Breathless Movie Essay

“Insidious” is a 2010 horror movie centralizing around the lives of protagonists Renai (Rose Byrne) and her husband Josh (Patrick Wilson). The movie mainly focuses on the supernatural activity going on within the house, and it is later revealed that the cause of the hauntings is due to demons attempting to take over the body of their unconscious son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins).

The federal government placed many restrictions and discriminatory actions on the black troops. At the beginning of the Civil War, African Americans were not allowed to serve in the U.S. military. By the summer of 1862 it was clear that additional troops were needed. To meet the need, Congress passed two bills that allowed the participation of black soldiers in the Union Army. The Government established segregated units called The Bureau of Colored Troops. The measure lacked popular support and the U.S. Army did not begin recruiting black soldiers until 1863.

The film Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross is about two modern teenagers, David and his sister Jennifer, somehow being transported into the television, ending up in Pleasantville, a 1950s black and white sitcom. The two are trapped as Bud and Mary Sue in a radically different dimension and make some huge changes to the bland lives of the citizens of Pleasantville, with the use of the director’s cinematic techniques. Ross cleverly uses cinematic techniques such as colour, mise-en-scene, camera shots, costumes, music and dialogue to effectively tell the story.

The movie Secretariat is based on the life of a racing stallion named, oddly enough, Secretariat. The movie shows the horse in it’s training and taking place in multiple races, where his owner, named Penny Chenery, really wanted him to win. Penny Chenery, a housewife to four children in Denver during the late 1960’s to early 1970’s, and wife to John Bayard Tweedy, was the woman who took care of her father, Christopher Chenery, got very ill and could not take care of his farm. This was soon after Christopher’s wife, Helen Bates, died.

The movie thirteen touched many important factors of adolescent’s development. Some of the ones I want to concentrate in this paper are: family system, developmental tasks, and peer pressure.

In the movie Wit, English literary scholar Vivian Bearing has spent years translating and interpreting the poetry of John Donne. Unfortunately, she is a person who has cultivated her intellect at the expense of her heart. Both colleagues and students view Bearing as a chilly and unfriendly person lost in her private world of words and mysterious thoughts.

“A Bronx Tale” is a film about directed by Robert Di Nero about a boy named Calogero an Italian American male, and his life as he grows up in a town occupied by the mob in the 1960’s. Calogero has two strong influences in his life. They are his father Lorenzo a proud middle class bus driver and a mob boss named Sonny. In the film there are three scenes that especially demonstrate the influence Sonny and Lorenzo have on Calogero.

The movie, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), is based on a character Andy Dufresne. Andy is a young and successful banker who is sent to Shawshank Prison for murdering his wife and her secret lover. His life is changed drastically upon being convicted and being sent to prison. He is sent to prison to serve a life term. Over the 20-years in prison, Andy retains optimism and eventually earns the respect of his fellow inmates. He becomes friends with Red, and they both comfort and empathize with each other while in prison. The story has a strong message of hope, spirit, determination, courage, and desire.

Into the Wild is a documentary film by Sean Penn that follows the life of Christopher Johnson McCandless, a vagabond who tramped across the United States for two years before his journey led him to Alaska, where he lived in the wilderness, sheltered by an abandoned transportation bus, preceding his death. McCandless grew up with all the privileges of being raised in the suburbs by a middle class family, he later went on to graduate from Emory University in Georgia, and seemed to have his whole life stretched out in front of him. However, he did the exact opposite of what was expected, severed all ties with his family, and adopted a life of chosen homelessness, where his travels led him on wild adventures across the country. Many speculate that McCandless was pushed to do this in order to spite his overbearing and abusive parents who verbally and physically assaulted each other in front of their children, demanding they pick a side. Some say it was McCandless’s desire to free himself from all material constraints and the burden of societal pressures. Taking a psychological approach, McCandless

“Ordinary people” everywhere are faced day after day with the ever so common tragedy of losing a loved one. As we all know death is inevitable. We live with this harsh reality in the back of our mind’s eye. Only when we are shoved in the depths of despair can we truly understand the multitude of emotions brought forth. Although people may try to be empathetic, no one can truly grasp the rawness felt inside of a shattered heart until death has knocked at their door. We live in an environment where death is invisible and denied, yet we have become desensitized to it. These inconsistencies appear in the extent to which families are personally affected by death—whether they

Slowly but surely, Emile has adjusted on the arms of Madame Rigaud, a foreigner herself but one who has already mastered the system. His affair with her leads him to desert his partner in crime, Congo, a symbol of Emile’s origins; we never see the two together again. Rather we see Emile attempting to conform to this Western man point of view: the man who values material items. In the last scene where this couple appears, Emile is fretting over yet another case of the fire bug, but rather than worry about the supposed love of his life, the woman he cannot wait to marry, he asks her, “But you are insured, aint you?” (97). He has learned the value of the thing. In the end, he still thinks that his way to Madame’s heart is through her own things, by showing her that he can take care of her things or that he values her things above her safety. However, Emile in return becomes one of her things. Her “p’tit ambitieux” and nothing more (Dos Passos 97). His masculinity at this point has become nothing more than a thing for her to manipulate; he feels as if he has a good hold on it, but in reality, she is the one fully in control. As a more experienced foreigner she has still managed to play this game better than Emile. He falls victim to Manhattan’s “ruthless competition and greed and material success” (Lane

One must never judge or discriminate a person based on their physical attributes. Prejudice and discrimination directed against someone of a different race is known as racism. It is evident in the movie “Crash” directed by Paul Haggis, that people misconceive others due to judgement on their physical traits. Throughout the movie, the characters living in Los Angeles face the challenges of fitting in a town populated by people of different colours. The offenders are the “white” people whereas the victims are everyone else. The presence of racism is the main cause of every conflict that occurs in the movie.

This film analysis will delineate the diverse directorial decisions of The French New Wave cinema movement, and how they have been utilised and developed to challenge and subvert the typical Hollywood filmmaking conventions and techniques of the 1950s and 60s Hollywood cinema, in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959). Hollywood produced films of the time used a very limited variation in film techniques such as camera, acting, mise-en-scene, editing and sound. This can be mainly attributed to the low innovative thought of creative and expressive camera movements, angles, etc… due to technological hindrances. In particular, this film analysis will de-construct the filmmaking elements of the revelatory French New Wave movement in Truffaut’s The 400 Blows ending scene (01:34:42 – 01:39:32) portraying the main character Antoine Doinel’s escape from juvie and trek to the bespoken beach.

A Bout de Souffle, also known as Breathless, was directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960. It was his best film so far and it was in the new wave period. The film focuses on how the story is told and not what it says. Godard filmed a lot of it without a written script and improvised most scenes. By Godard doing this it made the film more natural and realistic. In the beginning of the film the main character, Michel Poiccard, stole car and killed a police officer. Michel later escaped to Paris, where he met Patricia. She is a student from the United States who is working as a journalist. She speaks French, however, she still has trouble understanding some things. Michel and Patricia said they loved each other, however, towards the middle of the

In Breathless, Patricia who is the female protagonist rats out her lover Michel and by doing this secures her independence. The idea of falling for Michel and becoming dependent on him scares her because she values her independence as a working woman that can make