Did Departures Deserve the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar

There were some reactions that I experienced when I watched this movie a couple times. The first time that I watched the movie, I thought it was sad and predictable. The very first scene shows the two men just missing each other at the Texas Market, than the rest of the movie was about their life being sad. I pretty quickly saw that the two would eventually run into each other and find the love they were missing in their life. It was sad to see that they were so unhappy in their lives. Since I was a kid, I grew up with a family that believed in equal

At the time of its release many critics had written this film off considering as an average film with an average story. Chicago Sun-Times labeled it as an attempt to divert away from the traditional cinema, with a new concept silent film and it failed to make an impression on the audience because of lack of creativity in the story. The film had no surprise element in it for the audience.

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

Some critics may say that the untidiness of scenes affects the comical nature of the film but, I think a

There were some stereotypes often shows in this movie but I still think this movie was good and these did not ruin my enjoyment if the

The power and prestige of this film comes not from its controversial and serious subject matter, but from the unbiased way in which the story is

It effectively engages the audience throughout the comedy through the double love story line (Hitchcock,

Despite the fact that Asian Americans have been in Hollywood for decades, there are very few positive representations of them in film. More often than not, they’ve been depicted as stereotypical caricatures, and more specifically, as foreigners who can’t speak grammatically correct English. Moreover, the negative representations of Asian Americans in film has perpetuated certain misconceptions about their culture. Chan is Missing (1982) calls for more genuine representations of Asian American identities through its cast of complex characters and defiance of Asian stereotypes. The film also urges its viewers to critically think about their own notions of identity through the use of several recurring themes and filmmaking techniques.

The film I picked for my critique is Red Tails, a historical World War II drama. The movie starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Gerald Mcraney, was written by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder, better known as the creator of the comic strip “the boondocks”, from a book by John B. Holway, directed by Anthony Hemingway and produced by George Lucas . In this paper the author will show how all elements of filmmaking

The Canterbury Tales is a piece of literary work written by Geoffrey Chaucer that involves the stories of a group of pilgrims on their pilgrimage journey. Throughout the book, each pilgrim tells a story in order to win the best story telling contest. The Host, who thought that this contest would be a fun way to pass the time of the pilgrimage, created the contest. He told all of the other Pilgrims the rules of the contest, as well as the reward, which was free dinner in the tavern. According to the book, due to all the pilgrims agreeing to partake in the contest, the reward was an important one to them; many wanted to win, therefore told the best stories that they had.

Hess and Zimmermann mention that conventional categories have blurred and there’s demands for new political and aesthetic responses in transnational cinema (John Hess 2006). These transnational films I believe would be growing significantly in the film industry as a part of film history.

This real based true story film revives in our character some traits that we are sadly unable to explore with our current social environment. It is an environment where we lack honesty, braveness and decisiveness.

Regardless of the object being reviewed, there are a number of essential features of writing a review at a professional standard. This essay will examine each of those features with reference to two reviews of films which explore a specific theme.

Because there are no conventional story ideas or dialogue, the film takes its message from the tone

Although viewers have their prejudices on film adaptations, they normally attack the structure of the story, exclaiming that film did not stay faithful to the original story; only when a role is poorly cast do the scrutinizing viewers point out the acting. In some cases, however, the actor’s performance is so precise that it, in itself, carries the