Orlando Von Einsiedel’s film, Virunga (2014) has been constructed to persuade viewers to challenge the issues in and around the Virunga national park. Positioning the audience was done by showing various issues using different techniques; the techniques used will be explored in this essay. I will also share if and how my values and beliefs were changed from these issues and how they were portrayed. The main issues are based on corruption, poaching and economics, while corruption and economical issues were more severe for everyone, poaching and the rehabilitation of the mountain gorillas was also used as a binding concern. The first issue presented in the documentary Virunga was the amount of illegal poaching that happens in the National Park; …show more content…
SOCO wants to illegally take the oil from the national park, this would create problems for the locals as it would pollute the waters they fish. In their efforts to claim the oil, Burimba Feruzi of SOCO, meets with a senior park ranger offering money for “an accomplice on the inside”. Gouby meets with different members of SOCO to get as much information to expose them, these interviews engage the audience and really present the scummy side of the company’s members. The point of view of the camera in these undercover interviews puts the audience in the perspective of Gouby, this is engaging for the audience as it positions them in the conversation. Re-enactment is used to show the thoughts and feelings of Gouby leading up to the meetings, these are done in high definition and can be distinguished from the archival footage. In the end of the documentary the segments of poaching and the carers, the park rangers and Gouby’s investigation are all linked as they all prepare for an assault from the M23 rebels. Gouby stays to get footage of the assault and watches as the locals are forced out of their homes, the rebels were bribed by SOCO to take control of the land. Merode prepares his rangers for the assault, this courage is contrasted to cowardly acts of
Rolf de Herr’s 2002 film The Tracker represented some human beings in the past who have been extremely naïve, barbarous, and bigoted when it came to dealing with Indigenous Australians. This film portrayed white racism in the characters of the Fanatic, the Veteran, and at first the Recruit until he becomes stronger and eventually changes his demeanor towards the Aboriginal people. Even though the Tracker experiences immense hardship throughout the movie he was always two steps ahead of his bosses since he was very familiar with the land and was also able to outsmart his superior officers. The Tracker is a gloomy film which presents the dark past of Australia that must never be forgotten.
The animated documentary shows various forms of victimization: threats and armed attacks against civilians, forced disappearances, bombings of the village and armed battles, child recruitment by the guerrilla, forced displacement, and the subsequent problems of unemployment, poverty and stigmatization in the cities .
While Mexican Americans were considered white by law, the documentary A Class Apart sheds light on the struggles and eventual triumph of Mexican Americans in the their journey for racial equality within the United States. Following the Mexican War, Mexican Americans were subjected to a Jim Crow style of discrimination. Despite retaining U.S. citizenship, Mexican Americans were treated as second class citizens. Frustrated by social, political, and economic disenfranchisement, Mexican Americans sought the assistance of the United States Supreme Court, in what would become a landmark case, to secure the full rights afforded to them as United States citizens.
Like most Disney material, nature themes were incorporated into the earliest parks, including Adventureland, Frontierland, Nature’s Wonderland, and the newest, Animal Kingdom. Disney carefully edited these “natural” settings that show the less wild side of the wilderness. However, how does the tourist comprehend the illusions? How are the plants and animals adapting to reflect the illusion, and how are they accented by the interactions with both human nature and Disney’s technological nature? These questions and more will be answered within the following sections: Definitions, Technological Nature, Kilamanjaro Safari, and The Final Answer.
On the other hand, it’s possible that by contextualizing the pieces of the story in absence of an interconnected puzzle, the documentary forces viewer’s to think for themselves. If the Nettie Wild’s interests were more vested in raising awareness than delivering objective information, this documentary successfully satisfies its purpose. Her travelogues compel me to expand my perspective and develop my opinions on the matter under the complete scope of information available.
As far as the movie goes, I have a feeling that the film is going to end with a tragedy. Alice Wu, the director of Saving Face, presents various conflicts in the film that involves of family, love and mostly about saving reputation. Characters have a lot of challenges where Wu uses motifs like silence and soap opera to give out sadness and bring audiences into a sad zone. When Wil, the protagonist of the film tells her mother known as Ma that she is a gay and Ma says, "I am a healthy mother and my daughter cannot be a gay. " Then Wil says to Ma, "Then I shouldn't be your daughter." and follows with silence. It is the saddest and heartbreaking thing to say to a mother and gives a sense of tragic. The silence after the conversation is like a
The science fiction film Looper is innovative and unique, drawing upon genre conventions in a compelling way. Although the use of time travel in science fiction films is anything but original, the ionic detachment and visceral loathing gives this film an advanced, innovative plot.
Jonathan Winchell wrote an essay called, “Latest 3-D Films Add Dimension, Not Appeal.” This essay’s claim is that 3D doesn’t make a movie better, it just makes it cost more in theatres without adding any extra value. I agree with his statements because of the success of movies like Avatar film makers believe they should make more 3D movies to make more money. So many live-action films are re-rendered into 3D, and almost every time it just does not improve or enhance the experience because you can tell the film wasn’t shot in 3D. I understand Winchell’s point wholeheartedly because studios need to realize that not every film needs to be presented 3D. When they do decide to use 3D they should ensure the whole film is actually made from the beginning using 3D.
The contents in this document are a critique of the documentary Taking Root. This Paper takes a systematic and analytical approach to the video and uses class and chapter concepts from CPO 3204 Contemporary African Politics.
“I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.” In this essay I aim to address the question how does Sebastiao Salgardo’s activist photography reflect against media journalism? I will be looking into a brief history of the movement of activist photography and will also looking into Sebastian’s background. I believe that Salgardo paints a true picture of what is going on in the country’s around the world, he visits these places and then becomes at one with the people in these situations, he wants to provoke debates and discussions into these problems in order to inform people of the true problems. Its true that in the 1980’s Salgardo’s work was deemed too upsetting, too distressing for the generally public in America to view and the fact that in the medias eye the general public would not be interested in seeing these images, this leaves us with ‘celebrity journalism’ and if anything a dishonest picture of what is really happening.
This anthropocentric theme continues throughout his narrative but is personified on a societal level. This matter is first introduced in the chapter “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and The National Parks.” In this chapter Abbey notes the expansionist nature of the industrial economy and how it is affecting the national parks. Abbey critiques arguments for uni...
I chose to analyze Despicable Me, an animated film geared towards a younger audience, because I was interested in examining underlying theories and messages that this film would be relaying to its viewers. Often times, when watching animated films, children are not aware of these messages, as they are absorbed by the characters, special effects, and humor. But as we have learned throughout this semester, our brains are subconsciously primed by the various surroundings we are exposed to. Since we also studied the impacts of entertainment, such as television and video games, on children, I wanted to see how a popular children’s film might also affect them.
Acknowledging a world in which we humans are hyperconnected yet paradoxically estranged from one another, Furtado highlights how certain new Brazilian documentaries hint at an unrealized potential for constructing collective horizons, even though we are never quite sure if these horizons will materialize in a world in which it has become ever more difficult to envision collective projects. If Deleuze was right in affirming that the “people have gone missing” in contemporary documentary films, material objects and the magic of the movie camera can be mediators that facilitate human interaction. Reminiscent of Piedras’s “mobility turn,” movement, for Furtado, brings individuals into contact with one another in ways that challenge the hyperindividualized neoliberal moment. Although we are still far removed from the 1970s sense of the “people” as a political construct, we find that new documentaries have not given up completely on the desire to bring human beings together to forge meaningful relationships and communities and to break with self-centered modes of
This Movie “ Cool Running” is a 1993 Comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub. It is truly based on a true story for the Four Jamaicans ( Derice, Sanka, Yul and Junior). It is about the Four Jamaicans who were dreaming to participate in the Winter Olympics game.Throughout this movie, they strived to achieve their dream with the help of a coach named Irv Blitzer.
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is a Steven Spielberg science fiction drama film, which conveys the story of a younger generation robot, David, who yearns for his human mother’s love. David’s character stimulates the mind-body question. What is the connection between our “minds” and our bodies?