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Abstract

"Good Will Hunting" is an American movie, which was directed by Gus Van Sant, and was finished in 1997. The film is dedicated to the memory of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. The film is included in the list of 250 best films according to IMDB.
The film is devoted to the problem of attachment disorder, that is considered to be a mental disorder resulting from the absence of close emotional contact with parents in early childhood. And how this disorder can be expressed in illegible friendly behavior, aimed at attracting attention.
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(Institute Affiliation)
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 Continue reading...

While watching the play “Our Lady of 121st Street” , I could not stop laughing, the events in this play were staged or rather developed in a way that exemplify amusement and mirth. Though the instigating event of the missing corpses was rather a sad event, other events that unfolded subsequently were in essence funny and amusing. Apparently, the theatre space of this play was rather appropriate owing the fact that all the audience and the actors could achieve maximum contentment form the play.
Apparently, the writer of this play developed the characters of the play in such a way Continue reading...

Institutional Affilitation

What does this documentary tell us about intimate partner relationships “back in the day” (i.e., when the women were first arrested)?
The documentary tells us that intimate partner relationships that involved a married couple do not take into account the weight of the women’s testimony and experience. In the case of Ruby Jameson, her lawyer gave her advice to avoid mention of domestic violence and explicitly discouraged Ruby from using and citing the “Battered Woman Syndrome” that could have alleviated the prison sentence.
Back in the day, the issue of domestic violence was not taken nearly as Continue reading...

In the process of converting the newspaper article into a film scenario, I would tell the story from the view point of the low level drug dealer from Cork, Sammy. Sammy is luckless stumbling from one disaster to another. He avoids decisions and tries to fix an immediate problem—often with a lie—without considering the long term consequences. When arrested, he lies to avoid prison, convincing the local police that he can hand them a major drug dealer. As the situation rapidly gets out of hand, his lies grow more elaborate as he finds himself at the center Continue reading...

The documentary Erasing Hate offers an interesting perspective on the social reasons behind gang affiliation. Bryon Widner grew up in Albuquerque New Mexico and describes himself as a “street kid.” He was raised by an alcoholic grandmother who told him he was worthless. He was a chronic runaway. skinhead gangs provided the sense of belonging and family support he needed. He started in the White Power Movement when he was 14, and his evolution as a skinhead continued when he moved from New Mexico to Indiana. He was white and poor and was looking for answers in life. He Continue reading...

The film Big Fish is a story about Edward Bloom, a man who constantly finds magic in his life. Edward has told wonderful stories about his life to his son, who feels annoyed because they are unrealistic. When Ed Bloom is dying a conventional death in a hospital, his son finally understands the importance of storytelling. His father asks him to narrate his death and he realizes he can paint a better picture than the one they´re in. It would even be better to remember his story instead of the way things actually happened.
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The advent of the 1990s saw a revitalization of Chinese cinema not only within the motherland, but also in the international film landscape. It began with Chen Kaige’s Yellow Earth (1984), as well as Zhang Junzhao’s One and Eight (1983), and was characterized by a unconventional storytelling methods and non-traditional approaches to cinematography, editing, mise en scene, and sound design. Among these filmmakers were Stanley Kwan and Tian Zhuangzhuang, with their films Center Stage and Blue Kite, respectively. In these productions, both directors utilize the cinematic frame to pose questions regarding the past, through enlightened use of Continue reading...

This title of the film is “How to Make Kimchi: according to my Kun Umma”. It is a short documentary directed by Samuel Kiehoon Lee. It was shown at the UIC multi-cultural film festival. The film was shot with the help of The Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program. The main character in the film is the director’s aunt Bong Ja Lee.
The film was shot in 2003 and it won the Jury Award for the Best Documentary Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2003. The film was Continue reading...

Thames Television produced the series in the 1980, and it explored the making of Hollywood Studio and the influence it had on the culture of 1920s. Every episode of the thirteen in the series was made to center on a precise characteristic of Hollywood past. This term paper examines two episodes of “Hollywood-The Silent Era” namely; “The Pioneers” and “The Man with the Megaphone”. The documentary is written and directed by Kevin Burrow and David Gill.

The pioneers

The Pioneers is the first episode of the series, and it outlines the transition of the film over a period. The episode details Continue reading...

‘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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

The Italian drama “Rome, Open City” by Roberto Rossellini was shot in 1945. Being a perfect example of the Italian neorealism, the film is significant for its naturality. It depicts Rome during the World War II, with all its horror and cruelty. The story is told in chronological order. The film is black and white, with high-key lighting and mostly deep focus. The director of “Rome, Open City” uses normal lens, so the perspective is normal and the focal length is moderate. The film is shot by the objective camera, so that the spectator watches the action as the Continue reading...

Movie Review on the movie ‘Inequality for all'

The movie ‘Inequality for all' is about the story of the American widening income gap between the hugely rich and the rest of the Americans. As told by the narrator, the smart, funny and articulate university professor, Robert Riech, a former labor secretary under the leadership of Bill Clinton.Riech narrates his arguments in a class setting through a series of lecture about the ‘how and the why' of the decline in the American middle class. The 90-minutes documentary was shot at the University of California, Berkeley.
The best thing I liked about the movie is how Riech continuously makes Continue reading...

Introduction

The movie “bottle rocket” by Wes Anderson clearly shows how criminal behavior is learned through interactions. As such, individuals learn criminal behavior by interacting with others who influence their actions in the undesired manner. Social learning is one of the theories used in criminal law to explain how criminal behavior is acquired through interactions. According to the theory, individuals learn criminal behavior through associating with other people who have criminal thoughts, values, and attitudes. For instance, in the movie, Anthony acquired criminal behavior through interacting with Dignan. Additionally, the theory asserts that reinforcements play a significant role in the Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Summary of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

In the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, director Alex Gibney tells the story of the fall of the energy company through a series of stories on the characters involved, using a lot of archival videos. Enron was basically a Ponzi scheme, and the scandal was similar to the Bernie Madoff saga of 2008, which was another conspiracy, based on exploiting deregulation and preying on investor greed. The timing is also interesting. Madoff’s scheme fell apart during the recession of 2008, while the Enron bankruptcy occurred right after the “dot-com” bust of 2000. As long as Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Identification of Health Issues from the Movie “Sick around the World” and the Reaction

The movie entitled, “Sick around the World” reported by Thomas Roy Reid features the way healthcare system operations occur from five other capitalist nations in the World. Reid visited United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland to help America improve its health care system from the lessons learned from these nations. Health issues that came out evident from the movie include poor management of chronic diseases, low health practitioners’ motivation, high cost of healthcare services, little research in health care system and unequal health care provision amongst citizens. The movie begins by featuring the healthcare system in United Kingdom. Continue reading...

Miku is being constructed as a gendered performer by her fans because the idea that she is sexualized is tied into a larger discourse of how weird Otaku (fans with obsessive interests in America) is and so it is not about Miku herself, it is more about Otaku, as they have this idea that all Otaku like 16 year old girls in short skirts are adored by other Otaku’s, so there is a creepy sexual element in it.
Hatsune Miku is an alpha numeric form, and all the songs that Miku sings in the concerts are written by Continue reading...

Businessman Randy Treadwell violated several principle of good business, and showed no responsibility to his investors. He showed no responsibility to anyone but his partner, Rick Sluter. Both Sluter and Treadwell lacked principles such as integrity, truthfulness, fairness, human dignity, participation, social responsibility, and love. To simplify matters, Treadwell will be the focus of this essay, as he was the leader of the scam.
First, Treadwell lied to his investors, telling them that they would receive enormous returns on their investments. Eventually, Treadwell was able to con people out of a total of 65 million dollars. Treadwell was dishonest Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Secrets and Lies (1996)
This movie focuses on the life and struggle of one woman in finding truths in her life. After her adoptive mama passes away; Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a triumphant black eye physician, searches for her birth mother. She is surprised when her investigation leads her to a plebeian white woman, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). Initially, Cynthia denies the claim, but she finally admits to birthing Hortense as an adolescent, and the pair begins to bond. Nevertheless, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a relative’s barbecue, Cynthia's already nervous relationship with her kin becomes even more complex. The Continue reading...

Movie Review of La Jetée Film and Analysis of the Theme of Obsession

Initial impressions

The film has made me feel sad on how radioactive substances used during World War III caused damage to the human race. The bad experiences in life bring sorrows and suffering that the mind usually “rewinds” over. I perceive the film as an open edge in science in the need for solving the present problems using the past and the future. As I watch it, I can recognize from the still images that the movie is about a man who was a victim of war Continue reading...

Analysis of “Racism: The History

As stated in the title, “Racism: The History” documents racism dating from the introduction of slavery in the United States to present evidence of racial discrimination world-wide. The film was produced with several physical qualities that enabled viewers to follow the content easily without losing attention. The narration was clearly understood, varying between males and females and one of the males had an African accent. Live action was accomplished with the use of clips from movies and other documentaries. The three episodes all included sections of “talking heads, most instructors at institutions of higher learning specializing in history and Continue reading...

Film analysis of "Alain Resnais - Night and Fog (1956)" and "Jean Luc Godard - Breathless (1959)"
Each movie is a small story. Each movie carries its own information. Each movie opens the whole world to the viewer, no matter if it is full-length film or a short film or even a documentary. Still, it gives a chance to make own decisions about some particular moments. Another question is how ideal the information was given – did the director in his or her picture manage to cover all the needed aspects. It is not only related to the script. A Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

The movie is Hollywood’s biopic at its near worst. It represents a formless assortment of historical occurrences and lip-synched musical numbers. How possible can it be for a movie to capture all the multitudes, reinventions as well as contradictions of James Brown singly? Only one movie has been able to do that after many years. Indeed Get on Up is a one of a kind film. The movie has been able to make an excellent, fitfully successful shot of the life of the brilliant and volatile soul icon.
Even though several people might fault about the movie, one Continue reading...

The documentary movie The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It is about the American soldiers who denied shouldering weapons as their thoughtfulness supported humanity, and their consciousness did not agree to gun down another human being. These soldiers are known as conscientious objectors as they refused to fight. As the present generation feels weak and disloyal towards their nation when faced to war situations, there were similar people even during WWII who were not patriotic and fainthearted. To avoid joining with other fellow soldiers in war, many of these conscientious objectors changed their career paths to Continue reading...

Hell’s Kitchen is an American reality tv cooking competition, and it has been running on Fox since 2005. The show became rather popular among the audience and it is oficially extended for a new season.
I decided to watch the first episode of the last 13th season, which was originally aired on September 10, 2014 called "Top 18 Compete" and included all the chefs, who are going to try to win the main award - $250 000 and the possibility to work as a chef in one of the fanciest restaurants in Atlantic City. Gordon Ramsay, a famous Continue reading...

In 1993, the American television network HBO released a TV movie "And the band played on" that tells about the first outbreak of AIDS in the United States in the early 80’s. The film was produced according to the eponymous book by Californian journalist and gay activist Randy Shilts primarily dedicated to social drama that unfolded against the backdrop of a new deadly disease. The film tells about how scientists and doctors have shown that AIDS - a viral disease, rather than "gay cancer" - a social pathology. Robert Gallo - one of the characters in the film, Continue reading...

“Comrades: Almost a Love Story” by Peter Chan is a Chinese drama shot in 1996 in Hong Kong and New York City. The film won in several nominations in 16th Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Film Awards.
The film tells a beautiful story of love of two migrants in the big city of Hong Kong. Li Qiao, a young beautiful girl from Guangzhou, is ambitious and has several jobs. Li Xiao-Jun, a fellow from North, has no definite goal in life and is lucky to get one job or another. She is mature, he is naïve. Continue reading...

Like Captain America, The Flash epitomizes heroic qualities that go beyond American values in his ability to unite divided peoples under a common cause. Captain America, while literally representing fundamental American values, can also be said to represent global values. These are values that most superheroes possess as a way to inspire and encourage, not only the American youth, but global youths. In the movie, Justice League: Flashpoint Paradox, it shows a hypothetical world that needs uniting, more extreme than what the United States needs, but it does not make the concept less real. Heroes in the era are Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

In the movie "Gladiator," Maximus goes through many different roles. Through it all, he remains a leader, although in different incarnations.
At the time of this quote, Maximus is ascending the ranks of gladiator fame. Still in the Zanzibar province, he slaughters his way through four other gladiators in casual fashion. To a man of Maximus' martial skill, honed in the Legions, the vaudevillian fight style of the gladiator is no challenge to his compact, efficient technique. At the end of the fight, in a show of disgust, Maximus hurls his gladius at the VIP box of the arena, Continue reading...

Orson Welles’s famous “Citizen Kane” was shot in 1941 and got the Oscar award for the Best Writing. The film is significant for its characters’ acting, editing, the story itself and the makeup which helped the actors to transform from young people to the old ones. The story is told in non-linear order with a lot of flashbacks. The movie starts with the end. As for the cinematography, the spectator pays his attention to the montage technique: a good example is the director’s depicting of Kane’s relationships with both his wives – they are shot alone either Continue reading...

Religious studies

Most of the events of the movie take place in the crumbling, yet beautiful hilly city of Nablus. Nablus is a city in northern West Bank where Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli security forces exchange gunfire on a regular basis. Nablus is at the heart of Israel- Palestine conflict and Abu-Assad, the director of the movie, was right about shooting the movie in Nablus.
The film focuses closely on the process of recruiting the suicide bombers and the tactics used by terrorist groups to prepare people to carry out the suicide attacks. The film highlights the deception and faulty Continue reading...

“Casablanca” by Michael Curtiz is an anti-Nazi film based on the play. The romantic drama of 1942 starring Ingrid Bergman represents an outstanding example of interesting methods in cinematography. “Casablanca” is a black and white film with high-key lighting and mostly deep focus (except for the close-up scenes with the main characters where shallow focus is used). To make the eyes of the main female character sparkle, the director used softening gauze filter and catch lights. This method gave the effect of the nostalgic and sad glance. The director uses normal lens, so the perspective is normal and the Continue reading...

The Social Network is the film that tells us the story of real business. From the very beginning it warns us that you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. This film really raises several ethical issues of business conduction and responsibility to others as well as responsibility to oneself.
With a large number of characters the film The Social Network travels from class rooms of Harvard University to dormitory rooms in Palo Alto. It tells about exciting moment of birth of cybernetic miracle that will soon capture minds of millions. In the middle Continue reading...