Beyoncé (Sharon) learns about Lisa obsessive behavior, and thinks they are having an affair. Lisa (Ali Larter) will be the Main focus of my paper. In terms of the DSM-IV Ali fits both the Axis I and Axis II. The reason Ali fits Axis I one is because her mental state of mind impaired her functions, by following Derek on an out of town trip that she should not have been on, and by secretly spiking Derek’s drink with an drug that rendered him unconscious. She also fits Axis II because thru out the film Ali changes personality several times.
Edward could also be a metaphor for how the media treats celebrities. The media builds up stars just to tear them down which is exactly like how the townspeople build Edward up, accepting him into their town, and making him popular with his talent of cutting hair and trimming hedges, just to turn on him and isolate him because of his differences. The use of symbolism in this movie is huge. Almost everything in this film is a symbol for
Jessie struggles with the reality that the human race is expendable, there is civil unrest in England, and she is faced with considerable conflict within herself as well as her family and surrounding society. If a terrorist is planning to wipe out an entire species, targeting the females is a good place to start. This is exactly what happens in The Testament of Jessie Lamb. Jessie’s world has changed dramatically due to bio-terrorists having unleashed a virus. A strange airborne contaminant has emerged that infects both males and females.
Formalist Films Formalist films at its most general, considers the mixture, or lack of mixture, of the many elements of film production, and the effects, emotional and intellectual, of that mixture and of the individual elements. For example, take the single element of editing. A formalist might study how standard Hollywood "continuity editing" creates a more comforting effect and non-continuity or jump cut editing might become more confusing or unpredictable. Or one might consider the mixture of several elements, such as editing, shot composition, and music. The shoot-out that ends Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a notable example of how these elements work together to produce an effect: the scene when Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee van Cleef are in the cemetery at the ending, the shot selection goes from very wide to very close and tense; the length of shots decreases as the sequence progresses towards its end; the music builds.
It was a large bloodstain, primary red color on everyone's radar, but no one did anything about it. And that's why I wanted to bring the color red in." -Steven Spielberg. The girl represents a turning point in the movie. In war the colour red is a symbol for hate and sorrow.
Jack felt he needed to get revenge on his daughter‘s killer. He had a strong intuition that George Harvey, a strange man who lived near the Salmons, was the one who murdered his daughter. George was careful to cover up any evidence, so Jack had nothing but gut feeling to accuse George Harvey. Then the police department decided to put the case to rest after about six months, after all leads were exhausted and there were no more clues. Jack Salmon just wished he could have protected his daughter Susie from being murdered, but now all he could do was try to get his revenge.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a psychological murder mystery that keeps the viewer on the edge of his or her seat. The filmic elements in his movie keep the viewers constantly guessing. By the choices Hitchcock made and the way he frames the movie, he imprints a negative vision on the female characters in the film. Madeline, Midge, and later Judy are all subject to undesirable connotations put upon attractive women in the movie industry. Hitchcock deliberately uses specific camera angles, enchanting colors and stereotypical characters to build upon his theme of the manipulation of women.
Still, we have many reasons to believe that the murderer is Casper Grattan. Joel Hetman, Jr. mentions in his statement that his father loved his wife and was very jealous for her. Moreover, we can see in Casper’s statement that he says that he loved his wife and distrusted her, so he wanted to test her devotion towards him. He claims that he saw' the figure of a man going out of their house at night when his wife was supposed to be there alone, and he got very angry. As he continues with his story, he confesses that that night he was the one to strangle the wife, “I strangled her till she died” he says.
Another prophecy made by the witches was that Banquo's son will be king. Fuelled by paranoia, lack of sleep andvisions, Macbeth was thrown into a state of confusion and a belief that the prophecies were inevitable. Lady Macbeth urged her husband to commit murder and it was this action that sparked Macbeth's downfall. When Lady Macbeth heard about the prophecies made by the witches, and how one of them had already come true, she called upon evil spirits to guide her through her task - killing the king. ."..
At an impressionable young age, he was abandoned by his mother, which may have led to his choice of killing women and girls. As a child, “he would steep himself in the images of other places and other words, trying to love what he could not” (Sebold 97). He obviously witnessed some kind of family dysfunction that triggered a dissociative response from him, wishing he was someone else, or away from his current environment. Sebold suggests intense family arguments by saying, “…and his father and she had fought for the last time in the hot car outside of Truth and Consequences, New Mexico. He had forced her from the car”(97).