Goin Down The Road Film Analysis

Canada like Laurence, was forced to face the hardships involved with growing up. However, the black marks in history does not define Canada , it is how Canada learns from their mistakes and moves forward. Laurence explains through her microcosm of a prairie town that along with growth comes the formation of perspective that will forever affect one's future decisions .

Dealing with the theme of assimilation, Hester Street, set in 1896 was a depiction of the immigrant Jewish community living in the Lower East Side of New York City. Throughout the film, we see the challenges the Jewish immigrant characters endure when their “Old World” traditions, practices, and ideas were juxtaposed with the “New World,” American values. Thus, Hester Street highly endorses the characters’ acceptance with assimilating to American values. Furthermore, the film also showcases the resistance and complications to assimilation as some characters try to maintain their culture.

Nationhood and identity are both very slippery and ambiguous terms. As such, the possibilities to which these two concepts can be explored are quite extensive. Within Canadian cinema, there is a tendency towards realism as opposed to escapism, as seen in American/Hollywood cinema. This realist tradition can often be used to critique and explore the flaws of concepts such as nationhood and ‘the national’, while Hollywood cinema is much less critical and has a tendency to depict utopic and universalized places. This tendency towards realism and identifying the flaws of nationhood and identity while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of specific places is explored in the two Canadian short films, Withering Heights (2014) directed by Liz Van Allen Cairns and Luk 'Luk 'i: Mother (2014) directed by Wayne Wapeemukwa. Both films explore the struggles of nationhood and identity through the experiences of forgotten female protagonists whose problems are rooted in financial difficulties and whose narratives are intricately intertwined with the sense of place represented in each film. In Withering Heights, a woman in her 50s, Margot (Gabrielle Rose, best known for her role as Dolores in the 1997 Canadian film The Sweet Hereafter), suffers from a failing marriage leaving her sleepless and shrinking as she loses touch with her memory and sense of personal identity. Meanwhile, Luk 'Luk 'i: Mother documents the struggles of a mother and aboriginal woman, Stoney (Angel Gates), as

“Strange Brew” was a full-length movie released in 1983 that depicts how Canadian Identity was viewed at the time and to Canadians, it was a blatant representation of national identity through cultural commentary. The idea was put forth after a sketch with a similar plot line aired and was very successful in Canada and the United States, thus leading to the creation of the film. When compared to modern national identity it emphasizes the change globalization has facilitated. The national identity of past Canadians is vastly different from what is considered national identity of the modern population. Some aspects of identity affected are; the cultural ethnicity of Canadians, the fashion worn and the technology used.

The western movie I pick is John Ford’s movie Stagecoach (1939). The movie is about a group of people traveling together by stagecoach from the town Tonto to Lordsburg. The people traveling together are a diverse group of people. All of them have the specific motivation for going, but they all share the same goal reaching to Lordsburg. The characters are Dallas who’s a prostitute, Mrs. Lucy Mallory who is the wife of the Army Cavalry officer, Ellsworth Henry Gatewood who is a banker, Hatfield who is a gambler, Samuel Peacock who is whiskey salesman, Doc Josiah Boone who is a alcoholic doctor, Buck Rickabaugh who is a stage driver, Marshal Curley Wilcox who is a marshal riding shotgun, and Ringo Kid who is an escaped outlaw.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, many Canadians were still adjusting to its new ways and ideas. Then the Greatest War the world had ever seen transformed the map of Europe and changed the nations, and the people, who fought in it forever. In Canada, for example, during the war the government faced great challenges such as the conscription crisis when the Country was divided by politics. In addition Canada was accepting the new, untraditional, roles of women, who during the war were allowed to work for the first time in ‘men’s professions”; such as

“Iron Road” has successfully shown why Chinese workers came to Canada in the 1880s as well as the challenges they confronted. Most of the film’s storyline occurs in China, where it uses the point of view of a Chinese peasant called Little Tiger, to display the daily struggles of the Chinese. The setting is full of war and destruction, thus destroying many farms resulting in famine and poverty. This has resulted in peasants having insufficient funds to support themselves and making them live in unsanitary living spaces. As a result, this gave the workers more reason to move to Canada as there was also better income and resources there. However, once they arrived in Canada, they discover that the conditions there weren’t as good as they thought. Although they had a better income than they did in China, there was a lot of discrimination, dangerous working conditions and horrible living spaces. There was worse pay for the Chinese workers and they had to do the most life-threatening jobs like working with explosives as well as working on the side of a cliff with no harnesses. Throughout the film, “Iron Road” has used the setting, characters and point of view of a Chinese peasant to show that there were horrible conditions and chaos in China, as well as the racism, dangerous working conditions and poor living space the peasants faced in Canada.

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

The movie “Gone with the Wind” is about a rich southern girl named Scarlett O’Hara and her life hardships set during the time-period of the Civil War. In the story, Scarlett is forced to watch helplessly as her family’s wealth and lives fade as the confederacy loses the Civil War. Even though, the movie is mainly centered on the dilemmas of Scarlett’s love life, there are many historical accuracies that immerse the viewer in the southern mindset as well as the timeframe. The portrayal of class structures and the confederate attitudes before the Civil War are both accurate and engaging details that the movie successfully implements. In the film, these examples are displayed mainly through the dialogue and setting.

1880s.The movie revolves around the perspective of Little Tiger, and the struggles she encounters. It consists of engaging illustrations that effectively explain the push and pull factors compelling the Chinese to leave China as well as demonstrated the many struggles endured in Canada. The film displayed many different perspectives of the Chinese, through the filthy setting, and each of their individual financial struggles and conflicts. This also explains the sudden compulsion to move to Canada, as the income was better, the environment was cleaner and they would be properly fed and tended to. China was not the best place to live in during the 1880s. Due to

Glory Road is a film based on a true story starring the 1966 Texas Western Miners basketball team coached by hall of famer Don Haskins. The story of Glory Road is not an average sports movie, but the link between the sport of basketball back in the 60s as well as the history of racism. Don Haskins was a high school girls’ basketball coach who got the opportunity to coach the typically all white-men’s basketball team at Texas Western University. At this time football was king at the school and thriving, while the basketball program scraped by with limited recruiting funds. The spectacle of this team changed when coach Haskins recruited seven African American athletes and at this time, this act was unheard of, and it took the country by the storm representing the evolution in society of racial discrimination in the movie.

In this essay, I will offer up my analysis on the film Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch. The best way to describe this film would be that it is an enigma. I had no idea what to make of this film on my first viewing. After watching the film a few more times I believe I cracked the code. Lynch is known for not speaking about the meaning of his films.

In Howard Hawks’ film from 1948, Red River, was a story of a journey to the South West to create a great new life in hope to start a successful business in the cattle market. The drive to go West was based off of rumors that promised opportunity, land to be settled in. This was the case for many frontier men, but is considered rather naive to sacrifice your future based on word of mouth. Later the group gets hit head on with the difficulties and hardships of going to a land where you know nothing about. First off, the land that the leader of the group, Dunson, claims is his land is actually owned by the Mexican’s that was patented by the king of Spain. Dunson anticipates a draws and kills the Mexican guard. This action is presented necessary

Film analyses: using structure/form and theme analyses of the film. Collecting Kurdish films specific to the ones that relate to my topic. Yol, “The Road” by Guney would be used for this purpose as this film would make a significant statement related to my topic; also the title of Yol is a appropriate to the film Yol The road, the mining behind this is very powerful because the road closes but can never come to an end, Heidegger 1958 philosophy is a quote that can be used in relation to the film title. Another film I would be using is A time for drunken Horses by Ghobadi.

There was no real Canadian connection with this novel, except the author being Canadian. I could say that it was a basic theme of multiculturalism, but I don 't think that really applies to this book. Next time I 'll pick a more "Canadian" author.