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finds as far too mundane and the challenges of defining what is real and what is an illusion. For example, the character of Tom Ba...

and stability and this is comfortable for each of them. But, as time will show, it does not provide excitement in the relationship...

possible, including the attainment of the American Dream. His childhood is in sharp contrast to that of his lifelong friend, Jenn...

Brando, the apples and pears of Cezanne...and Tracys face" (Chances 66). Throughout the film, Ike professes his belief that "It is...

climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

This is clearly seen in "Patrick McCabes novel The Butcher Boy, published in 1992" for it "is a complex working through of the eff...

displaying the familiar bent wrists, arched heads and thrusting pelvises that are characteristic of Fosses style (Kilpatrick, 2003...

many of the cases a wife has brought charges against her husband for failing to financially provide for their family, perhaps enga...

primary theme within the whole novel, as well as the film, is that which asks us to look at ourselves, and our society, and see ho...

the children in orphanages" (Rieneck). It is not, however, the Irish immigrant or Irish Catholic who are trying to change the regi...

the additional emotional impetus of having united a movement. This movement has not gone unnoticed by filmmakers either. Lee Hir...

character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...

one of irony as the opening scene in this movie continues. Cabiria and her lover are frolicking in a field. It is portrayed as som...

are not our leaders, but terrorists, such as the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. Within this mass of confusing images and media mes...

however, other provides insight into the minds of the typical German citizen and the manner in which they interacted with others o...

choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...

attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...

The film has Malcolm being lured to the island by millionaire John Hammond, the mastermind behind the development of the dinosaurs...

constantly referenced through the mourning process. In contrast, melancholia often occurs after such a difficult and unsuccessful...

in this film provides a means of relating the voyage that takes place without actually showing scene after scene of constant motio...

of personal self-determination and responsible freedom that the realities of modern life and institutions seem to deny" (11). In t...

In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...

everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...

aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...

returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up th...

with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...