End Of Watch Film Analysis

Watching movies is a leisurely activity enjoyed by many people. Not only are movies enjoyable to get a good laugh, cry, or just to relax to, but there are many things to be learned from movies as well. For this project I choose to examine two movies from a sociological perspective. The two movies I chose are, Law Abiding Citizen and 8 Mile.

A major industry that catches the attention of individuals with different genders, ages and backgrounds is the movie industry. The visual representation of police officers in films can alter a person’s understanding of the law enforcement. Police officers are portrayed by two sides; good or bad. The movie I will be closely analyzing is called Training Day. This movie depicts many topics we have covered throughout this course. The movie directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer, was released on October 5, 2001. This movie follows two Los Angeles Police Department officers. Detective Alonzo Harris, played by award winning Denzel Washington, is a veteran officer, and Officer Jake Hoyt, played by Ethan Hawke, is on a new assignment

The review board collectively decided that there is no misconduct, in this situation because this officer was just doing his job. Officer White used utilized a policing know as community policing; when you place a group of officers in an area to get familiar with the locals. ("Community Policing Defined", 2014) This means that these officers will do whatever is necessary to gain the trust of the people in the community. ("Community Policing Defined", 2014) In this situation, Officer White was doing just that, interacting with the kids in a positive way, and building the trust and confidence in the community. Instead of making a big deal about the noise they were making, he made them feel comfortable enough to play with them, building the trust between the public and the police, because as stated above over 5 million people viewed this

For years police corruption has been a major problem in American society but where is the line between moral and unethical police corruption, many modern movies address this vary issue. Some films portray how types of police corruption can have a positive influence on society, while others show the dark side of police corruption. Many law enforcement agents join the criminal justice with the basic idea of "justice for all," however, most of them do not realize that the nice guy doesn't always win. Even though there are vast amounts of movies which specifically address police corruption we will use three main movies for our argument today, mostly LA Confidential, however, also Training Day.

Questionable behavior and complaints against officers can be filed by even the most violent of criminals. Often, the officer may restrain a potentially dangerous citizen, and be accused of excessive force. Overall, this results in not only a mark against the institution of law enforcement and the officer

In today’s culture we seem to find ourselves wanting to watch more and more crime movies and television shows. In an article on The Daily Dot by S.E. Smith, he asks the question “Why are we glamorizing police brutality on television?” Smith goes on to say that: “Culturally, we’re fascinated by law enforcement. Long before Telecrime and the later Telecrimes, people were ravenously consuming penny dreadfuls, procedural serials, and detective novels. The police and law enforcement genre dominates pop culture to this day, from the mystery section of the bookstore to every night on television; at any given time, some network is airing a law enforcement show.”

“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.”(Martin Luther King Jr.). Violence and racism are both important motifs in, Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989). They are prominent in almost every scene of the film and lead to the climax when Radio Raheem is killed by the police. Spike Lee used many different directorial techniques in his movie. Heat and music were an example of this and were prominent throughout the movie. They were clever ways that Lee got across his ideas, they brought the audience into the movie. They helped immerse you in the movie and made you feel as if you were feeling the

The text, or more so the movie about the text, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, does a good job of portraying race, class and gender. During the setting of the book, many people looked at white Americans to be superior to the Black, African American race. With this being said, the successful white families hired in the African American women to cook, clean, and in most cases, take care of the children. They were known as the help. Throughout both the book and the movie, the African American women experienced many forms of gender, race and class inequality.

As the third largest non-federal law enforcement agency in the United States, the Los Angeles Police Department is often the subject of close public scrutiny. This is especially true in cases of misconduct, for which the police department, like its Chicago and New York counterparts, is notorious. With the center of the film and entertainment industry based in Los Angeles and Hollywood, the LAPD features in many popular films. Film reflects the ideas of filmmakers and is a testament to how people view the world around them; much of the criticism and stereotypes that the LAPD faces can be observed in these films. In contrast, film can also influence and shape people’s existing perspectives. In film, the LAPD has typically been portrayed as corrupt and self-serving. The events which contributed heavily to this negative image were the L.A. riots and the Rampart scandal of the 1990s. In addition to revealing deep flaws within the police department, these riots and scandals also allowed Hollywood to implement the role of the police in new ways within its films. While the racism, corruption, and scandals are evident in real life, the impact that Hollywood movies have had on society’s perception of the police force is tremendous as well. It is not only society, but the police force itself, that derives its understanding of its role from popular film. Racism, corruption, and scandals are inevitable as police officers in the L.A.P.D. are conditioned to adhere to the negative

As the day begins, millions of American’s perception of police work is influenced by everyday norms that they face. Whether it being actual interaction with police, news, movies, TV, protests, social media, observing police, or conversations with peers, people are knowingly or unknowingly forming an idea as to what police work is like. The ideas of policing have taken on a drastic change since the beginning of the 21st century. With the introduction of social media and the internet, people have been free to express whatever feelings or stories they have about police whenever they want without any fact checking or any type review by professionals. Entertainment media has molded policing into action pact dramas where

Looking at ethical issues from the parents’ perspective the way the detectives and police approached them was unethical. The detective and police could have asked questions first to investigate appropriately and calmly the situation. Instead it alarmed and outraged the parents by them telling the parents, “this happened to your child.” Nevertheless, the parents would have wanted to know whether their child was a victim. From the investigation unit, they probably believed they approached the situation appropriately by gathering information to serve justice to the community.

Surette (2015) stated "After criminality, media pays the most attention to fighting crimes. The public is exposed to large amounts of crime-fighting content in news, entertainment, and infotainment, most of it terribly distorted" (p. 100). The entertainment media plays an important role in framing what citizens think about police. For most of the public tv shows and movies plays a part of their image of the police. The Administration of Justice program of George Mason University gave an article about the public image of the police. They mention that tv shows usually show police solving crimes, instead of preventing. They also stated "Effective law enforcement officers in the entertainment media are those who eschew routine methods, often violating rules and laws, and take exceptional measures to solve cases" (Gallagher, Maguire, Mastrofski, & Reisig, 2001). Sometime in certain TV shows they show that

A well known example of a long continuous shot can be found in the film ¨The Player.¨ The opening of the movie was shot in a way to help introduce the big crowd of players who were part of the setup of the film´s plot overall, to set the tone as a thriller or mystery movie. The very first image in this extending shot in the opening is of a film set that shows how the Hollywood system is ran. The camera plays with its perspective, by zooming out to show the location of the Hollywood studio then into an office building smoothly with no interruption or cuts.

The movie A Time to Kill is engrossed in the emotions that revolves around hatred, this hatred originates from racism in the south. It begins with the brutal rape of a young black girl, Tanya Hailey. The rape was committed by two rednecks in a pickup truck. Tonya’s father Carl Lee Hailey takes the law into his hands and lashes out by killing the rapist. Charged with two counts of murder, he is assigned the young and brilliant lawyer Jake Brigance, who still believes he is able to receive a fair trial. With the trial beginning, viewers get to see this hatred somehow rise to become more significant. Focusing on the relationship between Carl Lee and Jake Brigance, and its impact on the southern town. The producers of this movie tried to make the audience or the viewers understand how these people in the south struggle with this hatred of racism, facing segregation head on and its judicial system. A Time to Kill is based on the first novel by John Grisham. Directed by Joel Schumacher, with the strong performances from Samuel L. Jackson as Carl Lee Hailey, the avenging father, and Matthew McConaughey as Jake Brigance, the lawyer. This paper will be analyzing some clips and scenes from the movie, and discussing how every visual aspect of a film's language especially cinematography. For example, shots, sounds, settings, and movements can give the audience a clear sign of emotions, motive, and clues as to what the filmmaker feels and

“The Story of an Hour” tells the story about Mrs. Mallard, who learns that her husband is dead and right after that faces a great variety of emotions and feelings. Mrs. Mallard has a heart problem. One day she gets news that her husband has died in a railroad disaster. She starts crying at once, goes upstairs and locks herself in her room. She feels very lonely at first but then she starts feeling happy and free from her marriage. After some time she opens the door and descends the stairs. She surprisingly sees Mr. Mallard at the door. When she looks at Mr. Mallard, she dies suddenly. The doctor says that she dies of her heart disease, from the "joy that kills." This story illustrates the dependent condition and status of married women in the 19th century and reveals the fact that there is no way of escaping from marriage except one’s death.