Movies Essays

The Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) aims at providing self-employment to the rural poor through acquisition of productive assets or appropriate skills that would generate additional income on a sustained basis to enable them to cross the poverty line. Assistance is provided in the form of subsidy and bank credit. …

August Wilson’s famous play “Fences” is a drama set in the 1950’s. Being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of the year, this play has had many positive responses to blacks and whites in this society. It is about protagonist Troy Maxson as well as his …

            In the movie “Rain Man,” Raymond played by  Dustin Hoffman suffered from autism; a neurological disorder that is greatly misunderstood. (1988)             Charlie, Raymond’s brother doesn’t understand that although his brother doesn’t understand the value of money, he is capable of memorizing the names and phone numbers of thousands …

Group dynamics deals with function, structure and processes of a group (Forsyth, 2006).  In the classic film 12 Angry Men, group dynamics is evinced through a jury deliberation.  Twelve men comprised the jury and are instructed to reach a verdict in a case involving an 18 year old man accused …

The best years of our lives and the Reader are two films where the titles perfectly sum up the most basic themes of the two movies. When we consider the themes in the best years of our lives the film focuses on the return of three servicemen trying to piece …

In the barrow of Skalunda in Sweden, just a hundred years after the great king and hero known as Beowulf have died, a loud howl was heard from beneath the earth. In this place of mourning, as this is where the great hero has been buried, an event of great …

Obscenity and pornography are terms used to designate written, recorded, or pictorial material – including motion pictures – that many people consider indecent and offensive. The term obscenity can also refer to language or to behavior that is believed to corrupt public morals. Some people also consider violence and war …

         Rigidness, determination and sentimentality of one person led to the creation of the Bridge on the River Kwai. At the height of WWII, the British army lost in their war against the Japanese in Thailand. As prisoners of war and a prisoner of the Japanese, hospitality is far from …

INTRODUCTION It seems quite extraordinary to imagine a movie without sound, but this is how early movies started their voyage capturing society and its despair irony and beauty like other forms of arts. There has been two periods of silent movies, the early period between 1900 to 1919 and later …

            A word, like a smell or taste, has the capability of triggering emotions from subtle happiness to grim depression. The horrors produced by Nazi Germany in their mad attempt to exterminate Jews from Europe also produced a specific vocabulary of horror that lingers to this day. Every major conflict …