Unbroken: Movie Analysis

In the film Precious discuses a lot of maltreatment and physical abuse. This movie is by far one of the worse because it deals with mistreatment and negative talk on an innocent teenager who wants to be all that she can be, but she is insulted and told differently. There is a lot of drugs being used in the home and just plain out disrespect. Claireece “Precious” Jones who is 16 years old grew up in Harlem during the late 1980s. All of the poor and dirty crime that happens, none of which affects Precious as much as the constant mistreatment she receives at the hands of her brutally vile mother Mary. Precious is treated as a slave, fixing food, washing dishes, and tending to her wretched master as the worthless woman smokes, collects

Precious is a movie that was produced based off a book. The movie was a story about a 16-year-old girl Claireece “Precious” Jones who was abused by her family emotionally, physically, mentally, and sexually. (Magness, Siegel-Magness, & Daniels, 2009) Taking at a look at this from a social worker perspective one can look at how to address the situation and how one work with a potential client like Precious. The film addresses many issues that a client may come across including the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

In the movie Precious, a 16-year old girl named Claireece Jones also known as Precious is physically, sexually, and verbally abused by her parents. Precious has one child and is now pregnant with her second child which causes her to be kicked out of school. She transfers to an alternative school. Precious is illiterate; however, she learns to read, write, and to gain self-respect from her teacher at the alternative school. In the end, she becomes a woman, learning to stand up for herself and she raises two healthy children. There are three different types of abuse Precious faced from her parents. An example of how Precious mother physically abused would be when her mother would get out the chair and beat her daughter by throwing things at her, because she did something minor or nothing at all. Precious mother verbally abused her daughter by calling her “stupid, fat, and she will amount to nothing”. An example of how Precious father sexually abused her would be he raped ever since she was three years old, impregnated her with two children, and he also gave her HIV. The movie faced several biological and environmental issues in the family. One example of a biological issue faced in the movie would be when Precious was hungry, needed water, and sleep. She needed to have this because she was pregnant with her second child. In the movie, it shows Precious goes into a restaurant, to order some food, and runs out without paying. She stole the food because she was starving and her mom did not give her any money. An environmental issue would be Precious was from Harlem, New York. During that time, Harlem was a city in poverty, so she grew up with hardly any money. The income her mother got from her welfare check, she did not give Precious anything.

The Story of Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of Louis “Louie” Zamperini and the many challenges he faced throughout his life and his will to survive. Unbroken was an incredible and inspirational read. The main theme of Unbroken is when faced with challenges the human need to survive and the resilience that is needed to survive is powerful. There are many examples of the theme in Louie’s story which Hillenbrand broke down into five different periods of Louie’s life.

Even when the weight of the world is coming down and doubt is setting in, there still are powers to help carry on. Louie Zamperini, a famous Olympic athlete, was dragged down to a low level when he was captured by Japanese forces and suffered under horrendous conditions in the many POW camps he stayed at. Throughout all of life’s trials, he survived, due to his strong resilience and agency. He wanted to live, and even though he may have wanted to give up, he had plenty of things to live for. In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses both internal and external conflict to show the theme that people can stand up against enemies even when the odds seem stacked up against them.

Louie Zamperini had a very tragic and interesting life. He was a runner for the Olympics. He won many wristwatches from his competitions. After reading about Louie Zamperini in Unbroken, I believe that the author, Lauren Hillenbrand, lucidly defined Louie as resourceful and determined.

“Precious” is a film about a Harlem teen of the same name’s attempts of escape from her abusive mother and lustful father in order to live a new life and have a brighter future. The movie, in spite of cliché and problems with the plot, managed to win the viewers’ heart and took them up for an empathic and compassionate adventure of Precious, a 16-year-old teen who is slowly transforming into a mature and independent young woman. Coupled with a decent director and excellent actors, “Precious” is indeed one of the well-acted and beautiful of the year 2008.

Unbroken Movie Evaluation “A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory” (Unbroken 2014). The film Unbroken, directed by Angelina Jolie, premiered last year in 2014 and received a few prestigious Oscar nominations. Unbroken follows the true story of Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) and his triumph of becoming an Olympic athlete, as well as his struggles while being lost at sea for 47 days, to being captured by the Japanese and taken to harsh prisoner-of- war camps during World War II. As a young boy Louis got into trouble often and was on a destructive path, until his older brother Pete (John D’Leo, Alex Russell) encouraged him to try out for the school track team. Once Louis devoted his time to running track and field he was more

Most religious groups will surely react and be alarmed with this movie same as the law maker, and some moral activist that thinks pornography is really immoral and against the law. I am not against the law or against the church, I am a Catholic and I can suggest that this is must watch movie for it will make everyone realize that obscenity doesn’t really comes from nude pictures or scandals, obscenity is based upon the persons perspective. Remember that countries and the people living there have their own different perspective, in our country, the Philippines, people here are conservative unlike in America, people there are known to be liberated. That’s why I would like to recommend the law makers, activist and even all those in the church to watch it to see others point of view with regards to this issue. Because this is one of the movie that will surely catch everyone’s attention and interest for this is one of the movies where Religions and the law agrees in one issue and it is the issue that have center around obscenity, specifically pornography.

Unbroken, a movie that was released on December 25, 2014. It was directed by Angelina Jolie and casted by Jack O’Connell who plays Young Louis. A few of the other cast members are Garrett Hedlund (John Fitzgerald), and Domhnall Gleeson (Phill). This movie was based on a young man who stayed in trouble’s way. His older brother made him start running, and he qualified for the 1936 Olympics team. While at war his plane crashed and he was captured by the Japanese Navy. He and other soldiers survived 47 days in a raft.

War is a largely abstract concept to the average American. It is ubiquitous in news reports, political debates and our culture, but not tangibly understandable. Aside from the small pockets of the population that have experienced warfare, the jarringly focused and rigid representation of EOD team leader Sergeant First Class William James in Katherine Bigelow’s film The Hurt Locker (2008) provides insight to a world that much of the audience will never experience. Although The Hurt Locker would be regarded as a “realistic” film in form and content by modern standards, the resulting product would not belong totally to “realist cinema” as defined by French theorist and film ciritic Andre Bazin. Bigelow’s directive approach to the film opposes the core of his writings with the use close ups, obtrusive editing, and framing focus the viewer to specific objects and themes. It is through specific sequences of The Hurt Locker that the realist style emerges, creating a powerful, experiential moment for the audience to extract meaning. Through the use of deep focus and wide shots with minimal editing, all prominent in Bazin’s theories, specific scenes exemplify realist cinema in this modern war-epic.

I have watched a considerable number of movies this semester so it was hard to choose which one to analyze. It came down to “Remember the Titans” or “Good Will Hunting”. However, the movie that I will be analyzing is “Good Will Hunting”. The reason I chose this movie is that it can be analyzed in many different ways. I will be analyzing different scenes of the movie and analyze them from different angles. I will be analyzing about the symbolism that is happening in the movie. I will be analyzing many different things about the movie. The first thing I will analyze in this movie is the symbolism of things, objects, colors, and

When it comes to the film industry, entertainment is the tool used to acquire what is desired, money. The main goal for filmmakers when they create a film is to attain money in addition to the money spent to make the movie. Therefore, in some films that they like to base off of true accounts, it is somewhat necessary to dramatize or embellish the story to really tug at the heartstrings of the films audience. They achieve this goal by the use of dramatic music, ambient lighting, and a small amount of tweaked diction. The Fighter is an excellent example of this dramatization in action because throughout the film the characters are faced with a multitude of decisions that must be made. The choices they make require the characters to choose

In this paper, I will write about “Thelma and Louise” (1991) movie. I choose a last scene of the movie which the police came to arrest them in the Grand Canyon (from 122 to 125 minutes).

First, it will describe about the movie. Nathan Algren is an American civil war veteran who carries moral scars of his victory against the native Indians. Because of that experience, he feels guilt and covers it by drink alcohol horrendous acts in society. Then, his old commander drags him into meeting Prince Mitsui, a Japanese