Film Review : The Australian Academy Of Cinema And Television Arts

The use of technology has catalyzed society into an era that is increasingly interconnected yet impersonal at the same time. Despite technology’s endless list of assets, many fail to acknowledge its shortcomings when mentioning what is lost as a result of using it. Although in “Great to Watch” by Maggie Nelson, she is not afraid to share her skepticism of technology, as well as the role it plays in desensitizing individuals on a day-to-day basis. The internet is an invaluable resource to many because it is a public domain for sharing ideas, opinions, and knowledge that any and everyone can have access to. In a sense, it does not restrict what someone may see or do, and this can either be a good thing or a bad thing. The booming use of new media

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

The Babadook is an Australian made film created, and directed by Jennifer Kent. The film was released in two thousand fourteen, and rated a seven out of ten by movie critics. The Babadook follows single parent, Amelia, who loses her husband in a car accident at the beginning of the movie on the way to give birth to their son Samuel. Amelia and Samuel are both struggling to cope with his death. Samuel has begun to misbehave in school, and has discovered an imaginary monster friend whom is quite often troublesome. One night Amelia reads Samuel a nighttime story named Mister Babadook. Every since they read the book, it seems as if the monster has come alive, and mysterious things have been happening to the two of them. The Babadook has started to inhibit Amelia and Samuels lives. Depression manipulates people’s lives, and in this film, The Babadook symbolizes a living form of Amelia’s grief due to her husband’s death.

The scene begins with the protagonist, Amelia, standing at the entrance to the basement with Sam. She instructs her son to go outside and play, while she enters the basement. The audience sees Amelia slowly walk down the stairs with a bowl full of worms in her hands. It leaves the viewer a bit confused the first time they watch the film due to the unusual nature of the act. She sets the bowl down on the ground and the camera takes on the viewpoint of the Babadook as he comes roaring out of his hiding spot. The protagonist soothes the monster before returning upstairs to her son and her normal life. The scene provides an excellent representation of implicit meaning and point-of-view editing.

The movie opens in the woods, where the village’s young girls are dancing and screaming in various states of undress. A slave from Barbados named Tituba is doing “magic” for the girls with local herbs, chanting like a voodoo witch doctor. Then, in comes Abigail Williams, an arguably mentally-unstable girl, and slices a chicken's throat, covering herself in

Then thing begin to get creepy when in one of there every day routines of reading a bed night story Samuel is given permission by his mother to choose a book to be read that night. Samuel ends up choosing a book called “The Babadook.” As she reads it she begins to see that the book that her son had chosen is no ordinary one, so she decides to throw it out. After a while the book re appears at her doorstep with new and even creepier images than before. So she tries to burn it but by doing this she only begins to become skeptical.

Amelia struggles as a single mother after her husband died in an accident while driving her to give birth. Her six year old son, Samuel has become something of a problem child who is hyperactive and has an obsession with monsters (which leads him to craft makeshift anti-monster weapons). Subsequently, his behavioral problems—specifically getting caught bringing a dart gun to school—causes Amelia to pull him out of first grade. That night Sam picks a bedtime story to read entitled Mister Babadook. The book is about a darkly featured character called Mister Babadook, who wears a silly coat and hat.

Ominous music and the relentless buzzing sound trace the development of Amelia’s psychosis. Before Mister Babadook appears and even before Sam discovers the pop-up book, Amelia’s strained façade of calmness is penetrated by her sister’s birthday talk. For Amelia, the mere mention of Sam’s birthday – the actual date or the celebration day – brings up memories of her husband’s passing. This is the trigger that sets her off.

The movie starts out in 1860 before the Civil war. It jumps into the beginnings of Slavery coming to America before getting into the Civil War battle. The story is told on behalf of two families who seem to be in an aristocracy. Their servants have a major role in this movie, which demonstrates major racial stereotypes. It seems that the slaves and their abolitionist supporters are the generators of a demolished nation.

Australia day is for Australians to celebrate the arrival of the first fleet of British ships at Sydney cove in 1788. But when everyone is celebrating we tend to forget about the aborigines to them Australia day is invasion day where strange people with strange clothing start to take over there land. This is why the ‘The First Australians’ is such a good movie showing true stories of the aboriginals and there transformation period of history. Where ‘My Place’ show you the story of Sally Morgan, her experiences and struggles throw life growing up in the fifties and sixties being an Aboriginal Australian.

In the film, The Orphanage, former orphan Laura, her husband, and their son Simon move into Laura’s childhood home, a haunted orphanage. Laura and her family move into the orphanage in hopes of restoring and converting it into a home for special needs children. While living there, Simon befriends an imaginary boy named Tomas and five other ghost children within the house. But during a reception party held at the house, Laura and Simon have an argument which sends Simon running off somewhere. After searching for Simon, Laura concludes that he is gone and by the end of the night he is declared missing.

stranger into her home, rumors begin to circulate that Miss Amelia has only done so to take what

The movie, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), is based on a character Andy Dufresne. Andy is a young and successful banker who is sent to Shawshank Prison for murdering his wife and her secret lover. His life is changed drastically upon being convicted and being sent to prison. He is sent to prison to serve a life term. Over the 20-years in prison, Andy retains optimism and eventually earns the respect of his fellow inmates. He becomes friends with Red, and they both comfort and empathize with each other while in prison. The story has a strong message of hope, spirit, determination, courage, and desire.

After being turned away by her mother and father, the young girl drops out of college and is taken in by a family that is more than willing to assist her times of heartache and struggle. This novel follows the young girl throughout her life altering decisions, and displays the hardships that follow rape, assault, abandonment, and pregnancy as a young adult. Both the characters and story of this novel are very powerful, and I fully believe that Ava’s Choice would be an amazing motion picture to produce.

American society is not accurately reflected in films. In 1878 American society was introduced to the world of film. Films were a remarkable new innovation that showed Americas advances in technology. Not only was film new and exciting but, it also changed how people experienced emotions. Films have become a huge source of entertainment today but, films do not always accurately reflect American society. Furthermore, teens are not as rebellious as portrayed in films. In addition, love is not always obtained the way films portray it to be. Moreover, crime in society is not socially acceptable and glorified as shown in films. On the other hand, some people may argue that filmmakers do not have the responsibility of creating ethical and truthful reflections of society in films. Although some people may argue that filmmakers do not need to accurately reflect American society, films have created false portrayals of teens, romance, and crime in society.