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The film combines documentary techniques with emotive scenes to encourage a certain response from the audience. The documentary footage acts to encourage the audience to see the film as one of truth and realism. The film is introduced by the living Molly who speaks in dialect and ends with documentary like footage of herself and Daisy walking over the land. These scenes attempt to frame the narrative as one of truth and place the narrative in context.

Marker’s absence of traditional moving images leaves the audience of La Jetée trapped in the stillness of each image. ¬¬La Jetée’s use of still imagery makes it all the more haunting and provocative. It’s use of still photos, to its complex time- shifting organisation, La Jetée is overwhelmingly preoccupied with time and memory, which underlines the significance of particular moments from the past. Memory has always been a major preoccupation in Europe and beyond. Marker is trying to make a statement about the human condition. How we all have memories, and that we spend too much of our time living in the past, when really we should be living in the

The film speaks about racism, prejudice and the hardships of coming to a new country and culture, the struggle with adjusting to a new culture without loosing your own. I can't relate personally because my family have lived in Sweden for generations so I have never had to face the same problems or difficulties of being new to a country, but I can sympathise with the millions of people who have fled their own countries.

The story begins as tragic tale of human trafficking. The camera is the omniscient voiceless narrator, framing dramatic action: turbulent sea, a dark and stormy night, and the transaction for the sale of Chiyoa and Sayuri, both sisters, by their father to a mysterious figure. According to director, Rob Marshal, the character's speaking Japanese keeps the scene mysterious. From the village, to the crane shot that rises above the horse cart, to the long shots of the train and the closed in framing of train station, to the claustraphobic rickshyaw ride through the streets of the city, are all part of long sequence, a mystery. And the audience is kept ignorant of the meaning of the opening scene until the long shot of the misty mountains when

The theme in this movie I believe is that we cannot change the past; our lives already have a predestined beginning, middle and end. There is nothing we can do to change it we are simply walking the path that is laid before us and no matter what happens nothing will change the end result. “Despite

In this film an American man and a Japanese-American woman fall in love in one of the most crucial times in the U.S. Come see the Paradise would not give out the same message as if it was an Japanese-American was playing the main role instead of an American. The reason is because the film wants the audience to be able to relate. In the film there is a scene were the American man gets torn apart from his family that is Japanese-American.

The movie itself still followed the same musical technique while filming. The film takes place in 1800’s of France and heavily relates to the idea of nationalism within comparative politics. The movie is an epic British romance that explores the lives of multiple people that have experienced tremendous hardships. The main character, Jean Valijean, tries to turn his life around after serving a long prison sentenced for stealing bread then trying to escape prison.

This is an American drama film, set in South Africa in times of apartheid in World War 2. It’s the story of a 6 year old boy named "Peter Philip Kennith Keith", or better known as "Peekay", who struggles against the difficulties of racism, Apartheid and displays how even the power of only one, can change a nation.

It is reviewed with emphasis on Historical criticism because it is based on a true story however it emphasis on the Gender studies but only to the extent of showing that there is more authority given to the men than the women and children. It is also emphasizing the receivers view. Often stated the receiver may feel subconscious because of the unnecessary bodies of the characters portrayed in this film. The visual effects are noticed for example, dramatic falls, filters, and super slow motion. This emphasis is on the structuralism of the film.

It is a film based on events that change the lives of many people. Love and loyalty demonstrate that the difference in races no matter when you want to achieve great things. Being the last of his tribe was able to risk his own life to save people who had nothing to do with its roots, full of natural environments and exquisite landscapes. The development of the film invites you to be knowledgeable about the costumes, customs, the way of life of the time and war at that time. As the story goes lapsing the feeling that you cannot separate yourself from the plot and begin to appreciate each character as authentic and genuine, its history and what each teaches you. It is a film that makes you a great time and you have left

Hiroshima Mon Amour was directed by Alain Resnais and had a script written by Marguerite Duras, who was an author and gave the film a book like feel. This made you feel as if you were reading a story, one of the best ways this is conveyed is through the voiceovers “she” has. The film takes place in a time period of a post-war Hiroshima Japan, and the setting, as well as the time period, plays a major part in this film, by showing the audience views a war-torn country as it rebuilds and rebrands itself. As well as how those affected remember or forget the tragedy that shook their city. The main themes explored in this film are the relation of memory and forgetfulness, love and death, he and she being contrasted, pleasure and pain, east and

La Jetée by Chris Marker is a 1962 science-fiction film that experiments with the concept of time travel and memories. This essay will discuss the use of narrative style in La Jetée by Chris Marker, in relation to the techniques used and their effects, and evaluate its effectiveness in conveying theme and concept, and argue that it was successful to a large extent.

Chris Marker’s 1962 film, La Jetée is a classic apocalyptic time travel story about a man who is transported by the strength of a vivid memory to the past where he can prevent world destruction. La Jetée primarily uses still frames to convey its meaning of destiny and its ties with time. Marker’s use of imagery, editing, and sounds effectively brings insight to this bleak universe he created and a man’s plight into depths of time.

characters and their lives through an embodied racial phenomenology. The forging of this cultural link comes before the address or acknowledgement of the past that has brought the spectator to the moment of witnessing the film’s message. As a film, Sankofa is able to secure its cultural link as

The film was shot in both Ireland and Poland and utilizes a series of still photographs from the filmmaker's personal collection edited together at different speeds to create a mesmerizing tapestry of time and place. The film is entirely non-narrative, instead focusing on individual images—of doors, roads, railways, crowds of people, etc,—placed in progression to create a seamless flow that connects the two places showcased.