Steven Spielberg's Film Fury

This World War II epic follows Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a Seventh Day Adventist and conscientious objector to the war. Despite his objection to killing, something he is so opposed to that he refuses to even carry a weapon, Doss feels it’s his duty to help the war effort. He signs up to be a medic, faces bullying in boot camp for his beliefs and eventually saves approximately

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.

Saving Private Ryan is a movie that generates strong responses from most people that see it. While interviewing four individuals and reading three movie reviews, I found that each of my subjects would recommend it, not one of the individuals interviewed felt the violence was senseless, and all of them left the movie with a strong emotional response of some kind. It appears that Saving Private Ryan is the kind of movie to which many can relate.

Saving Private Ryan is a theatrical masterpiece that incorporates many universal themes that almost all people can relate to. The movie follows a squad of U.S. soldiers as they battle through the trenches of World War II. Directed by the great Stephen Spielberg, the movie is claimed by many to be the most accurate presentation of war in any movie to date. The movie includes several themes that helps captivate the audience and truly help people understand just how horrible war is. The idea of losing loved ones frightens even the toughest of us, and being lost in a foreign land scares many others. Both of these themes are thoroughly explored and propelled onto the audience to experience. The extremely accurate depiction of war, the universal themes that everyone can relate to, and the film being a theatrical masterpiece are all reasons why everyone should watch Saving Private Ryan.

to attack the US Army. John Pilger discusses this film by saying “this film offers a vicarious thrill through yet another standard issue psychopath, high on violence in somebody else’s country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion.” (“John Pilger On Why The Oscars Are A Con”)

Fury is based off Veterans from WWII telling their own story of the war, not how we won, but what happened during the war, and how it would change their lives forever (Ghahremani). The actors in Fury were asked to talk to the World War veterans about the war, and they were in disbelief on what they went through, losing friends, family, and for some, their own minds. The crew of Fury never really happened, but it is based on stories of old war veterans. Brad Pitt plays Don “Wardaddy” Collider, who is very similar to a man he talked to before the movie, who is a 90-year-old man named Ray Stewart who fought at the Battle of the Bulge as a tank gunner and driver (Don Collier).

The film, Radical Evil, by Stefan Ruzowitzky, argues that there is genocidal potential in each of us. Personal responsibility is not lost, but rather shown through the courage to step out or the willingness to conform. Radical Evil attempts to explain conformity through a series of psychological tests such as the Milgram Experiment and the Asch Conformity Test. Through psychologists, sociologists, historians, and primary sources, the film suggests that everyone is capable of murder or genocide given the right environment such as military orders or the atmosphere of war. Essentially, the perpetrator becomes the victim of their own psyche and circumstances. However, allowing the Einsatzgruppen, or any other Nazi affiliated group, to assume

The films "Saving Private Ryan" and "Apocalypse Now" were both critically acclaimed films depicting the dramas of war. They both had very realistic qualities and great cinematic values. The films had two great Hollywood directors in, Steven Spielberg directing "Saving Private Ryan" and Francis F. Coppola, directing "Apocalypse Now." While both films attempt to portray war and all its tragedy, "Saving Private Ryan" emphasizes the toll of war, whereas "Apocalypse Now" rather plainly

I feel like the film SOUND, AND FURY is a fascinating film which looks at the often overlooked deaf culture in contemporary society. By following two families, the film looks at how the societal pressures and the impacts of the cochlear implant have on deaf families, and deaf culture. For years, deaf individuals have been told they are less than or different, and after years of stigmatization, and ill treatment many people have become part of deaf culture, which does not look at deafness as a disability, but rather a different way of life. For parents, the option of giving their deaf child a cognitive implant means that they would be able to hear, and thus, grow up communicating through auditory channels with the outside world. While for many parents, this seems like a gift, many families feel like it is shaming deaf culture, affirming beliefs that deafness is something to be ashamed of, and disconnect them from deaf culture. In the film, we see the Artinian family, who has family members over three generations in Long Island, New York, who have hearing exceptionalities. Within the movie, we mainly see the lives of the two very different Artinian brothers. One brother Peter, who is married to a deaf woman, has a deaf daughter and was born deaf. The other brother does not have congenital deafness but married a woman whom also has connections to deaf culture, with two parents who are deaf. This couple has two twin boys one who is deaf and one who can hear. In the film, we see

The Movie “Into the Storm” is an action and thriller movie written by John Swetnam, produced by Todd Garner, and directed by Steven Quale. The movie script was bought from John Swetman in October 2011by New Line Cinema, and it would be produced by Todd Garner through his production company, Broken Roads Productions. “Into the Storm” was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and premiered in theaters August 8th, 2014 ("Into the Storm - Official Movie Site). The budget for the oil was 50 million dollars, and box office has earned 162 million dollars at box office. This movie was filmed in Michigan in the cities of Detroit, Rochester, Oakland Charter Township, and Pontiac in Michigan (Chen, Sandie Angulo). The setting is a city named Silverton

Understanding why we consume certain media correlates to the ability to understand our own moral outlook. To revisit my own moral outlook, including my best plan derived from the Satisfactory Moral Theory, I follow tenants of Cultural Relativism, Ethical Egoism, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics. All things considered, it can be said that I lean towards the proper treatment of others, choosing the most favorable outcome, and acting upon my own self-interest. However, if that is true, why is it that I indulge myself in media that create situations that are in clear opposition of my moral outlook? Alix Spiegel, a writer for NPR, explains “Over the past couple of decades, psychologists have documented many different ways that our minds fail to

While watching this film you may find yourself experiencing some of the same emotions as the characters in the film this allows you to be in the movie letting you be a part of an important event in our history. This is what makes the film so unique. Its full of different scenarios that keep you wondering what is going to happen next. I think that this film is a very close representation of what WWII was really like.

World War Z is a 2013 American horror film directed by Marc Forster. Other than being directed by Marc Forster, the film’s revenue was over a whopping total of $200 million, whilst its budget was a total of $190 million. This film stars Brad Pitt, who plays Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator, and also stars numerous other actors. Gerry Lane must leave his daily life, outside of the UN and embark on a journey across the globe to find a cure for the ongoing zombie pandemic. I felt as though this movie was worth my time, so I would recommend watching it.

Its unrelenting portrayal of irrational death and annihilation goes well beyond other German war films of the 1950s. Its vigilant proposition that at least some of the boys might be accountable for not only their own deaths but the others deaths as well, implying that the older German soldiers indubitably should have known better.

Rooted in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, artist Steve McQueen’s brutally raw film Hunger retraces the crusade of Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners who desired Special Category Status while imprisoned at Maze Compound Prison. Starting near the middle of a four-year-long stalemate, McQueen’s triptych follows the routine of a prison guard, Raymond Lohan, the introduction of a new, IRA, “non-conforming” prisoner Davey Gillen into the “dirty protest", and culminates with Bobby Sands, the IRA commanding officer inside Maze who volunteers to be the first of many prisoners to go on a hunger strike for SCS, and is the first to die sixty-six days later. Through visceral scenes depicting extraordinary situations, Hunger reminds audiences of the battle of attrition that was fought thirty years before, and “how people dealt with decisions that politicians made, and the environments which are created from those decisions, which they had to survive in.” Instead of taking a side in the conflict, Hunger portrays what one critic describes “a probing, clinical, oddly beautiful examination of one man's decision to die, to face the moment that we all must, on his own terms.”