Film Analysis Essays

The movie “Something Wicked This Way Comes” is an adaptation of Bradbury’s novel which illustrates a fundamental aspect of human behavior which might otherwise be explained only in a work of great complexity. The movie vividly portrays a battle between good and evil through the eyes of children and their …

Harishchandrachi Factory is the directorial debut of Paresh Mokashi who won the Best Director award at Pune International Film Festival. The film is the story about the beginning of the Indian Film Industry, set in 1913. Dadasaheb Phalke had abandoned a well established printing business after a quarrel with his …

Ray Carney believes that Woody Allen uses humor to avoid having to express real meaning. Carney argues that Woody Allen doesn’t engage his characters in a process of discovery, either social or verbal, that dramaticize real life and significant art. He believes that Allen’s characters are really abstract pseudo-characters and …

The movie focuses on the tyranny and the nemesis of a sexually dysfunctional man Jin-shan who inflicts physical violence against his good-looking wife Ju Dou. Ju Dou is the main victim of Jin-shan. Out of despair and frustration, Ju Dou seduces Jin-Shan’s nephew Tian-quing from whom she has an offspring …

There is an old African or Asian expression about how only mad dogs and Englishmen stay out in the hot midday sun. In the outstanding 1952 western movie “High Noon”, there were no Englishmen present. But it could be said that the desperados trying to gun down the local peace …

Set in the 1950s, the movie is about PK, an English boy, and his strong desire to affect change, even in small actions, in the world. He was the only English boy in the African school where he studied. PK grew up a good man although he became an orphan …

The Chosen is the movie adaptation of Chaim Potok’s novel which depicts the friendship developed between two teenage boys of Brooklyn during the 1940s. The story starts with a baseball game in Brooklyn where Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders were on opposite teams. During the match, Danny hits the ball …

The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, jumping back and forth between McCandless’s time spent in Alaskan wilderness and his two-year travels leading up to his journey to Alaska. The plot summary here is told in a more chronological order. In May 1992, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) arrives in …

In the film “The Secret Life of Bees” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood an important idea was motherhood. It was the strongest idea in the film and can be described as the linkage of the story. It showed you the effects of guilt and the importance of love and home. Lily …

The film The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan was released August 6th, 1999.  The director of photography is Tak Fujimoto, and the production designer is Larry Fulton.  In this film, the director chose to tell the main story by using a series of both editing and mise en …