Essays on Film Analysis

Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant and released in March 1998, has earned over 10 awards since film was released. One being Academy Award for ‘Best Original Screenplay’ which was won shortly after being released. This film tells the story of a young man, Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) who struggles to...

How does James McTeigue reveal the characters of V and Evey within his film, V for Vendetta? V for Vendetta was a movie set in London in 2027 and was coordinated by James McTeague in 2006. V for Vendetta depends on the novel, which has a similar name to the film. V is the centre...

Childhood obesity is a serious public health concern. An estimated 28% of children and adolescents in Australia are overweight or obese. In the film, Supersize Me which is a 2004 part documentary film, part health experiment directed by Morgan Spurlock. In the film, he records the effects of a 30 day experiment in which he...

Film Analysis: The Queen This essay focuses on the depiction of public relation techniques in the film ‘The Queen’ and how the public relation figure Tony Blair have followed the moral and ethical guidelines of public relation practice. The film Queen was produced in the year 2006 based on a true story faced by queen...

Dystopian theme is a controlled system, which is an illusion of a perfect society. This is shown through the film The Maze Runner by Wes Ball and text The lord flies by William Golding. The Maze Runner is about a boy who woke up in a metal cage in futuristic time zone with no memory...

In Raise the Red Lantern and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest, Yimou Zhang and Ken Kesey, respectively, establish an oppressive environment in order to explore the controlling means used to maintain superiority. Zhang constructs a 1920’s Chinese household, the Chen family, and through it explores the oppressive nature of a system where a single...

Family is love – unconditional love – in spite of shortcomings “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox I sometimes think to myself if anyone could explain these thought in words. No not at all, it is not easy to hold the weight of words describing family love. Was it...

1. Citizen Kane resembles a paradox of multidimensional meanings and fragmented interpretations of reality. According to (Cite: Rosebud, Dead or Alive pp 187), the glass globe is the film’s central symbol. The film begins to capture the perspective shot through the shattered glass globe that has fallen out of Charles Foster Kane’s hand when he...

The film Shawshank Redemption (directed by Frank Darabont) having made its debut in 1994, received favourably well written reviews. Yet despite that failed to make a good turn around in the box office, barely recuperating for the budget of the film and other costs such as advertisements. However, the film soon became a cult-classic ‘man...

Clueless is a coming of age film that follows the life of Cher Horowitz a preppy rich highschooler in Beverly Hills, California. The films plot lies around Cher’s character development as she sets out to better other people with her ‘powers’ of popularity. At surface level, Cher appears to be a regular ditzy spoilt girl...