Most films about addiction are about people struggling to manage their lives perilously falling into a pit of despair. They replace their sense of responsibility with abhorrent behavior that is regarded as dangerous by loved ones – forcing the character to reflect and choose between their new reckless life or the life they used to know. In Shame, Brandon’s (Michael Fassbender) behavior has never evoked such a confrontation because he’s never led a conventional life, nor has he had intimacy with anyone, so he’s never ha wholesomeness to have threatened, causing him to confront his state. No, instead Steve McQueen’s film is about a man who inherently hates himself – but having lately felt absolutely empty – quietly needing love and desperately seeking reform for his sexual indiscretions. Brandon is a secretive man – bounded as such by the shame that haunts him – feeling volatile for the first time in his life.
Jack Nicholson has a history of playing evil psychopaths, however, in this film he played a stone-cold killer but was still a prankster. Ledger made the character of the Joker more real. Even though Gotham City is not a real city, I was almost able to believe it was while watching the Dark Knight, whereas in the 1989 Batman, you could tell it was a non-existent place by the characters. The Joker's laugh is another topic to contrast. In this subject, Jack Nicholson definitely takes the cake.
Orson Welles presents his audience with an unabridged and brutal reality; the inevitable falsity of The American Dream and its incompatibility with man’s inherent lust for fiscal dominance at the cost of emotional depravity. Citizen Kane, the film’s protagonist and doppelganger for the infamous William Randolph Hearst, is an archetypal victim of such a reality; a character who audiences of all origins and social standings can identify with. Kane demonstrates that such an aspiration merely leads to a life void of humanism and interpersonal connection; portrayed most aptly through
The Joker: A Character Analysis Introduction to Psychopathology In the movie The Dark Knight, there is a gritty and dark portrayal of a famous villain called The Joker. The name The Joker is synonymous with the Batman series and is also known as one of his arch enemies. While the movies are centered on the premise of good versus evil, there is a much deeper story behind the actors and the characters they play. The Joker, played by the talented Heath Ledger, is a complex character that cannot help but be admired. He takes the viewer on a journey where the character is a robber, a murderer, a prankster, a blackmailer, a charismatic menace to society, a traitor, and turns killing into a game, all while making him a fantastic character to watch.
Might he possibly choose to use a movie with some of the rough elements to which the world can relate? The movie Bruce Almighty appears to have such a perspective. Starring Jim Carrey, Jennifer Anniston and Morgan Freeman, Bruce Almighty is the story of a young man, Bruce, who is frustrated with life and angry with God for not fixing things. He is living with his girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Anniston), and working as a second-rate anchorman for a television network. He covers the local events that no one else wants while he watches his co-worker continue to get promoted.
Although the whole film revolves around Henry (in reality Scorsese) and his life story, he isn’t a prominent figure in history or even a hero in the story. In fact I go so far to say that he’s a coward because although throughout the film he seems to be a tough guy who won’t open his mouth to the feds because he’s a “wise guy” he eventually cracks at the end of the film, where in fear for his family’s and his own life rats out his entire mafia family to the feds in order to go into the safety of witness protection.
Anarchy vs. Order An Analysis of Fight Club Fight Club is a dark and edgy movie about a man’s worth in life as well as his role in society. It follows the life of the narrator, a nameless man (Edward Norton) who is searching for meaning in his own life. He suffers from insomnia and has feelings of inadequacy. He befriends Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a powerful and eccentric man who possesses everything that the narrator lacks. It is a controversial movie that many critics were raving about.
Our awareness becomes skewed towards whatever perception the media tells us is true. Even in movies like “La Mission” which make an honest attempt to recreate situations based on real people, I find that they still exaggerate gender, sexuality, and life because it is fiction. “La Mission” is a drama about Che, a recovering alcoholic with a prison record who finds out that his only son, Jess is gay. Che is an aggressive Mexican-American bus driver who symbolizes the patriarchal culture that surrounds him. This is a culture that is “male-dominated, male-identified, male centered, and control-obsessed.
Furthermore, in the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel Notes from the Underground, the main character, or the unnamed narrator known as the Underground Man, feels extremely alienated from society. The Underground Man consistently slips into a constant feeling of shame and self-loathing. His inability to associate and interact with society causes him to sink further into his underground madness of isolation. Madness caused by the alienation from society, shown in Notes From the Underground, is the type of insanity exemplified in the UK’s popular alternative band, Radiohead’s, third LP album, OK Computer. OK Computer is known as Radiohead’s stroke of genius.
Willy Lomax reached the point in life when everything was unsatisfying to him and nothing he does seems to add up, (add quotes about the car and fridge). All of life’s problem seem to compound for Willy, the failures of his sons, Biff and Happy and the fact that his wife Linda does not seem to be assertive enough. The day Willy got fired, he becomes overwhelmed with reality. When he remembers that Biff discovered