Technology Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today was a talk delivered by known economist Paul Krugman at Princeton University. The talk focused on the phenomena of Globalization and what it did to the world and its role the ‘mess’ it caused. He gave a short history of globalization by saying that it is not new to the world because it was ongoing during the late 19th century. In his talk Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today , Krugman addressed what were the changes, one of the changes he pointed out was technology. People were replaced by machines, he mentioned, because longshoremen were replaced ...

My first impression of America’s food system after watching America Revealed: Food Machine was amazement. I was amazed and awed by how much Americans eat and how the farming industry has tried to cope with this need – and successfully, too. However, I guess that saying that the farming industry has coped successfully is quite questionable in that while it does effectively and efficiently meet the dietary needs of Americans, as well as of people from other countries, it doesn’t come without a price.
Watching the video made me realize how powerful technology is. This is very evident ...

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URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF-5CMozGWY

Presentation information

This video is addresses the new view of technology. Kevin Kelly addresses technology as an evolving organism with self unconscious requirements as well as tendencies. Kelly looks into the details of technology to understand what it wants by analyzing various examples. He predicts massive inventories in technology (Kelly, 2010).

Application to business

It would be wise to understand that technology is one of the main requirements for development. Respect for technology in businesses is a guarantee for excellence. Therefore, there is exclusive need to respect technology. It would be vital in capturing and storing data in a business. In maintenance ...

For André Bazin, the famous film critic and theorist from France, cinemas were a realist medium. This is why majority of film theorists would perhaps argue that that if he got a look at the computer-animated film WALL·E (2008) by Disney/Pixar, he would turn over in his grave. His theories revolved around the notion that there is always a mummy complex underlying the origin of any form of art, including cinema. Bazin’s notion suggests that art struggles to immortalize the mortal, to preserve the physical existence on screen. According to Bazin, the medium that eliminates most of the distance between ...

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 ...

Charlie Chaplin's 1936 silent comedy Modern Times has the classic tramp navigating an increasingly complex and frightening modern world of industrialization. There are many messages and things that a 21st century audience can take from this film; despite the fact that technology has increased much more than in the 1930s, the same themes resonate. Audiences in the 21st century can often feel like Chaplin's Little Tramp character, constantly trapped and threatened by these cogs and large buildings. In one particular scene, Chaplin is conveyed along a series of gears, his body swimming through the twists and turns of the movement of ...

Technological Analysis of King Kong (1993)

Eighty years have passed since Merian C. Cooper’s original, black and white version of King Kong was released in cinema. Many new technologies were presented in King Kong that made it possible to tell the chest-thumping story of a gigantic gorilla that goes on a rampage through New York City after being brought there from an island inhabited by dinosaurs. As a visionary, Merian C. Cooper, the director of the original King Kong dared to face a series of technological challenges to create a film way ahead of its time. King Kong is an epitome of the director’s intense interest in technology. ...

Introduction

Movie producers undergo several obstacles before the completion of their respective projects. Peter Jackson goes through similar predicaments in his creation of the “King Kong Movie”. However, he still manages to create a fascinating movie that has several significant aspects. For example, this movie by Jackson tells an adventurers story that teaches its viewers unique aspects of movie production. The intent of this paper is to provide a social, economic, technological and aesthetic analysis of the movie.

Social

Peter Jackson introduces diverse aspects of socialization throughout this thrilling movie. He begins by letting his protagonists fall in love when they sail to ...

Introduction

A documentary is a movie that attempts to present events, people and places in real life for purposes of instructing or maintaining historical records (Aitken). Documentaries are characterized by carefully chosen and arranged scenes just like movies. Unlike movies, documentaries are not scripted and the people in a documentary are not actors. In most cases, documentaries rely on voice-over narration to explain events in a given footage. In other cases, the story in the documentary is told through interviews with the people featured.

Documentary analysis

The 1929 film, Man with a Movie camera by Vertov Dziga fits the description of a documentary for several reasons. First, ...

Both the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the Martin Scorsese film Hugo have their thematic roots in escapism - reality is represented through the dark, smoky 1930 Paris train station, and illusion is found in the films of Georges Melies. Hugo, in both works, finds wonder with his father in the movies; in the film, Hugo states that films were "our special placewhere we could go andwe didn't miss my mum so much." With this line, he reveals one of the fundamental purposes that film provides for audiences; it allows them to forget their problems. For both ...

Technology has been welcomed by people across the globe from time immemorial. However, the rate at which thinks happen nowadays creates worries than solutions to the human race. With the rampant increases in the level of technology people are confused whether to appreciate disown technology as far as god’s creation is concerned. People have always argued that god did not intent to create a lazy being thus he gave human beings minds to liberate themselves from their woes. They argue that god’s intention was to restructure the world by insisting that only those who work have to eat. ...

Beautiful, thought provoking, or horrifying; there are many way to describe Lief Hall’s work. However, boring will never be among them, unless perhaps a negating term is also included. Lief Hall’s film combines intermedia effects including rainbow light, mirrored and merged images that call to mind everything from peaceful ocean sunrises to skeletal faces to intimate female body parts. Backed by synthesized electro-pop music Leif Hall spins an artistic cyclone of lyrics that range from softly chanted to screeching. This effect is further enhanced by Hall’s skillful use of mixed media incorporating: light, sound, and computer enhanced ...

Movie review

This movie gives us the eleventh reason to be optimistic. The speaker in this movie is Martin Seligman, a psychologist who is, along with his team, trying to explain and connect design, technology and entertainment with positive psychology.
In his lecture, he tries to explain what kinds of happiness are there and what kind of happiness is the best one. The aim of psychology, among other things, is to make people happier and not just to treat mental illnesses. There are three aims that psychology should be concerned with and they include strength, the building of strength and making ...

The facebook and the open source movement are both social sites where people share information. Facebook started in 2003 in Harvard University out of a love affair which went sour among two student partners, where a male partner hack the database of the institution trying to tarnish the name of the female partner (Harris 25).

Social network movie is about a website facebook which came about due to a lawsuit directed by David Fincher and it was released on 1/10/2010. It explains how people share social and personal information. It is popular among the student body and they call it Thefacebook and due ...

One of the hallmarks of public life in the twenty-first century and especially since the rise of social media is in understanding how these developments have actively worked to change the way that not only people communicate with each other but how governments and institutions communicate with the people. The rise of social media technology has been largely concurrent with another very important change in the way that the world is organized; namely, globalization. Globalization as a process has for the most part been a force which has weakened the power of national governments, has created real constrictions on ...

Feminism in Movies: Just Wright

Introduction

Decades after Mary Wollstonecraft began the suffrage movement, women’s liberation is in its third wave and has changed its style with feminists shedding the image of bra-burning activists to one of “the woman on the top” (Britannica Encyclopedia). According to prolific feminist studies writer Susan J. Douglas, as advocated by the British female pop group, Spice Girls, feminism has become a dirty word, and girl power has become the acceptable way to think and speak of strong women (2010). Feminists are no longer women clad in baggy clothes striving for better recognition and respect for their gender. In the ...

There’s a common and long-drawn out theme that makes itself obvious when it comes to “Men against fire”. Does our government really tell the truth? Or just a watered-down version of the truth to protect its best interests? Especially when it comes to war? Does it use disinformation and technology to distort the truth?
Ever since the rise of the state and a society in which we have both rights and duties to one another, these questions have been asked time and time again with a growing suspicion that all is not what it seems to the naked ...

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 ...

Introduction

Science fiction and disaster films often must take dramatic liberties with science and truth in order to serve a greater narrative purpose; events are compressed, effects are exaggerated, and realism and physics are thrown out the window in order to provide greater drama and spectacle (Revkin, 2004). In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich in 2004, the world is subjected to global disasters brought about by climate change. The effects are myriad; global cooling sets New York in a coating of ice and freezing temperatures, glaciers crack and separate, and a “superstorm” is said to cause rapid climate ...

The new Era of Stock Trading

The videos discuss as how the human mind is getting evated from trading activity on Wall Street and is rather performed by high performing super computers which have the capacity to trade billions of stock, even before a blink of a human eye. However, these super computers works on programming of math wizards and are not aware of the value of companies for which they are trading. Thus, the Securities Exchange Commission and Members of the Congress Senate has raised some questions against suitability and usefulness of these machines in stock trading and also alleges that some institutions might be using ...

Our world is rapidly changing due to technologies. It concerns our social life most of all that is completely different from our parents’ society, when they have been young, for example. Today the children and the teenagers are growing online. It is caused by more possibility to have the Internet, computers and other digital devices not only for receiving the information, but for communication as well. It leads to bringing the new technologies into our daily life, like studying. Indeed, all inventions are appealed to improve our lives. But there are some risks.
First of all, the Internet ...

Produced by Caitlin McNally and directed by Dretzin and John Maggio, the film, Growing up Online shows a clear difference between the virtual world and the real life of emotions with regard to teenagers and young people. From the film, young people have made the internet part of their social and academic life. The film agrees that the internet is today a way of life and the young IT generation of today are influenced by the internet in many ways. The web shapes how the youth behave, learn, interact and share information. Therefore it becomes a crucial tool for learning. However, virtual ...

In Ridley Scott’s 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner, the detailed world that provides the film with its setting is created and filmed in a unique and interesting way. The setting is Los Angeles in the far-flung future of 2019, where corporations rule the world and synthetic humans called replicants have been outlawed. The film follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he is ordered to hunt down several replicants who have escaped to Earth. The care taken in the creation of the world of Blade Runner, in combination with the abstract, breathtaking story, creates a visual and cultural futurist’ ...

Japanese horror films through the years had made astounding contribution to the movie industry and to the horror genre in particular. One of the notable directors of great Japanese horror flicks is Kurosawa Kiyoshi who is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick in terms of directing style and influence. Most of his films are focused on ho a general society affects an individual and how the society also reacts to adverse irrational and disintegrated social mechanisms. Japanese horror movies are not typical to the usual western made fright movies. As observed from many western horrors movies, they incorporate ...

INTRODUCTION

In the 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott takes great care to fashion a detailed, unique dystopian world for the characters to inhabit. The setting is Los Angeles in the (at the time of production) dystopian future of 2019, where corporations rule the world and synthetic humans called replicants have been outlawed. The film follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he is tasked to hunt down several replicants who have escaped to Earth. The care taken in the creation of the world of Blade Runner, in combination with the dreamlike, meandering story, creates a visual and cultural ...

Introduction

In 1998, Steven Spielberg directed a World War 2 film showing the events that happened during the Normandy invasion. The film was called “saving Private Ryan” and was based in Normandy and some parts of France. Screen play for the film was done by Rodat Robert with main actors being Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller, Tom Sizemore as Mike Hovarth, Barry Pepper as Daniel Jackson, Adam Goldberg as Stanley ‘Fish’ Mellish, Vin Diesel as Adrian Carpazo, Giovanni Ribisi as Irwin Wade, Jeremy Davis as Timothy Upham, and Matt Damon as Private James Rayan. The movie was produced to depict a ...

One of the top most grossing industries or sectors in the contemporary society is the entertainment industry. Increasing standards of living around the world have allowed individuals to accumulate bigger disposable incomes. Lifestyle changes continue to arise within the contemporary society owing to the growing, improving incomes. Consumables that were previously unprofitable have since become among day-to-day products. The growing entertainment industry is one such sector. The focus of this paper is to analyze the industry, growth process, and evolution of the cinema industry in India.
The growth of the movie sector is one of the indicators of a ...

Movie Review

“Laputa: The Castle in the Sky” became the first animation film produced on Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata’s “Studio Ghibli”. Maybe it is because of the success of the given movie “Ghibli” became a synonym of a high-quality feature animation for many years ahead. Produced in distant 1986 the movie has not been forgotten until today. Is it because of the bright plot of genius writer and director Hayao Miyazaki or memorable music theme of a wonderful composer Joe Hisaishi, but “The Castle in the Sky” even nowadays continues to amaze the audience with its romantic kindness, taking ...

The Weight of the Nation feature film presents pertinent issues regarding health and wellness. Whereas ‘The Weight of the Nation-consequences’ documents the extent and epidemic nature of obesity, ‘The Weight of the Nation-Choices’ film provides a presentation on why no effective for obesity is existent hitherto. From both films therefore, insightful thoughts can be borrowed and applied personally to avert adverse health outcomes.
‘The Weight of the Nation-consequences’ presents the case of Cindy, a mother of two adult sons and also a grandmother. Based on the HBO account, Cindy has struggled with obesity since being married at 99 pounds. ...

The advent and growth of the technological sector have been instrumental in the dynamic changes that have been realized in the media sector. The sharing of information and ideas has been revolutionized with the advent of the internet. The speed and rate of information flow have also been enhanced significantly. This essay focuses on analyzing the capacity of new media to cope with the propaganda models as defined and explained by Noam Chomsky. It seeks to expound on the dynamics of new media and the depth to which propaganda models can be applied or fail to work.
In the ...

1- What variables does Rosling use to talk about social well being?

The variables that Rosling use to talk about social well-being are fertility rate, life expectancy at birth, child mortality rate and the length of life.

2- What does he illustrate when he plots social well being variables against economic development (income per capita)?

What Rosling is trying to illustrate in plotting social well-being variables against the GDP per capita is that social well-being factors play a major role in the economic growth of a country. He also points out that there are some countries that are more advanced in terms of health, education and human resources development, than they are economically. He argues that for some countries social progress is more enhanced than economic progress. 3- What is the ...

Film Studies

The movie “The Social Network” was shown in 2010 and gives a detailed story on how Mark Zuckerberg transformed the social networking site “Facebook” to become a global phenomenon. It presents a simple story of how a young student from Harvard University in the person of Zuckerberg was able to create a campus website which was named “Facemash” and made him the second youngest billionaire in the world. The story begins when Zuckerberg was dumped by his girlfriend, Erica causing him to create a blog which was intended to insult her. This prompted him to create a website known as “Facemash” which gave the opportunity for ...

This is a series of six films documentary which elaborates the origin of the industrial revolution. The movie gives the reasons why the island on the coast in the mainland of Europe became a great industrial center while the most promising regions like China lagged behind. The movie initially shows the worst and the best aspects of industrial revolution .the movie goes deeper into many years and millenniums ago in showing the trend of the factors which led to industrial revolution. The movies tries to answer the parable of what the industrial revolution is and when it started as well as ...

Question 1

Yes, I believe the words highlighted though I find a lot of symbolism used to describe the technological tension between china and Japan

Question 2

The title is derived from the need of either of the countries to gain recognition of power across the world. Jim is a representation of a dream that grows from its conception to becoming a reality.

Question 3

Even though the plot is all about the war and how Japan surrendered to china, in reality, it is all about the prevailing competition of power and economic growth of china, which Japan could no longer resist

Question 4

The survival of Jim irrespective of the ...

Introduction

The new world 2005 is breath- taking; romantic- filled and creatively staged historical adventure. The film skillfully written and directed by an excellent film writer and director Terrence Malick, depict along the foundation of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement ,just around the beginning of the United State colonization at which the America was occupied and organized in native tribes. The film draws its inspiration from Captain John Smith and Pocahontas based on a classic poem.
The cast involves Wes studi, Christopher Plummer, Christian bale, august schellenberg, David thelwis and Yolick van wageningen. A highly experienced production team consisting of the ...

Introduction

Almost every year, there are thousands of individuals that decide write movie scripts actually hoping to get them produced and then also to make some serious cash flow. What people do not realize is that a lot of these scripts are never even looked at or even bought. The reason for Th is that movies are costly to make and basically only the best scripts are ever actually get produced. When they are made into movies it is important that a film analysis is done in order to see what was done correctly and what was not. Often, students that do ...

One of the most intriguing facts about the dystopian genre is that it did not appear until humanity had almost reached its apex in terms of knowledge and technology. The horrors of the First and Second World Wars showed that humanity would use its very best in terms of technology to do its very worst to one another, as mustard gas, hand grenades, nuclear bombs, and death camps made their first appearances on the planet. Led by such writers as George Orwell, the early practitioners of dystopian literature showed us our own future as it would be if human ...

It is a remarkable phenomenon of American society that a film can transcend its own medium and establish a cultural crossroads where new aesthetic, historical, technological and philosophical sensibilities may at once converge. As such, a movie can capture Zeigeist and reflect the tenor of its era at a magnitude unmatched by any other creative form. Such is the case with the 1939 epic Gone With the Wind, a grand historical fiction that managed to simultaneously tap into the country’s psyche and sense of its own historical past while altering the notion of what was morally acceptable for a film to portray. No other film ...

I believe that Tom has laid down a great talk from a prospective of education on motivation especially to the students in this Motivational and Emotional video. This is applied in a sense of what is a challenging task engaging. One of the techniques that could be applied is collective questions that randomly rewards person with a huge piece of puzzle. In this presentation, I think the main idea is how the video games are applied as an extension of the practices and principles of applied analysis of behavior.
In my opinion, what makes the schools to be a mindless and boring for most ...

Genre and ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’.

The 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind raises the question of ‘if you could erase the memories of your ex-lover, would you?’ As a film, its genre is seemingly quite ambiguous: it switches back and forth between memories and reality; love and un-love in a non-linear fashion that also skips between romance and science fiction. The genre of a film is traditionally seen as being a form of classification; it refers to a number of factors that go some way to defining it: “type of presentation (epic/lyric/dramatic), relation to reality (fiction/non-fiction), level of style (epic/novel), kind of plot (comedy/tragedy), nature of content ( ...