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Media Analysis: Meet the Parents
In the entertainment industry comedies are created to satirize human worldview. The movie poses a unique problem to Christianity providing a critique as it relies on sarcasm illustrating contemptuous of society norms and social institution. Meet the Parents depicts the humanist worldview ridiculing life’s truths, belief, faith, justice, and beauty. Extensively, the language used is foul though a justice has been done on satire enhancement. Referring to Stiller, his act in this movie fails to display his best known abilities. Meet the Parents seems less impulsive and more obviously scripted, and, accordingly, the comedy movie is not as unruly. In addition, the script has a genuine chemistry between Stiller and Cameron Diaz in the film. Romantic relationship between Greg and Pam in Meet the Parents lacks credibility. The two don't click at all, they seem very detached from each other. Conversely, veterans De Niro and Danner have a sentimental connection that is more believably.
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The resulting images illustrates clearly with an impression of a desolate society guided by material and social class. The camera angles have sufficiently been employed in the production to enhance viewers experience in understanding the ongoing relationships of the characters. Throughout the movie eye-level angle (animation on right) has been applied putting the audience on equal footing with the cast. It is however the most preferred camera angle to create a sense of comfort and normalcy. In rare cases, the camera movement is brought to a close up to emphasize on the current mood especially when Polo's already-imposing father (Robert De Niro) is exposed being a longtime spy-hunter for the CIA and the sentimental connection between De Niro and
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