Category: Film

Introduction The play and subsequent movie “Twelve Angry Men” is an examination of the dynamics at play in a jury room in the 50’s in The United States. The action revolves around the opinions, perceptions, reason and logic of twelve diverse characters that are tasked with pronouncing the guilt or innocence of a young man…

Violence and gun culture in the United States The movie Gran Torino does glorify, justify violence and gun culture in the United States when used for the greater good as the military or police do to save lives of many civilians every day. The protagonist Walt Kowalski known as simply Walt well he’s a character…

Legally blonde is a film about Elle Woods a blonde sorority queen who is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined and is thrown into solving a case in which she will make…

The target audience for the film Donnie Darko would be the male gender from the ages of 16 – 24 and in the socio-economic grading boundary A – C1, this would be due to the fact that it requires a lot of thought to comprehend the complex narrative and structure and people in the higher…

Freedom Writers, a compelling cinematic narrative based on true events, unfolds the inspiring story of Erin Gruell, portrayed by Hilary Swank. Gruell, a young and dedicated teacher, makes a bold choice to join the faculty at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. The school is grappling with the aftermath of a recent integration…

“If there’s a reasonable doubt in your minds regarding the regret of the implicated, an affordable doubt, then you must bring me a decision of innocent … however you decide, your verdict needs to be consentaneous.” The motion picture, The Twelve Angry Men, was an interesting film. Surprisingly, it was really intriguing and interesting even…

That not much happens in “Ang Kwento ni Mabuti,” is precisely its power. And while its premise is poverty as crisis and its context is the distance and removal that the poorer among us live with, not once did the film seem like poverty porn. Neither was it full of itself. It would of course…

When preparing a movie production a great deal of things require consideration, for instance money is a crucial component that will be needed to money the production of the film, with the crew/cast requiring payment for their work. Props need buying and depending upon the discussion of the motion picture they might be quite costly…

This idea is communicated through a range of characters in the film and a wide variety of verbal and visual techniques were used to show the viewer that although we may not think we are rascist, pressure put upon us can lead to stereotypes being brought to the surface. Haggis sends a clear, powerful message…

The movie “12 Angry Guys” is about a murder trial embeded in the mid 1900’s when the American legal system had extremely different rules from what it has now. The trial is about a 16 years of age boy who apparently murdered his dad late one night in New york city City. He was from…