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Movie Review - Bicycle Thieves (Italian Neorealism)

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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 ...

Movie Review - In the Mood for Love

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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...

Hybrid Genre - Paranorman

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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...