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...

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...

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 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...

Bridget Jones’s Diary is a movie that was released in 2001 that was highly enjoyed by audiences all over the world. The movie is centered around Bridget Jones, a young British woman in her early 30s, portrayed by Renee Zellweger, who worries she will die...

The Day I Snapped, this is a film that shows the stories of people who have been struggling with stress, tiredness and mental illness. The film portrays how they felt when they finally snapped. There are many men and women who are talked about throughout...

The implicit meaning behind every film is a form of challenge to analyze the subtext and what the film is actually portraying in not a rather, very direct way. I have decided to work upon a Feminist subtext and the film I will be going...

This piece was a moving one called “The Barrio” that tells of an outcasted neighborhood coming to life. Robert Ramirez tells the story of the place he once called home. He breaks down everything from the layout of the neighborhood to the sounds you could...

This article is about very interesting movie named girl interrupted. I am happy to write this article, because this movie inspired me a lot when I first watched it. Being psychologists this movie is a must watch as it holds many important points that every...

The film is very intense and dreamlike. We see multiple women, that are all the same woman but in different ways. They go through a set of events that slowly but surely get more and more bizarre. The movie ends with a shattered mirror, a...

When the movie “Fight Club” directed by David Fincher released on the 1st of January 1999 it opened to a somewhat disappointing business there was a widespread misjudgement that Fight Club was an action movie about underground bare-knuckle boxing contests Where in actuality, it’s a...

Call Me By Your Name is a 2017 romantic coming-of-age drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino. The film stars Thimothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer as Elio Perlman and Oliver respectively. The story is based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman and set in northern...

The Movie City Lights is an American movie that was released in January 30, 1931, it is a silent romantic comedy movie which was written, directed, and produced by Charlie Chaplin. In the film he is also the staring of the film. The story takes...

In 1986, John Badham directed the box office hit widely beloved by millennials, Short Circuit. This comedic film follows Johnny 5, a military robot on his journey to understanding humanity. The film starts in a Nova Laboratory, a pair of robotics Newton Crosby and Ben...

In the movie, La Mission, we see a variety of different men and masculinities throughout the plot. We see the men who are stereotypical Latino men, and stereotypical Bay people. The masculinity in the film is represented in roughly four ways: heterosexual cis males who...