Category: Critical Reflection

The impulse towards realism is generally seen as a dominant feature of Victorian fiction as it was a movement that deviated from idealistic romantic fiction and portrayed real-life events and situations accurately. In this essay, I will analyze how realism is a dominant feature to a certain extent in Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations and compare…

What many films made in recent years fail to draw in both the critics and the audience and trying too hard to make a great production to please their expectations can have a seriously negative effect on the final product  even though The Greatest Showman did not win over the critics as hoped, it…

The film Food Matters goes into depth about what we put in our bodies that can increase or decrease our health status significantly. Many officials such as nutritionists, naturopaths, doctors, and journalists give their opinion on what being healthy really means. Food Matters was directed by James Colquhoun and Carlo Ledesma. The film starred people…

Over the years, there have been many arguments about whether Avatar is science fiction or fantasy. My first thought would be that Avatar is both science fiction and fantasy. The movie starts with pure science fiction, as the humans space traveling many light years to the moon Pandora to mine the very unusual and valuable…

Can people who were a part of society be healed by the power of nature? Ella Park investigates the challenges that humans, who are social an animal may face while they are in nature through the book Into the Wild and the film Wild. In the book Into the Wild and the movie Wild, there…

To commence, in Persepolis, Satrapi explores how people adventure captivity and freedom in case they would want to live and have a normal lifestyle while committing acts of revolt against the government or oppressors. Marjane Satrapi lived her early life in Iran, at a few levels during the Islamic Revolution. The governmental modifications were taking…

‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ is an inspirational movie based on true events. Seeing the poverty and struggles that the people from Malawi, Africa live in is very heartbreaking and humbling, but these conditions cannot hold back 14-year-old William Kamkwamba who is smart, dedicated, and driven. William fights all obstacles to educate himself and…

Throughout his incredible career, award-winning director Martin Scorsese has never disappointed with his thrilling, thought-provoking films. And this one does not. Hugo is all about a young, orphaned boy. His father passes and his uncle becomes his new caregiver. His Uncle Claude, although rude and almost depressing, teaches young Hugo how to work in clocks…

The 1927 silent black-and-white film Metropolis critiques the stark inequality between working and wealthy classes to champion Marxism through a science-fictional, dystopian world. The text follows Freder, son of the city master Joh Frederson discovering the underground workers who have suffered under the strict regimen, slaving away on machines that power the city above, hence…

For my essay, I’m going to focus on comparing both of the villains from, The Dark Knight (2008) and The Shining (1980). Both villains are driven crazy by the events of the film but the ways they both handle it create compelling characters. The performance from Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson builds the character and…