Extremis Reflection

I chose to address Robert Eads, who is the main character of this documentary. I found this film to be a travesty and a horrible shame that society seen this man’s life as so insignificant. The physician’s treatment was inexcusable and ignorant. This is a perfect example of the old cliché, what we don’t understand we negate from our reality or deny its existence. The physician’s is this film, in choosing to not treat Robert’s cancer, publicly denied his right to live the way he felt fit for him, subsequently letting him die due to his decisions.

Firstly, it is important to understand how the documentary form is best suited to illustrate the film’s theme. In order to do this, one must have an overview of the documentary style of filmmaking. Documentaries concern themselves with the “exploration of

While implementing Primary Health Care models, identical to those in metropolitan areas, in a rural setting is not practical, I feel there is an obvious need to improve primary health care in remote areas. This is due to the significant health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, in rural and remote areas

In the book maximum Ride saving the world and other extreme sports, max the main character learns a lesson about family and how and what they do for you. Throughout the book max begins to understand the importance of family and how to let them in your life, to help get rid of stress and loneliness.

This allowed the audience to build an image of Emmet Till, which also something many documentaries fail to do. An ordinary documentary would give the audience cold hard facts about the case, The Murder of Emmet Till, however; builds upon emotion by building up these people like an author would build a character. The film uses the audience’s emotions to emphasize the importance and tragedy of this event, the use of emotion also encourages the audience to care more about what happened. Instead of relying on pure facts, which often only appeal to only some people, they use emotion which appeals to all and they, of course, include facts to support their overall

Richardson’s non-interventionist style is a prime example of observational documentary, and works specifically well in capturing and promulgating the subject of death. According to Nichols, observational documentaries started appearing in the 1960’s as result of more mobile and smaller equipment. Furthermore, observational documentary stresses non-intervention, as filmmakers objectively observe indirect speech, candidness in the form of long takes, and create a world out of historical reality not fabricated with

the end of the film fixates the audience emotions from the film’s genre are manifested within

No matter where we are to go, there will always be a society, expectations, limits, love, and hate. It is never ending, but that is not the only reason people are feeling like they do. The documentary first focuses on the downgrading of women.

The cast had difficulty acting and communicating through desired emotions. The persistent change of setting produced an unrecognizable environment that was fundamental for the story. At some point along the filming process Steven and I witnessed our production derailing, realizing that our final product would fail. The changes that occurred during our summer offered a new perspective both Steven and I were not envisioning. “Nonfiction” transformed from a somber film to a laissez-faire documentary about how best friends share a mutual appreciation of respect for each

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

For my analytical essay I choose I was held captive for 317 days by Vincent Cochetel. I choose to do this talk for my video because the idea that people seem to think that they can attack humanitarian aid workers truly disturbing. Before seeing this video I never realized that the aid workers who help during wartimes in countries were so badly treated. This opened my eyes to the fact that there are more and more people thinking they can attack aid workers. In my opinion this video is something that all people need to see, and need to appreciate the people putting their lives on the line to help people working in war torn countries. It is also my opinion that people need to open their eyes and work against the killing of aid workers and to find justice for those that have been killed,

This documentary has a voice which is the most important part of any movie, furthermore, it has it own way of living and breathing and speaking to

In this essay, I will explain why a documentary is always more realistic than a fiction film. I will show my thesis by exploring elements that influence how realistic a film is: film editing and format, genre, and transparency. I will use the documentary of Armadillo (2010), by Janus Pedersen, and the fiction film of The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968), by Danièle Huille as examples.

The title of this documentary is Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things, but the film itself is not very minimalistic, nor does it focus solely on the important ideas of minimalism. The documentary is filled with multiple people’s different stories of their journey to minimalism and many different points of view making it quite “cluttered”. The film should, ideally, take on the idea of minimalism through the footage, and the number of interviews they had. By having less opinions shared in the film it would allow the viewer to make a stronger connection to each of the individuals they hear to making the argument easier to follow and understand. The camera angles, frames, and scenes in the documentary are too varied. Minimalism is about focusing solely on the important things in your life, and the creator of this documentary should focus entirely on the important aspects of minimalism in every aspect of the film.

The documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest has a plot that truly seems like something off of a twisted horror movie. With sudden twist and turns, keeping up with the story is intriguing as you do not know what information is next to come. The documentary is presented in a way that kept me at edge of my sit, presented so that the full story is not given right away, rather piece by piece without specific order. In the opening of the film, I was confused as to why Gypsy Rose would kill her mother and it seemed as though it was just another average murder documentary. However, things quickly became interesting and the “victim” began to be stripped of her innocence. I felt truly sorry for Gypsy and I could only imagine how life was for her, being in the blind never truly understanding the situation. When you are taught and controlled in a certain way, that is what you know and for Gypsy what she knew was a horror story life style. The way the documentary portrayed this 48-year-old savage, made me gain anger towards her. How could someone be such a despicable human? Even her parents talked in such a negative manner of her. With that being said, everyone knew the type of manipulative human being she was, therefore, someone at some point of time should have tried harder to check on Gypsy who had to deal with this woman for countless years. The conclusion of the film displayed some hope however it is sad that her happy ending had to end with 10 years in prison.