Film Review: 'Time Is Illmatic' By Erik Parker

The use of technology has catalyzed society into an era that is increasingly interconnected yet impersonal at the same time. Despite technology’s endless list of assets, many fail to acknowledge its shortcomings when mentioning what is lost as a result of using it. Although in “Great to Watch” by Maggie Nelson, she is not afraid to share her skepticism of technology, as well as the role it plays in desensitizing individuals on a day-to-day basis. The internet is an invaluable resource to many because it is a public domain for sharing ideas, opinions, and knowledge that any and everyone can have access to. In a sense, it does not restrict what someone may see or do, and this can either be a good thing or a bad thing. The booming use of new media

In Rear Window, Hitchcock uses visuals in order to capture the perfect cinematic film and experience. We as the viewers identify with Jeff because much like how he is watching his neighbors, we are also speculating his life as a film. Our hero, L.B. Jeffries or “Jeff”, out of boredom creates an outdoor theater for himself by spying on his the people outside his window. Hitchcock uses “murder-as-entertainment” and the idea of watching a cinematic film as ways to captivate the viewers and make us subconsciously take part in intruding on someone else’s life. Hitchcock then punishes Jeff and the viewers for being “peeping toms” and casting our unwanted voyeurism on other people’s private lives. Through fear and embarrassment, Hitchcock puts our actions into perspective as we become self-conscious of our indecent objectification toward human lives.

Restless Giant, a book written by James T. Patterson, provides us with a concise and historically correct assessment of the time period of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bush. Patterson makes it a point to provide for us the relational ties between the social, economical, cultural, political aspects of life in America.

In its opening credits, Spike Lee’s Clockers features photos of dead young black men sliding across the frame. These images of lifelessness are paired with a somber ballad with lyrics pondering a place of solace and understanding, a place inaccessible to the black male despite compliance or revolt. The viewer is confronted by this slideshow of bloodied black bodies for nearly three minutes. There are cuts to crowds at crimes scenes. People stand, talking or looking on in silence, seemingly desensitized to the spectacle of a dead youth, separated only by the yellow tape which commands them not to cross. The front cover of a newspaper appears on the screen, “TOY GUN, REAL TRAGEDY”-- a young boy killed in a case of misunderstanding. This evidence of a robbed childhood establishes the reality of the community depicted in the film. A community stricken by poverty the fear of imminent violence, it is home to main character Strike, and many other young men who are yet still boys. Clockers stands with other independent films in their allegiance to what critic Manthia Diawara terms “New Black Realism” (594). These films aim to translate authentic interpretations of black life, many

The movie Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur fits within the traditions of film noir because it has some similar themes associated with it, such as doomed love. Robert Mitchum plays the doomed, double-crossed , ex-private eye as Jeff Markham. The femme fatale is played by Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat, who is trying to escape her future. Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling plays the ruthless gangster czar in the film. The formal cinematic elements in the movie are used to vividly describe the movie. You can see that the lighting is very shadowy and dark. The composition of the film leaves the audience feeling trapped within Jeff's problems. For example, when Jeff starts his journey from Mexico to San Francisco we the audience start to

The indie hit Short Term 12 is a film about scars, external and internal caused by those closest. The unassuming title of the drama refers to a foster care facility, set somewhere in Los Angeles. It houses troubled teenagers that are between court dates or foster families. These kids can be there for sometimes a week or sometimes years, many living in a state of limbo. These are kids who have experienced more in their life than some its supervisors, most who are not much older the kids. It is a master piece about broken people

A Wrinkle in Time book and movie have many similarities and differences. I cannot say one is better than the other, but I can compare the two together and let you decide for yourself. You may say the book is always better than the movie or vise versa but I believe that we should actually read and watch both before deciding which story is the better of the two.

Erin Brockovich, a 2000 Jersy Film Production, staring Julia Roberts is based on a true story that involved Pacific Gas and Electric Company using hexavalent chromium or chromium six as a rust inhibitor to prevent corrosion of pistons used in engines. According to the movie, for fourteen years, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company had been dumping water containing chromium six into ponds and covering them over. The ponds were not lined and the chromium based water leaked into the local water supply exposing residents of Hinkley, California to chromium six. Repeated exposure to hexavalent chromium causes chronic headaches, cancer, nose bleeds, bone and organ deterioration, respiratory failure, liver failure, heart failure, bone or organ

Twenty years after it's release, Nas' debut album Illmatic continues to inspire the masses for it's ability to connect with listeners and paint vivid tales of struggle, triumph, and real life experiences of a kid from New York's Queensbridge housing projects. The album, which debuted April 19, 1994, has continued to sustain it's relevancy and remains classified as one of the greatest albums in hip hop over the past twenty years.

of discovery by individuals can bring forth new eyes in which they not only perceive

In this paper, I will compare my real world experiences at local Alcohol Anonymous’ (AA) meetings, which I attended while enrolled in this course with that in the movie, Thanks for Sharing. Both are based on the lives and experiences of recovering addicts of either substance abuse or sexual activity. This paper will cover the stories and lives of the characters involved. Stuart Blumberg directed the movie in 2012. All movie character references in this paper are taken directly from the actual movie.

Essay Question: Consider a film you know well which plays on a sense of time which escapes that of chronological ‘clock’ time. How does the film communicate this?

This is the smartest and most interesting movie I've watched all year. This movie takes the idea of an alien invasion and deals with it on a intellectual and personal level instead of trying to wow the audience with flashy special effects. Also, this movie contains another masterful performance by Amy Adams. She is one of the best actresses in Hollywood, and she proves it with this movie.

This film was so devastating it destroyed my heart. The main thing I gained from the film that ladies are gullible to the point that they make an effort not to get their abuser in a bad position by calling the law. More often than not the informer won't proceed with the manhandle accusations since they are so dreadful of the abuser. These men are so controlling to the point they just transform the ladies into liars. The abusers regularly post bond soon after they are booked. The informers feel that they are the reason for their abuser getting so angry and beating them. They will trap the ladies into meeting with them and taking them back and when they go to court they decline to press charges. The judge will expel the case

According to Marshall Berman, Modernity is a term of art used in the Humanities and Social Sciences to designate both a historical period as well as the ensemble of a particular socio cultural norms attitudes and practices that arose in post medieval Europe and have developed since in various ways and at various times around the world. (Berman 2010, 15-36)