Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Om Shanti Om is a Bollywood film about an actor breaking into the industry, Om Kapoor. Om Kapoor meets his idol and falls deeper in love with her. Director Farah Khan portrays Om Kapoors feeling towards her with a variety of editing techniques. Khan uses offscreen diegetic sounds, Non-simultaneous sound, non-diegetic sound and sound bridges to give a comical effect to the film. These techniques give viewers insight on how Om Kapoors feels throughout the film. At times he is…
The movie Moonlight by Barry Jenkins shows the hardships of being a black gay man who is in the lower class bracket. Jenkins divides the movie in three parts. In the first act Jenkins show a young Chiron being bullied because people presume that he is gay. He is aided by Juan. Juan is a Chirons mom's drug dealer and this is revealed to Chiron at the end of the act. When he is asked by Chiron if he's a…
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The film Tacones Lejanos focuses on the dynamics of the trans community. The movie focuses on Rebecca who is sent to jail for murder. Director Pedro Almodóvar focuses on her relationship with her mothers ex. As she is navigating her unsteady relationship with her mother, Rebecca and her mom are investigated for murder of Rebecca's Miguel Bose who she encounters at a drag show. Rebecca admits to murdering him because of her negative sentiment towards her mother. The use of…