The main character of this movie is a character named Happy Gilmore. The movie begins with Happy describing his past life and how he is into hockey. He also talks about how his father is also obsessed with hockey, how his mother left them because of that, and how his father died by getting hit in...

The Movie, The Patriot, starts out with most of the colonists angered. This part of the movie caught my attention at the very beginning and kept it throughout the entire movie. I enjoyed especially the action and war scenes in the movie, but the storyline was very good as well. To understand this ...

If you haven't seen Magnolia yet, I truly ask you to stop reading now, and rent the movie. Then read this paper and form an opinion on it. I really don't want to ruin the experience for you.Isn't it odd how things happen? How people affect one another in ways that can't be seen until you take a s...

Movie ReviewI Am SamFor people who have disabilities it has become known to me over the past years how people can take advantage of them and do. From the movie clips I have seen from classes to actually hearing people who have disabilities talk, many times people take advantage of them and then bla...

A review of American Beauty American Beauty challenges every aspect of human existence and makes you question every value you believe to be true. Each character in the movie has a unique personality. The mixture of different personalities makes the story interesting and fills the story line with...

Analysis of What A Girl Wants The movie What A Girl Wants could be said to be a modern take on Pygmalion. It focuses mainly on the relationship of Daphne Reynolds and her parents. Because Daphne's dad was not in their lives, Daphne and her mother's relationship is very close. Although t...

Dead Man Walking "The motion picture Dead Man Walking provided a non-fiction insight into the world of crime, justice, and capital punishment. The film cast several characters from different backgrounds and opinion sets in direct conflict with one another. Several small t...

AMERICAN BEAUTY: LIFE THROUGH A CHILDS EYE "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm" (qtd. In Elibron). These are the words spoken by world-renowned author Aldous Huxley, whose ...

I watched the movie "Spanglish" about the cultural groups of the Mexicans coming to America and a single parent's experience of 'becoming' American. I choose this movie for two main reasons, first being that a friend recommended it, and second I wanted to watch it for pur...

The films Daughters of the Dust and Fire each address the cultural passage from tradition to modernity. On one hand are duties, obligations, and traditions. On the other are needs, desires, and freedom. Wars between these two antagonistic camps have been fought through the ages across many societie...

"Home Burial" and The Closure of Gaps While reading "Home Burial" I encountered many gaps. These smaller gaps seemed to lead me to one main gap, which I picked to concentrate on. The gap was, what did the man do to upset his wife, and how was the man and wife's relation...

Today we are living in a time of increasing tolerance when it comes to alternative family forms, those other than the nuclear family. The nuclear family, made up of two biological parents and their children, is associated with the stability of the 1950s, when it was most prevalent. Because it is as...

Bend it Like Beckham is about a young Indian woman named Jessminder who struggles between being herself and doing what she loves and pleasing her family and their traditional values. Jess's parents want her to lead a traditional life and learn to cook, work on her education, and get married li...

Stereotype of the Typical North American Teenager Sullen, disrespectful and cynical, these are character traits North Americans generate when they reflect of what a typical teenager is. Are these adjectives appropriate for describing an average adolescent, one of which one was themselves? In...

Freedom What is freedom? Freedom is the ability for every individual to have complete control of his life, the ability to make his own decisions. From the moment an individual wakes up in the morning to the moment he lays back down to sleep in the evening, thousands, if not millions, of choices...

Magnolia is a film about nine different people who are faced with regrets. "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." This is a line in the movie that best describes the plot. Each story consisted of complex situations that somehow correlate with one anot...

The novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison focuses on one of many African American family who migrated from south to north to seek a better life but later became a quest for their individual identity. Since they have moved from farmland to an urban area, there had been a major change in th...

RESTORING THE BIOLOGICAL FAMILY AND THE HUMAN FAMILY: WHITE MALE HEROISM IN THE PATRIOT, GLADIATOR, AND AMERICAN HISTORY X Recently Karen Schneider has argued that in the second half of the 1990s, the genre of "action-thrillers" changed. Whereas in the 1980s the white male hero of suc...

Connie and the grandmother: a striking resemblance Two characters, one an adolescent and beautiful, the other aged and outdated, are distinguishably parallel and dissimilar in many ways. Connie is a naive, pubescent girl who is portrayed in Joyce Carol Oates' "Where are you going? Wher...

In society today, it would be quite hard to live without being influenced by someone or some type of experience during life. Life is full of influences that you choose and pick which one you're going to use for the better or worst. Not only are there positive influences but there are negative i...

Michael Vs. Sonny At a first glance Michael and Sonny appear to be quite different. Upon further observation, however, they have some similarities. Although they are different in areas of personality, values, and their tempers, they are similar in areas of loyalty, their respect for their father,...

A little boy is always being violently beaten up by he's drunken dad. He uses he's dog's barking as a warning device to tell him if he's dad is coming home drunk. In this story, injustice can be seen from three different points of views. The boy's, the mother's and the ...

No filmmaker today is more of a researcher of people and their relationships than independent filmmaker, John Sayles. Sayles\' movie \"Sunshine State\" is set in two adjoining contemporary coastal communities -- one white (Plantation Island) and the other black (Lincoln Beach). The residents of th...

Many Americans think of racism as something of the past, something back when Abraham Lincoln was president. Actually, racism will remain an issue in this world until the sun stops shining and the sound of people's voices no longer linger in the air. Since the beginning of time, human beings h...

In the short story "Everyday Use" the character Dee can be described as secure, confident, beautiful, smart, yet scornful, remorseful, and high demanding young woman. This can look as having a supercilious attitude, but it is just Dee wanting what is best for herself and her family. ...