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The movie ‘Her’ is the story about Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an intelligent computer operating system personified through a female voice. At the beginning of the film, Theodore is completely inept when it comes to how to make relationship with person, specifically women. However, after he gets to know Samantha, an OS program, a feeling of true love develops inside of Theodore’s mind. Then he realizes how he was fatuous in his past. Throughout the film, the director (Spike Jonze) uses five distinct color schemes to correspond Theodore’s feeling and situation.

Pleasantville is a movie where significant change occurs based on the theories of social change. In the movie, the TV show Pleasantville is set in the 1950’s and everything and everyone in that show is in black and white. And being that they’re set in the 1950’s the have the same outdated morals, values and beliefs that are associated with 1950’s culture. However, the town of Pleasantville slowly but surely turns into colour when they go against their societal norms and beliefs and have sex, read, paint, express emotions and many other things. Pleasantville portrays a town that is ready and is in need of social change and how social changes are required for humanity to progress. One could say that the colour changes in Pleasantville are viewed as a bad thing because it would mean that you broke a societal value or norm in Pleasantville where everything is always perfect. However, David and Jennifer prove to the locals that the colour change is anything but bad and how it allows them to express every facet of their minds and not be stuck in the same roles and routines day in and day out. These sociological, anthropological and psychological changes are needed when trying to move forward as a society and Jennifer and David have helped Pleasantville expand their horizons.

The film Pleasantville shows the changes in American society over the past 50 years by placing two teenagers into the Pleasantville show, which was from the 50’s. The movie depicts how there is no longer the “American Dream” and no longer a perfect way of life and the changes the world has made. The world that the teenagers come from is filled with sex, drugs, money, and is very different from the way the world was in which the Pleasantville Show took place in. Morals and values have changed in the people and in society that the teenagers came from and shows it would be impossible to return back to the kind of life style the world had in the 50’s.

The main characters of the movie are Lindsay Lohan, the main lead of the movie, supporting actors: Lizzy Caplan and Daniel Franzese, and the three mean girls: Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, and Amanda Seyfried. Rachel McAdams plays the character of Regina George, a young and arrogant teenage girl, whose goal in life is to have all the power and attention. She is controlling, deceiving, and mean. Regina George is described as the main leader of the plastics; a word used to describe fake and gossipy girls, who are interested solely in spreading rumors about their rivals, and bullying the new comers. Gretchen and Karen, two followers of Regina George, are played by Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried. Both girls are obsessed with their high-class reputation and latest fashion trends. On the other hand, Lindsay Lohan plays the role of Cady Heron, who has a hard time socializing, “since Cady was home-schooled by her zoologist parents while traveling in Africa” (Mitchell). She learns about the different social groups at high school and tries to break the stereotypes. The movie also focuses on Cady’s two best friends, Damian Leigh and Janis Ion, which is portrayed by Daniel Franzese and Lizzy Caplan respectively. In response to Regina’s insolent behavior towards her classmates, “Janis and Damian encourage Cady to infiltrate the group so they can savor all the dirt their spy can uncover as well as set a divide-and-conquer plan in motion” (Mitchell).

When her family and close friends disappear one by one, Mattie is forced to make decisions through hardships by herself. By doing so, she matures and becomes a better person throughout the process. For example, Mattie takes care of her grandfather when there was

Mattie, as a young, happy soul, finds the bleak life of Starkfield nearly unbearable. Zeena allows the girl an occasional night on the town to escape from the dreary, repetitive life she is not accustomed to. As a girl who was never taught the basics of housekeeping and physical labor, Mattie struggles to not only keep up with her chores, but to also be happy. As the first chapter opens, Ethan is revealed walking to pick his wife’s cousin up from a dance, the reader can see Mattie being herself; full of life and joy. As the epilogue unfolds, the reader sees Mattie as an aging, crippled woman.

Joan Crawford was a fantastic actor, wildly famous, and extremely wealthy as far as everyone knew, but what you didn’t see behind the curtains was a person with too many issues known only by a few close people, such as her daughter. Christiana Crawford, Joan’s daughter, wrote a book about her childhood experience and then created it into a movie for everyone to understand why her mother was crazy. In the movie Mommie Dearest her psychological disorders shinned through, rather than her fame and fortune. Some specific personality disorders can easily be identified in some scenes from the movie such as: obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), borderline disorder, narcissistic disorder, and bipolar disorder.

Mean Girls exemplifies many problems with today’s culture. In today’s culture, women are seen as objects. Many movies are geared towards getting the male gaze. In order to get the male gaze, we have to objectify women. In Mean Girls, the girls, in the movie, have to dress the part of trying to get the male’s eyes.

Are Girls To Mean To Each Other I do believe that girls are to mean to each other because well with girls there's always something. It could be an argument, fighting over a boyfriend, something someone said on the internet, or they just don’t like each others. Honestly I don’t know why girls are even like that I mean us guys we don’t really trip off of what people say about us.

Pretty in Pink is essentially a love story about a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, the rich high school hunk who has his eye on her, and the peer pressure that threatens their budding romance. Molly Ringwald plays the character of Andie Walsh, an unpopular poor girl living in the shabbier side of town. Andrew McCarthy portrays the role of Blane McDonnagh, a wealthy heartthrob who asks her out to the prom. As their romance evolves, both characters struggle with increasing pressure from their peers whom are unsupportive of the relationship mostly because of the difference in social class. This, however, doesn't necessarily hold true for two of the characters whose objections appear to derive from other

Driving Miss Daisy depicts a strong friendship that progressively builds between an elderly Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and an African American chauffeur named Hoke Coleburn. After crashing her car into a neighbor’s property from pressing the reverse peddle too hard, Miss Daisy Werthan lost her privilege to drive on the road. Since she cannot drive, her son hired Hoke to be her personal chauffeur. At first, Miss Daisy refuses to let Hoke drive her anywhere out of fear of losing her independence but out of necessity; she began to accept his offers. From driving to a local Piggly Wiggly to Miss Daisy’s brother’s 90th birthday party in Alabama, the two characters begin to appreciate and respect one another that gradually forms a loving

Grease is an Academy Award nominated musical that explores friendship, drama, and relationships between two opposing cliques as they make their way through their senior year at the fictional Rydell High School. Every day, high school students around the world face the struggles of detention, remaining “cool” in front of friends, romantic problems and pregnancy scares. This romantic comedy captures the very essence of high school with high spirited dance numbers and catchy relatable songs. Grease is a rare movie that succeeds on every level, in my opinion; each character, scene, costume, song and dance fall into place perfectly to make a movie worth watching for decades to come.

A film that raises so many questions regarding prostitution, and drugs, Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy that was released March 23rd, 1990. Although this film was and is loved by so many, it also sparked discussions of issues in society at the time the movie came out. Pretty Woman came out as the problem of drugs, especially cocaine, was on the rise. This film also highlighted the issue of prostitution around the United States, along with the growing drug addiction, that often accompanies it. The movie Pretty Woman highlights the issues of drug addiction and prostitution causing waves in the public.

The film Amelie provides multiple examples of individuals sacrificing, and applying Campbell 's moral objective to their own lives. One of the people from the film that follow the objective is Dominique Bretodeau. When he was a young boy, he lost his treasure box. Directly after it was returned to him from a stranger, he began to tear up over the lost memories that the box contained. He then confides in people at the bar that he has not spoken to his daughter in years, and because of this does not know his grandson. This simple act of kindness was enough to make Bretodeau sacrifice his pride enough to reconcile with his daughter and grandson. He had no idea if his family was going to open their arms, or push him away for being away for so long. This failed to stop Bretodeau. This journey of becoming a hero was a spiritual one. Most of the conflict happened within his own heart. A small act of thoughtfulness helped a man choose to create a better life for him, and his estranged family.

Technically I was the fool in this case. Here’s a tip for all you out there: read the blurb in depth because your cause of complaint may actually have no merit.