Stereotypes Movie Reviews Samples For Students

While much has been hypothesized regarding the documentary Iron Wall, it is crucial to note that its construction was hypothesized as the primary strategy that could bring lasting peace between Palestine’s and Israelis. However, the construction of the Iron Wall was not of the best interests of the Palestine’s. Instead, its construction can be seen as a way of establishing settlements on the zone of conflict; hence, avoid any practical attempts to attain lasting peace. Overall, the documentary is filled with bias as it depicts persistent notions that Palestine’s were indeed side lined during the construction of ...

Introduction

The short novel ‘The Necklace’ by Guy De Maupassant revolves around a couple Mme.Louisel. The narration begins with a reflection of Mme. Loisel and her perceptions about her own life. She seems desperate and hopeless as she thinks that she was born in underprivileged circumstances and that she has no chance to succeed in life. She looks at her backgrounds as the hindering block to success in life. She thinks that because of her poor background she cannot make to get a rich man to marry her, she reflects that she has no expectations, no dowry and no people to love he ...

Introduction

The understanding of mental health issues is impacted significantly by the images portrayed in various sources such as printed media, news media, film and drama as well as real-life experiences. The movie “Snake Pit” by Anatole Litvak brings about images of poor psychiatric care in a State Mental Institution. The movie is based in the 1940s and provides a closer view of the dire state of mental treatment at state facilities. The story is told from the perspective of de Havilland, a young writer who is taken to Juniper Hill State mental facility by her husband (The snake pit, 1948). One of ...

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 the ...

Pride and Prejudice (1940)
The film Pride and Prejudice was produced in 1940 being adapted from a novel of the same title by Jane Austen. Robert Z. Leonard directed the film with Aldous Huxley serving as one of the screenwriters. There are many characters in the film. They are as listed below. The first character in the film is Elizabeth Bennet, who is the heroine of the story. The key events and characters of the story are brought out through her. The other character is Mr. Darcy. Our opinion about him follows that of Elizabeth. He begins the film ...

Paul Haggis’ movie, Crash, depicts racism in modern society, which is both intentional and unintentional among its perpetrators. This essay with seek to explain how this movie represents racism as individual prejudice and also how the movie makes invisible the structural and institutional dimensions of racism. Finally, this essay will determine whether this depiction of racism promotes an inclusive democracy.
First of all, this movie is not centered on one main character. Instead, the film director Paul Haggis opts to interweave different characters so as to relay his key message of racism being both institutionalized and also the ...

The movie portrays the era of 1970s and is based on a real life story.

In this movie the antagonist Harvey Milk represents a real life person who was an activist elected to the San Francisco Board of supervisors in1977, and was murdered the very next year. He one of the first openly elected gays in the community and his murder can therefore, be regarded as a hate crime. The screen representation was fascinating and tear-inducing to say the least.
“Milk” brought in tremendous amounts of insight regarding the gay community and the biases they are subject to in their daily lives. It also portrays history openly and declares that there have been gays in ...

Prejudice and discrimination

Summary of the movie
A very rich and powerful man known as Philip Colbert who comes from Chicago and who had plans to construct a factory in a rural southern town called Sparta in Mississippi was found murdered. The regional police boss Chief Bill is under pressurre to investigate the murder of Philip quickly. A well-dressed African-American northerner named Virgil Tibbs, who was waiting for a train in a deserted station, is picked up by a police officer who is a racist. Virgil is found with a lot of money in his pocket. After being arrested, he is brought ...

According to Yassmin Abdel-Magied, people face different unconscious biases quite frequently in their mundane routine (TED). However, some of them generate those biases, while others suffer from them. In this context, Ms. Abdel-Magied tells about two considerable biases, which other people apply to her. Those biases are connected to her race and gender. Firstly, she is a woman, which reduces her chances to get a good job. Secondly, she is a Muslim, which makes people mistrustful.
When describing my perception of Yassmin Abdel-Magied, it is necessary to explain my initial idea. Before the women started talking, I decided she ...

Throughout history, Bollywood films have illustrated a representation of women in India in various forms. Arguably, it is certain that Bollywood films comprise of gender-based stereotypes. The female characters, situations, and plots concerning women in Indian films have been steered by stereotypical ideologies. Across the globe, extensive research had indicated that Indian films top the list of undermining women. Moreover, a sample survey established that Indian females, for an extended period of time, have portrayed females in sexualized roles. It is well-known that the notion of objectifying women on the screen has been a conspicuous issue that the films ...

In 1920, Oscar Micheaux directed the release of an American silent film known as Within our Gates. The film portrayed the existence of racial discrimination and prejudice in the early 20th century. The film is also regarded as a race film, and it was produced during the era of Jim Crow, the Great Migration of the Blacks to Northern and Midwest Cities, and the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. The director incorporated massive stereotypes that are associated with the black people in the US. The paper will entail a detailed analysis of Within our Gates film by providing ...

After viewing the film, I have a mixed take of what Spike Lee believes whether mass media outlets can be changed or that racial stereotypes will continue to be emphasized. The film argued both ways implicitly and explicitly where one could interpret the movie in both ways. The argument that mass media can be changed is represented by Sloane Hopkins, the assistant of Delacroix who was embarrassed to be associated with the minstrel show that was created. She even went to the extreme of pointing a gun at Delacroix to force him to see his racial misdeeds. The argument that leans ...

Sequence Analysis in Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Pride and Prejudice (2005) was Joe Wright's debut as a director of a feature film. It was a tough choice for the studio, because he had no real experience and didn't even read a Jane Austen's novel. But in the end it was the best candidate, because Wright managed to explore his nature talent and was later inspired to direct his other movies like Atonement or Anna Karenina. Pride and Prejudice was the first romantic film he worked on, but later he was admired for his work and the film was welcomed very warmly by ...

Plot and Story

Plot and story appear in different dimensions in narratives. In narrative films, story refers to the account that film narrates. It also refers to events that the audience infers and assumes to have taken place in the film. In narratives, the story appears in chronological order with a duration and frequency. The Story differs from the plot because the plot presents specific events in a narrative. The plot appears as the imaginary construction by the viewer regarding the events in the film. The Plot also involves a chronological order and duration.
The narrative’s plot presents Richard Hannay as a visitor in ...

“Dr. Phil” is a one hour program that airs daily on day time television. This show has been an innovator of the “talk show genre” by employing a real psychologist as its host. Dr. Phil McGraw spends that hour addressing and advising individuals who are going through crisis. Sometimes those problems are everyday issues, such as getting along with in-laws or dealing with a problem child. Other times more complex issues are explored, such as counseling the victim of a heinous crime or giving insight into high profile media stories. “Dr. Phil” presents a very clinical approach to the portrayal of gender on their ...

John Hughes’ 1985 film, The Breakfast Club is a teen movie that addresses the imperative stage of childhood to adulthood transformation in a school set up. From a sociological point of view, the film brings forth an important display of teenagers’ interactions that is based on social labels, that is, appearance, interests and general behavior. The five major teenagers in the film, Allison, Andrew, John, Brian, and Claire are different in appearance, interests, and their behaviors too. The manner in which the story is presented remains relevant to the current times and is applicable to the adolescents’ daily lives.

One intention of ...

Introduction

This essay will review the movie “Down in The Delta” that deals with the depiction of autism. It is an interesting movie that seeks to enlighten the viewer ON the plight of a young mother (Loretta) whose daughter is diagnosed with autism. Her struggles are explained in the difficulties she faces in raising her children, especially after her husband runs away upon learning about the condition of his daughter. The essay will be helpful in learning the stereotypes that are associated with autism by answering some questions that will guide this understanding.
Does the movie support the current legislation ...

Racism is a feeling or belief of a particular race being inferior or superior to the other. In this case, the inborn biological characteristics are used to predetermine the moral and social traits of an individual. Racism makes individuals from varying races remain segregated away from each other. Ethnicity is used to refer to groups of people sharing common, language, ideologies, heritage, culture, and religion. When a person belongs to a particular cluster, it brings the realization of ethnicity belonging. According to the lecture notes, race is a group of individuals, and they must have similar physical characteristics like ...

What is/are the central message(s) of this documentary/fictional film?

The central message of this film was to show the existence of slavery even after it was constitutionally banned in the U.S. This was shown by the fact that African-American were arrested illegally and forced to work in the plantations without payments. The blacks were convicted of crimes they never committed. The movie shows that slavery continued for several years in secret even after it was constitutionally abolished in 1865.The evidence used was the letters written by slaves in servitude and prisons. The states governments were paid for the labor provided by the prisoners. The blacks were convicted of ...

The animated film Rio 2 that appeared on screens in spring 2014 is a sequel to the infamous and highly successful Rio introduced to the wide public in 2011. The movie’s target audience is the children, although the ratings and reviews showed that the story was greatly appreciated by other age groups, as well. The main characters of the movies stayed the same, while the new plot was supported by the new protagonists and antagonists. The mood of the movie is just as kind and spiritual as the one of the first film. The creators of the movie shared a ...

The history of American Latino films in the United States is generally considered to begin with Luis Valdez 1981’s Zoot Suit. Since that time, a large number of dedicated screenwriters and directors have embarked on the production of such films, some through Hollywood and others through independent routes.
One distinct characteristic that has been conspicuous in most of the American films has been the use of stereotypes and comedy to explore the culture of different Latino groups and also deal with the issue of immigration from Central and South American nations into the United States (Barrera 45). Most ...

The study of self and society and in particular social influence is made complex by the fact that the tenets of this area and the relationships are complex. This paper presents a review of the classical movie Twelve Angry Men by Director Sidney Lumet (1957) in the context of the theory above. A succinct overview of the film is presented, followed by an evaluation of some of the concepts in the title above that feature in the film and finally a conclusion.

Brief description of the film

The film, Lumet (1957), tells a story of a jury consisting of 12 white men who deliberate the guilt or acquittal ...

The movie Malcolm X (1992) is a seminal cinematic work by the director Spike Lee. The film portrays the journey of Malcolm as he transforms as a man, delving deep into his racial and ethnic identity in the society. One of the best attributes of the film is the director’s achievement in the portraiture of Malcolm’s progression of thinking. The audience can very well comprehend the chronology of incidents and reasoning that led to his stance on the issue of racism.
Malcolm faced a lot in life right from a tender age. His father, a minister, was killed, in all probability ...

View and analyze the film "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" portraying a person with a disability. Write a meaningful critique of the film

Description of how the person's disability is portrayed within the contexts of family and community (Have an in depth analysis and discussion of the extent to which the film appears to be a reflection of life and is grounded in current "state of knowledge". Give appropriate evidences from the film to support each point)
Analysis onto what extent does this film address characteristics and effects of the cultural and environmental milieu of the individual with disabilities (Have an in depth ...

Control Room was a very powerful documentary made by Al Jazeera television in 2004 about the early phase of the Iraq War and the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime. Almost off of it takes place in the Coalition Forces Media Center for Central Command (CENTCOM), where the journalists are attempting to get real information about what was happening in the war. One problem with the film is that some parts are in Arabic and not translated or given subtitles, so English-speakers can only guess at what they are saying. Its point of view was clearly opposed to the war ...

Bias

Bias is the tendency of an individual or a group of individual to be more included to a presented idea or any other alternative. A bias can be used in a lot of things. It is however primarily used in judgment and decision making situations such as when the facilitative communication was first introduced to children with autism.

Causation

Causation is also usually termed as Causality. Causation is the distinguishable relationship between two events that have either occurred consequently or subsequently. It is simply the correlation between two events regardless of how and when they occurred. In the video, the experts tried to ...

The memorial was built in memory of the Jews who were murdered in Europe. The memorial was designed by Peter Eisenman. The location of the memorial is Berlin. The size of the memorial is that it covers an area of 19000 square meters which is equivalent to an area of 4.7 acres. It has 2711 concrete slabs which are arranged in a grid pattern. The memorial was built for the Jews only and therefore exclusive. The memorial holds the names of all the Jews Holocaust victims which are known. It was meant for the Jews alone and no other people ...

Control Room

The feature-length documentary, Control Room is a gritty and realistic presentation of the media’s role in modern warfare. The film’s premise is to demonstrate the contrast between the perception of the Al Jazeera news network in comparison with its reality. Released in 2004, Control Room was filmed, on the ground, during the American 2003 invasion of Iraq in an attempt to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime and liberate the Iraqi people. The complaint regularly made by western broadcasters and indeed, the U.S. government and military, is that Al Jazeera is sympathetic to the causes of men like Osama ...

Violence and aggression are the hallmark of old patriarchal societies where men’s supremacy was the main value underpinning a family. However and unfortunately, it would be too early to talk about such type of social structure using the past tense, since even in our today’s open-minded world patriarchal families based on men’s violence and women’s oppression are not a rare case.
While trying to understand why such a situation could take place and why Beth could follow and obey her husband so long, it would be helpful to address the theoretical approach suggested by Andersen ...

Throughout the history, there were created many films that involved the elements of sex and sexuality. One of such films is Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 movie, Boogie Nights which describes the pornography business in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. In this industry viewers have a chance to meet a lot of characters which are passing through different problems. The protagonist of the story is a handsome seventeen year-old nightclub dishwasher, Eddie Adams, who was introduced to the pornography industry. One night pornographer Jack Horner noticed Eddie and turned him into a porn star Dirk Diggler. ...

The Name of the Class

Cross-Cultural Experiences in the movie “Outsourced”
The customs and cultures of India were developed by the country’s traditions that date back almost a few thousands of years. The significance most of these cultural behavior and traditions have in the people of India can be elusive to the average American. For instance, the picture of Kaali (the goddess of destruction), carrying the severed head of a man, hung on the wall of Todd’s (the protagonist) bedroom, is quite a disconcerting picture for the average American. But in India, it is a picture of relief. Similarly, the intermittent animal ( ...

Platoon Review

Oliver Stone’s Platoon is a superb depiction of the Vietnam War unlike that of any other in its class. Many other war films doting on the romantic promise of brotherhood in arms during war times, or the heroism of battle. Some rely on the gritty truth of war and death amidst the almost comical amount of bloodshed. Platoon is none of these things, while still managing to show Vietnam like never before.
In an effort to show what Vietnam’s infantrymen experienced on the ground, Platoon begins immediately with the violence, hostility, fear, and exhaustion of war. There ...

“Slavery by another name”, the 90 minutes documentary which was aired on February 13, 2012, and directed by Sam Pollard, is an adaptation of the book by same (authored by Douglas Blackmon) name which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 (Pbs,"Slavery by another Name"). Like the book, this documentary has some very strong analytical insights on breaking the most popular misconception that the African- American (referred as ‘blacks’) were actually emancipated with the Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation of the year 1963. The documentary specifically works on the time span between the civil war and the World War II ...

One of the top most grossing industries or sectors in the contemporary society is the entertainment industry. Increasing standards of living around the world have allowed individuals to accumulate bigger disposable incomes. Lifestyle changes continue to arise within the contemporary society owing to the growing, improving incomes. Consumables that were previously unprofitable have since become among day-to-day products. The growing entertainment industry is one such sector. The focus of this paper is to analyze the industry, growth process, and evolution of the cinema industry in India.
The growth of the movie sector is one of the indicators of a ...

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 ...

Inside Job: Story of the Crisis

The Oscar winning movie “Inside Job” is a documentary on the financial crisis of 2008, showing a chain of events leading up to the final crisis and the aftermath following. Inside Job takes its cue from the Reagan administrations move to relax rules on banks and other business during the 1980’s, leading to a huge boom in the financial sector. Over the next 30 years, the gradual removal of rules continued such as the dropping of the Glass-Steagall barrier between deposit and investment banking. The growth of the securitization market at the same time lead to a boom ...

One of the movies that explores society, deals with the harsh reality of relationships between men and women, and misunderstandings of the concepts of gender and sex is the movie "Boys Don’t Cry". Even though Brandon Teena is the main character in the movie, other characters are equally important for the understanding of gender and sex stereotypes that exist in our culture. Gender is rarely divided from the sex in our culture, causing identity crisis and tragic endings of individuals, such as Brandon Teena.
One of the stereotypes is the assumption that sex and gender is the same ...

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 ...

Question 1

The definition of religion is often different across different groups depending on the values and beliefs that they hold. Noticeably, most people define religion based on what history holds as true for them. Typically, the catholic Spain defines religion as a matter of doctrines, rituals, creeds and traditions. Seemingly, the catholic Spain seems to attest to the fact that religion is more of a way of life. However, this is not true according to the historical chronology of religious beliefs. Looking closely, history explains the evolution of religion through ages. Thus, religion is never a set of compact doctrines and traditions.

According ...

The movie “Glory Road” elaborates different pertinent aspects in sports management. Essentially, the movie reveals how a rookie coach having a weak team manages to apply sport management principles and finally comes out successful. Moreover, the manager operates in a sports environment characterized by racism and internal wrangles within the team. The manager, Don Haskins masters very well all his managerial responsivities and overcomes cultural and stereotypic notions to beat a very strong opponent. The movie reveals many aspects of sports management such as decision-making, leadership, problem solving, sports culture, and diversity, among others.
While the movies revolve around the ability of underdogs ...

The 2001 boxing-oriented film, “Ali,” which was directed by Michael Mann and starred Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, and Jon Voight, among others, delves on the life story of the controversial former heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali. The film’s setting begins in 1964 just before Ali defeated Sonny Liston for the championship belt, up to the middle part of the 1970’s when Ali recaptured the belt by dethroning the previously undefeated champion, George Foreman. In addition, the film attempts to capture the life dilemmas and conflicts that Ali underwent during the aforementioned years, including his stance ...

In the film “Different but Equal”, Basil Davidson introduces Africa with an Afro-centric view of history and colonial oppression. Different but equal, Basil studies African cultures in the early days. Notably, the information presented in the film is based on artifacts and art from caves, pyramids, and tombs from Meroe and Egypt in ancient Sudan. His main focus is Meroe. He begins by demystifying the fabled notions of the stereotyped continent. He identifies certain historical credentials fabricated by Western philosophers and explorers. Basil stresses that these individuals from Europe did not understand Africa at all. Instead, they made assumptions ...

Movie Paper

The movie, North Country has shown the controversial nature and the ugliness of the sexual harassment issue that is still prevailing in the developed as well as in the developing countries (Collin-Vezina, Dion, and Trocme). The story of the movie is an indication of the fact that the prejudice and bias against the women have never concluded in spite of the persistent claims of the theories regarding the efficiency of the law in promoting the equality between men and women. The movie North Country, has, however, also pointed out towards the fact that how the declared official equality of ...

The film Do the right thing, was produced and directed by Spike Lee. It is elevated towards identifying with the life of a Brooklyn neighborhood. In addition, it also directed different notions that imply the presence of racial tensions. Ideally, this film makes an effort of highlighting the dynamics related to modern urban neighborhood. Ideally, this has been done by the use of casting differentiated personalities within the movie. The major theme that stands out in this film is the peace versus conflict. Ideally, there is a static race between the perspective of conflict and peace attributes. Accordingly, the outstanding performance ...

The movies Mr. baseball and Gung Ho are very insightful as far as cultural interaction is concerned. The movies provide a clear and vivid description about the differences between American culture and Japanese culture.mr. Baseball is basically the embodiment of American culture trying to coexist with Japanese culture while gung ho is the mirror opposite in that it is the depiction of Japanese culture trying to inculcate itself into the American culture. Both movies are very important in terms of understanding both American culture and Japanese culture. These movies present the perfect juxtaposition of these two cultures that exist at ...

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 ...

In the play, Twelfth Night, by the stalwart playwright, William Shakespeare, the avid audience comes across the character of Viola who stands out from the rest with her actions, conviction and commitment. She never shows herself to be lovesick and is rather in true love and longs to be with the person whom she has lost her heart for. She faces the brunt of emotions as she falls in love with Orsino. Viola’s character with its depth strikes a chord with the audience.
Viola is a character who dwells in the dichotomy of identity and her journey in the ...

Documentary Review of Person of Interest (2004)
The Persons of Interest is an educative politically oriented documentary that explores the plight of the Arabs and Muslim Americans in a biased mainstream society. The perception towards the individuals of these cultures changed considerably especially after the 9/11 tragic experience. The movie highlights the stereotypic attitude assumed by the mainstream American community that subjects the Arabs and Muslim Americans to serious discriminations. The producer of the film attempts to challenge some of these stereotypic assumptions by showing how they are often misinformed. The US government assumed a generalized position towards individuals of ...

Compare and Contrast Two Movies

In the movie, ‘The Terrorizers’, the plot has its focus on the unstable relationships of three different couples. There is the young male photographer and his girlfriend, a delinquent Eurasian girl Wang her boyfriend, a doctor, and his wife. The photographer is obsessed with his hobby such that he forgets his girlfriend in an attempt to chase after Wang An after incidentally snapping a picture of her escaping a crime scene. Wang collaborates with her boyfriend to commit a number of conspiracy frauds on random people including the doctor Li Lizhong and his wife Zhu Youfeng a novelist. The two are struggling to maintain their ...

The way one’s mind interprets sensation is the referred to as perception of the world around them. With advanced technology as well as improved study of the human anatomy, doctors can now restore the sight of blind person. However, there is a major problem that is more likely to be experienced. Upon restoration of the eye sight, the person who was initially blind now interprets the world around them in a way that is different from the way they interpreted the world before losing the sight.
Sensation refers to the process through which sensory receptor’s stimulation produces neural ...

In the 1998 action-comedy Rush Hour, veteran Chinese Detective Lee (Jackie Chan) forms an unlikely partnership with loudmouth LA cop James Carter (Chris Tucker) to solve the kidnapping of the daughter of the Chinese consul Han (Tzi Ma). Along the way, they form a strong friendship built upon trust and mutual respect, acknowledging their unique strengths and weaknesses to solve the crime that the FBI brass cannot. In Rush Hour, racial minorities are shown to overcome their white counterparts, commenting on both California white-black relations and Western imperialism in both main characters fighting back against the racial majority.
The film ...

Pocahontas is a Disney animated feature that follows the story of a Native American Motoaka. She is the daughter of the Powhatan Confederacy chief in the early 17th century. It is the 33rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classic series following known hits like Beauty and the Beast, Alladin and The Lion King. It was released in theaters in 1995 and is the first film based on a known historical character. However, it did not follow the actual historical account of the Native American’s encounter with the British settler John Smith who had sailed in search of gold in the “ ...

“Waiting For Superman”

About the Film
Waiting for Superman is an award winning documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim. The documentary film is about the current state of the United States public school system and the realities that both families and their children are facing amidst the failing standards of the country’s education system. The film follows the educational ambition of five children in which four are studying in a public school while the other one is enrolled in a parochial school. All of the five children share the same dream of going to college. However, that goal is far from being ...

Finding Forrester, Gus Van Sant's 2000 follow-up to his critically acclaimed film Good Will Hunting, follows a young black youth named Jamal (Rob Brown) whose entrance into a well-respected private high school coincides with his befriending of an eccentric, reclusive Salinger-like fiction writer (Sean Connery), who teaches him to cultivate his writing skills. The film centers around this mentor-mentee relationship, as Forrester befriends someone for the first time in decades, while Jamal finds someone who believes in the things he is actually passionate about. Finding Forrester is a sentimental, treacly yet fairly effective movie that touches on ideas of anti-intellectualism, racism, inner-city ...

The Wrestler (2008) features the story of Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke), an aging wrestler. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the film shows a wrestler’s attempts to hang on to the glory days of the 1980’s by wrestling past his prime, even though his health is sputtering and his personal life is on the downturn. A part-time employee of a supermarket, Randy has a manager who makes fun of his attempts to wrestle on the weekends. He meets Cassidy (Marisa Tomei), who works at a strip club and – much like Randy – is too old for the work she is doing. He ...

Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation is a film directed by D. W. Griffith. It is said as a masterpiece of a well researched work of art. Many reviewers assert that the film has contributed a lot to native beauty and narrative form. It attracted an equal number of critics because it was viewed as bias and having great elements of racism. The movie stars before the onset of the civil war. It brings to the viewer’s attention the beginning of slavery. The events in the movie take a form of a story where two families are brought in light. These families are from different races and ...

When Lives Collide

Paul Haggis’s 2004 film Crash is a powerful view of the intersecting lives of many people and families of different races, classes, economic status, and careers in modern day Los Angeles. It is difficult to summarize the movie because there are so many important characters and intertwining storylines. There is Graham (Don Cheadle), a police officer whose mother is a junkie and brother is a criminal. Daniel (Michael Pena) is a locksmith and a kind-hearted family man not trusted by some of his customers because of his tattoos and tough looks. Farhad (Shaun Toub), a Persian shopkeeper, buys a gun to protect his family. Rick (Brendan ...