Essays on Entertainment

“The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.” These are the opening lines of a book unimaginably iconic, it prompted the making of 4 movies, Jaws written by Peter Benchley. This book is one of Benchley’s many books about the deep blue and what lies there...

Do you think Asians are bad drivers? Well, Asians have been classified into a stereotype of bad driving, this stereotype is shown through a variety of cultural artefacts like; videos, images, and research papers. For decades now Asians have been put into this stereotype, no one knows where it exactly came from but it’s still...

The Titanic has been known as the “unsinkable” ship or the ship of dreams. This ship was thought to be the unsinkable ship by all the passengers on this ship on its grand departure to America on April 10th 1912. During this journey, a 3rd class artist named Jack Dawson ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) and...

As I watched Alex Gibney’s American documentary film entitled as “Enron: The smartest guy in the room”, it was definitely a shocking story that caused me a lot of emotions since it is mainly focused on one of the biggest corporate scandal in American history. It is based on the best-selling 2003 book of the...

So many people believed that the film Freedom Writers was a waste of time and wasn’t as interesting as it may have seemed. The movie gives you an overview on gang affiliation and violence, being neglected, poverty and adversity, diversity, faith, love and change. There’s so much to learn from this film that it even...

There are moments in everyone’s life where they crave a connection, although they do not get an opportunity because of absences of consistency. The thing is, we need these connections to be fulfilled. Our brain does not function properly without a root system. We need favourable bonds with friends, family and a location. Human connection...

Spirited Away is an animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, one of the most well-known Japanese film producers to date. Hayao Miyazaki hand draws all of his story boards and then when he satisfied with his work it is digitized, earning him the nickname of “Japanese Walt Disney”. The works of Miyazaki tell obscure tales...

The 1937 novel ​Of Mice and Men​ by John Steinbeck tells the tale of two workers who have a dream. The two workers by the name of George Milton and Lennie Smalls. These two men have two different personalities that do not take long to understand. They have a lifelong friendship together and are on...

For many individuals living in first world countries the threat of war, hunger, and shelter rarely come to mind. It is often seen that it is in human nature to focus on one’s own problems before others, yet there are certain individuals that strive to bring forth the importance of looking beyond one’s self and...

Ethnicity and religion have been the cause of many conflicts around the world. This persecution due to fundamental differences has been illustrated throughout history, seen in the works of Elie Wiesel’s Night to Paul Rusesabagina’s The Ordinary Man and the movie based on the same experience, Hotel Rwanda. Destruction and disparity has stemmed from uncensored...