Eating Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Directed, produced and written by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, 'Miss Representation' is an American Documentary film that brings out the farcical reality of women empowerment with only 17% women as elected officials in Congress and 7% as directors in Hollywood movies. The mainstream media projects women as a showpiece who needs to fit into certain parameters to look beautiful and sexy and the image of women thus created breeds an overpowering notion in the minds of young women and men that the value and power of a woman lay in her sensuality, youth and beauty and not in her ability to be a ...

In the past years, movies marked as “based on real events” appear more often. Moreover, some of the researchers, as well as ordinary viewers claim that almost every movie is based on real events. The point is that sometimes directors as well as screen play writers tend to exaggerate the importance and cruelty of some events. In the most cases, it happens in horror movies or some documentaries. The point is that the main idea of every documentary is to convince people in something. This essay is devoted to the issue of veracity of the events in three movies: ...

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In the documentary film, “Fed Up,” there is a frightening look inside America’s health crisis involving obesity. The lack of real food in American diets is to blame. The entities behind creating this problem are the big corporations in America that manufacture these foods. These “foods” are processed foods, with high sugar content that can lead to numerous health problems including heart disease and diabetes. Advertisers are marketing processed foods made of high sugar content to young children and putting sugar into the formulas to get them while they’re young. They have people hooked on sugar, ...

The movie is in a town set up whereby the characters are discussing something in the living room. The group is made up of women most of them with identical eating disorder and almost the same physical characteristics except for some few women who are trying to advise them on what they did to have a better shape. The sitting room has much furniture that enabled the women to sit in a conference like manner and have a mutual talk. At the background of the living room, there are various hangings and photos as well as paintings on the wall. Since this is a ...

Introduction

Super Size Me, the 2004 documentary directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, explored Spurlock’s own experimentation with going on a McDonald’s-only diet for a consecutive thirty days. Being a vegetarian and generally active person, this transformation became incredibly dramatic, with dramatic changes in weight, mood, chemical makeup, sex drive and more. The documentary poses the question of how culpable McDonald’s customers are in their own health habits, or whether or not McDonald’s themselves are responsible for the increasing obesity and health problems found in America. Looking at these questions, and the documentary itself, through the ethical perspectives of ...

View and analyze the film "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" portraying a person with a disability. Write a meaningful critique of the film

Description of how the person's disability is portrayed within the contexts of family and community (Have an in depth analysis and discussion of the extent to which the film appears to be a reflection of life and is grounded in current "state of knowledge". Give appropriate evidences from the film to support each point)
Analysis onto what extent does this film address characteristics and effects of the cultural and environmental milieu of the individual with disabilities (Have an in depth ...

1. What is the title of the film, what (brief summary) is it about (subject, topic)?

The title of the film is “Super Size Me”. This film is a documentary by Morgan Spurlock in which he wants to investigate the way that McDonald’s food affects the body. He does so by eating only McDonald’s food for 30 days and documenting the negative effects that it has on his body. The film is called “Super Size Me” because, as part of the experiment, Spurlock was required to “Super Size” his meal whenever he was asked by a McDonald’s ...

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Much of the human suffering and economic disadvantages that occurred during the Great Depression (1929-1933) were a result of the boom mentality and unregulated business practices of the 1920s. People with a corrupt kind of business acumen exploited the weakest segments of society in the poorest regions. Praying on a naïve boom psychology, businessmen led a devastating attack on the Midwest that ultimately was not curbed by politicians or financial institutions until the middle 1930s. New businesses exploited weak government controls and took on many of the same exploitative practices as the Robber Baron businessmen of the 19th ...

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Directed by Lee Daniels, “Precious” is a story of a teenage girl suffering from the consequences of abuse. In her troublesome life full of insults from the environment, the girl’s only rescue is daydreaming: “I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with real nice hair. And I wanna be on the cover of a magazine” (Daniels, Magness, Siegel-Magness, 2009). Precious is looking for love throughout the movie, and though it seems impossible after everything she has been through with her parents, she finally finds it – the love for herself and her two kids.
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The documentary which I chose for this analysis is Super Size Me. This documentary film uses the mega-fast-food corporation, McDonalds, as its subject matter. The entire documentary is an experiment conducted by Morgan Spurlock on himself where he spends an entire month eating nothing but McDonald’s meals. He had several rules as to how he would go about the experiment so that it would be a solid, scientific research effort which would be usable and reproducible. His rules were: (1) Eat McDonald’s meals 3 times a day, (2) Consume all the items on the menu once over the one ...

Stuart Rosenberg, the director of the film, Cool Hand Luke (1967), is one of the most noted filmmakers in the history of world cinema. Born in 1927, Rosenberg completed his graduation and started hi training as an editor on television programs. At the age of thirty, he graduated from being an editor to a director. After directing close to as many as 50 episodes, he moved to making movies. Thus, he went on to make memorable films like movies Cool Hand Luke, The Amityville Horror, Voyage of the Damned and The Pope of Greenwich Village that immortalized him as a stalwart ...

Cinderella Man depicts the hardship many people went through during the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, food was scarce, people competed against each other to get picked for day jobs, and most often the only joy people had was watching or listening to sporting events are just some of the Great Depression reenactment found in Cinderella Man. While this movie shown the hardship Americans faced, it also had shown how people got inspiration and hope as well. During this time in American History, the economy was very bad. Millions of people lost their jobs.
Throughout the movie, ...

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Morgan Spurlock wanted to answer the question of “What would happen if someone ate McDonald’s food for every meal of every day for a month?” in light of criminal suits leveled against the fast food giant. Throughout the documentary, he highlights the philosophic dilemma at the center of the litigation: Where does the responsibility of the obesity epidemic fall? On one hand, you could ask, “Shouldn’t a person know not to eat fast food too often and that it’s harmful for them? If they eat too much, then that’s their fault.” And, on the ...

One of the most widespread epidemics in the United States is childhood obesity. More and more kids are turning to fast food chains for their lunches and dinners because of ease and taste. One documentary went out to prove that going this route is not only unhealthy for you, but it is also detrimental to the society as a whole. Morgan Spurlock states “40 percent of Americans eat out” (Spurlock 2004) which adds to the ever growing epidemic. People are choosing to eat out rather than cook a meal at home. Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me set out to prove ...

In the 2005 film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp as the character of Willy Wonka, presents an interesting psychiatric profile. This movie is a film adaptation of the popular children’s book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Ronald Dahl.
The main character, Willy Wonka, shows signs of social anxiety disorder. The character has not left his factory in decades and is noticeably uncomfortable in the company of others. He appears very nervous and panicked at the thought of interacting with the outside world. This was emphasized in the film, by ...

Asian horror, as a genre, carries with it a generous mix of scathing subtext and grotesque images. Whether witnessing the wrath of an uncanny ghost girl, seeing people murdered in mountains of gore, or the many subtle avenues in between, many of the best Asian horror films combine shocking sights with potent messages in order to convey an anxiety present in that society at the time. "Setting aside the moral ramifications of such manifest extremities, we can identify the current boom enjoyed by Asian horror and extreme cinema and discern a complex nexus of local, regional and global relationships in play" (Choi ...

On the one hand, the effects of the experiment upon Spurlock himself which include rapid weight gain, depression and a general reduction in health personified by the quote “I’m dying this is making me puke” (Spurlock) after eating a meal serve to highlight the problems to the viewing public. However, on the other hand, the very unscientific nature of the experiment leaves the viewer questioning the real value of the experiment from a research perspective. For instance, in the course of the experiment Spurlock imposes some pretty unrealistic conditions which include eating only from the McDonald’s menu for every meal ...