charges for arson. Bullet is caught between two evils‚ his single mother who is distressed alcoholic‚ and his father. To serve his arson charges‚ Bullet is sent to bush camp‚ which proves to be a life changing experience for him‚ as well as point in the film. Lead by a respected elder‚ he and his once delinquent friends journey into the bush‚ roasting lizards and catching crocodiles for meals. The beauty of the bush clears his mind‚ coordinating with the way the bush treats his father. On his way
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Despite their obvious length restrictions‚ short films have a distinctive lack of commercial expectation and pressure which allows the director the artistic freedom to explore all other aspects of film to produce unique texts which engage the audience. An example of a film which ais short in length however conveys a strong message through effective use of various aspects of the film medium is The Lunch Date. The Lunch Date‚ released in 1990‚ was directed by Adam Davidson‚ and has received many prestigious
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It was premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival‚ where it received the United States Documentary Audience Award. The film features interviews with veterans from multiple branches sharing their stories surrounding their assaults. The veteran’s stories showed mutual themes which include; a lack of recourse to an impartial justice
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Twilight Samurai is a film set in the 19th century‚ towards the end of the Tokugawa or Edo era. It was a time when the samurai system was beginning to wane as Japan started to advocate itself towards modernization. The Meiji reforms had started to begin‚ and the samurai class was gradually being disregarded as of a higher social status. The lifestyle and demand for the samurai was thus in a process of change‚ as the samurai began to take on other trades such as merchants. The film depicts the story
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This case in the film involves multiple important aspects: race‚ family ties‚ injustice. However‚ these are not what this This is simply a story of two victims: one stripped forcefully through the violent stripping of innocence‚ the other stripped of the fundamental human right of justice‚ driven to provide justice for his flesh and blood daughter. The second victim is forced to commit crime‚ driven to vindicate his family and prevent potential crimes in the future. This film tells the story of
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offbeat‚ non-traditional sci fi horror‚ standing against the grain of traditional science fiction films touting the achievements of mankind scientific strength‚ Under the Skin manages to comment much more about mankind’s failures. It’s often clashing narrative explores blank slate theories‚ societal expectations‚ and sexualization in the postmodern world.
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superimpositions‚ Point-Of-View shots‚ out-of-focus shots‚ distorting image filters‚ and break the rules of continuity editing‚ Bunuel has lead his audience through a world bizarre and freakish‚ yet undeniably ours. Here’s another example in the same film where this seemingly paedophilic man hands little girls ‘secretive’ pictures that sickens yet sexually arouses their parents‚ which has the audience inferring that the pictures are of erotic manner‚ but then revealed to simply be postcard pictures
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A Single Man is a 2009 film based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood and it was directed by fashion designer Tom Ford as his directorial debut. Taking place over the course of a single day‚ November 30‚ 1962‚ a month after the Cuban missile crisis‚ A Single Man is the story of George Falconer‚ a middle-aged English college professor living in Los Angeles. He explains after he wakes up from a dream about his partner‚ who died 8 months earlier‚ that he would take his life in the
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Virtual JFK takes a different direction in articulating its theme than the previous movies in the course so far. In particular‚ the various film techniques Virtual JFK uses makes the film argumentatively natured and it is not hard to detect the movie’s central message. The film argues that if Kennedy had lived‚ the United States would have most likely not have gotten into a massive ground war in Vietnam. In backing this large claim‚ the movie focused on six different times in Kennedy’s short presidency
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What makes a film which is “based on a true story” authentic? Do films only use this ploy to connect with spectators that assume that these movies are situated in a farfetched reality? When audiences view these types of films they come to only expect one thing from them and it is authenticity. The issues with many of these films is that filmmakers want to add depth to characters that already historically exist. The reason for these skewed character representations is that they have to pander to main
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