Over the 50 years of documentation of the city of Montreal through the films seen in class, this city carries on the vibrant energy and busy atmosphere. A common factor from these films portrays Montreal’s never ending construction and poor road conditions. Nonetheless, many changes have been induced that could be seen as positive or negative depending on one’s perspective. The architecture of the city has changed due to the hope of creating a much better living buildings, notably its people and culture have changed. From the films, Montreal by Night from 1947, Le Cinq Septembre a St-Henri from 1962, La Memoire des Anges from 2008, showcase the changing evolution of fashion, climate, religion and open-air activities.
Fashion has been a notable
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Today, many are bringing awareness to global warming and scientists and environmentalists are making an evident case of this issue. In the film La Memoire des Anges, a section of it tells the story of the city of Montreal during the holidays in December. In this part of the film, during the Christmas period, the city is welcomed with heavy snowfalls and storms. However, today, even last year, during this period is was warm and it only had a very small quantity of snow. From this, it can be seen that winters are becoming lighter in intensity over the …show more content…
Particular the film Montreal by Night paints the picture of an electric and alive city. The streets are besieged with people who are looking to have some fun. In this film, adults went to the carnivals at night and festivals after being restricted to such activities because of the winter season.
On the other hand, most of the children from St-Henri were playing outside. Moreover, they had little adult supervision and young children, like the little girl from Le Cinq Septembre a St-Henri who walked alone to school. Even more so, a couple of boys climbed and dove off the bridge to swim in the canal. A conclusion for these children to truly enjoy the outdoors could be because of the poor living conditions of that time. Housing was small where large families lived together. The poor living conditions can be seen in Les Habitations de Jeanne Mance from 1954 and from La P’tite Bourgogne from 1968, where the houses prior to demolishing them were made out of wood and there was no electricity. Nonetheless, technology advancement has contributed to this as well as automobiles were new, therefore the parents of these children did not fear as much as today about their
The movie Dope, written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, follows the story of Malcolm through his senior year of high school in the Inglewood California. He lives in a poor neighborhood, with only his mom, yet he still strives for greatness. He has a couple of friends, and they all love 90’s hip hop culture. They try to do their best to stay out of trouble and away from bullies. Malcolm sees a girl he likes and ends up following her to a drug dealer’s birthday party. When the cops bust the birthday party, he unknowingly goes home with all the drugs and the gun that the drug dealer owns. This sets off a wild chain reaction, as he now has to sell these drugs to payoff the supplier, who happens to be the Harvard Alumni that Malcolm’s needs approval
poster typically has the white cowboy large, presented front and center, with the antagonists and co-stars all behind him. An iconic western, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, has a poster picturing the white cowboy alone. Clint Eastwood stands there tall, stoic, and singular. Typical of most other westerns, the white cowboy is the center of attention. Here, however, there are two non-white figures presented: Bart, the Black cowboy, and a large Native American chief. This movie poster has the same style as other westerns with the color and layout, but is unique in the fact that a black man is presented where a white man would normally be dominating. Once again, this makes a statement about racial improvements. Previously having a black man at
A female in film noir is typically portrayed in one of two ways; she’s either a dependable, trustworthy, devoted, and loving woman, or she’s a manipulative, predatory, double crossing, and unloving temptress. Noir labels the cold hearted and ruthless woman archetype as a Femme Fatale. A femme fatale is walking trouble, and she’s aware of it. This woman is gorgeous, refined, eloquent, and commands the attention of any room she’s in. When the femme fatale desires something, she pursues it. If there’s an obstacle in her way, she overcomes it. If she can’t handle it herself, all she needs to do it bat her eyelashes and the nearest man is all too willing to take care of it for her. In essence, the most dangerous thing about the femme fatale is her
In Ma Vie En Rose Ludovic is one of the four children of Pierre and Hanna Fabre who was assigned male at birth but wishes to be a girl. Ludovic 's first appearance in the movie is of her showing up to a block party with a dress and makeup on. Ludovic is rushed inside by her parents and changed into "normal" clothes, clothes boys are expected to wear. Ludovic 's parents, and the guests, were taken aback by Ludovic 's entrance and her parents tried to play their clothing choice off as a joke. This is just the start of Ludovic attempts to express her gender. Ludovic also brings dolls to class for show and tell, states that she will marry a boy in her class, wears dresses, and relates to the woman character in a popular kids television show. Ludovic
The Three Here’s for Cooking The romantic comedy, Today’s Special, expressed the worries of Indian parents becoming at ease. Also, expressed the struggles a parent faces in search of a better life, the passion and dedication going unnoticed in the work field, and the connection between friends, a lover, and family. However, the film centered its attention more on the development of Samir’s “cold” cooking within the Indian food, with the help of Akbar. In addition, the main actors in the film looked the part and associated with the main idea of the culture of an Indian family. For instance, Samir’s appearance showed he had drifted away from his family’s culture and developed a professional understanding and love for the cooking industry.
Within the German Democratic Republic, there was a secret police force known as the Stasi, which was responsible for state surveillance, attempting to permeate every facet of life. Agents within and informants tied to the Stasi were both feared and hated, as there was no true semblance of privacy for most citizens. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the movie The Lives of Others follows one particular Stasi agent as he carries out his mission to spy on a well-known writer and his lover. As the film progresses, the audience is able to see the moral transformation of Stasi Captain Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler primarily through the director 's use of the script, colors and lighting, and music.
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
The movie Shock Doctrine revolves around the concept of the same name. The film begins by discussing psychological research on the effects of shock therapy. It is evident that a person under extreme stress and anxiety commonly experienced during a crisis functions and performs inadequately. It is noted that the studies are conducted by a man by the name of Milton Friedman, from the University of Chicago; the studies took place in the past, and some of the subjects are still recovering in the aftermath. From this research, interrogation techniques were learned and the concept of the shock doctrine was formed. Essentially through causing a crisis, the population of a country can be shocked into complying with accepting laws that favors the United States and capitalism. This theory coexists with Friedman’s belief in that government regulation is bad, and through a crisis a country would better itself with deregulation. The video uses Chile as an example and shows how America allowed a crisis to occur in Chile, through coups, interrogations and subterfuge. In the end a new government is formed that allows capitalism. Unfortunately afterwards violence and riots occur, as the rich gain most of the wealth and poverty rises. In addition to Chile, Argentina, Russia and even Iraq underwent the shock doctrine. Almost in every account, poverty rises and violence ends up erupting. The movie ends by showing how the US was in the process of the shock doctrine, and still is but the population has taken notice. Protests such as Occupy Wall Street are some of the initiatives necessary to bring awareness to the problems of class inequalities in order to prevent capitalism from benefitting the rich and increasing the wealth gap among the classes.
In the film, “North by Northwest” we see a series of shots that creates suspense and danger. The point of the film is very vague and it ends without a resolution to the main conflict. The incredible camera work and techniques that Alfred Hitchcock did created a feeling of danger and suspense, making the audience want to see more. Also, Hitchcock's film main character Roger O. Thornhill creates suspense with his mistaken identity and fight for his escape. The film uses a handful of shots, for example, medium shots, close ups, long shots and shot-reverse-shots. I found particularly interesting how a handful of shots can create suspense and the feeling of danger can create a misleading plot.
I thought Amelie was strangely entertaining film. For the first half hour or so of the movie I wasn’t quite sure what was going on. There seemed to be no distinct plot and seemed to be all introductions into the twisted life Amelie was brought up in. Even through my confusion at this point, I found Amelie’s childhood to be entertaining, for example her imaginary friend or the description of her parent’s life styles. The movie started to pick up after Amelie discovered the box and decided she wanted to bring happiness to people around her and make the bad people pay for their actions. The scheme she devised to get back at the mean merchant was quite clever. I also enjoyed the cat-and-mouse game she played with Nino in order to return the photo album and to eventually meet him. I also found the usage of breaking the fourth wall in order for Amelie to answer the narrator’s questions to be unique.
A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.
Fashion in the 21th century is a big business, as its production employs millions of people and generates billions of dollars in revenue. Fashion has for the past century been, and is still today, used as an indicator of social change and progress, as it changes with the social norms of the society and the political changes of the world (Finkelstein 3).
Moreover, many products were luxurious in the 80s because the economy recovered during that period. Modern fashion is meaningful; it brings many changes and has a huge influence on general life. Heskett (2002) mentioned that it not only changes the lifestyle, but also changes the minds of a generation.
Kidnapping not only happens in the United States, it happens worldwide. There are some children who are found and there are some who has been missing for years to come. The call was a great way to let young adults know the severity of being kidnapped and it lets dispatchers know how severe a person being kidnapped really is. The call was a movie made in the year of 2013 starring Halle Berry and Morris Chestnut. Halle Berry and Morris chestnut work together to make this film become a great life lesson and also create suspense. During the last 32 years, NCMEC’s national toll-free hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST® (1-800-843-5678), has received more than 4.3 million calls. NCMEC has circulated billions of photos of missing children, assisted
According to the Canada’s Action on Climate Change, Climate change is a long-term shift in weather conditions identified by changes in temperature, precipitation, winds, and other indicators. Climate change can involve both changes in average conditions and changes in variability, including, for example, extreme events. Climate change is one of the biggest crisis in the earth. It will cause a huge damage to the eco-system and human. We are the victims of the climate change. However, we are the one who cause the climate change.