Knowledge Movie Reviews Samples For Students

This essay deals with the notion of death and dying in the movie, where protagonists prove to be more than ordinary people who would probably succumb to the pressure of knowing that their last days are numbered. Instead, they face death head on and follow their bucket list, with items that need to be done in order for them to believe that they have led truly fulfilled lives. In the end, however, they figure out that for this, they did not need fancy dinners and exotic trips, rather what they needed was beside them all along: family and friends; ...

This clip- 86 minutes clip- depicts the great work of Arvo who happens to be born in Paide. His place of birth is captured from his first memory where he ends up giving his place of birth.
The clip depicts the great role that Arvo has played and his generous contribution in the music industry. From the clip, we learn of the importance of combining two voices thereby ending up with a more serious result. He illustrates this further by giving an example of two people whose paths seem to cross but they don’t. The clip also illustrates a ...

The lecture series delivered by Tom Kelly, the General Manager of IDEO and also the writer of The Art of Innovation had relayed crucial inputs pertinent to diverse topics in business and entrepreneurship. There are nine mini-lectures, all below six minutes of running time each, the shortest spanning just below two minutes.
For the first topic, Innovation Made Personal, the main message relayed was for innovation to be taken in a more personal perspective. As disclosed, young people should learn how to harness, nurture, develop, and reinforce creative potentials; as well as innate capacities for innovation so these can ...

Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

The Holocaust memorial in Germany is a sculpture that was erected in Berlin. It occupies an area equal to the size of a soccer field and has 2711 concrete stele. The steles have varying heights and swings constantly from left to right. The field is accessed through narrow walkways that are barely two fits and can only fit one person at a time. The size of this monument is five and a half acres with four access points. This Holocaust memorial is exclusive for the Jews who were massacred in Europe and it was initiated by some concerned German nationals with the leadership ...

The film is about the relationship between Andrew and Margaret .Margaret is the boss to Andrew in the organization. She was very strict in her position of management in the organization. Margaret could not entertain any nonsense at the place of job. She was very harsh in relation to the issues of leadership. The employees feared her in the organization. Margaret used her position of power to convince and push the young assistant called Andrew to marry. Margaret left her visa to expire risking her chances of deportation back to Canada. She used her position and influence in the ...

Business Ethics

Recent decades have witness intensive debate and researches on the significant of business ethics in modern workplaces. Although researches on business ethics are still at infant stage, researchers have universally agreed on some basic significant of business ethics to both individual’s development and organisation productivity. Business ethics regards to values that focus on moral features in commercial activities. Ethics are also professional and applied virtues that explore ethical problems, morals, and ethical principles that emerge in the business environment. Ethics addresses individual’s conducts in a business while revolving other critical business conducts. Business ethics mainly comprises of both ...

Jane Doe

Abstract
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, ...

1.  Select which category [in parentheses] this documentary fits into and explain why you think it best fits that classification. Awareness/social concerns
The documentary film fits into the ‘awareness/social concerns’ because it encourages the viewer to think about social issues such as the possible outbreak of communicable or infectious diseases. While typhoid outbreaks were a thing in the past in countries such as the United States, there are other infectious diseases that raise public concerns.
2. Discuss at least three major themes within this documentary, using examples from the film to support your choice. Your discussion should consist of ...

Try Something New for 30 Days

According to the criteria of an organized presentation, non-verbal communication and knowledge about the topic, Matt Cutts gave a great lecture about his personal experience of acquiring a new habit. He says: “I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew” (Cutts). He encourages people to change the routine in their lives and to strive for perfection. They will not achieve it, but they are going to have more energy and be more enthusiastic about their lives. Matt’s speech is very inspirational because it makes people realize that there is ...

Plot and Story

Plot and story appear in different dimensions in narratives. In narrative films, story refers to the account that film narrates. It also refers to events that the audience infers and assumes to have taken place in the film. In narratives, the story appears in chronological order with a duration and frequency. The Story differs from the plot because the plot presents specific events in a narrative. The plot appears as the imaginary construction by the viewer regarding the events in the film. The Plot also involves a chronological order and duration.
The narrative’s plot presents Richard Hannay as a visitor in ...

Waiting for “Superman”

Waiting for “Superman” is a documentary film produced by Lesley Chilcott and directed by Davis Guggenheim. This documentary produced in 2010 analyzes the shortcomings of the American public school system by following the struggles of several students and their families to gain access into a charter school (Guggenheim, 2012). It features students from across America that has been negatively affected by the public school system. These students together with their families have numerous hardships to overcome yet show a strong determination to succeed and an attitude of never giving up (Spina, 2011). The producer says that the problem lies with the public schools ...

Introduction

Careful examination of a person’s behavior can sometimes be the most challenging part. People may not open up about what they are going through or what they are experiencing. It is upon an individual who has proper counseling skills to look at a person and come up with the correct diagnosis of the problem in question. Not all the time would one come up with the correct diagnosis, but the essence is to develop a plan of action with respect to the disability of the individual. The movie ‘Towelhead’ provides a challenge of conceptualization (Ball, 2008). The movie provides a broad converse over ...

Introduction:

The United States Agency for International Development and the World Bank hosted a debate concerning the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The debate had the following proposition “Behavior change in generalized epidemics has not reduced new HIV infections and is an unwise use of HIV prevention resources.” Panelists supporting the proposal had a number of reasons that they presented. They argued that the individuals carrying out behavior change implementation had not done a thorough evaluation of their work. For this reason, there are many unknowns in this strategy. For instance, scholars involved have not been able to come up with a behavior change model. Such a model ...

Summary

Fireproof is a 2008 Christian movie directed by Alex Kendrick that revolves around conflict resolution in marriage. A young girl who has always dreamt of being married to a man like her father gets the shock of her life when she is married to a man who seems to care less about her needs. The man, a firefighter, is skillful in his work and could sacrifice anything to ensure his work is done well. He even advices his colleagues on the importance of working together and ensuring that no victim perishes in the fire. The dedication that he shows towards his work is ...

The Inconvenient Truth is a documentary movie from Philip Davis Guggenheim, an American film director and producer. He is well known for his professional approach and has produced and directed three documentaries in addition to score of other movies. He has the honor of being one of those filmmakers who released three different documentaries ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. This paper describes the movie in second paragraph, an evaluation of the movie in next five paragraphs and a conclusion in last paragraph.
The Inconvenient Truth is about the threat of global warming and persuasively interlaces ...

And The Band Played On is a documentary about the AIDS epidemic that is based on the book. The book (and the movie itself) has an interesting title and I think it means that no matter what the circumstances, everybody just kept going on as usual, like nothing was wrong. AIDS is a widespread epidemic and I don’t think enough is taught about the history and prevalence of it.
Before the movie, my knowledge of the history of AIDS was few and far between. My knowledge of AIDS before watching this movie was very little. We did not learn ...

It is always difficult to watch movies about impaired people, let alone see them in real life. However, it is the real life that we must accept. Cinema is an excellent field and sphere to analyze the potential symptoms of characters playing the role of an impaired man or woman. Forrest Gump is an excellent example of the director’s and actor’s mastery at showing the people what a real psychopathology is.
Watching Forrest Gump one always thinks of the protagonist as mentally retarded (or rather suffering from mental retardation - a congenital form of an intellectual disability ...

____(3) 1.  Select which category [in parentheses] this documentary fits into and explain why you think it best fits that classification. (awareness/social concerns, biography, research/informative, investigative)
This documentary fits best into the category of awareness/social concerns because the slave trade was a terrible event that more people need to be aware about because it destroyed the lives of many African families for at least 400 years.
____(3) 2. Discuss at least three major themes within this documentary, using examples from the film to support your choice. Your discussion should consist of a paragraph for each theme and ...

Miss Representation is a documentary film from 2011 directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom and it deals with the representation of women in the society and about the expectations that are thrown upon them. These women are supposed to look and behave in a certain way prescribed by the society and they are not allowed to have the freedom of mind and are not entitled to self-expression. There are roles which are women are supposed to be seen in and this kind of order in the society is not supposed to be violated by free-thinking women, not to mention feminists.
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Introduction

Terrorism and Kebab film shows the fictional action of complex offices in the government annoying some of the ordinary citizens. It was acted in 1992, and due to the corrupt officials and their laxity on social and political life ending in the demonstration. In the film, the crowd attacked a police officer who was seen to be of several forms of corruption and abuse of power.

How does the film portray the Egyptian Government and its representatives?

According to the movie, its shows that the Egyptian government and its representatives were so much into corruption and reluctant to form strategies for solving the issue. With the arising complaints in corruption, ...

Art has always been one of the most valuable things in the whole society. People appreciate art because it keeps the history and memory of the humanity. Paintings, sculptures, memoirs can be more valuable than even some of the history books. The reason is quite simple. The history books may be rewritten in accordance with the requirements of the current government. However, such memorable things as paintings and sculptures are almost the immortal reminders of the human history. The film The Monuments Men is a historical drama that shows how people tried to save works of art during the ...

Indian School: Stories of Survival

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The film falls under the awareness/social concern category. The documentary clearly brings about the social injustices that the Native Americans underwent in the hands of the white Americans. It acts as an awareness to people of the racial segregation that was practiced.
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Oppression is a theme that can be clearly depicted from the film. The Indians who were unwilling to take their children to school were detained unlawfully in the Alcatraz. They were referred to as the murderers looking Indians.
Racial superiority. The whites believed that they were racially superior to the Native Americans. Therefore, they had ...

The concept of "leader" and "manager" have much in common. Both should organize, induce the group to address its tasks, determine the choice of ways and means to address them. Leadership is formed spontaneously, at half-conscious psychological benefits.
Followers start to recognize a leader only when he proved his competence and value to them. Leader receives power from his followers and to support it, he should enable them to meet their needs. In response, the followers give the necessary support to their leader.
The speaker of this video talking about leadership, leaders and the most important values, principles of ...

Introduction

“Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” is a 2008 comedy film directed by Hurwitz and Schlossberg. The movie presents different ideas about the Asian and American relationships after the 9/11 attacks. It is a captivating comedy with content suitable for adults only. In this paper, the movie is chosen since it presents an opportunity to execute autonomous, creative ideological review that reveals intended messages and structures of a film. It is also suitable due to the concept of “popular cinema.” This review explores the film’s ideology in terms of concepts of negotiated reading, underlying structures, and national ...

1. The fundamental idea of the documentary film "Through a Blue Lens" is to send a powerful message and raise awareness of risks and dangers of drug abuse and, consequently, to prevent people from abusing drugs and similar substances. The first example supporting this hypothesis is the scene in the beginning of the film where a police demonstrates consequences of drug abuse to a class of young students. Another example is that the film incorporates a real footage shot of drug addicts in the Vancouver's downtown and demonstrates the facts and realia of life in the streets. The third ...

Film analysis is an expanding field of knowledge and increasing research interest in major institutions of learning. It is a very important area because it allows deep understanding of the knowledge and the brain behind the creation of the movie, the characters, plot, creation and the directorate of the film. The common fashion of film analysis is through shot-by-shot model where the clips, the scenes, chromatography among others. This paper is a film analysis for To Live directed by Zhang Yimou. It made a debut in 1994 produced by ERA international and Shanghai Film Studios. It is starring Gong ...

Inconvenient Truth Emotional Impacts and Personal commitment

The film, Inconvenient Truth, shows a documentary of Al Gore, the global campaigner against global warming. In documentary, the director covered the global travels by Al Gore in his struggle to create awareness on the need for fast action on climate change and the imminent dangers. The great efforts and global journeys made by Al Gore and the facts about the severity of the global warming triggered strong reactions from me. The reaction evoked a shocking feeling. Based on the appalling scientific evidences, the negative impacts of climate change are severe and can wipe human population in the region. The drought that ...

Question 1

The definition of religion is often different across different groups depending on the values and beliefs that they hold. Noticeably, most people define religion based on what history holds as true for them. Typically, the catholic Spain defines religion as a matter of doctrines, rituals, creeds and traditions. Seemingly, the catholic Spain seems to attest to the fact that religion is more of a way of life. However, this is not true according to the historical chronology of religious beliefs. Looking closely, history explains the evolution of religion through ages. Thus, religion is never a set of compact doctrines and traditions.

According ...

Sooner or later, all children go through a stage of adolescence, which begins with sexual maturation, and ends with the attainment of self-sufficiency and independence. This period is not easy both for the teenagers, and for their parents. Sometimes own mood, behavior and desires can cause confusion even to the teenager, and there is a cause for that. During adolescence, the brain structures undergo fundamental changes, and the large amounts of hormones affect the individual as a whole.

A magnetic resonance imager (MRI) allows the scientists to explore the features of the teenage brain structure and functioning. Exploring the brain, a neuroscientist Charles ...

Psychology

Structural Family Therapy
The case presented is of a 24 year old who is brought forward by his parents to a counselor in order to discuss a major concern with their relationship. We witness a situation where the son has relationship issues with dad. From the way the case is presented, on can clearly tell that Mark has some issues when it comes to connecting with his father in an open way. The father makes an effort to ensure that the son is okay. We realize a caring dad who is desperate to solve the issues that exist to make a life for his ...

The 2001 boxing-oriented film, “Ali,” which was directed by Michael Mann and starred Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, and Jon Voight, among others, delves on the life story of the controversial former heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali. The film’s setting begins in 1964 just before Ali defeated Sonny Liston for the championship belt, up to the middle part of the 1970’s when Ali recaptured the belt by dethroning the previously undefeated champion, George Foreman. In addition, the film attempts to capture the life dilemmas and conflicts that Ali underwent during the aforementioned years, including his stance ...

Spellbound (2002 film)

Spellbound is a 2002 film that focuses on the efforts of eight teenagers to win a spelling competition. The movie centres on how culture plays an important role in shaping language skills of the children as well as their parents and teachers. All the children that participated in the competition came from different backgrounds and school and received varying training. The determination they had as well the support they received from their parents, siblings, other relatives and teachers. Apart from the simple fact that the movie is entertaining, it has more of an academic touch whose audience are the stakeholders in ...

The earth as we see it is composed of different components that make up the earth we know day. These components vary from the physical elements that are seen by the human eye to strange and unexplained forces that are in the visible elements of the earth. This has triggered the scientists to devise ways in which they will understand fully what happens on earth and why it is in the shape it is today. The scientists through governments have sent into space different space satellites that are able to help them get the desired knowledge of the different ...

Movie Review: A Civil Action

Movie Review: A Civil Action
Based on a novel of Jonathan Harr, this movie called “A Civil Action” depicts the story of two lawyers who are at loggerheads—Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta) and Jerome Facher (Robert Duvall). The issue revolves around the death of 12 children who suffered from leukemia. In this movie, Jan Schlichtmann contends that the death of the 12 children could be attributed to the pollution caused by the two major corporations called W. R. Grace and Beatrice. However, Jerome Facher takes the opposite side, and presents his counterarguments against Schlichtmann that neither the pollution nor ...

Movie making began long time ago. However, radical cinema came up in the early 1960s. Within the time given, there have been distinct ways to determine the creation of a movie. Most people who came to radical film making had little knowledge. Due to their poor level of knowledge, the film makers developed the already existing cinematic techniques. The cinematic techniques include; first, the shots, improvisation, close-ups, camera location and type of lighting. Among other cinematic techniques include the use of jump cuts. They are the edits made in a continuous scene of footage, without having to transit hence gives the ...

The Hunt for Red October Movie Essay

Directed by John McTiernan, the movie, "The Hunt for Red October" revolves around the ‘Red October’ an underwater Typhoon-class war submarine. The action movie is engaging and filled with brilliantly done scenes well mixed with political twists, turns and intrigues. It is the management setting in the movie however that is of major concern in this essay. A clear understanding of the significance of management in decision making has a strong statement throughout the movie. The essay will cover critical aspects of management such as leadership that is well illustrated by the two main protagonists of the movie, Jack Ryan from ...

Introduction

The relevance of this movie to this course
The Net was released in the year 1995 and was directed by Irwin Winkler. The movie’s key theme revolves around the modern computer technology, its complexity and crime. Action begins when Angela Bennet realizes that her identity had been changed and replaced with that of a criminal, because she actually owned a floppy disk which belonged to a group of terrorists called the "cyberterrorists".Angela Bennet is able to access information from corporate systems and federal systems. The cyber terrorists would stop at nothing to protect this top secret. The cyber terrorists ...

ABSTRACT/INTRODUCTION

The French film Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Mister Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran) tells the story of a Muslim shopkeeper befriends a lonely Jewish boy named Momo (or Moshe) in Paris during the 1960s, and adopts him after his father commits suicide. They make a trip to M. Ibrahim’s homeland of Turkey, and the boy learns all about his adoptive father’s religion and cultural, which is the mystical or Sufi version of Islam. Both Momo and Ibrahim are members of minority groups that faced great discrimination in France at the time, and in fact Momo’ ...

“Dr. Phil” is a one hour program that airs daily on day time television. This show has been an innovator of the “talk show genre” by employing a real psychologist as its host. Dr. Phil McGraw spends that hour addressing and advising individuals who are going through crisis. Sometimes those problems are everyday issues, such as getting along with in-laws or dealing with a problem child. Other times more complex issues are explored, such as counseling the victim of a heinous crime or giving insight into high profile media stories. “Dr. Phil” presents a very clinical approach to the portrayal of gender on their ...

In reflecting upon the movie And the band played on, one of the most curious issues is that of the title its self given that the film is about what one character in the course of the dialogue adequately states as “This is not a political issue, this is health issue.” (Spottiswoode) As such, the quote indicates that the film is indeed about a serious health issue rather than a study of popular music culture.

In this case the writer considers that the title of film taken from the book of the same name represents the concept that throughout the story seemingly ...

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

The title of the documentary film is ‘Saving Face’. The film is the 2012 Academy Award winner for the category of Documentary (Short Subject). The film is based on the women of Pakistan who have been subjected to acid violence. It follows a plastic surgeon by the name of Dr. Muhammad Jawad, who performs reconstructive surgery on women who have had acid thrown on their faces. It also shows two women who have suffered from acid violence, and they are waiting for justice ...

History of Ant Farm

Ant Farm was formed in 1968 by architecture post-graduates Doug Michels and Chip Lord who were later joined by Curtis Schreier as one of the group’s core members (Feldman 1). Chip Lord was an architecture graduate from Tulane University and later received various awards such as the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships; the Creative Artist Fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission; and the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowships (Electronic Arts Intermix). Douglas Michel, on the other hand, graduated from the Yale School of Architecture and after Ant Farm, spent the rest of his career teaching at ...

John James Audubon

John James Audubon, the illegitimate son of a sea captain Jean Audubon and a servant Jeanne Rabine was a French - American painter, naturalist and ornithologist. He was born on 1785 in Les Cayes (new Haiti), previously known as Saint Domingue, and died in 1851 (Rhodes, 2004). Even nearly two centuries since his death, Audubon is remembered in this world for his studies on birds, painting, and hunting. Audubon was a nature lover, and passionate about paintings of birds in their natural habitats. His most memorable documentation is The Birds of North America, a collection of ornithological works considered to be his best legacy ( ...

Introduction:

Bringing Down a Dictator is a classic documentary featuring how the Serb dictator, Slobodan Milosevic was eventually overthrown not through force of arms but eventually through non violent opposition spearheaded by student groups mainly with the backing of The United Nations and other NGO’s.
It is a powerful film featuring some great filming and focuses on the ruthless brutality of the dictator paired with the intrinsic bravery of the opposition groups who faced considerable obstacles in attempting to get what they wanted. They used rock concerts, general banter and other methods to achieve their ultimate goal although it has to ...

‘Black Gold’ is film about the production of coffee in Ethiopia which is the known to be birthplace of coffee. It focuses on the plight of the Ethiopian workers who spend endless days and nights harvesting a crop that is their only source of income. The coffee industry is a multi billion industry that has seen the GDPs of International countries rise as the major exporters of this treasured commodity continue to remain impoverished (‘Black Gold’).

My take on the movie

With America being the country that consumes the most coffee in the world .This movie was an eye opener for the way the role of ...