Movie Critique Essay

Visual Art Critique For my visual art critique, I attend the Texas State University Wittliff Collections on Tuesday, October tenth. During my visit I viewed works of art from the Lonesome Dove collection. The first piece of work I critiques was the photograph “Crossing the Rio Grande” taken by Bill Wittliff. This photo was taken on the set of the Lonesome Dove in 1988. What stood out to me was the significance of how real this photo is. So many slaves have tried to cross this river to escape persecution

Gasland: A Movie Critique The documentary Gasland, directed by Josh Fox provides insight on the effects of living in a natural gas driven society. The film features Josh Fox's search to discover how natural gas companies operate and the unseen consequences people have to live with as a result of corporate greed. Fox becomes curious about the gas industry in 2009 when he receives a letter from government regulators asking if he will relinquish his property for one hundred thousand dollars because

According to Merriam Webster, the American Dream is “a happy way of living… that can be achieved by anyone… by working hard and becoming successful.” Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman critiques this ideology through the outcome of Willy’s life and in light of Karl Marx’s ideas in Alienation. One way Miller critiques the American Dream is through Marx’s idea of proprietors and propertyless. Marx states in Alienated Labor that “the whole society is divided into two classes of proprietors and propertyless”

identity during a historical period of time through Desiree’s character. Derek Foster and Kris LeJeune's critique, focusing on the feminist standpoint of Desiree’s Baby, attempts to demonstrates how Desiree’s act to flee into the bayou is her first accomplishment of independence. Desiree’s Baby is a short story written in the late 1800’s encompassing the issues of

is about a war between the forces of paganism and Christianity, and because the pagan heroine has chocolate on her side, she wins. Her victory is delayed only because, during Lent, a lot of the locals aren’t eating chocolate. The movie happens in the backdrop of a French village. Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), an expert chocolatier, drifts across Europe with her daughter Anouk (Victorie Thivisol), following the north wind. In the beginning of the Lenten season in 1959, “fifteen

The movie Lincoln is an American historic film, made in 2012, that covers the final four months of Lincoln’s life in politics. This movie was highly relatable to what we have been learning and class. The movie contains instructional value, not only in history, but also in general politics. It shows the art of presidency along with the practice of politics. Although Lincoln does a great job of portraying history, it is not one hundred percent accurate. The movie focuses mainly on the passing of the

This essay is going to be about the movie called Amistad. It is a 10 of December 1997 American film directed by Steven Spielberg which was a very famous Hollywood director, based on a story which happened in 1839 about some Spanish man in a ship called Amistad which had captured many slaves to sell. This history of the movie was made in Connecticut in the coast were a case occurred to save the slaves which had ended up in the united states, it was a hard case, but the case was given to the liberty

to succeed through his daughter, who he always believed could become someone despite her being a part of the minority. The pride of Selena’s parents at seeing their daughter succeed is undeniable and perhaps best captured in the first scene of the movie when Abraham comments on his daughter beauty and shortly after Marcella, Selena’s mom, says “You go girl!” while proudly smiling at Selena onstage. Consequently, the meaning of Selena’s success to her parents as well as others in pursuit of the American

Movie Critique: The Mighty Ducks - 1 Introduction The first “The Mighty Ducks” movie raises numerous aspects of sociology in sport that will be analyzed in this paper. The two aspects of sociology in sport that were prevalent in the Mighty Ducks movie were: ethics and gender. This movie provides an example of a character who begins the story as a morally bankrupt individual with a “win at all cost” attitude. Through his experience coaching a young hockey team, Bombay learns the true meaning of

Critique of Movie The Insider A dramatization of 1995 events in which the tobacco industry allegedly covered up proof that nicotine is addictive and harmful. When Brown and Williamson executive Jeffrey Wigand (Crowe) tries to expose the industry's cover-up, he is threatened into silence. He eventually gets his story to 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman (AL Pacino), but CBS decides against airing it due to political and economic pressures, and the threat of lawsuit from Brown and Williamson