Essays on Movies

A Time To Kill was written by John Grisham and published in 1989 by Wynwood Press. A Time To Kill takes place in Clanton, Mississippi during the 1980s. This story is about a black father’s vengeance on two white men who committed a violent rape...

The film Bend it Like Beckham (BILB) was created by Fox searchlight pictures in the year 2002. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha. Gurinder has not directed many major movies that people watch today but one of her more popular movies is the bride...

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...

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...

The Lovely Bones was directed in 2009 by Peter Jackson and has gone on to become a well-known film which still holds a great message today. The Lovely Bones has several themes that include love, loss, grief, unity and death. Although, throughout the movie out...

The issue of discrimination has developed over the last century and can be seen depicted in a range of multimodal texts. Ang Lee’s 2000s romantic Western film Brokeback Mountain depicts rodeo cowboys, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, who are hired as sheepherders in Wyoming...

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...

Like shown in the movie, “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss, humans have been destroying this world for many years. We decided to create different types of technologies to make our lives easier. Buildings, vehicles and other things that only cause harms our planet. The want...

The American and Chinese cultures have major differences. Most of these differences are highlighted or presented in the movie. While analyzing the movie, it was important to identify some of the differences as the basis to understand the underlying message that Amy Tan wanted to...

People should find their own cultural identities and feel proud of and empowered by their origin and identity. However, It is important to acknowledge that once people immigrate and immerse in a new culture, it is more challenging for them to have a clear definition...

Being different, unique, irregular, uncommon is a string of characteristic words that, depending on the person, would bring fear and rejection. This fear of change, of the unknown, is sown within all of us whether we are conscious of it or not as most of...

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 Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy/romance film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner. This film is about a young woman called Buttercup who falls in love with her farmer boy, Wesley. He faces a long separation with her and must save her. They...

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...