Analysis Of The Film 'Race To Nowhere'

Although the movie Crash aired in 2004, the movie does a phenomenal job at depicting social conflicts that are still evident in 2015. Crash, also deals with wide range of controversies and offers multiple narratives. And since narrative is always a two-way street, the movie does a great job of showing two perspectives of everything. More specifically, it challenges our ethical and moral beliefs in a sense that many of the scenes in the movie reside in the grey area. It shows that human dilemmas are far more complicated then originally anticipated. For example, the movie shows victims at times, can be the perpetrator and vice versa. Moreover, the movie really challenges any preconceived notations that we may have about a fringe minority. For instance, officer Tom Hansen was eulogized by many viewers when he stood up for Camron. But, at the end of the movie he killed an African American man. Does that make him a racist, was there a legitimate threat? Or does that scene all together transcend race? Scenes like these can be found all over the movie. I would recommend the movie Crash to other Inver Hills students because it does a great job of depicting social conflicts, including institutionalized racism, and police brutality. Furthermore, it offers multiple perspectives on each dilemma.

“Iron Road” has successfully shown why Chinese workers came to Canada in the 1880s as well as the challenges they confronted. Most of the film’s storyline occurs in China, where it uses the point of view of a Chinese peasant called Little Tiger, to display the daily struggles of the Chinese. The setting is full of war and destruction, thus destroying many farms resulting in famine and poverty. This has resulted in peasants having insufficient funds to support themselves and making them live in unsanitary living spaces. As a result, this gave the workers more reason to move to Canada as there was also better income and resources there. However, once they arrived in Canada, they discover that the conditions there weren’t as good as they thought. Although they had a better income than they did in China, there was a lot of discrimination, dangerous working conditions and horrible living spaces. There was worse pay for the Chinese workers and they had to do the most life-threatening jobs like working with explosives as well as working on the side of a cliff with no harnesses. Throughout the film, “Iron Road” has used the setting, characters and point of view of a Chinese peasant to show that there were horrible conditions and chaos in China, as well as the racism, dangerous working conditions and poor living space the peasants faced in Canada.

The Blade Runner film clip begins with a sound similar to an emergency vehicle’s siren, followed by the sound of background music, with a slight overlapping between the two sounds. Both of these sounds are nondiegetic, because the sounds don’t appear as a result of the action of the movie. The director could have incorporated the sound similar to an emergency vehicle’s siren in order to reinforce that some sort of emergency is occurring, seemingly the explosions on the buildings.

The war film is a classic genre. Today, one has a wide variety of war films from which to choose. But after watching most of them one will find that they are all quite similar. The one thing that all these films have in common, even more so than the rather similar characters, is the way the camera is used to portray life in war and on the front line. This appears to be the most traditional and theatrical approach to portraying this subject, giving the audience what we think they want. Viewers ultimately walk away saying the same thing. “men make war heroic,” and with that in mind these films completely chose to ignore the alternative: that war is not heroic! War is filled with evil and hatred, and it leaves men soulless and disturbed for the remainder of their lives. Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line ( 1998) approaches war from an entirely different angle, literally and figuratively. I will show how visual design speaks to the film’s overall theme that war is not heroic, its unstable, brutal, and an internal battle for the soul of men on and off the battlefield; and, furthermore, I will demonstrate how simple aesthetic choices such as natural lighting, contrast, and color influence the elements of this film that convey this message.

Secretariat was a American Thoroughbred stallion, born on the 30th of march 1970, who had his owners Penny Chenery and Christopher Chenery, his Trainer Lucien Lurin, his carer Eddy Sweat and of course his jockey Ron Turcotte. He won the triple crown which means winning the Kentucky Derby, the Churchill Downs and Belmont Stakes in a row, which was held by his mother ‘Something Royal’ who held that record for twenty-five years. Secretariat suffered a degenerative disease of the inner tissues in his hooves called laminitis, which is a very painful condition and usually cannot be cured. Secretariats father was a hall of fame American race horse ‘Bold Ruler’. Later on, in the years Secretariats time was over he then sadly passed away on the 4th of October 1989.

Booker, 18, was out job searching, trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. He kept trying to find a job to help out his mom since she was getting old and sick. Booker’s father was one of the 900 dead in the First Battle of Bull Run. His older brothers were out already fighting in the war and were sending money to their own wives. But Booker never liked violence. He was a pacifist. Everywhere he kept hearing to just join the army, go to war, that’s what all his friends did. But after weeks of not being able to find work, he was forced into the war due to the draft. Booker never left New York in his life; it was his home. Booker had no choice but to go to war; his mother needed money and he didn’t have the money to get out

Tension, pressure, stress, are all words used to describe Race to Nowhere. This film is dedicated to the United States’ education system and the harmful methods they are using for success. Vicki Abeles, the director, uses many appeals to show society the true danger. Audience connections, expert testimonials, and student testimonials are the main legs used to support this chair the director is trying to create.

The film Minority Report catalyzes a specific message through its usage of film effects and actors. Dystopian films are created through the film’s plot, often enforcing an over-arching method of government corruption and control through its setting, actors, and specific lighting. These key elements utilize the overall tone of the film, and it is the specific use of actors and technicians that ultimately set the film up for success. Minority Report exploits this usage of blocking and setting in order to create a successful dystopian film. In order for the movie’s plot be successful, a director must contemplate the use of its actors and plot devices in order to employ the use of tone which ultimately makes a movie effective in its overall

Have you seen the video online with the kid whose head is stuck in a iron fence? The kid appears to be about 3 or 4 years old. Somehow he stuck his head through he iron posts and got his head stuck, Clearly in too much pain to pull his head back out the way he stuck it in, he finds himself in trouble, his dad attempts to help him get unstuck with no success. Dad attempts to gently pull the head back through, nope. Dad attempts to physically push the bars apart, nope. No matter what dad try he just can’t get the kid unstuck. On the video the dad goes back into the house, apparently to call for help. The kid however, has an idea. He stands up a bit. Adjusts his shoulders sideways, and steps through the fence and gets himself unstuck. He’s free. He just had to change his perspective a bit and move forward instead of trying to pull back.

The movie I evaluated was Menace to Society. The movie is about a young black man name Cain, growing up in the ghetto and is trying to get out. This movie takes in Watts, South Central California, in 1992. His mother was a drug addict and his father was a drug dealer, slash murder. His parents passed away when he was young, his mother died from drugs and his father was murdered. Cain would go then to live with his grandparents. He graduated high school then enrolled into the California streets. He hung with gangsters and drug dealers. He sold drugs, committed crimes, shot people, and he eventually got shot. Cain fell in love with a woman in the hood named Ronni. Ronni is trying to move out of the ghetto so her son could grow up in a better environment. She eventually convinces Cain to move to Atlanta, away from the negative environment in Cali. At the end of the movie their packing to leave, as some gangsters from Cain’s past drove by and shot up the house, killing Cain in the front yard. He never got a chance to move out of the hood before it killed him.

After analyzing the film No by Pablo Larraín, the story of a local advertising executive putting together a life changing campaign “NO” to remove Augusto Pinochet from presidency after many years. It has been tasked to compare and contrast how the political campaign works in regards to presidency elections. The way Chile runs its campaign to dethrone their dictator Augusto Pinochet is very similar to how the US carries out their campaign for presidential elections. The main similarity is Chile and the United States use media to dictate votes, while being very different in the same manner with the lengths of each campaign and what they tend to target.

A person or group who is ridicule for others wrong doing or mistakes. It’s usually a person who is seen an underdog with little power or influenced. In the movie, Crash there was a scene when Farhad the store owner blames, Daniel the locksmith for people being able break in his store. Because he did not follow the instructions of getting his door fix, so the insurance did not cover it. Farhad was using Daniel as a scapegoat because he did not follow directions. Another scene officer Ryan pulled over Cameron and Christine because he was upset with nurse Shaniqua for not helping his father. Office Ryan used Cameron and Christine by pulling them over and molested Christine as a scapegoat for is anger for the black

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?

No Man’s Land is a heartbreaking anti-war movie which is played in the background of the Bosnian war. The movie is a fable; it was also the first writing by its writer Tanovic. It was co-produced by many companies belonging to different countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, UK and others. Two injured soldiers, a Bosnian and other the Bosnian Serb, are entrapped with their lines in the attempt for survival. They face each other in the trench where they allow time to pass for darkness to prevail. They argue with each other as well and even identify some common ground. Complicating the situation is another injured Bosnian soldier, Savagovic, who regains his consciousness. Bosnian Serbs have planted a land mine under him so that in case of any

The hardest part of childhood is going to school, it can be stressful and overwhelming for some kids. In the documentary A Race to Nowhere directed by Vicki Abeles, she uses rhetorical devices to show the educational system. Abeles makes her point that school is mentally and emotionally draining through exert testimonials student testimonials, and connection to students.