Analysis Of The Movie ' Opened Eyes '

“End of Watch” is a fusion of great performances and amazing action. Director David Ayer did amazing job in both directing and script writing. Ayer is perhaps more known as the director to Training day. He is a proven writer, his previous movies.

The movie Awakenings is a true story about a neurologist played by Robin Williams, at a hospital in the Bronx, who discovers a drug L-Dopa in which helps temporarily with unresponsive patients. Leonard Lowe who is played by Robert Deniro and the other patients are given this new age drug and are forced to adapt to the world around them that has been changing ever since they began to be catatonic.

The awakening of the soul is not comparable to that of the body as one is a natural phenomenon and the other is a choice one must make each day. In the film Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall, it is suggested through the use of Dr. Sayers fear of social interaction, his orderly life (shown by the mise-en-scene created by Penny Marshall), his first exposure to friendship, and his eventual spiritual awakening that the most profound awakening of the film is not the physical one of Leonard Lowe and the other patients of Bainbridge Hospital, but the spiritual awakening of Dr. Malcolm Sayer, who learns the importance of living life, rather than merely existing.

As a young adult, it is difficult to grow up without parents and still be tough and brave. In addition, teens can be emotional and overreact at times. In the novel The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, a fourteen-year-old kid named Ponyboy Curtis feels different emotions that make him stand out from other Greasers, or “hoodlums”. Ponyboy, the youngest of all the Greasers, is a great example of a teen who feels isolated, brave, and emotional throughout the novel.

Lawrence’s use of cinematography emphasizes the complexity of human interactions when faced with a responsibility of making a morally acceptable decision. The establishing and aerial shots of the ominous landscape highlight the desolate country town and its crucial role in the interpersonal dynamics. Scenes begin with close-up and mid-shots of main characters, introducing viewers to reliable figures and allowing them to focus on the interaction between the characters. Lawrence’s use of close-up shots enables viewers to understand the characters emotions, allowing them to feel empathy for the character. Moreover, Susan’s body is cut at a high angle, forcing the audience to see her as the small, powerless victim in comparison to Park who is shot from a low angle, further exploring the complexity of relationships between races and genders.

Film can be a very useful catalyst in teaching how not to treat patients. In Analyze This and Analyze That, we see very extensive examples of this throughout the film. Through farce and lampoon, we see the in this disjunctive way what proper CBT, criminal therapy and combating recidivism is all about.

Most of the movie is taken in Joel’s mind or his memory removal process. Starting from his nearest memory that they broke up till his last remaining memory of Clementine that they first met at a beach. I think the most possible reason the movie is called Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind is referring to the deepest memory (or say, soul) survived and reserved in their both minds that brought them back to the beach and met each other again. This title quotes entirely from Alexander Pope’s poem which know as describing a very contradictory mood from the unattainable love. So does it, the movie shows Joel wants to remove all memory of Clementine while he still loves her, but then during the process he changes mind and want to try his best to keep these memory which is the “spotless mind”. In my mind, the soul theory is the personal identity that the movie most engage. According to the soul theory, to have a same identical, it’s not necessary to have a same memory, but it’s necessary and sufficient to have the same soul. In the movie, though Joel erased his memory, he still has his soul which makes him fall in love with Clementine again, even in theory he can never love her then. On the other hand, this movie seems to intensely against Loke’s memory theory that sharing a memory of an experience is necessary and sufficient to be a same person. And I think the movie also presents its own personal identity that for one person to be identical to the other person, they should have

“Inside Man” was released in 2006 and would later become the highest grossing film for the director Spike Lee. The film is a crime-drama, located primarily in a bank in New York City run by multi billionaire Arthur Case. Although the film is a thriller and contains bits of action and suspense, the movie focuses heavily on the difference between good and evil. The movie begins with a shot in medias res of Clive Owen’s character Dalton Russell explaining the difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison while he moves around a small room

The Blind Side, directed by John Lee Hancock, is a true story about Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a African American homeless boy who is taken in by an upper-class white family and faces the challenges of stereotypes in their society. Oher’s story has reached millions through the book The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game, written by Lewis Michael, and its movie adaption The Blind Side.

Stanley Kubrick, known for his critically acclaimed films, sent the world into a frenzy with the film he released right before his death. His last movie, Eyes Wide Shut, based on Traumnovelle (Dream Story), is a social commentary on the consumerist society we live in today and its relationship to the class system in place. It is important to note that the backdrop of the film is Christmastime in New York City. People who are familiar with Kubrick’s films are aware that everything the camera passes is relevant to his overall message. Notorious for his perfectionism, it was not surprising to find he had, “sent a designer to New York to measure the exact width of the streets and the distance between newspaper vending machines,” in order to reconstruct Greenwich Village in London, where they were filming (Nicholson 2017). The film took 15 months to complete, earning Kubrick the Guinness world record for longest continual film shoot. This time frame is more believable after learning he once made Tom Cruise shoot 95 takes of him walking through a door, Cruise even developed an ulcer working under Kubrick. However, all the extreme measures paid off. Even the background actors play an important role in the film. People are mulling around the streets of Greenwich Village running errands, living their lives, and enjoying the short lived holiday ambience. In almost every one of the shots in the film, there is a Christmas tree lit with rainbow lights affecting the clarity of the air. In

In Michael Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), the connections between people and memories become the focal point of a very unique romance. Through the use of new technology, the possibility of erasing memories makes painful relationships disappear like they never happened. The tale of Joel and Clementine allows the audience to rethink and question the process they undergo as beneficial or destructive. Though the process might be helpful in eliminating the pain caused from another person, four key scenes show how the lessons learned through relationship experiences are important.

American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) is a film about a wealthy and materialistic Wall Street investment banker, Patrick Bateman. Bateman leads a double life as a serial killer and as the film progresses, his homicidal behaviours begin to take over his life making his psychotic nature evident to those around him. “My need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale cannot be corrected, but I have no other way to fulfill my needs.” Towards the end of the film, after breaking up with his fiancé, Evelyn “you’re not terribly important to me.” Bateman is seen running through town like a maniac, since at this point in the film he is completely unhinged and out of touch with reality. He attempts to put a cat inside of the ATM machine that reads “FEED ME A STRAY CAT.” After being caught he shoots the elderly lady who tried to stop him, the police then begin to chase him down and Bateman shoots at them, ultimately blowing up two police cars and the cops around them. He then runs into a building to hide from the helicopters and make a call to his lawyer to confess all of his killings. Although this scene does not go extremely in depth about Bateman’s psychopathic lifestyle, when analyzing it by looking at the dialogue/sound, the editng/variety of camera techniques and the mise-en-scène it is easily recognizable.

Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry found the perfect, fragmented form to simulate memories in the non-linear storyline of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). The thematic elements of the film helps this simplistic story of love found, lost, and found again develop into a complex pattern, much like the workings of the brain. Each character is everything you would expect them to be in real life – down to earth, imperfect, and hopelessly searching for the love someone can only dream of. We can relate to them because we all long for more than we are, and want the best of us to be shown to someone else. Memories make up who we are, they define us. Life teaches us lessons which shape our memories, and in turn, we learn from them. What if those memories were gone? Are we still destined to be the same person? The protagonist of the movie is Joel, and the story surrounds his relationship with Clementine. The antagonist can be seen as Patrick, who tries to destroy their relationship, or Lacuna Inc., whose purpose is to make them forget their relationship. Charlie Kaufman has created a beautiful story that incorporates so many valuable forms in cinema, and leaves viewers on the edge of their seat until the very end. My goal is the show the class concepts of this narrative, as well as demonstrate how the way the film’s story is told

Comedic films and theatrical productions generally focus on the average human. This excludes people with extraordinary amounts of influence or power such as kings, queens or superheroes. Grecian comedy dissects the social or personal aspects of an average human’s life and uncovers their foibles and frailties. A minor weakness will usually lead to the character falling into some form of temptation which stands as the climax of the plot. This minor weakness of the character helps develop the storyline. For example, the play, Lysistrata, centers around the Grecian army and their wives. Aristophanes presents sex as a weakness of men and women in Greece in the play. The temptation for the army wives is to relinquish the sex strike that they

Since its humble beginnings in the later years of the nineteenth century, film has undergone many changes. One thing that has never changed is the filmmaker’s interest in representing society in the present day. For better or worse, film has a habit of showing the world just what it values the most. In recent years, scholars have begun to pay attention to what kinds of ideas films are portraying (Stern, Steven E. and Handel, 284). Alarmingly, viewers, especially young women, are increasingly influenced by the lifestyle choices and attitudes that they learn from watching these films (Steele, 331). An example of this can be seen in a popular trope of the “romantic comedy” genre in this day and age: the powerful man doing something to help, or “save” the less powerful woman, representing a troubling “sexual double standard” (Smith, Stacy L, Pieper, Granados, Choueiti, 783).