Analysis Of The Film ' Daisies '

The girls are trying to acquire that “something real”, due to the fact that they are being discriminated because of their gender.

In 1980’s Scotland, socioeconomic conditions and morale suffered due to the implementation of Thatcher policies, placing the lower class in a deplorable state of hopelessness. The film Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle, depicts the plights of young heroin junkies during the Thatcher Era in Edinburgh. The film’s focus is not heroin addiction, but rather, uses the silver screen as a platform to portray the depressing impact Thatcherism had on Scottish socioeconomic conditions as conveyed through the protagonist, heroin-addicted Mark Renton. Trainspotting illustrates that the social struggles of the Scottish lower class during the Thatcher Era are significant contributing factors to cause Renton to become a heroin user in order to escape the depressing and monotonous existence to which he is subjected.

Princess films are beloved classics that range from the beloved Disney franchise, to live action films such as the Princess Diaries, to historical tales as those seen is polish films. No matter what the format or genre these films typically have a prince searching for his love the princess and contain recurring scenes. The film The Princess Bride offers a new comedic approach to this classic genre. While scholars have explored how princess films are able to succeed through the use ideas such as nostalgia or nationalism, The Princess Bride succeeds through the use of comedy. Through the use of comedic devices such as mistaken identity, absurdity, and good old-fashioned slapstick comedy, The Princess Bride is able to parody the traditional

The film “Akeelah and the Bee” delves into the life of an 11-year-old African American girl who appears to have a natural knack for spelling. Akeelah’s sociocultural environment proves to be an impediment to the development of her skill, due to it forcing her to attend a school that does not have sufficient funding’s. Furthermore, being intellectually inclined makes her out to be an outcast. However, through various mentors and new-found determination, Akeelah can harness her formidable spelling abilities, while experiencing joy and victory during the process. This analysis will explore the youth in Akeelah and the Bee, from a developmental perspective while applying the theories of Vygotsky and Ainsworth to further defend my observations. These observations will include the seemingly vital role of an adult during child maturation, the child’s connection to said adult, their response to restrictions and the benefits of play-based learning.

In the film “The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun”, we follow a young disabled girl in post-independence Africa while she gets a job selling government newspapers. Djibril Mambéty, the maker of this film, proposes a kind of moral code to the audience. He illustrates a strong willed and lovable character named Silli. The way Silli walks, although a little wonky, the help of the crutches and her own determination keep it constant in the face of obstacles. The way Silli walks is symbolic of how the whole movie functions. In the grand scheme of the entire film, the filmmaker wants to convey that Silli, with the help of people, overcame obstacles through inner strength and determination. The crutch symbolizes the help of people around her. In the final scene of the film, the crutch has been taken away and is literally replaced by an actual human carrying her. The filmmaker wishes to convey the message to the audience to act as a crutch for the disabled: to be a source of support. Help given to disabled people are like crutches; it helps them succeed when they have the willpower to. It is like a symbiotic relationship. However, this help is merely a stepping stone for disabled people. They aren’t superior or inferior in any way. This ideology can be applied to the interactions in all forms of life. Silli is a child. Though strong willed and determined in the face of adversity, she like all children, disabled or not,

“Everybody loves babies”, a trademark quote from the documentary movie “Babies” features an insight on the many reasons babies are loved. Although many documentaries are narrated, director Thomas Balmès uses a different approach by eliminating a voiceover. By manifesting this film without narration, he focuses on a learning technique all babies go through in their early stages of life. Aiming for viewers to learn from observation, as babies do, we are left to focus on the babies, their environment and interactions. Through subtitles, this film reveals the different locations the footage of the four newborns are from. By viewing the babies different upbringings from different cultures, we learn how the various lifestyles of each culture impacts a child’s development. The babies are Hattie from California, Mari from Japan, Bayar from Mongolia, and Ponijao from Namibia.The film shows the infancy and toddlerhood period of the babies as well as their development physically, cognitively, and socially.

The movie Precious, is based off of the novel Push by Sapphire. In this movie, there is a 16 year old girl named Precious. She is pregnant with her second child from her father, still in junior high, and is morbidly obese. Not only that, but is continuously abused by her mother and father; verbally, mentally, and physically.

Cléo from 5 to 7, directed by Agnes Varda, is a film about one woman’s struggle to come to terms with the possibility of her potential illness. Not only is Cléo struggling with her physical health, but she is also dealing with her beauty and the consequences of being an attractive woman in the modern world of the 1960s. When examined through the lens of Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” theory, another aspect of the film comes to light. The film seems to objectify Cléo and thus trivialize her struggles with others’ perceptions of her throughout the film by adhering to the construct of the male gaze. Although Cléo from 5 to 7 appears to play into the construct of the male gaze through the repeated objectification of Cléo, it actually subverts this idea and instead confronts the viewer, and the notion of women as passive objects to be viewed.

The Guerilla Girls are a women’s activist art group. They are masked women who came together to make change in the world of art and women’s involvement in society. GG emerged in 1985 and still are active today in New York after 30 years of the emergence of the group. The Guerilla Girls used posters with real statistics to show awareness of sexism in the art world and the discrimination of women in politics as well as in the mass media. The Guerrilla Girls spread awareness of sexism in art, discrimination in politics and the mass media through their workshops, performances, and posters.

“D.W. Griffith was the first American director to be as well-known as the films he directed, and he was among the very first to insist that filmmaking was an art form” (Lewis 53). This statement is very true. However, the inherent discriminating content in some of his movies also made him one of the hardest to appreciate. One of the most famous examples was The Birth of a Nation (1915), which was in favor of the Ku Klux Klan. After a few more controversial movies, he finally tried to redeem his reputation with Broken Blossoms (1919). Broken Blossoms is Griffith’s attempt at an apology in the portrayal of minorities and the idea of miscegenation within The Birth of a Nation in the midst of a troubling society heading towards the anti-miscegenation law.

The goal of this collection, which traces the prevalent patterns of representation of these women in Western art and culture, connecting the constructs to the realities facing the women, past and present, is to demonstrate how the daily life of these women in society is directly related to how they are represented . It also aims to provide a hope for, in the future, a better understanding of both the problems, but also the diversity of the women of Eastern Europe, and a change of

In the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi and the novel Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo written by Guzman Bouvard, the repressive revolutions played a pivotal role in the lives of women. Through the Iranian Revolution, restrictions in the public and private sphere were evident by imposing censorship constrains. The Argentinian revolution, on the other hand, allowed limited civil rights by actions of the military junta. Despite these conditions, women managed to find empowerment through forming groups and rebelling against government in both the public and private sector.

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way that film does, and goes directly into our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls” (Ingmar Bergman). Ingmar Bergman’s fascination with the subconscious and dreams as they delve deep into one’s consciousness is evident in his work. To Bergman, cinema is quintessentially an alternate reality in which dreams can have a physical manifestation. The flexibility of cinema allows for Bergman to evoke dream-like qualities in his films. His films are dream-like in the sense that they take both the character and the viewer into a seemly different world that transcends regular notions of time and space. One of his most well-known films, Wild Strawberries, illustrates

If Arthur Pottinger could have had his way, his favorite sister Daisy would have achieved her goal to be a registered nurse. Since Daisy was five years old, she chose a nursing career and the Pottinger family applauded her choice. That was until Veda Pottinger left home for employment in Kingston the big city. After that, everything changed for the family.

The daring very beautifully shows how women could not have independent at that time in Russia. There are many lines, which demonstrate that for example, "Whatever her husband thought, she thought, too. If he thought that the room was hot or business was slow. She thought the same. Her husband did not like entertainment of any sort and stayed at home on Sundays, and so did she." So basically, The darling was addicted to other male figures thoughts and believes and the cause of this addiction might have been either that she wanted to be as powerful as men, or being so afraid of making a mistake. What is really fascinating is when someone addicts to something, the thing kills the person, but here things are opposite. All of this are not so different in present Kurdistan, unfortunately, women are subordinated to men in Kurdistan, and they cannot have their own opinions if is not in favor of men. However, this depends on the families and their intellectual levels not all of the families are like this. Yet recently, women's social, economical and political position has become more and more significant, especially after people have witnessed women bravery against ISIS, even uneducated people start to come to a conclusion that women has nothing less than a