The Movie Purge

In the end it is you how chooses if you do the evil thing or a good thing., People are generally born good, but there are many factors that can leave a person to act watchful. The way someone is raised has an impact as well as society and human

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.

With movies comes entertainment. And in the dystopian film The Purge: Election Year, Demonaco provides a social issue of this film through the use of the economic strains. Their solution to boom the economic system is only by annually “cleaning out” the population. In addition to this, claims have surfaced that politicians are using tax money used from the purge for their own use. With the previous installments of The Purge, people have only saw a glimpse of the whole issue. Which was people in the lower class having no place for safety and being killed off on this night. Crime, including murder is legal.

It is very difficult to discern between good and evil in a society where people can often trick others into thinking that they are actually good in spite of the fact that they have hidden interests. As a

The Shawshank redemption depicts an innocent man, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), sentenced guilty for murder of his wife and her lover. During the movie we follow Andy’s time in prison and with famous actors Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman working together with director Stephen King, the Shawshank redemption sends a strong message about both incarceration and hope. In my opinion it would be an insult to the film industry in whole to even attempt remaking a movie this powerful. Stephen King has created a character that, despite his wrongful conviction, is able to see light where there is dark. Andy Dufresnes makes the best of the future instead of evaluating the past.

The following poster was designed by Noah Van Belle to explore the deeper meaning, found in the film The Shawshank Redemption, in just a single and simplistic image. The primary image, which is a rock hammer, represents the motifs of friendship and hope that is displayed throughout the film. The rock hammer is the first item that Andy, the protagonist, obtains from Red, who is also an inmate. This exchange between Red and Andy is the spark of their strong friendship. This friendship proved to be beneficial to Andy not only because he was able to obtain the resources, that he needed for his escape, from Red but he also had a partner to keep him from going insane, in a brutal place such as Shawshank. Red also benefited tremendously from his friendship

Have you ever done that? In Night, Elie’s father is getting beat up, although he tried to devise a strategy to help him out, he did not desire to be beaten either. “I did not move. I was afraid. My body was afraid of receiving the blow” (Wiesel 106). Also, there is a scene in which passengers were throwing coins and the natives were fighting for them. Elie tried to stop them, despite that, they responded, “Why not? I like giving to charity…” (Wiesel 95). This shows that the people around them are unconcerned about evil; for instance, someone can be murdered and no one would even be concerned. People are just letting wicked events happen, and if it goes on longer, our world will be in turmoil because the sinful incidents will continue to happen. That is the reason why indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it lets evil do whatever they wish without having people to care what

Another quote by Elie Wiesel states,” The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference.” In many ways individuals would prefer to be hated than not cared about or looked upon as insignificant. Every individual has some significance. Whether they have good or bad intentions, they have intentions regardless. If someone is despised they are at least acknowledged. In World History class we discussed the indifference of an astounding number of countries during World War II. Many would turn their heads away and act as if they knew nothing was going on. Disregarding an obvious crime is playing it safe, and it usually only takes a small amount of bravery to change the world.

A quote from Albert Einstein states “the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything”. As difficult as it is to describe the terrible deeds of those who were part of the Holocaust, it is true that those who did nothing are at fault just as much as those who carried out the actions. When one thinks of the Holocaust today it is difficult to picture that such events were done by human beings. Societies have advanced but it is important to acknowledge the reason as to why many bystanders refused to help or why they were so indifferent to the pain felt by the Jews. “The psychological mechanisms used to come to terms with the suffering of another appear to be very similar, whether the person is standing right before us or is 2,000 miles away. (Barnet:118) Barnett explains that ideological and moral principles also come into play, as do self-interest and the weighing of the possible consequences of our actions. We try to establish what is or is not possible. In the end, our decision will be determined not so much by whether we actually have the power to change a situation, but whether we have the will to do so. (Barnett, 118). In the case of many of the individuals who chose to become bystanders rather than change the situation they were not willing to get involved. Although not every German was a bystander, those who

The films The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964) and Fail Safe (1964) were the emergence of a new political film genre recognized as political thrillers. The films individually focused on specific political issues that were going on in real American society like The Manchurian Candidate focused on McCarthyism and communism, Seven Days in May focused on inside betrayal in the White House, and Fail Safe focused on issues with Russia. What made these films create a new genre was that collectively they had a twist that the audience wouldn’t expect to see. For example the Manchurian Candidate add a complexity to each and every character that for the length of the film they’re deemed to be troubled like the brainwashed veteran from the Korean War Major Bennett Marco portrayed by Frank Sinatra to assassinate when commanded to do so. The shocking conclusion of the film is that in the end it was his mother (portrayed by Angela Lansbury) who was commanding him to do so since she herself was a communist and did a very well job at manipulating not only her son but blaming other people for being communists in order to keep her own cover something that wasn’t incorporated into films quite yet until this film. The twists, complexity, and manipulation by the characters are what made this a political thriller and the first and foremost established as one in 1962. The thrill continues in Seven Days in May, but the story line shifts completely, it’s something fictional but

In the article “Fear & Loathing in America” at ESPN.com is a prediction by Dr. Hunter S Thompson of the response the United States would make in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, Pennsylvania, and The Pentagon. In Fear & Loathing, Thompson describes the attacks and with the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers that this eliminated the possibility of “Peace in Our Time”. Thompson also predicted this would be a religious war without end, and there was no way the attacks could have been prevented. The frank observations by the author and the choice of language were signatures of Thompson.

The Purge directed by James DeMonaco can be considered a commentary on our socio political existence.To begin, the violence and crime is expressed and filled with allegories of America’s corrupt politics if you say. In addition, rigged economic systems is portrayed when the poor is oppressed by the rich due to no access to weapons and top notch security systems. The Purge isn't your average celebrated festival in America like Mardi Gras, Carnival, or even Halloween. However, they all have the same set-up such as designated times where people can violate social norms. As said in the movie by the antagonist, “the purge is halloween for the adults”. Although it may seem like The Purge is an event to undermine the control that law and

The film The Mask You Live In was written, filmed and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. It was released on January 25, 2015 at the premiere of the Sundance Film Festival. Jennifer also released a similar film called Miss Representation, a film about what the expectations of a woman were according to the media. According to the film, using hyper-masculinity among boys and young men through parental teachings and social expectations in the United States negatively affects them psychologically as it affects their way of decision-making and become more isolated throughout their lives. I firmly agree with Newsom’s message she was trying to send out to her intended audience, the parents and our society at large communicated through statistics shown as title sequences and the testimonies coming from boys and men who were once at-risk.

Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Bastards entails a Jewish revenge fantasy that is told through a counterfactual history of events in World War II. However, this story follows a completely different plot than what we are currently familiar with. Within these circumstances, audiences now question the very ideas and arguments that are often associated with World War II. We believe that Inglourious Basterds is a Jewish revenge fantasy that forces us to rethink our previous understandings by disrupting the viewers sense of content and nature in the history of World War II. Within this thesis, this paper will cover the Jewish lens vs. American lens, counter-plots with-in the film, ignored social undercurrents, and the idea that nobody

In the movie Primal Fear, Aaron was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder by the psychiatrist. As the plot is set up in the movie, everything seems to fall into place and fit with the doctor’s diagnosis. As the psychiatrist was interviewing Aaron and getting to know him, his rough childhood could have led to the disorder. Since DID is typically caused by severe childhood trauma, I believe the stories Aaron was telling along with his actions matched up to the psychiatrist’s diagnosis. With the evidence that the psychiatrist was presented with, I did agree with her diagnosis. Although, in the movie, it was clear that she was not an expert on Dissociative Identity Disorder; I believe that would have made her diagnosis invalid. She should have found another clinician that had more insight to the disorder and let him or her evaluate Aaron before proceeding to testify in court.