Essays on Film Analysis

“The Pursuit of Happiness” is a biopic that tells of a man named Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman. After investing all his life savings in buying portable bone density scanners, which what was supposed to bring him riches, instead turns into his life support as...

Mise-en-Scene Essay Twilight is a contemporary love story between a human and a vampire. They are madly in love but cannot be together. According to the movie, Bella Swan moved to a small city Forks, Washington to live with her dad that she did not...

The two films I watched by Steven Spielberg were “Saving Private Ryan” and “Schindlers List” captured interesting elements of mise en scene and uses of editing. Mise-en scene, Literally means, “to put on stage” or “placing of a scene” in French, its used to describe...

This movie starts out in England in a little suburb. You see a little cat and it turns into a witch named Professor McGonagall she meets with a wizard named Professor Dumbledore at the doorsteps of a man named Dursley. The party is greeted by...

Artefacts of popular culture are fabricated and developed through popular cultures tacit connection to the political world; a concept surmised by the Contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who states, “Everything is art. Everything is politics. ” As such, it could be suggested that this tacit...

We had experienced our time of being young. We put or kept in mind lots of experiences that we had still. It would be good or bad. Some of the children use up their time of being young more comfortable and get pleasure out of....

The movie Dostana was directed by Tarun Mansukhani. Dostana tells the tale of two men who fake their sexuality, and pretend to be homosexual in order to rent out rooms in the apartment of Neha (played by Priyanka Chopra). The two men, Sam (played by...

The film, “The Martian” is a science fiction movie that premiered in 2015 under the directorship of Ridley Scott. The film is based on Andy Wier’s novel, The Martian that was published in 2011. Both critics and proponents of the film agree that it is...

Watching a film is an empathy workout. Movies force their audience to invest in a character’s unique struggle or circumstance. The resulting question is whether or not this empathy workout can lead to real, physical change. From the book, Filming Difference: Actors, Directors, Producers, and...

In history we can see the ideologies of Karl Marx throughout many societies and can still be seen today. This theory of Marxism was created so that the roles of society could be analyzed. With the higher economic power, this group, the bourgeoisie, is able...

Feminism is basically the belief that men and women must have equal rights and feminist theory is the extension of feminism which further aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. Gender inequality acknowledges the differentiation between men and women and also how it influences...

The film Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton (1990), is about a modern-day fairy tale, where an inventor created an artificial man who was named Edward and was not able to finish his project due to having a heart attack, which left Edward with scissors...

Edward Scissorhands is a film directed by Tim Burton that was released in December 1990. Edward, a man with scissors for hands, is taken in by Peggy, a kind Avon lady, after the passing of his inventor. The film also explores acceptance, as Edward is...

Burton’s auteuristic style has been successfully emphasised in many of his productions. Within his films, he has demonstrated his capability of exploring important social concerns that are relevant to audiences today through effectively utilising film techniques. Burton’s 1990 film, Edward Scissorhands, is a contemporary archetype...

The Great Gatsby is one of the key novels that depicts the struggle for freedom and identity with the enormous challenges in society. It is a novel that was written in 1925 by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows a series of characters...

The great Gatsby, written by F. Scoot Fitzgerald, is the most critical literature toward the American dream throughout the depicting characteristics of the millionaire – Gatsby. Conversely, the 2013 film adaptation of the Great Gatsby mainly somehow distorts the meaningfulness of the story in the...

The battle of books being better than movies or vice versa has been going on since movies were first released. We live in an era where everything can be obtained instantly and are available at the tip of our fingers. Therefore everything is rushed and...

In the opening scene of ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, the characters introduced are three men named Jack, Frank, and Jason. These three men are climatologists and were out in the arctic lands investigating. They started to dig a hole into the ground then eventually cracking...

Representations can be produced through different forms such as; images, spoken words, music or written text. The representations enable individuals to give meaning to the world, impacting how society, identity and space are valued as media is able to influence people’s minds (Crang, 1999). Discourses,...

Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic-comedy-drama film written and directed by David O.Russell. The film was based on Matthew Quick’s 2008 novel The Silver Linings Playbook. It stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher...

Everyone in their lives will experience some sort of mental ill-health, some more severe than others. We can define mental illness as a health condition that drastically affects a person’s emotions, behaviour and social interactions all in very different ways. Everyone that suffers from a...

In the film “Girl, Interrupted” the setting is set inside a psychiatric hospital where there are many people which display mental health conditions. The “main” character in this movie is Susanna Kaysen is placed there for her suicide attempt. Which had been from her failed...

In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting the construction of sexuality and gender in Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015), a film which, according to its IMDb page, is about “A hooker” who “tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke...

“Maybe I was just crazy, or maybe it was the 60’s, or maybe I was girl, interrupted,” is one of the opening lines in the beautifully directed film Girl interrupted, by James Mangold in 1999. This film follows a directionless, careless, and depressed teenage girl...

In watching the movie  People Like Us, you see how it follows the lives of two specific socio-economic classes in a documentary styled presentation of the ‘Upper Class’ in parts of the East coast and the lives of the ‘Lower Class’ in the mid west....

Introduction Girl, Interrupted is a film released in 1999, directed by James Mangold. The film is based on a memoir about Susanna Kaysen and her stay at a mental institution. The film revolves around Susanna Kaysen who is checked into a psychiatric hospital, Claymore, in...

Hidden Figures, a film set in Virginia in the 1960s depicts three African American women who face insurmountable barriers. The underlying premise is that if it were not for Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson who were ‘human computers’ at NASA would have not...

In the documentary “God Grew Tired of Us” directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn, the audience is presented with the story of three young men, often called “Lost Boys of Sudan,” and their transition from their life in Kenya to life in the United States. Through...

Blackfish, Hoop Dreams and Super Size Me are three very informative documentaries. They are all different types of documentaries such as nature documentary, participatory documentary, etc. These documentaries vary in different ways, such as how Blackfish is about a killer whale “trained” to do stunts...

Introduction In production, development and contextualization of films, so much has changed over time and even movies of the same genre have their differences. With the emergence of technology as one of the factors necessitating a change in the film industry, so many other elements...