Essays on Movie Analysis

Francois Truffaut, director of the film The 400 Blows (1959), concerns himself with the delinquent child abandoned by the education system and even the family. As a French New Wave director, Truffaut’s motive is to represent the real-life drama of an iconoclastic protagonist who searches...

Marx believed that the bourgeoisie own the means of production and gain a profit from the surplus value of the workers. This key concept in Marxist thinking, surplus value, is the excess amount the proletariat earn beyond their labour and how much profit the bourgeoisie...

Injustice often breeds opposition. There isn’t always an immediate violent outbreak, but a sense of alienation from as well as anger towards those in power builds up over time. Even as early signs emerge, those in power are not often willing to give up their...

There is a myth of “domestic analogy” in idealism. Domestic analogy says that states are like a “society of individuals”, relations between individuals and relations between states are similar to each other. Therefore, a nation state is not just a political, but also a social...

The Award-winning movie Good Will Hunting is about Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard), who decides...

The Birdman of Alcatraz is a true-life American drama about a man, who experiences life in a solitary confined prison cell, and develops a curiosity in birds. The movie, released in 1962, is a duration of over two hours long directed by John Frankenheimer. Frankenheimer...

Traumatic experiences amongst individuals have always reaped havoc on a physical, emotional, and/ or physiological level. Trauma is a very personal experience that can affect the people around such victims in ways that can last a lifetime if not sought with any help. The most...

Discrimination and segregation towards the African Americans are no stranger to all Americans. These phenomena have marked the great history of America and continue to do so. Many have tackled the subject in hope of diminishing it once and for all. ‘A Time to Kill’,...

The 13th amendment was passed through the Senate on April 8, 1864 and the House on January 31, 1865 passed at the end of the Civil War and it formally abolished slavery in the United States. It also mentions that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...

Social inequality on the basis of race and ethnicity continues to afflict America. Slavery has evolved into the mass incarceration of marginalized groups and the exploitation of them for free prison labor. The prison industrial complex aims to make profit off the backs of black...

Silver Linings Playbook was released in 2012 by The Weinstein Company. In the movie The Silver Linings Playbook, screenwriter David O. Russell portrays how different real life is from a normal American screenplay. This film is directed towards a wide audience ranging from young adults...

Depending on past consequences and a person’s willingness to improve, most people deserve the opportunity of another chance. Second chances depend on one’s actions and the consequences of those actions. In some cases, people do not deserve multiple chances due to their previous actions. For example,...

The documentary titled “13th Documentary“ was actually written by a guy known as Ava DuVernay. Describing it, this documentary was very incredible as it went into a deep depth on the United States of America’s current prison system. Also, the 13th documentary seems to highlight...