Formal Analysis of the movie, "Passengers" (2016) It’s a bit of a shame that the new Jennifer Lawrence / Chris Pratt movie Passengers got so slammed by critics. It’s not that I disagree with the consensus take on it, but I didn’t see as much engagement with what the movie was saying prior to the collapse at the end as I might have liked. It is indeed true that the movie instill a feeling of “being lost”. The end is a huge mess that undermines the rest of what has happened to that point, but through the first and second acts, it’s a pretty interesting movie with some provocative and intense ideas. It balances dark and terrible notions with a sense of fun and an identifiable, resonant humanity. In the end, the fun ends up inappropriately downplaying how terrible the ideas, but earlier on, it was a spoon full of sugar that made the medicine watchable. Passengers have not been well received. It seems like the criticism falls into two categories. …show more content…
Or at least it would be if the ending didn’t entirely sell it out. Chris Pratt is on this colony-bound spaceship, and he’s the only one who wakes up. He has the Home Alone Hero’s Journey: first he’s confused, then he’s happy, and he plays video games and eats sushi every night and drinks whiskey with a robot bartender. He’s racking up a debt on his charge account he will have to pay later, but it’ll be decades before Earth gets his distress call, decades before any answer reaches him, and he’ll be long dead before anyone else wakes up. But this only lasts so long. He’s alone on the ship (robot bartender notwithstanding) for over a year, and he descends into madness. He walks around naked for months. He grows a huge mountain man beard. He takes spacewalks in a space suit and just stands on the hull of the ship and stares out into the void. At one point he attempts suicide by almost shoving himself out an
He also has shown self-doubt. He starts to get through the prison and gets distraught about what
Dogs in Space is an Australian movie shot in 1987, and is focused on a group of outcasts in their early 20’s. They all share the same house, and have vastly different personalities. The main character is Sam, who is the singer of the punk band Dogs in Space, and is also in a relationship with one of the other main characters, Anna. Anna and Sam do not have too much in common at first. Anna has a job, is usually well dressed, and originally steered clear of drugs.
In one of the scenes he is trying to escape from the
The reason that I decided to choose the movie, The Blind Side is because it deals with a lot of different forms of communication and shows communicators from both sides of the spectrum. The movie, The Blind Side, is a true story that revolves around Micheal Oher, high school student, who is going through an insanely tough time. He was taken from his mother, due to drug addiction, and his father was killed recently, and he keeps leaving the family’s he stays with. That is until the Tuohy family comes along and takes him in as their own, and convinces him to join the high school football team. He begins to excel in football and keeps his grades up, so he is scouted from all different schools throughout the country.
Initially, the shipowner has reservations about his ship being old and needing an expensive overhaul to be deemed seaworthy as suggested by some experienced personnel. However, he convinces himself the ship will be fine because it had made this trip safely on numerous occasions. Instead of paying to have the ship overhauled and trusting the word of more experienced personnel, he loads families aboard and unfortunately, the ship goes down and all the passengers are lost.
Released September 29, 1950, Sunset Boulevard is a film noir of a forgotten silent film star, Norma Desmond, that dreams of a comeback and an unsuccessful screenwriter, Joe Gillis, working together. Ultimately an uncomfortable relationship evolves between Norma and Joe that Joe does not want a part of. Sunset Boulevard starts off with an establishing shot from a high angle shot with a narrative leading to a crime scene shot in long shot (a dead body is found floating in a pool). The narrative throughout the film established a formalist film. Cinematography John F. Seitz used lighting and camera angles in such a way to create a loneliness and hopefulness atmosphere.
Mise-en-scéne is crucial to classical Hollywood as it defined an era ‘that in its primary sense and effect, shows us something; it is a means of display. ' (Martin 2014, p.XV). Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950) will be analysed and explored with its techniques and styles of mise-en-scéne and how this aspect of filmmaking establishes together as a cohesive whole with the narrative themes as classical Hollywood storytelling. Features of the film 's sense of space and time, setting, motifs, characters, and character goals will be explored and how they affect the characterisation, structure, and three-act organisation.
Even though it may be just a stereotype, the Scottish people are not generally known for their joyful nature and friendliness. No wonder, considering the geographical location of the country, the weather and the scarce population in the wild landscape. Kilts, mysterious countryside full of lochs and ruined castles, back pipes, whiskey and Brave Heart is what usually comes to people’s minds when Scotland is mentioned, but legends and nature are not exactly what the contemporary Scottish films usually focus on. Once a person gets himself into the modern Scottish cinematography, what they encounter are not huge historical and probably not even real battles taking place in the romanticised landscape of Sir Walter Scott. The movies focus rather
In the book, The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us, by Nicholas Carr is about the existence of automation and technology that are changing and affecting the lives of humans. In the debate of automation in the book, Carr defines automation as “the use of computers and software to do things we used to ourselves” (1). With the definition of automation in mind, there are positive and negative connotations about automation that Carr argue and inserts himself in his book. In chapter 1, “Passengers”, Carr introduces two distinct types of knowledge, tacit and explicit knowledge.
The film also pokes fun at a very cliché movie plot line. It shows a man in love and chasing that girl for almost the entire film. The film also mocks our idea of what life is like. It is a daily schedule that never changes and we do the same exact things every single day. The film takes this to a new level by having the entire neighborhood look the same and everybody says the same things and makes the same actions every day.
If you haven’t watched the movie yet, start questioning your reality and go watch the movie- even though this isn’t the movie that got DiCaprio the Oscar, it’s still a masterpiece. And although I might’ve spoiled it a little, it’ll still be the best 2 hours and 28 minutes of your day. Maybe even your
The movie “Sleepers” is about four young boys between the ages 13-14 who commit a serious crime by accident. In this paper I will argue why the boys should be dealt with under the Restorative Justice System, and not under the Retributive Justice System. I will also talk about how they would be dealt with under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA). The four boys are clearly very upset with themselves because they let what they thought would be just a fun prank turn into a violent crime.
The characters in the movie get very emotional about how much time they spent away from their families and the film shows how Cooper 's family lost faith in the possibility of his return. The concept of time is what makes this movie very appealing. It makes the audience feel in touch with the characters and feel bad for them. It makes us feel engaged in the movie and that is an enjoyable
The movie portrays our planet in some unspecified time in the future which we are running out of food, people are starving and on the possibility of an interstellar voyage utilizing a worm hole, becomes an opportunity for Matthew in search for a possible inhabitable world. The entire space travel mission was incredible, the CGI was seamless and became part of the environment. The movie is a total emotional fit, Anne Hathaway was brilliant in the movie around with all the visual treats your eyes are getting, but McConaughey is the anchor that brings this movie back down to earth and he was terrific in the movie, the space sequences were mind-blowing. But according to a few critics, the end came off too convenient and seemed like a perfectly
He realizes he is in exile and there really is nothing he nor anyone else can do about it. By accepting his life, (luck and fate in all) of being in exile, it makes for a much calmer journey(for the time that these emotions