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Before watching the movie the “The Hammer” I didn’t know what to expect. I had never seen a deaf movie before and I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to understand the movie completely. Watching the movie wasn’t as hard as I expected it to be, and I enjoyed it. The best part about it was that it’s based on the true story about Matthew “The Hammer” Hamill.

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.

When watching the movie "Nell" starring Jodie Foster and Liam Nelson, the viewers are in for quite a surprise when they see the young girl in the film. The movie was made in 1994 so it is a pretty old movie but still has very good quality. In "Nell" a young girl is secluded in the woods while she lived with her mother. When a young boy was delivering groceries, he discovered that the mother had passed away and that is when police and a doctor found a young girl living there. She seemed to have something wrong with her and was frightened by other people like she had never seen anyone else except her mother. She had a severe speech impediment and she was very hard to understand. The doctor "Jerry" took the time to figure out what was wrong with her and he came to find out that she used to have a twin sister and they had a unique language of their own.

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 film frequently demonstrates racism and prejudice within the small-town as gossip and rumours are spread based upon race or appearance. Jasper Jones is a young aboriginal boy who is accused of

The strong and young female lead is portrayed by Katy. She and her family live on a ranch and to be a ranching family, you have to chip in. While out riding one day, she comes across something she had only dreamed about; a wild mustang. The imagery behind this particular scene evokes strong emotions. During this scene, Katy is shocked after her and her horses encounter with a lion on their land, however as her eyes glaze through the thick brush she spots this young, black mustang whose beauty and pureness over shined the scratches on her back and dirt from being wild. This movie shows us how to appreciate what we never thought would be possible. The music, scenery and facial expressions all balance out rather evenly to evoke strong emotions such as astonishment and admiration by the audience.

In the movie Wit, English literary scholar Vivian Bearing has spent years translating and interpreting the poetry of John Donne. Unfortunately, she is a person who has cultivated her intellect at the expense of her heart. Both colleagues and students view Bearing as a chilly and unfriendly person lost in her private world of words and mysterious thoughts.

The movie "Alive" is a shocking true story of an Uruguayan Rugby Team that crashed their plane in the middle of the Andes mountains. The Uruguayan plane crash carrying 45 passengers to Chile unfortunately resulted only with the survival of 16 students. Through a traumatic shocking experience, the movie reenacts the event of the crash. This movie demonstrates various examples of the importance of psychological and physiological needs in our daily lives. It also outlines how the survivors had to accomplish particular essential needs in order to ensure their physiological and psychological health. The movie "Alive" is a fascinating story that demonstrates heroism and faith through a team mainly consisted of teenage

When most people think about Disney movies, their mind often goes to the stereotypical princess movies in which the protagonist wears a pink ball gown. Time and time again these princesses must fight their way through the story in a luxurious ball gown in order to end up with a prince. However, there are many Disney movies that work to challenge these gender stereotypes. The movie Moana is a recent example of a Disney production that works to break the imposed stereotypes placed on children from an early age.

The film K-Pax is a movie which asks its audience to come to their own conclusion. On

Based on a true story, Argo, tells the story of a CIA operation that was taking place in Iran, during the crisis of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Fifty Americans were captured, but six of them manage to escape and find refuge in the Canadian embassy in Iran. The Americans feared for their lives, for they knew it was a matter of time before they were found. Critics found Argo to be extraordinary the fact, Tony Mendez, who portrayed himself as Ben Affleck and his Hollywood partners from CIA intelligence for they developed a risky plan to bring back the six Americans back to their homeland.

The main character in the film “Girl Interrupted”, Susanna Kaysen, is an eighteen-year-old female. She admitted herself into a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide by overdosing on Aspirin and Vodka, where she was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Susanna repeatedly denies trying to commit suicide, and claims she took aspirin because she “had a headache”. She appeared to be well groomed, her speech was articulated, and her thought process clear. Susanna is not currently employed, nor is she a student, and appears to have no motivation or ambition (Wick, Konrad, Ryder & Mangold, 1999).

Have you ever found yourself in awe at the videos of the three-year-old singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"? It doesn 't help either, that the little kid is so cute and chubby you just want to pinch his or her cheeks and talk to him or her in Barney mode. Well, today with one of the biggest boy bands, their career is essentially the identical way. The band One Direction, is a combination of five talented, handsome, young men who use their good looks to their advantage, basically the same way the pretentious and self-gratifying parent does when they put their child 's video up on YouTube. The boys themselves; Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, and Zayn Malik are anything but ordinary personality wise. However, in

Have you ever found yourself in awe at the videos of the three-year-old singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"? It doesn 't help either, that the little kid is so cute and chubby you just want to pinch his or her cheeks and talk to him or her in Barney mode. Well, today with one of the biggest boy bands, their career is essentially the identical way. The band One Direction, is a combination of five talented, handsome, young men who use their favorable looks to their advantage; basically the same way the pretentious and self-gratifying parent does when they put their child 's video up on YouTube. The boys themselves; Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, and Zayn Malik are anything but ordinary personality wise. However,

The love story between two different teenagers that come from completely different worlds is the most remarkable. The Notebook is about two young teenagers who fell head over heels with each other. They got separated by Allie’s upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn’t right for her. But that obstacle didn’t stop these two young lovers from being together even if it took years. This beautiful tale has a special meaning to an older gentleman who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging wife to help her remember what they went through and that the story that he’s reading to her was their love story. The story he reads follows two young