Sadness Movie Reviews Samples For Students

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 ...

Movie review: ‘what time is it there’ and ‘pushing hands’

The two movies, ‘What time is it there’ and pushing hands are similar and also different in a number of ways. In both movies, we find at least two contrasting situations, for instance, in what time is it there, we realize that the two sittings we have totally different situations. They are Taipei, Taiwan and Paris, France. Chen Shiang-Chyi who goes to Paris finds totally different conditions there and she feels out of place, lonely and bored too. She misses sex and has to find another woman to help her ease it.
On the other hand in ‘pushing hands’, ...

The viewing of Young – Pyŏn Yŏngju “Nanjun Moksori - Murmuring” (1995) documentary film made me wonder how many other women, from South Korea or any other part of the world, have been sexually exploited in wars without any formal accounting of such events. From the estimated number of 100.000 former South Korean sexual slaves, several of them gathered their forces in a public manifestation, asking for apologies and indemnifications from the Japanese government. These requests keep the women alive and fighting, as the sexual slavery experience left them troubled, frustrated, ashamed and hopeless, dreaming of the life ...

Section 1: Describe what you saw

The contemporary dance by the MN was recorded in December 2014 and November 2015 in Slovenia. The dance was performed by eleven dancers who include; Nastja Bremec, Noriko Nishidante, Tomi Cinej, Michael Rynia, Luca Ghedini, Martina Beraldo, Mara Rogelja, Sinisa Bukinac, Emili Bizjak, Tjasa Bucik, and Lia Zuljan. The choreographers for this performance formed part of the dancing crew. They were Nastja Bremec and Michael Rynia, who are the founders of the MN dancing company. The director of this dance was Klavdija Zupan. The music was composed Olafur Arnalds and Diaphane. The music was created and does not have ...

Hayao Miyazaki’s works have been critically acclaimed in Japan, as well as in the Western world, with his Spirited Away winning an Academy Award and becoming the first Japanese animation film to do so. Miyazaki’s works immerse the audience in fantasy worlds, created by the imagination of the director. What connects all these worlds together is the fact that they are set in the past, in relation to the present time, and possess a high degree of traditional Japanese culture infused in the backgrounds, characters and overall mood. Spirited Away is not an exception; however, it is ...

“The Moped Diaries” is one of those short films that can be appreciated loved by many different audiences. However, it is difficult for the audiences to say what they like about this film. To explain why this film is so popular is an even more difficult task as a description may not do it justice.
While there are many elements about this film that make it so interesting, the fact that it is a bit on the quirky side. There is slight humor when there should not be such as when the entire family is looking at their motor ...

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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 ...

Hotel Rwanda movie is based on a true story of a man who against all odds tries to save people in the midst of genocide in Rwanda. It was an organized murder of almost a million Rwandans. He gives hope to people in a country when there is no hope left. Rwanda descends into total chaos and madness and the whole world opts out. Nobody wants to help the Africans as they are viewed as dung. He opens arms to the helpless and by this saves many lives. The movie is all about the atrocities conducted against humanity in Rwanda. The tension that ...