Essays on Movie Analysis

The worst genocide to have occurred in history is to be named The Holocaust. The Holocaust is described by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a sacrifice consumed by fire” or “a mass slaughter of people.” (Holocaust) The torture began in the year 1933 and lasted more...

The movie Black Panther is a marvel movie which has focused on the African culture where by five tribes fight over Vibranium until a soldier is given a purple “heart shaped herb” which leads to him becoming the first Black Panther, and after he unites...

The Butterfly Effect Film Analysis Personally, I have always enjoyed movies that teach audiences something or other. Especially, movies that require deep thought to unravel the plot behind it. I remember my first time watching this film, I had to rewind it because I couldn’t...

“Lucy” is a 2014 English-language French science fiction thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson and produced by his wife Virginie Besson-Silla for his company EuropaCorp. Shot in Taipei, Paris, and New York City, the movie features Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, and...

The Shining: King VS. Kubrick Renowned director Stanley Kubrick was a master of his time, an auteur if you will, who drew his inspiration from various literary works. He approached controversial and timely topics with his own unique spin, which became a signature element of...

Amores perros is a movie that involves 3 different people, with 3 different stories and lifestyles that come together in a car accident. Octavio involves his dog in dog fighting matches to get money to escape with his sister in law and nephew, Valeria is...

As seen in movies, such as Django Unchained, black masculinity is portrayed differently to white masculinity, black men are often give stereotypical roles to highlight their masculinity as in the case of Jackie Brown. However, its slightly different with Django, and it shows the opinion...

Law, order and government are a fundamental part of society today, and this can be seen all over the world today, as well as in the media. In DreamWorks production Antz, the story reaches far beyond the hardships of the ant colony and touches on...

Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, the 1996 cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, is imbued with religious imagery. The feuding families display such images on everything from their cars, to their clothes, to their guns. In addition, a statue of Jesus Christ looms over the city,...

The essay consists of three parts. The first part deals with the explanation of a 2009 movie sin Nombre which is basically a crime movie about a Mexican based gang while the second deals with the concepts about nationalism in the two articles while the...

Peter Jackson emphasizes the territorial nature of J.R.R. Tolkien’s center-earth through fascinatingly playing with strains of division. Frodo Baggins (Elijah wooden) and Sam Gangee (Sean Astin) flee from the Shire with the high-quality Ring in tow. Sam stops, noting that along with his subsequent step...

Rocky is a 1976 American sports action movie which was nominated for Oscar awards in 9 categories and bagged 3 of the Oscars including the awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing at the 49th Academy awards. In 2006 it was inducted into...

Introduction This project allowed me to get in depth with two movies, The Breakfast Club by John Hughes and Indiana Jones Temple of Doom by Steven Spielberg. This project mainly focused on how gender, class, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation is pictured throughout the movies. By...

Twelve Angry Men reminds citizens of their inherent responsibilities to honestly understand one another in order for the American democracy to function effectively and fairly. The film presents a jury of twelve men that must reach a unanimous decision regarding a first degree murder trial...

Upon reading the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” written by W. W. Jacobs and the interpretive film The Monkey’s Paw by Ricky Lewis Jr. , it is possible to determine a similar reflection of plot events and a common setting. This connection is also seen...

Take My Eyes is a Spanish love story, which shows the disturbing reality and truth of domestic violence. The cinematography and mise-en-scene makes the overall film a great story of domestic violence right before the law of protection against gender violence was issued. This Spanish...

Sigmund Freud titled the Oedipus complex after a man named Oedipus who accidentally kills his father and marries his mother. Once Oedipus realizes what he has done, he pokes his eyes out and becomes blind. Similar to Oedipus, the concept claims that young boys feel...

The film No Country For Old Men is dedicated to encouraging the modern viewer to transcend traditional thought and morals in order to become more openminded to different philosophies. The movie covers themes such as the human’s manipulation to an object’s function, the interaction between...

The Tunisian movie-director Abdellatif Kechiche’s Venus Noire forces viewers back into 19th century France and England. This is a new theatre where a renaissance of scientific breakthrough is filling academia with knowledge of peoples of all races. Though this new science appeals to the wealthy,...