The movie starts off with the board of admissions at Princeton University opening up yet another application. One person reads the essay submitted‚ and that’s when the movie begins to take off. The essay is written by Flor’s (Paz Vega) daughter‚ Cristina‚ who tells us that her greatest inspiration in life is her mother. She says that when she was very young‚ her father left her and her mother alone in Mexico. We then see mother and daughter eating a meal at the table. Cristina tells us that her mother
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Movie Extra Credit During the winter break I watched the movie Matewan. It was directed by John Sayles and stars Chris Cooper‚ James Earl Jones‚ and Mary McDonnell. It takes place in the turbulent town of Matewan‚ West Virginia during the 1920’s as heads butt on whether creating a workers union is the right thing. The coal workers go on strike to fight against the hazardous working conditions and low pay‚ but are dismayed by the fact the coal company is replacing them with Italian immigrants and
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Critical writing 6: The Interrupters The Interrupters tells the moving and powerful stories of three Violence Interrupters who attempt to protect and improve their Chicago communities from the violence they used to be in. The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention was founded in 1995 by Dr. Gary Slutkin. After returning home to Chicago and hearing stories about children murdering children‚ he created Ceasefire‚ operating from the reasonable premise that violence is‚ fundamentally‚ a public health
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Deaf Culture Film Analysis 1) I personally found the film on deaf culture extremely interesting because it made the deaf community easier to understand by portraying people who are deaf simply as people of a different culture‚ and showed the deaf as real human beings who have opinions and deserve rights which is important because we live in such a hearing dominated society in which our world is filled with so many misconceptions about the deaf. I enjoyed the film because it gave me a deeper understanding
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it inception in the late 1800s. Although film-making varied from generation to generation‚ one thing remained constant and that was the eight major Hollywood studios. Many of these studios are around today such as Warner Brothers‚ MGM‚ and Universal Pictures. Most of the studio’s longevity was based off of their involvement during the height of the studio era commonly referred to as the “Golden Age of Hollywood.” Throughout this essay I will decipher a film from 1930 to 1952 and discuss the major
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Film Analysis- 3.1 Cresta Te Huia Martin Scorsese is known to be one of the greatest filmmaker of his generation. One of the finest contemporary American directors that have a unique film style although can difficult for many to understand. I have chosen Scorseses’ many violent‚ physical and psychological films to study‚ Shutter Island. Scorsese uses film techniques such as dialogue‚ music‚ camera work
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emotions evoked from the images of the film resulting in readers thinking of gender in a more personal way as face to face interviews with teenagers who feel negatively affected by this problem are shown. On the other hand‚ a scientifically based academic journal such as in Rebecca Collins’ “Content Analysis of Gender Roles in Media: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Go?” delivers an extremely logic based presentation of the gender discussion
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Memento Film Analysis Memento (2001)‚ a film that was written and directed by Christopher Nolan‚ has captivated the attention of movie and puzzle enthusiasts everywhere. Some may call it a Drama or Mystery‚ or even a Thriller or a Neo-Noir film‚ whatever the case is‚ this film fits most‚ if not all‚ of these categories. Memento is a film about a man‚ Leonard Shelby who lives his life with Anterograde Amnesia which leaves him incapable of making new memories. He spends the time in this film putting
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The Verdict was the name of the movie I chose to view for this assignment. The leader in this movie was a lawyer named‚ Frank Galvin‚ played by Paul Newman. Frank Galvin is a washed up alcoholic lawyer who in the beginning of the movie is reduced to becoming a perpetual ambulance chaser. Initially his leadership skills are almost non-existent. He has no drive left. One of his associates‚ Mickey Morrissey‚ meets him at the office and notices once again that Frank is drunk and passed out on his
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In the movie “Persona‚” silence is proven to be stronger than words could ever be. This becomes detrimental to Sister Alma who feels so belittled by the life around her. The silence of Elizabeth Vogler makes Sister Alma feel vulnerable and because of this‚ she vents her heart out to Elizabeth and confesses all her secrets stuck inside of her. With all the anxieties and stresses of life surrounding Sister Alma‚ she needs to find a means of letting them escape her to find peace. Venting to Elizabeth
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