In this blog post, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about the thriller movie genre, and we’ll also take a look at Alfred Hitchcock, who is considered to be the greatest master of the genre. What is a thriller movie? Thrillers refer to narratives in general that are centered around emotions and suspense (a sense of urgency). It is often a variation of the...
I watched the movie Saw, a thriller in its most primal form, and wrote a movie review. What is a movie called ‘Saw’? Saw is a series of 10 movies, counting 3D. In fact, it’s probably best categorized as a B-movie rather than a mass market movie. I don’t think the Saw movies themselves are great, great movies, textbook examples of thrillers. I think it’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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