Ken's Movies Review

Today, in this movie review I will discuss a romantic comedy film named But I'm a Cheerleader. This is because this film have give us a homosexual feelings when we watch this film. The theory that they use in this film Queer theory. Theory Discussion Queer theory is an approach to literary and cultural study that rejects traditional categories of gender and sexuality, it proposed by Feminist Theory. It can be a critical response to the numerous discourse surrounding AIDS and homosexuality. There are some approaches in Queer theory which includes the audience reception. Many films are open with the homosexuals characters in a narrative film. Other looks or visual exchanges between the participants is mediated on a "narrative" visual discourse in which the look of of the subject. The next approaches is the actors or actress have captured by the straight audiences but sometimes they also captured by the non-straight audiences. It examines queer work. making and writin...

Today's movie review will discuss about a horror movie which is Quarantine. It is because this film has shown the special techniques to present for all audiences. The theory that they used in this movie is mockumentary. Theory Discussion  Mockumentary is a television programme or films that show depicting fictional events but it takes form of a serious documentary. This theory has using a lot of different documentary techniques and modes of representation. Talking about modes of representation, it is kind like genre in the films. According to Bill Nicholas, it is a categories that need to evaluate documentaries as many film maker use these particular techniques selected in order to record or shape the events and how they represent the mockumentary.  This theory have many different types of modes representation which is Poetic, Expository, Observational, Interactive, Reflexive and Performative. Poetic is for the art films. Expository is for like National Geographic. Ob...

In this movie review, I would like to discuss a female version of movie which is called Easy A. It is because based on the history many films at before majority lead role are the men and in this film is start with the woman lead role. The theory that this film had used is Feminist film Theory. Theory Discussion Feminist film theory is started in the 1920s. This theory is talk about the women's expression of her own subjectivity. It is a set of political practices seen through historical position of women as the subordinated, oppressed or exploited in dominant mides of production by male domination. It is because we can find out the ideology and social construction of women in every films. This themes of feminist theory have explored includes discrimination, stereotyping, objectification, oppression, and patriarchy. Laura Mulvey talks about the gaze of gender in many films. She expanded on the concept of scopophilia to introduce visual pleasure and identification with the on ...

In this today movie review, I would like to discuss a very old French movie which is named Breathless. I discuss this movie is because to this movie had used a lot of techniques in this French film. The theory that they used was French New Wave . Theory Discussion French new wave is when a group of director that make started to become the golden era from year 1959 with the first movie, Breathless directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Back to the history which is before 1950s and 1960s, most of the french films use the literary adaptions such us they take the books or fairy tales and become a movie. Nowadays, many director also this concept to make their movie such Divergent, Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games and so on. They think that it will expand the audiences as it can guarantee can get minimum of audiences.  In the 1950s, majority of France films is the documentary films. Many film directors were making these films that is about Nazi death which is for the prisoners of wars in ...

This movie review will discuss about the black and white film which is Maltese Falcon. This movie has used the Film noir theory. This theory has been used in long time ago and nowadays still many films has used this theory to make. Film Noir was style of filmmaking characterized by such elements as cynical heroes, this genre was mostly used  in American crime dramas of the post-World War II era. According to French film critics, is called Film Noir. This movie has a lots of shadows and influenced by German Expressionism. Film Noir films are always having high contrast and low key lighting that create shadow. These films are always film at locations like small house and alley. The characteristics of  film noir which  includes alienation, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia. These films has a lot of plot twisting. Synopsis ThIs movie is starts from a woman named Ruth Wonderly ...

In this movie review I would like to discuss about the animation movie named Corpse Bride. This movie is directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton. The theory that they use is about German Expressionism. This theory that have been used in nowadays life. German expressionism has the themes that included revolt, self-analysis, madness and primitive, sexual savagery. This theory had start in within first world war which is in year 1919 to 1926. It started from the paiting and change to film productions and it also spread into the cinema in narrative and mise-en-scene. For example, the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which is which also using the German Expressionist theory. This film had showed us the fantastic, nightmarish sets with twisted structures and landscapes with sharp-pointed forms and oblique, curving lines. This theory also spread around Germany and Northern European states. The Expressionist movement today is considered as one of the artistic movement. Synopsis This...

In this movie review, I would like to fall backward to the old times, old movie which is the Italian movie named Ladri di biciclette. In the English name is Bicycle Thieves. This movie have used the Italian neo-realism method to produce this movie. Theory Discussion What is Italian Neo-realism? Well, for the neo-realism is known as the low budget movie and always have the negative thoughts. Therefore, there are many bad habit or things happens in the movie. Cesare Zavattini was the founder of the Italian Neo-realism. The form the Italian cinema is using real people and locations that established with social reality. For example, Zavattini can form the plots as the fake structure of everyday life.  Italian Neorealism has contains a lot of characteristics such as they used grainy film stock in order to giving it its newsreel look. That was the new era after the silent film era. Next, they mostly shot on-location. For example, Antonio's neighbourhood and the visit of the ...

This movie review will discuss about a Hong Kong movie which is called In the Mood for Love. The genre of this movie is romantic and they used french impressionist movement for the movie. Theory Discussion French impressionist is the art that show in 19th century. The characteristics of this theory is they can show that the character's consciousness, concerns mental states, dreams or fantasies. For example, the french film, El Dorado (1921).This film is talk about a woman who work in El Dorado just ensure that she enough money to take care her sick child. Showing flashback scenes or memories was also one of the characteristics of this theory such as the movie named memento. It is because this movie have the flashback scenes in the beginning of this film and it also change the plot time.  Moreover, the next characteristic is the uses of irises, superimpositions, masks to indicate characters' thoughts and feelings such as daydreaming in the movie called Sucker Punch...

Today, in this movie review I will like to discuss about this movie called Paranorman. This movie have show us their creativity and even can makes us laugh. It contains a lot of genres that have been mixed and it is called hybrid genre Theory Discussion What is hybrid genre? It meanings that bend the classification of films, thus integrating two or more film genre. We can say the films have mixed genres. Back to the sixties, we have a theory that are appeared which is called postmodernism. The meaning of this theory is the tendency to be anti-modernism. They constituting critical analysis on structuralism, ideology, gender and it promotes reflecting stands on socials, political and cultural agendas and resonances. It always questions about the existing knowledge that we have learned.  Postmodernism has some characteristics which is simulation and prefabrication. The types for the simulation is pastiche. For example, Black Panther movie which has the scene when the main...

Today, I will review the movie named Train to Busan. First of all, I love this movie. I choose this movie to review is because there have many highlights about this movie that i want to talk about. The genre of this movie is horror. What is horror? The official definition of horror is an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting. However, in my meaning of horror is just only shocking and feeling scared, always making me have goosebumps. Theory Discussion In this movie, there is some theory that we can see it and also learn many theory in the class. The theory that we can bring it to this movie is semantics. Semantics is the list of common traits and attitudes, characters, shows, locations, sets, etc, bringing us to very much the visual aspects of the film. Semantics is also same with visuals and it's called mise-en-scene which includes four things are locations, makeup and costume, lighting, and actors' behavio...

Synopsis  There is a man called Leonard who has the inability to form new memories and also have the short-term memory. The new memory will disappear when it's until a period of few minutes of time as he caused by the accident that someone has been kidnapped and murdered his wife and there is a guy that push Leonard to the mirror straight to fell down, cause his head bleeding. The movie is start with 2 sequences which is the colour and black and white that represent two different time lines. The colour sequences shown backward of the scenes on how Leonard finds the killer although the killer had been killed in the first scene. The black and white sequences shown that he is speaking to an unknown killer for showing how is this case happened. The final scene shown that the changes of sequences when the photo develops. At that time, Teddy told him that the real killer is already have been killed and reveals that Sammy's story is his own story and burn the photo to make up the...

Synopsis  This prequel movie of Train of Busan has 3 main characters which is Hye-sun, the girl who live with her careless boyfriend, Ki-woong and a man named Suk-gyu who searching for his runaway daughter. The story begins when a homeless old man with his bleeding neck walking on the street and lie down on the floor until a homeless and kind guy try to help him but it was turned to bad outcome and the zombie apocalypse was begun. Suk-gyu knows the girl on Seoul as he found out on the internet that Ki-woong post it to betray his girlfriend due to the money problem. This couple separate to different places after their fight. Suk-gyu recognize him as her "father" and goes with Ki-woong to find her. After many conflicts, these 3 people finally meet each other but she reveals that Suk-gyu is not her father and he kills Ki-woong instead. Suk-gyu takes her on a bed but she lost her consciousness. Hye-sun revive and killed Suk-gyu. The film ends with the city in chaos....