Emu Runner is a film which I have enjoyed, and I am recommending this piece of work for you to watch, Welcome to the lucky country. The director of this film is Imogen Thomas who has done some films in the past such as Mixed Bag. Emu Runner is about aboriginal culture, beliefs, and grieving about the death of others. The film starts with Gemma and her family fishing until her mum falls on the floor and dies. When all of Gemma’s relatives arrived, they were met with the heartbreaking truth that Gemma’s mum had died. They all couldn’t believe it and were all in shock. Gemma run’s off, but then. she spots something, an emu. This sets Gemma off, and she finds out that she finds comfort in spending time with it and feeding it her lunchbox. She continues …show more content…
After this event, there are many more suspenseful, heartbreaking, and touching scenes, so go watch it. Death, grieving, family, discrimination, and aboriginal beliefs are all key themes that this film tries to display. These themes are displayed by Gemma, who finds comfort talking and feeding the emus because of the connection with her mother. Some key themes are family and grief. Gemma’s family is struggling to move on from her mum’s death, so Gemma’s relatives have come together to support and care for one another. This creates a small sense of belonging for Gemma, knowing her family will support her in whatever she does. When everyone was together, Gemma ran away and ran into an emu. Just seeing the emu makes Gemma calmer and gives her comfort, this is because the emu represents her mum as her totem animal is an emu. This is Gemma’s response to her mum’s passing and a way for her to grieve. These themes put together the film and overall contribute to the way aboriginals have it and their beliefs. Conflicts and challenges that occurred in the film were mostly discrimination towards Gemma and her family because of their
Keir Burrows’ award winning short film “Donkey” deals with the actions of people and how some people are willing to bring others down in order to get to the top. The story shows us that in contemporary society you got to have sharp elbows to be popular and successful.
This paper entitled, Imitation of Life is based on the movie Imitation of Life. This movie is set in the 1940s. In the movie, an African American woman by the name of Annie becomes the care taker of a Caucasian woman's (Lora) daughter, Susie. In the movie, the caretaker Annie has a daughter named Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane is the product of a rape, performed by a Caucasian man, which results in her being fair skinned and able to pass as a Caucasian woman, which she does for a long time. Due to the fact this movie focuses on the themes of identity and class, I will use the following psychological views and tests to discuss how psychology can be demonstrated every day. The Kenneth
I watched the movie Animal House; it gave me an interesting perspective on academic life in the 1960’s. The movie follows two friends Lawrence "Larry" Kroger and Kent Dorfman, as they try to gain acceptance from a fraternity at Faber College in 1962. The movie starts off with Larry and Kent going to a social event at one of the better fraternities on campus the Omegas. The Omegas are the snooty, uptight, rich fraternity. Larry and Kent are not like them and find themselves uncomfortable but try their best to fit in. They are made fun of and they leave disappointed without a bid. They head over the Delta Tau Chi House where Kent’s brother used to be a member making Kent a legacy. There they meet John "Bluto" Blutarsky, who seems to be a little crazy. Delta Tau Chi offers the boys a bid because they need the due money. We next are introduced to the main protagonist Dean Vernon Wormer. The dean dislikes the Delta’s and there party attitude. The Delta house is already on probation so the dean puts them on double secret probation. He enlists the president of t...
Gone with the Wind is a classic fictional love story that depicts life in the old south before, during and after the Civil war. The book was originally written in 1936 by Margret Mitchell, the movie adaptation was released in 1939, directed by Victor Fleming, and staring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh. Ms. Mitchell grew up listening to Civil war stories from confederate veterans. It was reported that they told her everything; everything that is, except that they had lost the war, she found that out when she was 10 years old. Though the book was written 71 years after the Civil War ended, Ms. Mitchell did her research and appears to have drawn inspiration from those childhood stories that she was told. This is apparent in the detailed description of the clothing, houses, and everyday discussions and interactions of the characters throughout the book. Though not all historically correct most of what is in the book is accurate. During the time the movie was released, “damn” was considered to be vulgar and controversial and they used the term “darkies” to describe the slaves.
From personal experience, mindfulness meditation gives me a feeling of obtaining a healthy mind and body from the attention and peace I obtained. Such feelings resulting from proper practice of mindfulness meditation is not limited to my own testimony though. According to the Satipatthana Sutra, those who practice such in-and-out breathing become “ardent, aware, and mindful” (“Satipatthana Sutra,” Accessed on 2010). However, it is unclear whether such reported experience is genuine or has effect, or if such mindfulness meditation is similar to a placebo effect.
A man accidentally cuts two fingers and he had to choose between one of the two fingers because the hospital told him he could only afford to buy for one finger,similar example are shown throughout the film to affect the audience’s emotions with tragic true stories. Old people are shown in the film being kicked out of hospitals because the hospitals know they can pay them, this shows the sick old people being helpless. A little girl dies in a story shown to the audience by Moore to show how bad the system is, the little girl gets sick and her health insurance company tells her mother that she couldn’t go to the closest hospital because it wasn’t covered by Kaiser and instead was forced by Kaiser insurance to go across town to an approved Kaiser hospital, this is a big emotional low in the film for the audience’s emotional, it makes the audience have empathy for the dead child.
He says “A theme that I obtained from that segment of the story was sacrifice, because they had to sacrifice in order to save the girl and the grandmother.” The grandmother sacrificed the one thing she thought she loved most to save herself and her granddaughter, the dog. This to me was the affect that love has one a person. The granny loves either herself or her granddaughter so much that she was willing to sacrifice the dog in order to save them from the bikers, a darkest time. Nobody can imagine what it felt like for the granny to make such a sacrifice, to kill the one thing you felt like you had a connection with to save someone who seemed as though they wanted nothing to do with you. It seems crazy at first that the granny would even do that for a rebel like her granddaughter, someone who goes off with older boys, a person who talks back, someone who threatens her, and someone who makes the readers feel as though when she lashed out at her granny earlier the granddaughter really felt those things. Then when you think about it, the granddaughter was lashing out because she felt as though her father did not want her, she left with those older boys because she was upset, and she actually really does not hate her
The Exorcist is a wonderfully crafted horror film that has withstood the test of time, as some even now cannot listen to "Tubular Bells" (my fiancé's father) without having flashbacks. Even though it was made almost half a century ago, people will still cower and groan with the movie; this is how it is still a household name to this day. I enjoy this movie tremendously and believe it to be a monumental achievement of the horror genre. My opinions of this movie are vast as this is another one of my favorite movies.
The end of World War I, according to some European historians, occurred on May 8, 1945 or V-E Day. A day marking the change of the world’s enemy from Nazi Germany to Communist Russia. Fears of Communism, the totalitarian government of Soviet Russia, were invited through the use of propaganda in the media by the United States government. Illustrating this type of propaganda is the motion picture, The Red Menace released in 1949 by Republic Motion Pictures provides acumens of the fears and concerns on the minds of Americans during a period in America’s history known today as the Cold War.
Men in Black (1997) is the first installment of a what is currently three total films, with a possible fourth in the making. Since it is a part of a franchise there is a lot of groundwork laid in this first film. We’re introduced to the main Leif Motive, or theme, for the Men in Black agency. What’s interesting is how we are kind of thrown into this film, with minimal background to what is going on. Overall this film has a unique style, a good integration of the soundtrack elements, and places the viewer in this different world where aliens exist.
Trainspotting presents an ostensible image of fractured society. The 1996 film opens, famously, with a series of postulated choicesvariables, essentially, in the delineation of identity and opposition. Significant here is the tone in which these options are deliveredit might be considered the rhetorical voice of society, a playful exposition of the pressure placed on individuals to make the "correct" choices, to conform to expectation.
Based on a true story, the movie ‘Lone Survivor’ features four Navy SEALs that set out on a mission to Afghanistan with orders to capture and kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. The Navy SEALS are detected by villagers and the mission was compromised. Ultimately, the mission had been discovered and the men found themselves surrounded by dozens of Taliban soldiers. One of the Navy SEAL soldiers managed to dispatch to base and retrieve assistance but the Taliban shoot down the helicopter. During battle, three of the Navy SEAL soldiers were killed leaving one still alive.
Full Metal Jacket is written and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film was released in 1987 and it is starring Matthew Modine (Joker), Vincent D’Onofrio (Pyle), Adam Baldwin (Animal), and R. Lee Ermey ( Guy.Segr. Hartman).
In the film, ‘The Killing Fields” all of the real events that took place, of which the film is based off, all make for an accurate representation. It makes for a haunting and woefully effecting film, which has a lot to say. As proven by the terrifying imagery and the bigger than life characters. I do believe that for the most part ‘The Killing Fields’ is a fairly accurate representation of the actual events. In both the film and in real life, it’s referenced that Richard Nixon did in fact order an incursion into Cambodia, which resulted with the unfortunate spark to the flame, in igniting the beginning war. The film also goes as far to reference the American withdrawal and Neak Luong, which also happened to be bombed by the Americans too. In the film it also accurately depicts the environments surrounding the protagonists of the picture, to match the real thing. There were awful water fills, many bodies bombed areas and destroying the homes, from impact. This unhumanly endeavour of the bombing of Cambodia, was referenced in the actual film. This does prove a great deal of accuracy.
Alex Garland’s movie, Ex Machina, seems to be another fantasy based film where humans create machines that are able to behaves as humans, but this film looks beyond behavior and into deeper concepts such as control of the mind and not just the body. A scene that displays this idea is when Caleb slashes into his arm and begins to push the blood out to ensure that he is still human and not a machine. Throughout this movie, especially in this particular scene, demonstrates main interaction with a robot, which then leads to minimal human interaction and sleepless nights. While this scene could have just been for attention or to add dramatic effect to the movie, but seeing the scene through a different perspective of other intellectual minds,