Liking What You See: A Film Analysis

Television screens are plastered everywhere, thoughts are discouraged, and nobody grows, or broadens their horizons from this strong and impulsive addiction. Suffering in silence, people have become negatively impacted by the misuse of tech, making them numb, bleak, and dysfunctional, taking away from the real things in life. Every day people are hurting, bottling their emotions deep down inside of them, whether they realize it or not. This theme is common throughout Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Marionettes, Inc., subtly shown through the character's dialogue and emotions. Technology can be a friend, but in this case, has been used as a malicious mace to swing against the vulnerable people of society.

The idea of a utopia, a state or place where everything is perfect, is one that has been fantasized and described by many authors in several different ways. Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, a perfect society can appear very different to different people. Two books that both attempt to illustrate the idea of a perfect society but with stark contrasts are Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Giver by Lois Lowry. Both encourage the idea of prioritizing one’s community, and duty to said community, over oneself in order to maintain a perfect and peaceful society. However, utopian societies are usually shown to not be as perfect as they seem when analyzed in literature.

A company named Braingate has developed a combination of hardware and software to directly sense the neuronal signals in the brain which controls limb movement. This device, with the size of a baby aspirin, when implanted in the brain records the neuronal signals and sends those to a computer, which then converts the signal to digital instruction and performs actions like moving a cursor. In 2006 the first clinical trial was performed on a 25 year old quadriplegic paralyzed person named Matthew Nagle. The trial became a grand success when after some practice Nagle could move and click a computer cursor and even make a robotic arm pick up small things.

Personal Film Response Name: Curtis J Lee # 113 Film Title: Glory Essential Vision The overall essential vision of the film was how men fought through all the tensions and difficulties presented to them through life, slavery, and war. The 1989 Oscar Winning film glory is about the injustice of the antebellum south, and those who were fighting for freedom. Glory shows how even though the 54th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry Regiment was fighting, they were still treated less than white people and not much better than slaves. Supporting Film References

A Raisin in the Sun PBA Unit 2 Cinematography and filmmaking are art forms completely open to interpretation in many ways such lighting, the camera as angles, tone, expressions, etc. By using cinematic techniques a filmmaker can make a film communicate to the viewer on different levels including emotional and social. Play writes include some stage direction and instruction regarding the visual aspect of the story. In this sense, the filmmaker has the strong basis for adapting a play to the big screen. “A Raisin in the Sun” is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959.

The Deadening of Human Interaction due to Technology We are currently in the 21st Century and it is clearly obvious that technology is here to stay. Technology, as we all know, is making huge advancements which can help society greatly. However, technology has caused humans to become isolated from society. The novel, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is written about a fictional society where, to the reader, is a dystopia.

The film 13th directed by Ava DuVernay targets an intended audience of the Media and the three branches of the United States government with an emphasis that mass incarceration is an extension of slavery. It is intended to inform viewers about the criminalization of African Americans and the United States prison boom. 13th uses rhetorical devices in its claim to persuade the viewers by using exemplum in the opening seconds of the film. President Barack Obama presents statistics, saying “the United States is home to 5% of the world’s population but is home to 25% of the world’s prisoners.” Also the film uses a hyperbole in talking about the movie Birth of a Nation produced in 1915 which portrays a black man as a violent savage who will kill white women.

This movie emphasizing multicultural and talking about their race, gender and everyone seem their selves. Also some of they talk about where there parents born and how some of them see their personally as American. I personally believe the race just not happen by itself. I think this is economics or capitalisms because without that many people cannot do anything. American believe if you are capitalisms what is meaning to be American?

Fahrenheit 451 and the Use of Technology Phones, computers, TVs, and the internet dominate modern society. Technology and the lack of books is a very prominent part of the society and the storyline throughout Fahrenheit 451 as well. Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in the 1950s, but he described many different kinds of futuristic technologies, some of which we even see today. The technology that Bradbury describes in Fahrenheit 451 must have seemed unreasonable to readers in the 1950s, but we have seen that this technology is feasible indeed.

Lookism: How It Affects Society Often times, in TV shows and movies, science fiction is a great genre to watch from Black Mirror to Arrival. What happens when you combine the topic of lookism into a science fiction story? Well, that is exactly what in “Liking What You See: A Documentary” is about! In “Liking What You See: A Documentary” by Ted Chiang, lookism is an important concept in this short story. The main character, Tamera Lyons cannot enjoy beauty because of an implant called calliagnosia that her parents implemented in her.

Steven Spielberg’s exhilarating film, The Post, is centered around The Washington Post, a family owned newspaper company, which is racing against the New York Times to exploit the wrongdoings of the U.S. government. It tells the story of the Pentagon Papers and how the Government hid these classified documents from the public along with the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War for three decades and four presidencies. This film stars Meryl Streep who takes on the role of Katherine Graham, Chief Publisher of the Washington Post after her husband passed away. Co-star Tom Hanks takes on the role of Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the paper. This film was directed by Steven Spielberg, an extremely talented director/producer for many well

The concept of Social realism as a film genre is to portray the ‘real life’ of a working-class society. Social realism films depict the social, political and economic injustices’ that influence and impact people in society (Taylor, 2006). It is raw and gives the audience a true indication of what life is like (Lay, 2002). Social realism first came about during an economic downfall in the 1920s. It was an art movement that social realists started, to represent the working class.

The U.S. Army is in process of creating an Iron Man-like suit that imparts superhuman strength to the user. This exoskeleton is called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) and will have strata of smart materials built-in with sensors, as well as a wearable computer very much like Google Glass. It can keep an eye on soldiers’ critical parameters and multiply the available strength using

There are many things that make a film interesting. This include historical context (ex. social, government, econ, etc.) and the theory around it. Films represent their times and everything that comes with it. On the other side, is the aesthetic.

Today there has been an increase in the awareness of mental health. In the sense that society has begun to take notice of how mental health effects each individual differently. The media has begun to incorporate a variety of illnesses to entertain to their audience. However, many have questioned if the media is accurately portraying these mental disorders. I chose to compare two popular movies Frankie & Alice and the 2007 version film Sybil.