; cultural stereotypes often include black people being good at sports or dancing, gay people being effeminate and being predisposed to certain occupations, and more. Many people believe these are terrible things to do, but the documentary also posits ...

Abstract

Health is a problem that concerns everyone in the population. Weather it is the ethical aspects regarding IVF treatment or medical engineering, or the fact that health care costs are on the rise and the number of doctors are decreasing. The first set of documentaries viewed concerning healthcare ethics, brought up points for and against the practices in regards to the medical community, the people involved, and the religious aspects of it all. The news documentary viewed brought up many aspects on why healthcare costs are rising, and what is going on now in our state and federal legislature ...

In the film Brick by Rian Johnson, Brendan receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend Emily who begs him for help and mentions about a ‘brick’ over phone. Brendan later finds her dead body and takes on the charge of solving the murder with the help of a friend Brain and conceals the body from police. He traces The Pin, mentioned by Emily, who is a drug baron and persuades him and joins his gang. Dode had seen Brendan hide Emily’s body and threatens to ruin him. In the meanwhile, Brain gets to know of “poor Firsco” who ...

The Coen Brothers have, one may say created an absolute masterpiece of a movie, which some may say is an amalgamation of the Wild West movies of old and a horror story. “The wide open plains, cowboys, Texas, guns and horses but has the syntax of a film noir even sometimes a horror movie. There is a murderer, one could even call him an unstoppable force, he kills without mercy and with a semi-novelty killing device. It deals with a man who finds a loot of money and must escape his pursuers who are a bunch of dirty business ...

Introduction

Oedipus the King is a play by Sophocles in which Christopher Plummer lays the role of the psychologically disturbed Oedipus. This play is about a successful kingdom, which begins to fall apart as the king discovers that he had killed his own father and married his mother. The play carries a strong message or moral lesson. The moral lesson is so clear in the play. Prophecies and fate should not control life. The play reinforces the idea that we should strive to do what is right and shy away from doing what is wrong since it comes with consequences. ...

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 ...

A. Phil tries to kill himself because he is bored.1. Why does Phil become bored? He was enjoying his life of pleasure for quite awhile. Why does it stop being pleasurable? (20%)
In the movie Groundhog Day, Phil was in a situation where his day was repeated over and over. He was very confused and missed up because he didn’t actually know what to do. Phil though he was sick or that he was dreaming. Unfortunately it was real, so he decided to take advantage of it by doing everything he wanted - sleeping with girls, disobeying rules, ...

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 ...

Section A – Member Roles

One very particular juror in 12 Angry Men is the juror no. 8. As the author of the movie described him, he is a quiet man, who sees all sides of every question and always seeks truth (Rose, ). In the body of the jury, this juror no. 8 portrays the role of convincing the rest of the 11 members to truly look at the case before making a final decision on whether the boy – who is sent to the court for being accused of a crime – is guilty or not. Throughout the play, ...

Touch of evil is an originally 1958 produced film that is based on ambiguities, fractures and unresolved tensions. It is one of the last film noir to be produced. The film is most famous for its opening scene where for three minutes we see one of the greatest takes in cinematic history, according to cinematic critiques. Lots of ambiguity is seen throughout the movie where we see one cop being rather unlawful planting evidence so as to prosecute certain people who he deems as guilty. This same policeman is said to work with another good policeman.

The good policeman ...

How to decide which films to watch

Personally, I decide the film I have to watch by using many features. Some of them include the following: mood, environment, who I am watching with, the nature of the film, and the moral lesson that the film has. The mood in this case tells us about the feelings towards the characters in the film. The question that I need to ask myself is “am I going to enjoy it?” Often, I normally watch to relive pain, to get comfort and even to settle my mind. Environment refers to the surrounding. I have to consider current surrounding i.e. the ...

In Zack Snyder's film adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300, a group of Spartans, led by Leonidas (Gerard Butler) engage on a bloody and patriotic campaign of destruction in order to defend Sparta from the oppressive, mercurial and mythic Persians, led by Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro). In this film, the value of community responsibility is placed above all else, as the 300 Spartans are tasked with the ultimate defense of their homeland without fail. Many instances of mythological symbolism occur in the film; Leonidas kicking the messenger down what seems to be a bottomless well, after declaring "THIS ...

Interpersonal conflict is in every part of our lives. Apparently, even a movie can’t go without it. It gives many movies the ground from which they can then blossom. The movie “Hitch” gives a clear example of an interpersonal conflict. The two characters of the story, Alex and Sara, get into a fight over simple miscommunication.
These two people who have only recently met make a common mistake. They don’t tell the whole story and don’t stop to listen. If only Alex had told Sara about what he does, how he does it and in which ...

Analysis: “Out of the Past”

Out of the Past is one of the classics of the American film noir genre, staring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas in one of the classic twisted plots that is a hallmark of this milieu. Joe Stephanos is searching for Jeff Bailey, who has enamored local girl Ann Miller, but who has also attracted the suspicions of the law – and of Ann’s father. Stephanos finds Bailey and takes him to see Whit Sterling, who has been hunting for him, over a matter of $40,000. Bailey and one of his former loves had swindled Sterling out ...

The Lord of the Rings is a movie that portrays high imagination of the twentieth century perception of the natural existence of evil and good and their manifest in the society. The author depicts an era where an individual has no power over evil and against fate irrespective of the place that one lives. The ring is portrayed to posses the power that influences or changes any person who handles it to become evil minded and carry out evil actions (Chance p.1).

Themes

War between good and evil
This film is entirely revealing the struggle that exists between evil and ...

Introduction

Saito and Nicholson are two different leaders from different communities with Saito being a British and Nicholson being a Japanese colonel. Even though the two men are similar in many ways like being loving, having pride and being dedicated to what they do, the two colonels are from different cultures which encompass different leadership styles.

Saito

He is a Japanese colonel who believes in commanding people to work despite their ranks. Saito is a transactional leader because he had personal interests in pushing even the officers to work. He knew if the bridge will not be completed in time, he ...

Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway tells the tale of an aspiring playwright (John Cusack) who quickly discovers he has no talent, even as he schemes with the mob to finance his first play. Eventually, he soon falls into adultery and plagiarism, along with all the typical jabs at the moviemaking business typical of a Woody Allen picture on the subject. However, at the same time, it also discusses ideas of how to find one's calling in life, and how our passions may not necessarily be our strengths. In that sense, it touches on ideas of eudaimonia - the enlightenment ...

Oliver Parker’s version of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is a witty horror movie that captures subtlety of Oscar Wilde’s writing. The movie is somewhat different from previous attempts of screening the story about a young and handsome Dorian Gray.

The setting of the movie takes place in 19th century London. Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes), an extraordinarily beautiful and pleasant man, moves to this big city after the death of his grandfather. Dorian starts to enjoy a life of wealthy London Victorian society, as he inherited great deal of money from his relative. Soon he meets two ...

Capitalism generally refers to an economic system that encourages the private accumulation of capital. As such, there is usually an aspect of competitive marketing which may be abused as a consequence of bigger disparities in wealth creation. This may leads to exploitation of the less privileged by the rich who control the means of production. The need of creation of awareness among the disadvantaged is important as the review will reveal herein after.
The most interesting part of the video is the manner in which the lecture is delivered. In the video, Zizek is casually dressed to fit the ...

Retaining moral values and ethics that one learns from family at home is what Indian Film Industry showcases through most of its movies. The values may be directly or indirectly forecasted imbibed in the story. Based on the same concept, on October 20th 1995, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, the English version of which is “The Big Hearted will take away the Bride” was released.
Directed by Aditya Chopra and Produced by Yash chopra, the movie highlights the true love story of an Indian Young couple. The couple meets on a vacation in Europe and fall in love with each ...

Movie Review of Strangers on a Train

The film Strangers on a Train is a study in irony, coincidence, and good versus evil. The film’s plot revolves around a chance meeting between a famous tennis player, Guy Haines (Haines) and a pampered, spoiled, mama’s boy named Bruno Antony (Antony). It is obvious from the beginning that Antony is mentally unbalanced. It is Haines’ misfortune to run into Antony. While watching this film, many questions come to mind.

The first question is regarding the meeting of Haines and Antony. The meeting between Haines and Antony appears to be coincidental. Is it? Antony recognizes Haines and ...

When Memento was released, the most intriguing element of the film, to reviewers, was the intertwining of one narrative in chronological order with another in reverse chronological order, both of which meet at the film’s climax. The main character of the film, Leonard Shelby, and his wife, have been attacked. His wife is dead, and he suffers from anterograde amnesia as a result. This disorder keeps him from processing short-term memories into long-term retention. He carries a collection of annotated Polaroids around with him to help him deal with the stimuli around him, to make the best decisions ...

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 ...

Eye of the Beholder: Guilt and Politics in ‘The Thin Blue Line’

1. In her treatise, Patricia Aufderheide explains that documentaries offer a portrait of real life that seeks not to manipulate the material being presented (Aufderheide, 2007). The documentary generally puts forth some kind of analytical argument or story in a narrative flow. The Thin Blue Line meets those criteria, but pushes the boundaries of this kind of storytelling. In fact, Errol Morris’ 1988 film ...

Both Hamlet and King Arthur represents strong and determined personalities of their era. These personalities are well defined as heroes as they led their people towards greatest achievements. King Arthur marked the victory in sixth century of Britain against Saxons and has been looked upon as best leaders in history. Arthur has been a visionary and the changes introduced by him during his rule set the theme for the novel. As a child also, Arthur was honest, determined, modest and good at heart. Arthur has displayed a fair sense of judgment in his decisions and is contrary to the ...

The movie “V for Vendetta,” directed by James McTeigue, follows the actions of a freedom fighter who operates under the alias “V” and uses guerrilla tactics to oppose the totalitarian regime established in England. When he rescues Evey Hammond from the secret police, he also gains an accomplice.
James McTeigue, the director of “V for Vendetta,” entered the film industry during the 1980s, and he became an assistant director in 1991. He was an assistant director known for participating in the creation of “The Matrix” series and “Star Wars Episode II.” The movie “V for Vendetta” was his debut ...

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris
Solaris is a Russian science fiction art film adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris (1961) shot in 1972, directed and co-written by Andrei Tarkovsky. It represents a meditative drama of psychological character set mostly on a space station that is orbiting around the fictional Solaris planet. The station had a scientific mission that was stalled as the three scientists in the crew fell into the emotional crises. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the problems brought out by the film and the way the director managed to convey the ...

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010), Divine Comedy of Dante
It is a common knowledge that this movie is adapted from Dante Aligheri’ called The Divine Comedy. This movie is animated from the country of Japan. The story is really simple. Dante had apparently gone to the Crusades for spiritual nourishment. However, when he came back, he found that his wife, Beatrice had been slaughtered. The Dark One, the name Dante gives to grim the reaper, was nonetheless present to take to hell, the girl’s soul. Dante did not know the reason for this. He therefore followed the ...

“What happens when wrong feels right and right feels wrong? When situations that appear to be black and white turn out to be gray?” (The Literary Analyst).The bygone philosophy of novelists writing what they desire stands firm. For me, a director holds the same status when it comes to films, in fact all artists irrespective of their desired form of art should have the liberty to think and make people do the same. This perfectly sounds true of Ben Affleck’s triumphant and remarkable debut in Gone Baby Gone (2007), which is an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s ...

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 ...

Part 1

In the movie 13 days, one can identify ten skills and behaviours of leadership amongst certain characters. The first skill of leadership that can be identified in the movie is, in some parts, certain leaders seem to take upon themselves to encourage others when situations get out of hand. Through direct eye contact, they relay a friendly message and warm response to the other within the group. One can identify a unique skill of leadership that some characters seem to portray in influencing courage within the groups. It is important for leaders to take into account others feeling, and ...

1) Set in the 1990s, well after his death in 1976, how does the film portray post-Mao China compared to that of Maoist China?
The Story of Qiu Ju is a story of a village lady who struggles in the attempt of making the village chief apologize for kicking her husband. However, the case develops complications that end up including the government in the issue. Upon dragging of the government into the issue, the policeman where Qiu Ju launched her complaints demands that the village chief should pay 200 Yuan for assaulting Qinglai. The things don’t ogre well ...

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Introduction. The traditional model of end-of-life (EOL) care is not adjusted to the needs of patients with life-limited conditions other than cancer. By presenting a case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient, Taylor (2011) develops representation of common patterns of dying in terminal stage lungs disease, and focuses on such patients’ needs to elaborate the optimal care model. This paper discusses the case presented in the video by Taylor & Trotman (2011) summarizing its key points and concepts.
Legal Considerations. ACP made by hospice team together with Martin, under New Zealand’s common law, should be logically followed by ...

Films have developed out of dramatic and narrative tradition in which storytelling is used as a central concern. The filmmakers have challenged the manipulative and seductive power of narratives by using playful resistance to the convention of narratives, or by exploring other forms of medium. For example, filmmakers have used the interplays of gesture and rhythm, sound and image rather than relying on character psychology and plot mechanics. However, non-narrative film has a smaller audience than narrative films. A good example is aircraft passengers watching the direction of the nearest exit pointed out by flight attendants, which reminds the ...

Disney’s “The Lion King” exemplifies the many struggles and triumphs of leadership in several ways. It can be surprising to the untrained eye than an animated children’s movie could hold the valuable lessons by such a complex concept but it is true. Even Kouzes Posner’s framework for Leadership is exemplified throughout the movie. There are multiple characters that take on leadership roles at different times throughout the movie, but the primary leaders are Mufasa, the initial King we meet, his son, Simba, and Mufasa’s evil brother, Scar. Each exemplifies leadership in their own ways, showing ...

Generation War is a 2013 German film directed by Philipp Kadelbach and starring Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein, Ludwig Trepte, who play the five central characters brothers Wilhelm and Friedhelm Winter, Greta, Charlotte and Viktor. The movie is a historical drama attempting at providing a non-conventional view on the Germans, Poles and Russians and their behavior and beliefs during the World War II. The movie has caused controversial reaction throughout Europe, the United States and in Israel. The main reason for that is a perceived attempt of the German director to reconstruct the history and ...

"I wanna be Like Mike documentary"

This documentary presents the idea of shift in the perception of opportunity among parents and young people in America. I agree that education in the United States was traditionally treated as being an important pipeline to well-paying jobs and a better life. However, this supposition has slowly been dissolved as the idea of drafting into the NBA has become engrained into the US cultural framework. The American society seems to have little concern about education. Parents and young people have embraced the idea that you do not have to necessarily be educated to be in a position to make ...

Oedipus the King

Oedipus The King tells the story of Oedipus, a young king who comes to wrestle with his past and his destiny, involving the inadvertent and unknowing murder of his father, and the marrying of his own mother. When searching for the murderer of the former king Laius, he finds out that he had, in fact, killed the man in a brawl some time ago, and taken his wife and kingdom as reward for another journey. He settles into life with Jocasta and the kingdom of Thebes, not knowing what he had truly done. Eventually, he learns that Laius was ...

Movie Review: Examine the videos of Huang and Pattanaik through the eyes of globalization. Each of the presenters is making the argument that Western industrial development does not overwhelm culture, and that their 'lesser developed' countries have much to teach the West. Do you agree, disagree and why?
- Medical Doctor Devdutt Pattanaik, in his presentation entitled: “East vs. West -- the myths that mystify,” shared his views about the difference between “the world” (logos) and “my world” (mythos). He gave mythological and real-world examples about objective and subjective truths. My personal stance is that I do not subscribe ...

The Da Vinci Code is a well-known book and movie. As well as being a blockbuster as a film, it also raises some serious religious themes. The nature of faith is one, particularly with relation to faith being based on ignorance. Another important theme is that of the reliability of historical texts. The Bible is just one more historical text, and one which has gone through many translations over the centuries. Although I was never religious, The Da Vinci Code has changed my perception of religion, possibly forever.
The movie begins as the curator of the Louvre museum is ...