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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 ...

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, ...

In essence, this movie circulates around four people falsely accused of a bombing which killed a few innocent people. What is fascinating is that this movie has its grounds set in reality, and is based upon factual information. Due to the reason that the area bombed was the Guildford pub, the trials of these four people infamously became known as the Guildford Four Trials. The aim of this paper is to observe the political concepts underlined in the movie, and the most prevalent one was the absence of a sound justice system. The government under the pressure of the public is forced ...

Nursing: Parenthood TV series (2010)

Parenthood TV series (2010) captures parenthood occurring within the Braverman family expanding through three generations. Featured characters include father Zeek Braverman and mother Camille Braverman; oldest son Adam; his wife and three children; daughter Sarah and her two children; second son Crosby, Jasmine his new wife, Jabbar another son and last child daughter Julia, her husband Joel and their daughter Sydney, and adopted son, Victor. Julia Graham played Erika Christensen is the character of focus for this movie review. Importantly, she is the youngest of four Braverman siblings and an astute lawyer at a top ...

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary that follows the life of a radical-leftist attorney. However, the captivating and incendiary film is also based on the tragic form of liberal guilt. The movie revolves around the numerous cases that Kunstler was involved with until his demise. The film depicts William Kunstler as the passionate defender of the American people’s civil rights, earning him the reputation through defending a majority of the controversial defendants during the 20th Century. In Kunstler’s profession, he defended the American Indian Movement, Chicago 8, the Attica Prison rioters, the Freedom Riders, and ...

Abstract

The movie Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, directed by Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman, was a documentary film based on a true story of the wrongful conviction of nine black boys (the Scottsboro Boys) for the rape of two women on a train. Directed by Daniel Anker, Barak Goodman, the movie follows the narrative that began on March 25, 1931 on a train that had set out from Chattanooga, Tennessee, with both African Americans as well as white homeless people who were travelling in search of work. The paper will explore the societal, political and economic environment at the time ...

System of Justice

The “system of justice” that was shown in the film “In the Name of the Father” was tainted with corruption and dishonesty. The movie starts with the false conviction of four individuals for the bombing in Guildford causing the death of one civilian and four British soldiers. These four innocent people were later known as the “Guildford Four”. The movie showed the injustices done to innocent citizens by the present British court system.
The movie depicted the corrupt police investigation after the lawyer in the person of Gareth Peirce accidentally discovered important police files that were being kept ...

This movie revolves around a murder case where one Fredrick Manion is charged with a first degree murder. He confesses and agrees he committed the crime but he defends himself claiming he did so because he had suffered from mental break down because the victim had raped his wife. His lawyer Paul Brigler who comes from upper peninsula in Michigan likes to spend his time fishing, playing piano, and hanging out with his friends who over drinks. His lawyer is also a former attorney who lost his bid for re-election. The lawyer one day received a call from the wife of the United ...

American gangster movies have been in vogue for a very long time and have been a favorite of the American audience. The issues which surround law and order in the country have been captured well by gangster movies which depict criminals and vivid crime scenes. Although the movie is basically about letting the bad guys lose and the good guys emerge triumphant at the end, the movies usually swerve with the bad guys in the movie going about their crimes successfully without getting caught. Although the public has a clear recognition between the good and the bad, it is ...

Bridge of Spies (2015) is a historical film that was directed by Steven Spielberg. One of the stars in this film is Tom Hanks. This film received a very positive feedback from the viewers and in my opinion it is one of the best films about the confrontation between the USA and the USSR in the past few years. The film is set in 1957 – 1962 and is based on a true story. In 1957, the USA arrested a Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, but a few years later he was swapped for the American pilot that was brought down ...

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 ...

1. PERSEPOLIS (2007) & GONE WITH THE WIND (1939).
*How does the theme of survival and having a female protagonist relate in these two films?
In the film gone with the wind, Scarlet O’Hara, the daughter of Gerald O’Hara is the major character, and she carries most of the burden of the characters, who are related to her in one way or the other. Scarlet struggles with marriage throughout the film since she cannot find her ideal man. In the beginning, she is surrounded by many admirers. On the contrary, she is not interested in these men ...

Introduction:

Harper Lee’s classic novel is built on two main themes, racial injustice and the disruption of innocence which are skillfully interwoven together to create a complex web of intricacies that continually develop throughout the book. Coming from Alabama, Lee is a fine author who has the pulse of the state’s social injustice in her hands and the film brings out this incredible hatred especially well. The courtroom scene is particularly harrowing where we observe the segregation of the races as well as the rampant histrionics of the so called accused white woman compared to the stoic calmness of Jim ...

The movie entitled “Snitch” is a crime drama film directed by Rick Roman Waugh, who is a former stuntman. The movie starts off with the lead character, Johnson, who played John Matthews, who receives an unexpected call about his son. He has not seen his son, Jason, in a while and was surprised that he was being charged for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics. It is now common to see Johnson playing a family man, but not one for drama. The start of the movie introduces him as a caring father who was really concerned.
Even in the first scene, there was ...