Immigration Movie Reviews Samples For Students

The history of American Latino films in the United States is generally considered to begin with Luis Valdez 1981’s Zoot Suit. Since that time, a large number of dedicated screenwriters and directors have embarked on the production of such films, some through Hollywood and others through independent routes.
One distinct characteristic that has been conspicuous in most of the American films has been the use of stereotypes and comedy to explore the culture of different Latino groups and also deal with the issue of immigration from Central and South American nations into the United States (Barrera 45). Most ...

In America, is a delightful film written by master storyteller Jim Sheridan. It tells the story about an Irish immigrant couple with two daughters, who come to the USA illegally by way of Canada. The family moved to New York as a means of escaping the sad memories of their five-year old son’s untimely death due to a brain tumor. The story is narrated by the couple’s 10-year old daughter, who shares the family’s many experiences. Being poor, they lived in Lower East Side New York in a scary tenement where beggars, thugs, and drug addicts reside since they were ...

The film, The Joy Luck Club, based on Amy Tan’s novel, portrays the story of four women and their daughters who eventually migrate from China to America. The story goes on to delve deep into how they are dissociated from their origins. These women live in a culture and time that is vastly different from the one in which they were themselves brought up.
The four older ladies meet once a week to play mahjong and they name their group as the ‘Joy Luck Club’. During the meeting they talk about stories of their respective families and grandchildren. They ...

Movie Review: Farmingville

If someone were to ask me what I think about illegal immigration, I would have a hard time figuring out where to get started. Honestly, I have never really thought about the issue of illegal immigration, and it is not something that directly affects me in any way. However, I am fond of documentary films in which political and social climates are analyzed, and Farmingville (2004), directed by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini is one such documentary. Moreover, the issue of illegal immigration that this documentary film raises is also a good debate, especially since it is a political and social issue ...

The immigration dilemma in the United States dates back to the time immemorial. Many of those who immigrate to the US do so in search of greener pastures, which they believe to find in the United States. In many cases, people immigrate due to suffering and dissatisfaction with their countries of origin. This may be as a result of war, famine or other inevitable factors. However, many of them end up facing unexpected challenges. Edward Park gives an insight into the dilemma faced by immigrants in the article Friends or Enemies: Generational Politics, in the Korean American Community. The challenges ...

The Film: The Proposal (Lieberman et al., 2009)

The Proposal is a 2009 romantic comedy directed by Anne Fletcher for the California-based film production and distribution house, Touchstone Pictures. The story revolves around a talented book publisher, named Margaret Tate (portrayed by Sandra Bullock), who heads the fictional publishing firm Ruick & Hunt. Margaret is depicted as an emotionally distant person from the start. Around five minutes into the movie, for instance, employees at Ruick & Hunt are seen running frantically around the offices as soon as one of them sends an internal message stating, “It is here.” This clearly shows just how much she is both feared and detested.
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The film A Better Life is based on the relations between the father and the son, who are the illegal migrants from Mexico. Initially, the son despises that his father works on wealthy Americans because trimming their lawns is completely unacceptable for him. He even looks down on his own father, while thinking about the way of street gangs, what his father trying to save him from as much as possible. Son talks very rudely to his father, thereby showing his attitude to the life ancestor, spends a lot of time on the street with a ...

This film is about two Chinese people from mainland China who migrate to Hong Kong with the objective making a living. The two Chinese mainlanders, Li Xiao-Jun and Li Qiao end up falling in love whilst in Hong Kong. Whereas Li Xiao-Jun is a naive person from northern China, Li Qiao is an opportunist who takes advantage of the naivety of mainland Chinese people to attain financial gains. Although the two people have fallen in love, circumstances separate them because Li Xiao-Jun has plans to bring his wife to Hong Kong whereas Li Qiao is planning to work hard and become ...

The Empire’s New Clothes is a documentary film that portrays the inequality in terms of financial and political landscape that any society faces today. It is apparent that the documentary makes use of past records to present its arguments convincingly. In particular, the timing of the release of the film was perfect having been only a few weeks before the general election took place in the United Kingdom in 2015. Such timely release seems to be a deliberate effort by the producer to tap into the heated conversations and opinions that were already in circulation in the mass ...

Shot in 2003, the documentary film Lost Boys of Sudan by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk follows the challenges the Sudanese young men faced while surviving the civil war in their country and reaching the United States searching for the better life. The documentary got a critical acclaim and the love of the audience due to the overview it gives on one of the disturbing chapters in the history of humanity.
David Mayom’s description of his experiences as a lost boy and life afterward may seem surrealistic for the person living in the developed country. It is truly ...

Introduction

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 ...

The film Who is Dayani Cristal? Was dubbed as one of the most proactive films to come out in 2014 The film deals with the hazards of immigrating to the United States. The ‘death in the dessert’ film by Gael Garci and Marc Silver deals with the timeless political debate over the reform in immigration policies in the United States and related issues such as the increasing border security. According to Paley p. 1 the strategy of the film proceeds similar to a detective story divided into three strands. The film was cleverly weaved together because during the first part, a ...

The Joy Luck Club (1993) was based on Amy Tan’s 1989 novel and deals with issues of culture, assimilation and generation conflicts between a group of four Chinese mothers and their Americanized daughters. All four women in the club had emigrated from China to the U.S. after World War II, and met after church to play Chinese mahjong every week. In reality, they had little joy or luck, and no expectations, only the hope that their children would have better lives than theirs. By the Confucian standards which the mothers learned from childhood, there were very definite differences in ...

“Once” is an art-house modern-day musical that describes a period in life of British street-musician and an immigrant from Czech republic. The film was produced in 2006, and two main roles are performed not by experienced actors, but by professional musicians. The movie was directed by John Carney, and two main roles were taken by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.

This movie is not a typical love-story, and every minute of it is full of outstanding emotions and tender feelings between heroes. A well-known movie-critic Roger Ebert gave a positive comment about a film. “It's one of those films where you hold ...

Fists of Fury is also popularly known as the Chinese Connection in United States. It is an action movie that depicts the famous Chinese culture of martial arts. The plot of the movie revolves around the revenge of Chen Zhen. The entore movie portrays his struggle of finding the suspects of murder of his master and then killing them. In general, the movie has a political and nationalistic perception. It demonstrates the tension that existed among violent Sino-Japanese at that time .
Likewise, Yellow Earth is one of the highly famous Chinese dramatization movie. The movie was directorial introduction for ...

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 ...