Reflection Movie Reviews Samples For Students

The visual imagery present in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence shows many different ways of expressing the movie's themes of humanity, innocence, love and reality. The way young robot David looks at the world is identified primarily through the way in which he is presented, particularly in relation to the world around him. The first act of the film shows David as a 'double' for the Swinton family's sick child - one shot in particular, of David looking at a picture of the first version of the Swintons, with his face reflected and translucent in the glass, shows just how distant he is ...

The film is about the relationship between Andrew and Margaret .Margaret is the boss to Andrew in the organization. She was very strict in her position of management in the organization. Margaret could not entertain any nonsense at the place of job. She was very harsh in relation to the issues of leadership. The employees feared her in the organization. Margaret used her position of power to convince and push the young assistant called Andrew to marry. Margaret left her visa to expire risking her chances of deportation back to Canada. She used her position and influence in the ...

Introduction

The new world 2005 is breath- taking; romantic- filled and creatively staged historical adventure. The film skillfully written and directed by an excellent film writer and director Terrence Malick, depict along the foundation of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement ,just around the beginning of the United State colonization at which the America was occupied and organized in native tribes. The film draws its inspiration from Captain John Smith and Pocahontas based on a classic poem.
The cast involves Wes studi, Christopher Plummer, Christian bale, august schellenberg, David thelwis and Yolick van wageningen. A highly experienced production team consisting of the ...

The issue of feminism in the film industry is a common topic for controversial discussions. Many writers are more popular than others because of the ways in which feminism surfaces as the driving force behind their presentations. Feminism can be classified as a social movement that has created an enormous impact on culture of film, the theories of films and the critical reviews of films. A number of films represent the myths that reveal ideas on women and their femininity. In addition, there are films that speak to men and their masculinity. The issues of representation and spectatorship form ...

The following analysis of Persona and Solaris reveals how movies from unlike countries and of different genres portray the development of opposite human personalities while losing or gaining humanity under the external influences and internal self-recognition. The attempts to create a fine movie about internal and external of human life do not often impress much, especially nowadays when we experience an endless flow of visual images. Probably, it inspires people to look back at the classic works that not only represent the unusual transformations in the forms of self but also produce extraordinary rhythms in the scenes (Tarkovsky 113). ...

In 2013 a new and updated version of The Great Gatsby was directed by Baz Luhrmann, starting Leonardo De Caprio, and designed to be a faster, and brighter version of an age old story. One of the most visually and thematically interesting scenes in the film is the “epic party scene” as it is known, at which time the audience is first introduced to not only the Gatsby character, but also his over the top lifestyle. As such, the scene is expressly interesting to dissect as it relates to the way it characterizes certain individuals and sets the scene ...

The movie “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring” starts with showing a small Buddhist temple on the river. In the temple, there were both old and young Buddhist monks. Leafy trees and clear spring weather evoke peaceful background of this movie. To gather medical herbs and to get into land, two monks have to take a small boat. A young monk teases small animals like frogs, snakes, and fish by suspending stones to them with his innocent smile; at the same time, the old monk observes young monk without any comments. That night an old monk suspends rock to young monk ...

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today was a talk delivered by known economist Paul Krugman at Princeton University. The talk focused on the phenomena of Globalization and what it did to the world and its role the ‘mess’ it caused. He gave a short history of globalization by saying that it is not new to the world because it was ongoing during the late 19th century. In his talk Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today , Krugman addressed what were the changes, one of the changes he pointed out was technology. People were replaced by machines, he mentioned, because longshoremen were replaced ...

Movie subvert to genre expectations:

The film’s genre expectation is subverted in the historical context, of runaway slaves of quilombos in the Brazil’s societies, samba, and organizational for political rights. An activist and a renowned historian Beatriz Nascimento, gets to be a pillar in the search for her African heritage, hence developing the movie plot
The genre in a high profile blends historical and adventure genre types. Adventure is through the slaves who escaped and history revelation of Black Consciousness and manifestation in Brazil. Through epic distant journey for political rights, adventure is revealed through the quilombos, who are the communities of escaped slaves ...

In the movie “The Sixth Sense,” the director employed varied techniques to bring about a valuable motion picture. Out of the many techniques evident in the movie, gothic symbols and motifs are paramount as these techniques bring about other aspects of the film such as thematic expressions. This paper explores different motifs and gothic symbols in the movie “The Sixth Sense.” Ultimately, the paper highlights the meaning or importance of the identified technique.
Shyamalan (the director of the movie) consistently employs visual motifs through reflective objects such as glasses, windows, mirrors and many others. The visual motifs in “The ...

A thought-provoking and original film, “The Fog of War” is highly controversial. The critical reception of the film reflected both some historical disagreements over the Vietnam and Cold Wars and appraisal of its ability to speak to universal and contemporary questions. The director, Errol Morris, was accused of presenting a historically inaccurate and self-serving narrative and being too lenient on the major figure of his film. On the other hand, “The Fog of War” won an Academy Award for being the best documentary. In general, the film tells the audience about grueling problems in ethics, politics, and contemporary history. ...

Shot in the 1970’s, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and The Marriage of Maria Braun by the same director, the films reflect on the intercultural and interracial relationships and the society’s reaction to the phenomenon. Rainer Werner Fassbinder makes his audience face the uncomfortable dilemma and choose the side to support. Though the contemporary audience may not find anything bizarre in the storylines offered by the director, it is important to remember that the film were shot in the 70’s, and their audience was basically the society Fassbinder reflected in his movies. From the perspective of ...

Broculture and The Hangover

Abstract
The concept of broculture and bromance in the movie, The Hangover provides a new understanding into the changing conception of masculinity in the modern man as depicted in popular culture. It is both a celebration of uber-masculinity and the liberation of the individual, in particular, the male from traditional conventions through the experimentation with drugs and alcohol.This paper seeks to examine the treatment of broculture in by Phillips in The Hangover. The first part provides a short synopsis of the movie and explores the choice and treatment of the setting of Las Vegas. The second part looks at ...

Reflection Paper:

Reflection Paper:
The pull of fiction when interspersed with even a small amount of reality is very often enough to engage the attention of a mass audience in regards to almost any subject. In catering to what people consider to be “true” and “factual” filmmakers tend to take great license with facts and how they wish to entertain their audiences. Not everything that is pushed upon the masses is popular for its views or the manner in which it is presented, but when matters are confronted that can cause people to feel and experience emotions in an unforeseen manner ...

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Munchausen, who "always tells the truth", still excite the minds of the curious readers and serious researchers. The popularity of Baron was justified by his rare talent - he never lost his courage, and could find a way out of the worst situations.
The movie was conceived in 1941 as a core Goebbels demonstration of the highest achievements of German cinema and was supposed to be ready before the 25th anniversary of the UFA studio. The movie was decided to be made in the new "Agfakolor" system, ...

Review

Directed by Lee Daniels, “Precious” is a story of a teenage girl suffering from the consequences of abuse. In her troublesome life full of insults from the environment, the girl’s only rescue is daydreaming: “I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with real nice hair. And I wanna be on the cover of a magazine” (Daniels, Magness, Siegel-Magness, 2009). Precious is looking for love throughout the movie, and though it seems impossible after everything she has been through with her parents, she finally finds it – the love for herself and her two kids.
The main character’s health ...

There are many types of Love and many people have written and done research about it. John Lee has come up with six types of Love: Eros, Mania, Ludus, Storge, Agape and Pragma. There are some relationships that show more than one type of love at the same time, while there are other relationships that start with one type of love and develop into another.
The type of love I have chosen to develop further is ‘storge’. It is a companionate love, where trust, friendship and respect are the main characteristics. It develops from friendship, based on similarities and ...

Introduction

The Devil Wears Prada is a story which focuses on the lives of career women and the kind of power influences they adapt in order to climb higher up the ladder. In this case, the storyline is simple and revolves around the life and career decisions of the main protagonist, Andrea who has just completed her college education and is aspiring to become a journalist. Despite having the skills, she lands up in a job as a second assistant to the editor of a magazine. The female lead, accepted the offer for this job as she thought that after completion of around 12 months, ...

The 1970s was a decade of the public’s disappointment with the government and its policies, domestic and foreign, social and economic. It was the time of counterculture and various movements and protests that followed the example of the civil rights movement. The most important topics for the American people were the distrust for the government after the long-lasting Vietnam War that weakened not only the United States, whose economic situation was already devastating, but other countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors; the Watergate scandal that made Americans doubt that the county is in fact a democratic one, the state ...

The movie is a juxtaposition of the modern and abstract, industrialization v/s modernization and has themes of the Second world war and Hitler’s enforced opinion of art to the modern abstract painting that cam by more so influence by architecture and all having deeper meaning of life connected with it.
Art of Rome and Greece was a pure reflection of the view of Gods that divinity lies in man, his shape and form reverberated throughout their architecture and various statues that dot this ancient city. The story of civilization is slowly woven though art wherein it is expressed that ...

Introduction

Easy Rider is one of the hallmark films of Hollywood. It defines a cultural period as this important film established filmmaking styles and attitudes. Aside from its cinematography, it also launched a guerilla style of independent filmmaking with very controlled and smooth studio film cinematography. Principally, this film featured a very remarkable soundtrack. Easy Rider was one of the first films that used the popular music during that period. The film also featured musicians such as Steppenwolf, The Byrds and Jimi Hendrix. The rock and roll background gave a more enriched narration and storytelling. The musical pieces featured by the film also made ...

Introduction

Cyrus Nowrasteh is a film director widely known for his true story based film production. True story films present an actual situation or a condition. They serve a communication purpose of informing the public of a certain issue of human concern happening in a particular area. True story based films may also be geared to eliminate certain undesired norms practiced by a certain community in a society. A good example of a true based story film is “The Storming of Soraya M.”. This is a drama film presented in American Persian language. It is adopted from Freidoune Sahebjam’s book entitled “La Femme Lapidee” which is a true life ...

The movie “The Notebook” presents Noah and Allie as an old couple, experiencing passionate moments of love throughout their life and reaching the latest phase of their life, which finds Allie in an elder institute, being treated of dementia, and Noah her shadow-friend, telling her a beautiful love story over and over again, until she remembers that it is in fact their own story that the man is telling, recognizing him for a moment and then going back into the state of obliteration (Cassavetes, “The Notebook”). In this movie there are exposed two different characters and two approaches to reaching old ...

Question 1

The film slum dog millionaire by Danny Boyle clearly brings out numerous aspects of the Indian culture. He creatively uses a wide range of techniques to capture the most significant societal aspects of the geographical region which forms the setting of his film.
The diligent and highly reputable film director Danny Boyle starts his piece of work, the slum dog millionaire with captivating stand still captions that depicts the true nature and situation of the Indian society. The Indian religion popularly recognized as Hinduism is clearly brought out in the film to depict the Indian traditional religion. This reveals ...

“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 heavily ...

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 men, corrupted by greed and the lust for power ...

A Critical Review of David Michod’s Animal Kingdom (2010)
In our everyday lives, most of us do not spend too much time thinking about organized crime or the people who are actively involved in this very distinct lifestyle. This is the theme that is explored in David Michod’s Animal Kingdom (2010), but director who made his directorial debut with this film adds a different twist. Michod’s film is an exploration of how normal society is pervaded by the criminal world, and how our daily lives continuously come in contact with the criminal world but we never ...

Movie Review: 200 countries, 200 years-The Joy of Stats

The movie 200 countries, 200 years shows how countries have gotten richer in the last two centuries and basically covers the economic history of the world. The Income per person (GDP) in nearly all the countries in the world has increased as the countries adjust the differences in the cost of living and the inflation levels. I find it interesting how he enthusiastically uses public data and brings out in a sport’s commentator style to prove that the wealth of more than 200 countries has increased over the last two centuries. It is also interesting that a story depicting the ...