Essays on Film Analysis

Before John Glenn orbited around the Earth, or Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, a group of hard-working women known as ‘human computers’ wrote the base equations for launching rockets and the well-known astronauts into space. They were some of the most potential minds…

Hidden figures are likely the best movie that talked about the nature of the dim woman of concealing who went past the dreams about women to exhibit that they can achieve past what men can do. In 1960 there was a fight between the Americans…

Spike Lee’s, Do the Right Thing, is a soul-touching movie that provides insight on the ongoing civil rights struggle against racial profiling, police brutality, systematic racism, and discrimination. Do the Right Thing is a Grammy and Golden Globes nominated film, to which is known for…

This paper will talk about war, reality of violence, its impact or effects on the community covering the small up to large scale of the society. Also, my choice of film to give a reflection towards war that resulted to violence, and to jot down…

The United States Southern border has always been quite a mess. In the year 1836, Texas gained independence from Mexico and became its own State. However, this led to border disputes and issues between the two governments. Ten years later, in 1846, a similar issue…

The 1970s could be characterized as the decade of renaissance in American film history. While Hollywood was entering a period of change and self-scrutiny, the well-known stand-up comedian Woody Allen stood apart as a talent of amusement and has left a remarkable legacy of 7…

Metafiction and metafictional techniques are utilized in a variety of mediums to help blur out the line between fiction and reality. Metafiction helps create a larger understanding of the film between the audience and can also help add more appeal to the different mediums. In…

The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich, is an old-fashioned disaster film that uses modern-day special effects to illustrate an apocalyptic end of the world due to global warming. The film details the unforeseen disasters that arise from global warming and the detrimental effects…

In Alan Moore’s Watchmen, he and artist Dave Gibbons reformulate the genre of superheroes. Illustrating an alternate reality that closely reflects the world of the 1980s, in which superheroes exist, Watchmen rewrites significant historical events from the war in Vietnam to Watergate. In this setting,…

Run Lola Run is asking the question of how much control people have over their lives. The movie tries to trick us into thinking that we have a lot of free will, but really we might not have control over everything. For example, she caused…