9 Paranormal Activity 2 Film Analysis Kimberly Kihega ENG225 Instructor Melissa Rigney December 5, 2011 9 Paranormal Activity 2 Film Analysis For years, the film industry has capitalized on America's fascination with the “unknown”, with films from “The Exorsist” to the “Blair Witch Project”. A handful are unbelievably realistic, affecting viewers emotionally and pshyscologically. Most simply never live up to their expectations. The “Paranormal Activity” series arrive at a time when we have become entralled, and disturbed, by poltergeists. Paranormal Activity 2 certainly delivers every promise it has made, capitalizing on our fears of the unknown in the same simplistic fashion as the original.
Running head: FINAL FILM CRITIQUE Final Film Critique: The Matrix: Reloaded Monica Jacoby ENG 225 Instructor Matthew Norsworthy January 30, 2011 Final Film Critique: The Matrix: Reloaded Like its predecessor “The Matrix” (1999), “The Matrix: Reloaded” (2003) is an action movie laced with philosophy. This time however, the philosophy is more complex, or at least not as clear. While the first movie blended the two themes together fairly well, the sequel ends up with a kind of all over the place approach. There is a lot of high energy action, and then, “whoa”, we stop while the dialogue talks in riddles for a time about the meaning of existence, free will versus determinism, and other heady stuff. It is sort of like a car moving through heavy traffic, speed up, slow down, and then speed up again.
Much like John B. Watson, the man known for the Little Albert Experiment, Helmholtz is curious, but much too bored with his lifestyle. Bernard Marx, a reference to the philosopher Karl Marx, is determined to make his society a better place to live. Bernard does not approve of is loveless, careless, and scientific world. Karl Marx was also determined to make his society better. He warned others of what our world would come to be, “a classless society” (http://www.nationmaste.com).
The Black Robe movie insinuate that all the Indians were evil and that is what justified their extermination, which is why Ward Churchill a troversialist criticized the movie because he claimed to be part Indian and said that the movie was "a deliberate exercise in vilification". Most people know that is not true that not all Indians are evil, but putting that false information may change people's mind because it is a historical movie. I think people should make the movie with only the facts that they know are true and correct to make the movie. In the Crucible the director of the movie stated that John was the one that said the prayer wrong, but in fact it was Elizabeth and that for me should have changed the outcome of the story. Like my last statement, it would harm people's knowledge on history, even though it doesn't look like it has great importance it is the small details that always count.
A critical film review on the movie: Crash Screenplay/writer: Paul Haggis Director: Paul Haggis The undercurrent of racism The drama called Crash which is also knows as L.A. Crash was written and directed by Paul Haggis. Since Crash was filmed in an alarmingly realistic way, carrying interesting and unique techniques within its film structure, it will be critically reviewed and discussed in this essay. The novel Crash is a socio critical drama, mainly presenting the several-different lives of inter-related characters that have never met each other before, but indeed have various aspects in common. Within the 24 hours of the plot’s duration, Paul Haggis has decided upon presenting thrilling-reality based themes such as oppression, crime, racism, corruption, obligation, indignation.
Upon meeting his maker, Tyrell highlights Roy’s perfectness, “You were made as well as I could make you”. This acknowledgement however, is not satisfying as Roy confronts Tyrell with the question of prolonging life. When told, however, that this was not a possibility, Roy’s anger leads him to killing his ‘maker’ feeling unsatisfied and disappointed. The anger he feels towards Tyrell leads him to also murder J.R Sebastian, with no need of justification. Like ‘The Creature’, Roy is angry with his maker, though in Scott’s world, if Tyrell is a representation of God, there is an idea that we can ‘kill God’ represented as Roy kills Tyrell.
The social conflict theory applies to this movie the best out of these three theories. It states that in order for society to thrive, there needs to be constant interaction of conflict. This conflict in Mega Mind is obviously the conflict of good vs. evil. Once the good (Metro Man) is killed, there is no more until Mega Mind creates Titan. However, this gets out of control, as Mega Mind slowly turns into the good guy in the movie, rather than Metro man, and Titan is wreaking havoc.
Human Nature and Egotism From a realist’s perspective, human beings do not truly learn from past experiences; humans are predominantly concerned with one thing: self-preservation. In the film Groundhog Day, Phil Connors’ character is a representation of this outlook on human beings. From the first few scenes in the film, one can see Phil’s sarcastic, crude, and egocentric nature. Rita draws upon Phil’s egotism during one of the scenes, quoting Sir Walter Scott, “The wretch, concentrated all in self living, shall forfeit fair renown and, doubly dying, shall go down to the vile dust, from whence he sprung unwept, unhonored, and unsung” (Groundhog Day). A common belief regarding Groundhog Day is that Phil Connors becomes a better human being
Film Review Kristin Palmrose On occasion, a person may feel as if he or she is living the dream life, but what if you become stuck inside your own dream and unable to wake up? In the Oscar award winning movie Inception, the characters take on a task that they may not be able to come back from. The film released in 2010, included many prominent actors/actresses such as: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, and Tom Hardy. The film setting varies, due to the plot being inside a man’s unconscious dreams. Outside of the dreams, the setting is placed in France during modern times, possibly a few decades ahead of today.
A better description of a futuristic film is dystopia. Dystopia is “an often futuristic society that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian.” there are a lot of example for this such as “The Matrix” in which the whole human race is controlled by the technology we created to better the world. “Equilibrium” Is a good example of the attempt to create a perfect society made through fear of everything that makes us human in turn imprisoning ourselves. “The Book of Eli” and “the Road” both are post apocalypse films that describe the world without society, post apocalypse films usually describe a world after society crumbled and usually exposes the things we would miss about our lives trying to make us better understand and appreciate what we have. In a way this is pro society propaganda.