Imagine going to bed one night and everything in your world is perfect and normal; you wake up the next morning and suddenly the world is horrible and everyone is getting sick and dying. How would you feel? That’s how Contagion is. When Mitch Emhoff’s wife comes from Hong Kong and she is very sick. She ends up dying within the first ten minutes of the movie. That’s what makes Contagion different than all of the other mass outbreak stories is that the main character is killed off within minutes. Contagion is a movie for the young and the old. It is the only movie out here that perfectly describes how the world would react to an outbreak of this kind. Contagion is an extraordinary film with a lovely plot, terrific acting and out of this world …show more content…
This movie has many well-known actors, besides Paltrow and Damon, including Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law and Kate Winslet Who play Dr. Leonora Orantes, Dr. Ellis Cheever, Alan Krumwiede, and Dr. Erin Mears, respectively. There are many scenes where these actors show their wonderful acting such as when Cheever sees the janitor and offers to help his little boy who has ADHD. He shows that he really is a good man on more than one occasion such as when he really does go and help the little boy by giving up his own cure. He is also shown to be a nice and caring man when he calls Dr. Orantes and ask how SHE is doing, not how her work is going but how she herself is holding up. Orantes shows that she is a good woman when her dying act is trying to give a man her jacket because he is cold. Mears is shown to be a kind heart when she runs back to tell the village that their “cure” was a placebo. Of all of the main cast, the only one that doesn’t seem to have a kind heart is Krumwiede. He is shown to be a manipulated and deceiving man when he decides to risk the life of his fans by lying to them to try and gain money and
The fight against the zombie metaphor within World War Z gives the reader a purpose for finding a way to hold on to hope, and to ultimately celebrate life, ideally a healthy one, itself. With the zombie metaphor referring to uncontrollable fears in today’s modern society, the thriller is a realistic speculation about an airborne virus entering the human species and spreading on a global scale. With influenza outbreaks being a familiar scenario within modern society, the fear of an uncontrollable disease sends shockwaves of fear through the human race, especially when a vaccine has yet to be found and distributed, as in the film. The fear of a viral infection spreading stems from the idea that people do not simply “give” another individual the virus; a virus is a form of life that evolves and mutates in order to survive environmental changes.
The outburst spread of diseases in a population causes people to panic and become hopeless. The main reason diseases spread is due to unsanitary living styles. Also when a disease first begins, it is really hard to find a cure right away. A very deadly, infectious disease known as Typhus spread during the Holocaust. Typhus is caused by rickettsia and is spread by lice and flees.
The racial system is composed of three basic parts that divides people into different categories: the white on top, black on bottom, and brown in between. This system came to be as a result of three different population coming together with unequal terms resulting in one population having the most power. The film Do the Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee, does an excellent job at portraying how the racial system functions by showing the advantages of being at the top of the system and the disadvantages of being at the bottom of the system. Not only does Spike Lee show the way that the racial system works but it also shows the reality of it and how it puts the races at the bottom
In today 's society, movies are viewed as a way of relaxation. Movie lovers enjoy seeing scenes in movies based on real life events. Some of these scenes may include high rates of violence that can cause destruction and serious chaos if implemented in real life. What comes to people 's mind when they hear the word "purge"? The purge is fiction movie directed by James deMonaco which retracts events that would totally cause some controversy within a society. As the theme of the movie suggests, that is the time of the year that all the insane and illegal actions come to be legal for twelve-four hour period. Several atrocities were committed. There was a group of tourists that came to the US in order to commit
Many movies based on political or social themes are always special for human perception because they address aspects of life that are rather close to many people. Divided We Fall is one of such movies; it evokes certain feelings and emotions and makes viewers think about very important and valuable things of the human being. Since the main topics of the movie are war, loyalty, friendship, forgiveness, and help, one can state that Divided We Fall is very deep in its sense and shows some vivid situations of human life.
Some films are made for mind-numbing entertainment, some are made to make you cry, and some are made to think, to question, Missrepresentation is one of the later films. The movie makes you question society and even yourself and what you view as the norm in media. I enjoyed the film overall. I believe the message the film was trying to portray was message that needs to be said and heard. Watching the film made me realize how so many things I just accept in the media that harm women and perpetuate rape culture and misogyny. Missrepresentation is a film that made me think and connect its message with what we are learning in class and my own life.
.... The action flows so seamlessly between the two elements that they often seem like aligned narratives rather than a mise-en-abîme. This flawlessness is used as a great outcome, further emphasizing that human cruelty is nothing new. It's easy to forget that Atuey, Columbus, Las Casas, Montesinos, etc. are actors playing roles-within-roles because they seem just as "real" as Costa, Sebastian and Daniel. The film's entire cast is incredible, but the star was Juan Carlos Aduviri, he gave both Atuey and Daniel distinct identities with a few common traits. Daniel and Atuey are both forthright rebels, but they have dissimilarities and (including living centuries apart). As an activist for morality and equality who believes in speaking truth to power, I found Even the Rain especially impactful. This film is certain to inspire many of us to keep fighting for what is right.
The film that I have chosen to analyze is “The Purge”. “The Purge” is a 2013 American horror film directed by James DeMonaco. It was released on June 7, 2013, to mixed reviews. I will be analyzing “The Purge” by looking at conflict theory, class division, the importance of the ethnicity of each individual character, and the government’s overall political and economic agenda. In brief, I believe that Purge night takes place because of Conflict theory, due to political and economic agendas.
I chose the movie Divergent because there is so many events in the movie to talk about that has to do with sociology. I could have chosen any of the Sociological Perspectives for this movie but I believe that Structural functionalism was the best option. The movie Divergent is about a futuristic society broken up into five factions. Abnegation is the selfless or generous, Dauntless or what I like to call the fearless group, Candor the honest, Amity the peaceful and Erudite which loves knowledge and are the smart ones of society. At the age of 16 you have to either stay in the faction you were born into from your parents or you can choose a different faction. If you choose a different faction you have to leave your family behind and stay with
Characterisation is vastly different in the film when compared to the play. This, however, is done so as to make more sense to a modern
Although I have watched the movie, Crash, many times, I had never looked at it through a sociological perspective. It blew my mind how much you can relate this movie to sociology, but also the more I got to thinking about it, the more it seemed to make sense. Everywhere I looked I found someway to connect this movie to some sort of sociological term, which I thought was pretty cool.
Equilibrium is a film that takes place in a world without emotion. I found myself to be very intrigued with the concepts displayed throughout the movie. Additionally, the movie brought up important moral questions that I found myself contemplating. The storyline caused me to question the governments role in society, and how much control others can have over us.
“The Day After Tomorrow” and “Outbreak” both raise important concerns regarding the world that we live in. The first movie seems to serve mainly as a warning that as a people of this planet we need to do everything in our power to stop destroying our world. “Outbreak” demonstrates the vulnerability of the United States and for that matter all nations of the world in dealing with large epidemics. Though both movies raise legitimate concerns they also both are quite sensationalized in order spice it up for moviegoers. The most effective movie in providing a wake up call for humanity is totally debatable and is entirely dependent on the eye of the beholder.
The film Labor Day (2014) exemplifies several social psychological theories. This tense, captivating movie, upon examination highlights perspectives of social psychological principles and theories in the areas of prejudice, counterfactual thinking, and self-concept. Linking the film to these theories illustrates the relevance of the analysis to the practical and real life experiences of social psychology. In a time of scientific, moral, and social expansion, the illumination of social psychological theories in the movie Labor Day, provides a forum for critical examination and awareness of the attitudes towards prejudice, self-concept, and counterfactual thinking theories (2014).
This movie starts off as Jordan Belfort, the main character in the movie, losing his job as a stockbroker in Wall Street. After losing his job, he goes and gets a job in a Long Island brokerage room. In the brokerage room, he sells penny stocks. Thanks to him being aggressive in his selling skills, he was able to make a profit. With the new income, he gives his wife a bracelet and she asked him why doesn’t he go after the people that can afford to lose money, not the middle-class people or lower income people. That is when he gets the idea to get a lot of young people and train them to become the best stock brokers.