On The Town Film Analysis

Jean-Marc Vallee’s 2014 film Wild is based off of Cheryl Stryaed’s memoir “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”. The film changes the genre by having a woman as the main character in a man vs. nature situation a rare chage from the typical hero. Vallee had a budget of $15,000,00 for the film and it brought in $4,112,752 on opening weekend, January 30, 2015. Wild, was nominated for many prestigious awards and won few. (imbd). In a initial review of the film published in The New York Times, noted film critic A. O. Scott wrote, “The film adaptation of her book — itself already a classic of wilderness writing and modern feminism — provides another reason to be grateful that she did”. Proving that the change in the genre did not

The United States has been involved with multiple of wars over the years. But there is one war that the United States cannot seem to be win; the War on Drugs. Drugs have been around for years and years. The House I Live In, a film made in the 2012. Is a documentary about the war on drugs; how it has affected the country and individual people/families. During the film the narrator Eguene Jarecki goes from city to city showing and explaining how drugs have affected different individuals and their families. Eguene talks about the Boggs Act which was the start of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing on drug crimes. This law has put away about 2.3 million people. Which the majority of those prisoners have charges that are nonviolent drug crime acts. Eguene

The Two Towns of Jasper is a 2002 documentary directed by Whitney Dow and Marco Williams that illustrates the murder of James Byrd Jr., who was a 49 year old African-American man that lived in Jasper, TX in the 20th century. In addition, it explicates in detail the trials of the three guilty men, and the opinions and feelings of the community (family and friends of Mr. Byrd, as well as the three guilty men’s). According to the documentary, James Byrd was wandering fully conscious on the night of June 7, 1998 when unexpectedly three men grabbed him, chained him to a pick-up truck and dragged him for some miles while trying to scape, until he hit a culvert with his head, and died. The investigators found parts of his skin with blood in the asphalt road followed by his clothes and shoes. Regarding to the murderers, two of the three happened to be in an organization that greatly disliked African-Americans, and

The Frontline film Separate and Unequal discussed about creating a new school system; however, there are opposition by others who wants to maintain the current school system. If we look at the perspectives of the two groups, it is understandable in why there is support and opposition from the people of the city. The supporters of the new system wants a system that can provide better opportunities for their children without any violence. As the film claimed “the school was not teaching and were only babysitting the children”, which was likely a reason why there was a need for a new school system. With the chaotic and uncontrollable situation in the current system, many supporters have push forward the idea of a new system in a new city. From

In Neighbourhood Watch, social concerns surrounding trust and the implications it can have on our society were presented using place, space and props. In this scene, dramatic techniques such as lighting, symbolism, blocking and delivery of script help portray Catherine’s trusting nature and lack of caution towards danger towards Artur, a serial killer. Coming face to face with a serial killer may not be an experience that it common to many people in Australian society, however domestic violence is an issue that effects many. 1 in 20 men are affected and 1 in 6 women are affected. 34.4% of female domestic violence victims in the past 12 months said that the perpetrator was a male family member or friend. In this scene, the character who wanted

In the film, Ordinary People, Calvin Jarrett is the husband of Beth Jarrett and the father of Buck and Conrad Jarrett. He has been experiencing a very difficult time in his life. Recently, his son Buck died in a boating accident and Conrad attempted to commit suicide, but did not succeed because he found him in time to save him. Losing one son and almost losing his other son was a painful experience for Calvin. Through the film, we see his feelings about his children as well his caring and honest nature.

According to the text, education is defined as the social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure (Kendall, p. 462). Every human has a right to an education. Despite this definition, evidence of inequality based on race, class, and gender can be seen in the system despite good intentions to promote awareness of and appreciation for cultural differences.

Hungry for Change is a documentary that suggests the idea that the ultimate answer to weight loss is detoxification. This film interviews Jon Gabriel, who lost more than 200 pounds of weight by detoxification. He realized that burning calories was not the right way to the weight loss he was looking for. He explains that the human body holds on to fat in order to defend itself against toxins. After he started detoxifying, the weight he had been aiming to lose starting coming off once he started detoxifying, the weight started coming off all by itself.

In the film A Class Divided, an Iowa school teacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience the meaning of discrimination. Ms. Jane Elliott divided her class by eye color -- those with blue eyes and those with brown. On the first day, the blue-eyed children were told they were smarter, nicer, neater, and better than those with brown eyes. Throughout the day, Elliott praised them and allowed them privileges such as a taking a longer recess and being first in the lunch line. The brown-eyed children had to wear collars around their necks and their behavior and performance were criticized by Elliott.

The Stories We Tell is a documentary film directed by Sarah Polley. The film follows the story of her family up to the discovery of Sarah’s true parentage from an affair that her mother had in Montreal. The film uses contrastive organizing to present various viewpoints on the life of Sarah’s mother, Diane, through interviews. One interesting aspect of this film is that it tells the story outside of the directors perspective but it is ultimately centered on the directors life. Sarah is interviewing the friends and family members of her mother but she never actually answers any questions herself or describes her accounts of her childhood or the discovery of her biological father. She remains investigative and unsentimental. The Stories We Tell

Five Easy Pieces was released in 1970, Robert “Bobby” Eroica Dupea plays as the main character in the film, he plays a role as an oil rigger that has turned his back in pursuing a career in music in which he is talented at and becomes a blue-collar worker for 20 years. During these years he builds up a selfish, mean, vulgar, and lack of ambition kind of personality. In the late 1960s and early 1970s many historical events were occurring in which the film has gone into some detail with. After doing some research on Film Reviews and what other websites thought about the film many did not go into detail about the film being about discrimination on women. During the era of the film women were still fighting for their rights. I personally believe that this film showed how women were just objects to men. Bobby had disrespected mainly all the women he came across. When they were at a diner he spilled all of the drinks on the waitress just because they did not have what he wanted on their menu. He had five different women in which he would have intercourse with and talked to them in a very demanding manner, each of those five women still had sex with him because they feared he would leave

The Graduate was created to capture the social dilemma of the late 1960s and to criticize the consumer culture and its negative impact on the younger generation. Since the older generation grew up with the mentality that money will lead to happiness, they try to instill those same beliefs into their children. This caused anxiety and distress among several young adults regarding their futures. Benjamin Braddock, a confused twenty-one year old, has recently graduated from college and now he is unsure what to do next. His parents are expecting great things from him, but Benjamin does not want to go down the typical path created by his affluent family and their friends.

The first scene of the film Notorious takes place in a Court. This opening can make the audience fall into the story immediately. The leading actress’s name is Alicia Huberman, who was represented by Ingrid Bergman. Her father is an agent, and he gets involves in some terrible issues so that he is judged in the Court. What’s worse, her father’s prison sentence leaves her skeptical of others, and Alicia is very eager to have a new companion in her life. The camera first sets on reporters which implies that Alicia and her father are famous people in the town. Alicia cannot get rid of her bad mood; therefore, she is addicted to alcohol because she thinks it can help her to forget her bad time. And then, the film begins to introduce the

All of the films we viewed for this unit were very eye opening. One my favorite of the bunch was definitely Into the Wild. Chris’s journey to find absolute freedom by escaping civilization and becoming more in tune with the wild or nature was very intriguing. One point of the film that really stuck out to me was his decision to burn all of his money. He say that money make us more cautious. I believe that money does make us more cautious in everyday life. We as a society rely way too much on material things and are always trying to have bigger and better things. With wanting more we have to rely on money because with out it we cant reach our goals. I agree with Alex because I feel money does make us more cautious in everyday life. We need if to succeed and to move forward in our society. When Alex paraphrase Thoreau “ Rather than Love and fairness, give me truth”. I feel like Alex want to

Many live attempting to decipher the riddle of life. What is life? What is the purpose? What makes? Even though we only seek happiness why can’t we ever seem to achieve it? When we do reach happiness why can’t we seem to grasp it and hold it for more than the few short hours that pass like seconds? The question we must answer first is “What makes happiness, true?”