Essays on Movie Review

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 the movie Angels and Demons, the Camerlengo believes that “science and religion are not enemies. There are simply some things that science is too young to understand, so the church pleads to stop, slow down, think, wait… And for this they call us backward….

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…

The motion picture Babies is a narrative that pursues four infants from various locations of the world. Each infant originates from an alternate culture, which shows how the different traditions of each culture can affect a kid’s advancement. There was no narration, which enabled the…