Category: Film

Jared Diamond grew up in Boston and studied at both Harvard and Cambridge University. He also taught at UCLA for many years. In the film of Guns Germs and Steel, Diamond was one of the first to assemble all data to show the world how much the environment has been an influence everything in regards…

In the 2003 film “Gothika” Halle Berry plays a psychiatrist who loses her memory and wakes up in an insane asylum, the same one where she had previously been a staff physician. She is confused, disoriented and has lost time. Pete, a psychiatrist played by Robert Downey Jr. , is the doctor assigned to her…

The Third Man, was filmed in post World War II Vienna, releasing in 1949. The film was written by Graham Greene, directed by Carol Reed, and produced by the American David Selznick and the British Michael Korda. The black and white, pessimistic film “is one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era, in…

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film, Apocalypse Now, defied conventional perceptions of the Vietnam War and is regarded as a notable achievement in contemporary cinema. The movie prompts contemplation on the essential components of an epic narrative, such as religious allusions, a transformative journey, a majestic setting, supernatural elements, and other pivotal factors. These epic elements…

Alfred Hitchcock’s film North by Northwest reflects an extraordinary use of setting combined with brilliant camera angles and techniques to evoke emotion and to create suspense. The film’s exciting and suspenseful tone is established very quickly once Thornhill is shockingly kidnapped by two thugs while socializing with friends in a safe and public environment, the…

‘From Vancouver to Isfahan’ is an Iranian documentary about an Iranian young man who ten years after living in Canada visits his motherland in Isfahan, the third largest city in Iran after ‘Tehran’ and ‘Mashhad’. The documentary is in two parts and in Farsi (Persian) language made in 2010. It was mad by ‘Ardeshir Ahmadi’,…

In the real experiment there was a lot of humiliation and the prisoners were really dehumanized, but they were not physically hurt. In the film the prisoners weren’t just mentally hurt, but also physically. (this was probably to make the film more entertaining.) In the real experiment the prisoners who were ‘’bad’’ were put in…

The novel To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf published in 1927 is a milestone of high modernism and experiments the stream-of-consciousness style. There are three sections in the book and the text revolves around the Ramsay family during their visit to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 1nd 1920. The fundamental theme of…

Introduction In the movie ‘12 monkeys’ there was a virus which was deliberately released in 1996 and killed more than five billion people. The survivors went to seek refuge into the underground sending volunteers to bring insect specimen from the universe to test for the virus presence. One of the sent prisoners is James cole…

Released on December 25th, 2009, “3 Idiots” is a Bollywood masterpiece that delves into the intricacies of India’s education system. Produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, the film features Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, and R Madhavan as the three protagonists, each grappling with the pressures and expectations of academic life. Boman…