Mindwalk: International Relations
.... he is trying to get
across: people's perception of the world.
As the day draws to a close, the three different viewpoints seem to
slowly diverge into a common thought: People need to view the world as a whole,
everything relying on each other, as nature and life, instead of a huge
mechanical machine. As I mentioned above, I think everyone that watched the
movie will come away from it with a different idea in mind. I believe that idea
that you are left with has a great deal to do with the one that you started with,
the way you saw the world before watching Mindwalk.
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Movie Review: Yentl
.... It is the story of a young girl, in love with
learning but forbidden to do so by Jewish tradition. Upon her father's death,
Yentl disguises herself as a boy to attend a yeshiva (religious school) and
continue her studies. She befriends Avigdor, a male scholar at the yeshiva,
and falls in love with him. Driven by her love for him, Yentl will do all that
she can to ensure that he is near her and that her secret is not revealed.
Yentl struggles with her secret until the day she can no longer remain silent.
She tells Avigdor what she has done, and of her love for him, but he cannot
accept a woman who refuses to act as a tradition .....
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Movie Review Of Jerry Maguire
.... Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), remains faithful. Ironically enough,
his only concern is money. Only one former colleague, Dorothy Boyd (Renee
Zellweger), joins Jerry when he forms a new company. His memo inspired her. Her
five-year-old son, Ray (Jonathan Lipnicki), develops a huge crush on Jerry and
is the deciding factor in convincing Jerry to marry Dorothy on impulse after he
breaks up with his fiance, Avery (Kelly Preston). The movie tracks the trials of
his relationship with Dorothy, and Rod's ascent to stardom.
Jerry is not a typical role for Tom Cruise. He's accustomed to playing,
and we're used to seeing him in, macho, heroic .....
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Movie Review: A Time To Kill
.... (Patrick McGoohan) decides
against moving the trial. Brigance needs to get a jury of young, married men
with children. What does he get? A jury of women and old men. So Brigance has
his work cut out for him, especially when he is up against the cruel and
cheating Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey).
The film moves along quickly, which I wasn't expecting. The movie is 145 minutes
long, but it seems shorter than this. The book is over 500 pages, so Goldsman
had his work cut out for him. But he did a great job and made the movie more
entertaining than the book. As I said, the actors must have had something to do
with it as well. Matthew M .....
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National TV Turn-Off Week: A Dumb Idea
.... you believe that we can make more
out of ourselves. But what do they know? Have they ever done any research to
prove their theories? No, they haven't. But the people behind such propaganda
as National T.V-Turnoff Week really do believe that not watching television can
enhance your life, so let us examine their reasoning.
Linda Weltner suggests that instead of watching television one can take
up a craft such a knitting. Sure knitting is a good hobby. Entertaining,
enjoyable, it might even relieve stress. But when it comes down to it what do
you really get out of knitting that you wouldn't get out of watching television?
A .....
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Nell
.... used was different, Nell still gave a good list of very
abstract ideas that someone who is mentally retarded could not possibly
comprehend. Nell understood why she was different saying that she was raised in
a small world and knew small things unlike the large things found in the city of
Charlotte, N.C. This proved that Nell was very capable of living by herself and
taking care of herself.
3) The experts, in the beginning of the movie, said that Nell was not
capable of making the correct judgments to make in the world by herself. They
did not believe that Nell had the wisdom to make the correct choices in life
situations. .....
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George Lucas And Movies: No Future?
.... on its path of the search for perfection of everything. He
shows the future as a place that many people would probably not want to live or
to be associated with.
Lucas shows that everyone will be the same. People will wear the same
clothes and have the same haircut. Names are no longer a part of society. In
the movie each person is given a prefix of letters followed by a number. They
are basically drones who follow orders. Technology has advanced so far that
every motion or action of the person is monitored. Anytime that one of them
does something wrong it immediately appears on the computer screen as to what
they are do .....
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Of Mice And Men: A Comprehensive Comparison Of Novel And Movie
.... he loves animals, but he inadvertently crushes them to death.
Women, to him, are rather like animals, -- soft, small, and gentle. And there
lies the tension that powers this narrative to its tragic conclusion.
The film version and the novel are very similar. There is minimal
description in the novel, enough to set the scene, and the rest is dialogue.
The film's story is very pure and lean as Steinbeck's original.
Producer/director Gary Sinise and screenwriter Horton Foote don't try do
anything fancy, they don't try to make it anything other than exactly what it is,
a timeless simple story. Sinise and Foote make American Lit .....
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Movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
.... that he was not deaf and dumb but was only faking his
muteness and they planed to escape together.
McMurphy later found out that many of these patients were here only
because they put themselves here and didn't want to leave even though they had
the option to. He tried his best to bring some life to these patients such as
teaching them to play poker and gambling for cigarettes. He even went so far as
to escape over a fence only to open the gate and to get the patients onto a
nearby bus and drive them to the docks where he took them on a fishing trip.
Also he arranged for his girlfriend and a prostitute to come to the i .....
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Religion Is The Opiate Of The Masses
.... seinfeld and the occasional Beavis
and Butthead, but everything in moderation and nothing to excess, so to put it
simply, do not overdo it, or you will end up a moron who needs Tom Brokaw to
tell them what is right and wrong.
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Movie Villains
.... the villains actually comes
out victorious, as in the movie Chinatown. Villains or antagonist are the
spotlights of most movies.
What is the origin of villains?
Villains have been around since evil has walked the earth. Movies have
made evil from all the different ages to come out, for instance Messala in Ben
Hur is from the early AD years and Toecutter from the movie Mad Max lives in the
late 1990's. Probably the earliest known villains would be the serpent in the
garden of eve. It was the first villains by coaxing Adam and Eve into eating
the apple. From there more villains came, from Egypt's Pharaohs to Chinese
emper .....
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A Clockwork Orange: Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish
.... boys, led by Alex, beat a helpless wino that asked them for some change. The
gang then strode away as if nothing occurred. They struck him repeatedly with
canes and they kicked him a few times to the job. Next, the boys went to see a
rival gang. This other group was in the middle of raping a woman when Alex and
Company came in and intervened. They proceeded to beat the other gang members
to a pulp. Then, they went to the house of a writer, to burglarize it. While
there, they brutalized the writer and his wife. Alex raped the wife in front of
the writer and then started to sing "Sing'n in the Rain" as he pummeled the old
man .....
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