Life Essays

In ch. 2 of Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern (U of California P, 1993), Anne Friedberg discusses the relationship between the city, modernism, film and architecture. How do her ideas of modernity, particularly her terms ‘machines of vision’ and ‘machines of mobility’, relate to 1 or 2 sequences in …

Yi-Fu Tuan is a Chinese-American geographer whose traits have greatly influenced humanistic geography. Tuan gains his observations from the hustle and bustle of the everyday world and is always on the lookout learning and indeed searching for new meanings towards a persons place within society. He emphasises this by saying …

A Simple Life, based on real story, script by Susan Chant and Roger Lee centers on a warm-hearted story between a signori and a servant, Master Roger (Andy Luau) and Ah Tao (Deanne Yip), who get big break when Ah Tao left Rorer’s family because of having stroke. Although Roger …

Without money and wife, Chris is totally committed to his son Christopher. Will Smith portrays Chris Gardner, a character who has strong wisdom as a single father and desperately wants to do right without complaints and his only hope is drifting away when everything meaningful falls apart at the same …

Upon being found as the secret sleuth to a graduate bevel mathematics problem, MIT professor Gerald Lambed seeks out the janitor, Hunting, in efforts to engage his mind and make him an apprentice. As the plot twists, an earlier issue lands Hunting facing jail time for assaulting an officer during …

A significant movement was the Black Consciousness movement. This movement was all about being proud of your heritage and not thinking that you are inferior to the white man. During this time, police brutality towards blacks was quite common. In the first scene, we can see the police storming the …

Instead of stressing to create huge budgets, write script, find actors, producers, and directors studios have found it is much more profitable to just re-make old movies or make a sequel to a previously successful movie. This saves time, money and stress not having to completely re-write a script while …

The way the first scene is shot also brings up other information about the first two characters, implied to be filmed from a shaky handheld camera; the engage girl speaks directly into the camera almost as if she where talking to the viewers, this almost brings us closer to her …

It is as hard as breaking a crystal because you’ll never know when o will be able to pick up the pieces again. More often than not, they who go feel not the pain of parting: it is they who stay behind that suffer, because they are left with memories …

Last Summer, I went aboard to Thailand with my parents for one week. It is an unforgettable trip. And now, I miss Thailand so much! It was my second time to take an airplane but I still feeling afraid of the beginning when the plane started to take off ! …