CategoryMovie Review

The Truman Show (1998), a dramatic movie with many documentary elements

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I watched The Truman Show, a drama film with many documentary elements, and wrote a movie review.   The movie we’re going to analyze for documentary elements is The Truman Show (1998). Truman Burbank, the protagonist of the movie, is an ordinary working man. He is married to a woman named Meryl, works for an insurance company, and has a phobia of water after watching his poetic father...

Movie Review – Where does the Sue Lorblimity of ‘Gran Torino’ come from?

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In this blog post, we’re going to talk about the movie Gran Torino.   Clint Eastwood’s movie “Gran Torino” has a structure that begins with death and ends with death. It’s a movie about death, as you can see. Among the countless deaths in the movie, director Clint Eastwood chose a rather bland narrative. In fact, it’s a movie that doesn’t really...

What is Relativity as Explained in the Movie Interstellar?

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In this blog post, we’re going to learn about Einstein’s theory of relativity through the movie Interstellar.   Interstellar is a movie about the search for a habitable planet in space to overcome the problem of food shortages on Earth. The movie was a hit at the box office because of its spectacular visuals and the timeless love between a father and daughter, but the most...

Movie Review – The Birds (about how humans deal with the unknown : fear)

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I watched the movie The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, focusing on the contrast between how humans view birds and how humans deal with the aggressive unknown.   The Birds, directed by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, is a movie about an unexplained attack by birds on humans. It was almost the first movie to portray birds themselves as objects of terror, and it has since...

Movie Review – In the Mood for Love (Where does the failure of love come from?)

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I watched the movie In the Mood for Love. Let’s find out if the love between Mrs. Chen and Chow is to blame.   Mrs. Chen and Chow move into the same apartment on the same day and first meet in a narrow hallway. At the beginning of the film, their interactions are limited to waving hello to each other as they live next door to each other, but things change when Chow tells Chen that a...

Examining the significance of fantasy films through character and dialog analysis (focusing on Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers of the Lord of the Rings)

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  Let’s look at the significance of fantasy movies by analyzing the characters and dialogues in Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers of the Lord of the Rings.   Fantasy movies are a genre that shows ‘hope’! In my opinion, the fantasy movie genre is a genre that shows hope. When we have hope, it means happiness, and in that sense, happiness is closely related to love...

Movie Review – Searching For Sugar man (One man’s musical life story)

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  I watched the movie Searching For Sugar man, which was made in an interview format, and wrote a movie review.   Sugar Man Rodriguez’s song “Sugar Man” plays on the screen as a man tells us that his nickname is “Sugar”. Then the South African landscape unfolds. As the man sings along, he starts talking about Rodriguez. The American-born musician is one of...

Movie Review – Minority Report (Is the Pre-crime System Perfect?)

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I watched the movie Minority Report, and let’s talk about the Pre-crime system in the movie.   Minority Report is a science fiction movie set in the year 2054. The main character, Anderton (Tom Cruise), is the head of the Pre-crime special police unit, a group of unidentified “seers” who predict murders before they happen and arrest suspects before they happen. The movie...

Movie Review – Eagle Eye (Can a Supercomputer Become Human?)

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I watched the movie Eagle Eye, directed by D. J. Caruso. Let’s find out if supercomputers can become human.   Humans have dreamed of machines that can think like humans. Many movies have depicted machines that are like humans, or at least think like humans. Eagle Eye is a prime example of this. The movie is set in the Middle East and follows a U.S. military operation to kill a high...

Movie Review – Ghost in the Shell (About the Identity of Life)

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Watching the 1995 movie Ghost in the Shell and thinking about the identity of life.   Despite being an anime from 1995, Ghost in the Shell was innovative in its worldview and had a huge impact on other science fiction movies. The movie depicts a telepathic era in which all human bodies are mechanized and the brain is electronically connected, allowing us to obtain information from the...

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