Smashed Movie Analysis

If you have not seen Dazed and Confused than you are really missing out. It is a great movie that relates from everything to High School to Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll. With an outstanding cast (from the past) it is a movie that everyone can relate to. Dazed and Confused reflects the lifestyle of kids that are entering high school for the first time, to seniors owning the school and being the "man" on compass. It portrays that freshman must watch their backs at all times and if you think you're as cool as the seniors, then you better watch out. There is a ritual that the seniors do to the freshman that have given so many people in reality a though of. With School being out for summer, in Dazed and Confused, it offers a great soundtrack from

Fight Club: every white man’s favorite movie and my worst nightmare turned reality. Much of the novel version of Fight Club struggles with this issues of toxic masculinity, feminization, and emotional constipation. No character addresses these topics better than Robert Paulson, better known as Big Bob; it is his character that serves as a catalyst for both The Narrator, and Project Mayhem.

"Smashed" is A well-intentioned, heavily flawed drama concerns the story of an alcoholic school teacher (Mary Winstead) who realizes, after a couple of incidents related to her abuse of alcohol and drugs, that her life is going downhill, therefore, she attempts to get back to the life of sobriety. The only problem is her husband who continues to drink and plays as an enabler instead of actually helping her and himself toward backing to sobriety. The movie seems very real in its portrayals, and highlights many issues and challenges that both characters face as they are trying to stay in a marriage that is founded on drinking. What the movie does well is capture the spirit of life for a recovering alcoholic. As we see in the movie, alcohol is not just the great social lubricant, it can also be the glue holding troubled relationships together. The film gives some elements of this addiction and recovery tale the short shrift in an effort to keep to its brisk pace. Smashed does a great job than any film I’ve seen of addressing the American culture’s schizophrenic relationship with drinking. It covers the journey of life of the couple and the increasing certainty of their drinking problem. Smashed offers an understandable explanation for the couple’s dangerous drinking and gives fair play to booze: Kate and Charlie imbibe because they have a lot of fun while doing it. So they do it all the time.

Crawford hearing he fires the defense attorney that was assigned to him and decides to represent himself. The Pro se Act is written in the constitution that says if he pays his taxes and holds a citizenship he has the right to defend himself. “In the case People v. Joseph, the California supreme court allows the defendant's sixth amendment right to conduct her own defense. The court has strict ruling but because of the case Farettta v. California, the court allows the pro se because it's on independent constitutional foundations. The sixth amendment states everyone gets a fair trial.” He pleads not guilty knowing that he gave a verbal confession to detective Rob Nunnally. Mr. Crawford seemed very confident that he could handle his own case. The judge told him you cannot enter a plea for not understanding procedures of the court and the law. The district attorney Beacham said he could not be available because he was leaving, but Mr. Crawford insisted on Beachum staying on the case because he liked him. To make it possible Mr. Crawford then asked the judge if his trial can be scheduled for next available date to meet Beacham's deadline. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing so the trial would be heard as fast as possible. Both parties agreed and the case was moved to the first possible

Die Hard, a film directed by John McTiernan, successfully utilized several aesthetics, which offered viewers various meanings throughout the duration of the film. Although the diverse meanings grasped by viewers may differ, it was clear to me that McTiernan effectively applied elements of cinematography and mise-en-scene that resulted in viewers being allowed to interpret a range of different meanings or functions of the elements.

Good morning year 10 and Mrs Holland. Today I am here to discuss and analyse how human experience is represented in media texts and documentaries, including the documentary Bowling For Columbine and the Feature article Why Gun Control Loses, and Why Las Vegas Might Change That. Bowling for Columbine is a film based on the shooting that took place at Columbine high school in 1999, the film however was released three years after the massacre in 2002. Throughout the documentary Michael moore, the producer and director of the film, uses multiple visual techniques, language techniques and persuasive techniques to help convince viewers into feeling a sense of guilt and initiative against the gun laws in America. The feature article aims to achieve the same goal through different techniques.

The 1946 film The Killers is a renowned film noir based off of Ernest Hemingway’s short story of the same title, focusing on the detailed backstory and investigation for the motive of the murder of Pete Lund/Ole Anderson, commonly known and referred to as “The Swede.” A film noir is a term made originally to describe American mystery and thriller movies produced in the time period from 1944-1954, primarily marked by moods of menace, pessimism, and fatalism. Although the film does not focus on the war itself at all, it still puts forth interesting new ways in how gender relations can be stereotypical as well as divergent proceeding the Second World War.

When it comes to the film industry, entertainment is the tool used to acquire what is desired, money. The main goal for filmmakers when they create a film is to attain money in addition to the money spent to make the movie. Therefore, in some films that they like to base off of true accounts, it is somewhat necessary to dramatize or embellish the story to really tug at the heartstrings of the films audience. They achieve this goal by the use of dramatic music, ambient lighting, and a small amount of tweaked diction. The Fighter is an excellent example of this dramatization in action because throughout the film the characters are faced with a multitude of decisions that must be made. The choices they make require the characters to choose

Bowling For Columbine is a documentary that was produced by Michael Moore which focusses primarily on the relationship between the crime rates throughout various regions. After learning that Canada and the United States had a very similar ratio when it came to households and guns, Michael was intrigued that Canada had a substantially lower rate of gun related crimes. This documentary became a tool for Michael to delve into the questions that were raised; although he was unable to extract a specific answer as to why Canada had a lower rate of gun related crime, he was still able to create some life altering changes.

In the movie Crash, the director Paul Haggis interweaves multiple connected stories about race, class, family, and gender in Los Angeles, California after the 9/11 event. All the characters are shown to have life changing experiences with their conflicts of stereotypes, prejudice, and racism within a span of 36 hours. This movie has won three Oscars and was deemed “expertly written” and “Best Picture Oscar-winner … sprawling and ambitious, episodic and contrived” by Cynthia Fuchs, a professional movie critic. So, how did this movie become so well-known and popular in the U.S., even though there are already so many movies with similar themes?

Recounts the narrative of the exceptional thirty four year association which starts in Depression Era Nashville in 1930, when Blalock procures Thomas as a partner in his Vanderbilt University lab, anticipating that him just should perform janitorial work. In any case, Thomas' exceptional manual finesse and logical intuition smash Blalock's desires and Thomas quickly winds up noticeably crucial as an exploration accomplice to Blalock in his initially brave raids into heart surgery. The film follows the momentous work the two men attempt when they move in 1941 from Vanderbilt to Johns Hopkins, an organization where the main dark representatives are janitors and where Thomas must enter by the secondary passage. Together, they strikingly assault

Fight Club is a unique film that has many different interpretations consisting of consumerist culture, social norms, and gender roles. However, this film goes deeper and expresses a Marxist ideology throughout; challenging the ruling upper-class and a materialist society. The unnamed narrator, played by Ed Norton, represents the materialist society; whereas Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, represents the person challenging the controlling upper-class. Karl Marx believed that the capitalist system took advantage of workers, arguing that the interests of the upper-class class conflicted with that of the common worker. Marx and Durden share the same views about the upper-class oppressing the materialist, common worker. By interpreting Fight Club through a Marist lens, the viewer is able to realize the negative effects a capitalist society has on the common worker by seeing the unnamed narrator’s unfulfilled and material driven life in contrast to the fulfilling life of Durden who challenges the upper-class. The unnamed narrator initially fuels the upper-class dominated society through his materialistic and consumeristic tendencies; however, through the formation of his alter ego—Durden—the unnamed narrator realizes the detriment he is causing to himself and society. He then follows the guide of Durden’s and Marx’s views and rectifies his lifestyle by no longer being reliant on materials. Also by forming fight club, which provides an outlet, for himself and the common worker,

The film called “Whiplash” consists of a plot starting with the main character Andrew Neiman, going the fictional Shaffer Conservatory of Music with is a university focused on majors involving music. Neiman has been an aspiring musician since he was a kid, always striving to become better no matter the costs. He starts his musical education at the conservatory in what seems to be a regular jazz band until Terence Fletcher, the jazz instructor of the highly praised and advanced jazz band selects him Andrew to proceed into his class. Andrew being an admirer of this advanced jazz group, feels enlivened to have this opportunity to enhance his jazz performance skills and to pursue his career as a jazz musician. As Neiman arrives to his class, the ensemble plays and he sees that Fletcher takes music seriously and verbally abuses his students with they aren’t up to code with Fletcher. But before Neiman plays at his first session with Fletcher’s jazz ensemble, Andrew is met by Fletcher himself to not worry about what he saw, and tells him that “You know, Charlie Parker became “Bird” because Jones threw a cymbal at his head.” This sole quote has the basis of the plot and motivation of the antagonist who is Fletcher, seen in the eyes of Neiman. As Neiman plays the piece “Whiplash,” Neiman is baffled on how Fletcher treats him on what seems to him minor inconsistencies like the tempo on being accurate, so Fletcher throws a chair at Neiman as he’s playing, which is reminiscent of what

"Split" is a rated PG-13 horror movie released on January 20, 2017 that was not only written, but also directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan is renowned in the entertainment business for his movies filled with a great deal of twists and turns. An example of some of the movies that he has written and directed with such a style are "The Sixth Sense" as well as "The Village". Split is no different and bares M. Night Shyamalan's signature style of suspenseful movies accompanied by many twists and turns.

Paul Haggis directed an Oscar winning film in 2004 called “Crash”, this movie basically talks about racism and the impact it has on the lives of people in Los Angeles. This movie got a good response from the viewers, as it concentrated on some real harsh realities of racism and asked some hard questions which are generally avoided in movies. This movie clearly promotes the a very delicate issue, and hence requires some detailed assessment. I personally feel the movie was good and it portrayed some very common events of racism, I think “Crash” shows realities, but in a not-so-realistic way.