John Krakauer‚ Into the Wild: Philosophical Journey or Suicidal Folly? Compared with oriental people’s implicit quest for freedom and truth‚ people in western countries are more direct which means that they pursue their goals through practice. The book‚ Into the Wild‚ tells a story about a guy who had a philosophical journey. The book shows a process of a person’s spiritual growth: from the yearning for the absolute freedom‚ a kind of irrepressible impulse and force‚ to the yearning for
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told to simply "pay it forward." Pay it forward is a movie about helping others‚ but it is more a look at the personal conflicts of several different people. The boy is forced to live with a less than idealistic lifestyle. His mom is a drunk who has an abusive husband. His teacher is covered with burns‚ and there must be reasoning to it. First off‚ I like the theme of Pay it Forward. Although you might not realize it at first‚ the movie is working on two timelines at the same time‚ one following
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A REACTION PAPER OF THE MOVIE LES MISERABLES St. Thomas Aquinas once said‚ “It is not theft‚ properly speaking‚ to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.” This quotation is really applicable to the life of the life main character who is Jean Valjean. Though stealing is an erroneous act but he extremely needs it and by this reason he may be free from sin. Remember
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How many times have you said about a movie "it was good but I preferred the book"? The great thing about books is that they do not have a run time limit because the words are in control of everything. Character’s can be described however the author wants and the readers can imagine the character rather than a movie‚ which has to find the right person who fits the look of the character. Regardless of whether a movie is based on a book‚ books are better for providing the type of entertainment which
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discrimination‚ racism‚ war‚ hardcore drug use‚ mental trauma‚ as well as a disease epidemic. The movie itself covers so many pivotal and defining moments in history and provides an intimate observation with a twist of humor and charm that is not often depicted in movies such as these. The movie itself gives an honest insight into situations of the time that are not often addressed. One moment early on in the movie depicts the strong relationship between a single mother and her child in the 1950s‚ as a rule
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I. INTRODUCTION The movie 3 idiots is a Hindi movie that was released in 2009 under the direction of Rajkumar Hirani and production by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The movie is currently the highest grossing Bollywood film and is critically acclaimed by film critics as one of the best foreign films of all time having won numerous awards both in and outside India.1 The movie features the college life of Rancchoddas "Rancho" Shyamaldas Chanchad‚ Farhan Qureshi‚ and Raju Rastogi who were engineering students
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The movie we recently watched‚ “V for Vendetta” is one that interested me much. Even if it is a fictional movie‚ it definitely inspired me to think and argue with myself about my stands on how the government should be run and if there should really be one because that is what the movie argued. Although the movie had an radical amount of ideas and ideas that are so far out the regular box‚ it represented real life things and situations that may or may not happen in a country. The movie represented
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"The movie‚ “Thank You for Smoking” is a comedy-drama about a tobacco industry lobbyist‚ Nick Naylor. The movie brings up serious issue of the addicting substance tobacco and its various effects on human’s health. In the opening scene of “Thank You for Smoking”‚ Nick has committed three fallacies: 1. “Joan‚ how on earth would Big Tobacco profit off of the loss of this young man... It’s in our best interest to keep Robin alive and smoking.” There is an element of False Analogy. He draws a weak comparison
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“What would Jesus do?” That was the question that still haunted Jasper Chase today and five years later after leaving the small town of Raymond. While sitting at the little cafe‚ he remembered a time in his life when a preacher‚ Henry Maxwell‚ asked for people to make a pledge that for one year‚ before everything they did to ask themselves‚ “What Would Jesus Do?”‚ and to live their lives based on that question. Jasper Chase took this pledge and with tears in his eyes he remembered the pain of
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The code guaranteed that virtually every movie in every theatre was suitable for all family members to see. And at the time it started‚ television didn’t exist‚ so movies were the primary source of family entertainment. With the code censoring out any objectionable material‚ parents didn’t have to worry about taking their kids to a movie and being shocked by something crude or violent. The code prevented many movie-makers from making the kind of movies they wanted to make‚ stifled
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