Movie Review: Crash Jason T. Rettinger Ohio University Abstract This paper will investigate and review the motion picture Crash that I recently watched. During the course of this paper‚ I will be identifying the four theories (prejudice‚ stereotype‚ collectivistic culture and individualistic culture) and discussing said theories while providing movie examples that support those theories. I will conclude the paper by noting that although issues such as prejudice and stereotyping exist and
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Freakonomics The first part of the movie talks about the way real estate agents work and whether their interests are actually aligned with the seller of the property or not. This is confirmed by the data which shows that the homes of real estate agents tend to command a better price than the client’s as the agents hold the property for more days on the market. The agents ask the clients to sell their respective property’s right away because the additional consideration which they get‚ for waiting
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The movie Gattaca starts with the birth of Vincent Anton Freeman whose genetics show him to be prone to many disorders. He is given an estimated life span of just above thirty years to live. Vincent’s parents then decide to use genetic selection to give birth to another child whom they name Anton. As boys‚ Anton and Vincent play “chicken.” They swim until one of them gives up and loses. Vincent never wins. His dream is to go up in space‚ but as an in-valid (not genetically selected) he does not stand
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falls in love with her prince charming and they live happily ever after. The movie Shrek‚ an ogre and beautiful princess fall in love‚ though this beautiful princess has a secret; her secret is that by day a beautiful princess‚ and by night an ugly ogre‚ at least in her eyes. Shrek thought she was beautiful as a human and as an ogre; this hidden message is shown as beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Also in the movie‚ another implied message is that people are prejudice to stereotypes. Though
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the filmic interpretations of World War I‚ it is Mallins ’s film which is most closely referenced in William Boyd ’s account of life in a British trench in the days leading up to that battle.” ‚ there is clear evidence that William Boyd’s movie is based on the real documentary that inspired him to make a color‚ available to the mass view movie that illustrates solder’s life in trenches. The Trench is a story about a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer
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Joy Mangano in the movie Joy. In this movie‚ Joy faces many problems at home and with the people she works with for producing and wholesaling the mop she makes to make cleaning up after her family easier. The movie starts when Joy is working at a normal job with a big lower middle class family to support. Her dad in the beginning get divorced to his second wife and starts dating this rich lady named Trudy. As a welcome to the family‚ Trudy had everybody on her sailboat for a day. While they were on
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The film Lincoln‚ produced by Steven Spielberg and released in 2012‚ stars Daniel Day-Lewis as President Lincoln. Written by Tony Kushner‚ the film was inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Set in 1865 the movie focuses on President Lincoln’s struggle to get the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed through the House of Representatives‚ all while facing challenges presented by the American Civil War. Lincoln won
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people‚ even today‚ come from these misleading movies. The 2003 movie “The Missing” portrays elements of the Apache culture. Upon further investigation you can see that this movie in particular displays the identity of the Native American‚ more specifically the Apache people in negative and positive way. Summary Set in 1885 New Mexico‚ the movie begins with a woman (Maggie) and her two daughters (Lily and Dot) living on a ranch. One day a man shows up on the ranch looking for some hospitality‚ but
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you must watch the sci-fi movie 400 Days which was top-billed by former Superman star‚ Brandon Routh‚ as Captain Theo Cooper. The story centered on a simulation study of four astronauts where they were placed in isolation to replicate space travel and see its psychological effects to the mind. The group has been locked for 400 days which involves them losing their communication from the outside world‚ and finding another man in their kitchen. Seriously though‚ 400 days being trapped inside something
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abuse and beating of prisoners‚ and inhumane and unsanitary conditions. There is also a lot of corruption from the prisoners up to the current warden. Food is being taken out of the prison and sold and the prisoners are left to eat scraps. In the movie it shows prisoners cleaning rabbits to eat‚ and people bidding for certain foods with cash. Brubaker
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