The Lovely Bones: Movie Analysis

“Steel Magnolias” is a story about the close-knit relationships between six eccentric Southern women living in a small town in Louisiana. The film has a home spun, unpretentious feel to it. The plot alternates between humorous, everyday events with good-natured quips and the seriousness and heartaches to life’s unexpected crises. Through the laughs and tears, the six women learn to endure hard times and emerge from the struggles with grace and dignity. The film is set in the 1980’s with a tight knit homespun atmosphere. The Southern belles who are goofy on the outside but strong enough inside to survive any challenge that life deals them. Friendships help with a

Steel Magnolias is a great movie of love, laughter, and tears. It features six strong-willed woman who "are the Steel Magnolias of the tittle…” as Roger Ebert says. The women dealt with many set backs in life, but no matter what they kept their southern grace and charm in tact at all times. In the film one of the main set backs is Shelby, one of the “Steel Magnolias” (Julia Roberts), fighting with diabetes. Shelby’s diabetes is so bad she’s not supposed to have children due to the strains it would put on her body. Although there is a risk and against her mother’s will Shelby is determined to go though with the pregnancy. In the movie Shelby must choose between having a baby, which is one of the greatest moments in a woman’s life, or

Peter Jackson’s 2009 film, The Lovely Bones, is based off of the New York Times bestseller novel written by Alice Sebold. Both the book and the movie adaptation tell the story of a young, 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon who is brutally murdered by her neighbor. In both versions, Susie narrates her story from the place between Heaven and Earth, the “in-between,” showing the lives of her family and friends and how each of their lives have changed since her murder. However, the film adaptation and the original novel differ in the sense of the main character focalization throughout, the graphic explanatory to visual extent, and the relationship between the mother and father.

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

Siddhartha Deb writes “The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India to show many different aspects of India. He incorporates the stereotypes people have about India, while also showing how life in India actually is. He is from India, and therefore has an in-depth knowledge of India’s inside information. He shows how India is becoming more globalized while still retaining the complex cultural system of caste and status. Throughout the book, the author encounters different types of people, from the rich to the poor and from the famous to insignificant. Even though some of the people would be considered not important to people who view India from the outside, he shows how they are actually very significant in interpreting the daily lives of Indians all over the country.

Okay, so this is how this is going to work… The deep book review will be split into different sections, one where I will dump a bunch of information about the storyline on the reader, another where I will rant about what makes this book deep but not good, and, finally, another about the author. The footnotes will be my way of interjecting Laszlo-esque commentary on what would normally be a more formal piece of writing without drastically altering the formality of the review.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, directed by Gore Verbinski, is one of the most influential pieces of cinema in the disney movie franchise. The movie was well received by the majority of people that viewed it. However, not everyone was as impressed with the movie, like film critic Roger Ebert for example. While Ebert, at the time working as a film critic for Chicago Sun-Times, gave the movie three stars, there are some critiques that are incredibly incorrect. The article focuses a lot on the stellar performances of Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush, Jack Sparrow and Barbossa respectively, while making light of the respectable performance of Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann. He also spends a good segment of his review bashing the action scenes and deeming them pointless based on the plot of the movie. Overall, Roger Ebert believes the movie was decent, but went on for far too long, calling it, “a nice little 90-minute B movie trapped inside the 143 minutes of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (rogerebert.com). There is an argument to be made about Roger Ebert’s rollercoaster ride of a review on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, especially concerning his opinions on the performances of some of the actors and the fighting.

This movie is a favorite thriller that is a nominee in the People’s Choice Award of 2016 which stars the beautiful, Blake Lively. This movie is called The Shallows, and was released in the middle of Summer when everyone is planning their beach vacations in June. This was not a typical survival shark attack type of thriller movie like the popular Jaws movies. Anthony Jaswinski is the original writer of this story line, and Jaume Collet-Serra is the director; these two together have created a great movie. Blake Lively plays the character of Nancy who is a medical school dropout that has a passion for surfing. She is in search of a beach with the certain rocks in a picture that she has of her mother who has passed

The Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound houses hundreds of film reels shot in the Great Smoky Mountains. Some of these are professional ventures, commercial films or tourist bureau shorts, but the majority are home movies, shot by vacationing families enjoying the scenic beauty of our wonderful East Tennessee landscape.

on a community. The movie also shows the audience that poverty is not a choice for

Miss Ever’s Boys is a docudrama film that was produced by the HBO cable network. The movie explores ethical and social issues involved in the infamous Tuskegee Study. The study was about untreated black men with syphilis. The U.S. Public Health Service is said to have conducted a study among 600 black Americans from the years 1932 to 1972. This study was done in Macon County. This paper will exclusively explore the critique the Miss Ever’s Boys film using ethical frameworks. The ethical framework includes beneficence, justice, and respect for persons, duty-based ethics, virtue-based ethics, and the right’s-based ethics. The paper will identify how the above listed ethical principles were

“Yee-Ha! Space Cowboy Rides to the Rescue” (New York Times), this is such a captivating title. The very first part of the title sets the tone of the review, as well as giving some insight into what the movie being reviewed is about. Our next article, “Review: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Expendables In Outer Space” (Time), lacks originality and seems to hint at another bland review. It is amazing how the simple choice of different wording can affect your perception on the piece, before even reading it. Judging from these two different titles, I come to the conclusion that Manohla Dargis took more of an effort with his title, whereas Richard Corliss made the conscious effort to make a comparison to another movie that his readers may, or may not, have seen.

He is speaking to the consumer and encourages you to go see the movie, clearly concluded by giving it a 4.5 out of a 5 star rating. His review references the story line, the folklore music, the characters and the actors playing the characters. He does not give anything away, matter of fact it is a high level view, he just says enough to grab your attention. In addition, he weaves in how the actors were able to add valuable characteristics to their characters. This is beneficial for those that have a favorable opinion of one or more of the actors playing a character in the movie. If the story line did not attract you enough, the fact that one of your favorite actors is in the movie might entice you. He ends his review with this statement: “Moana” brings us a non-traditional Disney Princess that’s unique, long overdue and feels right at home.” Although, his write up is about 40% shorter than the one in the New York Times, this one added more value to the movie itself by focusing on the movie and not on Disney. The difference between each author’s closing statements sums it all

In comparison, the second review has something of a conclusion, where the writer shares a personal anecdote with the book. There is a distinct absence of a recommendation. This conclusion provides partial closure, but lacks the ending of a good book

The reviews I read on the forum were less concerned with a succinct, comprehensive overview of the book like one would expect in a professional review on a site like Kirkus. Rather, they focused on an emotional attachment to the book as a reason to review or recommend it to others. For example, in a discussion on Charlotte’s Web, one individual explains that she hated the book because she was forced to read it several times in elementary school (evie, 2004). Although the opinions on the forum were hardly reviews in the professional sense of the word, I was surprised that they so frequently included some sort of visceral reaction to the book. Often there was little explanation concerning the particulars of the story and the author chose to focus instead on the fact that a main character made them angry or that the ending was unexpected or happy.