Film Studies

Italian Neorealism After the World War II, films technique begin from the Italian Neorealism. The World War II affecting the cinema industries in economic and stability. Cesare Zavattini was the theoretical founder of neo-realism in 1942. Theory Discussion Italian Neorealism is a new form of Italian Cinema that abolishes contrive and planned plots, use real people and locations to show the realistic of the movie. The pursuit of neo-realism is the reality of life, which demands the expression of the suffering of the Italian people through the war, suffering of life, and denounces the injustice in the society. This film technique mostly shot on-location in the ruins of the war. They also tend to use mixture of professional actor and non-actors but mostly non-actors able to bring out more realistic. For the film of Bicycle Thieves, after the World War II, Rome like many other country, was flooded with unemployment and poverty, people often fought for a job opportunity, and t...

Theory Discussion French Impressionist Cinema was popular on 1919 until 1928 in French. It is a films term applied by a group of French films and filmmakers. French Impressionist basically explores psychological causes; gives narration considerable psychological depth, revealing play of the character’s consciousness. In short, French Impressionist emphasis on what character thinking, saying or acting. French Impressionist also manipulates plot time and subjectivity; showing flashback or memories to show it. This is one of the hint can give the audiences know what was happened before. Besides, the characteristic of French Impressionist also tend to use visual depiction of mental states via cinematography and editing. This can be the guiding for the audiences and know what the actor trying to express. The film of In The Mood For Love is directed by Wong Kar-wai and released on 29 September 2000.This film is using a lot of French Impressionism technique to bring out the two main cha...

Postmodernism  Bricolage in postmodernism theory is genre bending & hybrid genres. Bricolage creating an art form existing resources that is different compare to the pass. We tend to classify a genres to movie such as horror, comedy, romantic and more. Classifying films into genres is a form of modernist structuring. Bending genres is to bending the classification of a films, we can also know as to mix two genres or more film genres. The developing  of the characteristics of genres creates an evolving effect, churning out new generic characteristics.  Paranorman is directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler. This movie released on 3 August 2012 in Mexico. Paranorman is a stop motion that combined with the latest 3D technology. Synopsis This story is about a boy, Norman an 11 years old boy who live in a small town of Blithe Hollow, he does not like to talk with other because of his ability. He can see and talk with people that already pass away what we call...

Train to Busan is directed by Yeon Sang-ho and release on 13 May 2016.The genres of this movie is horror movie. Horror movie may cause the audiences feel intense repugnance, fear, or dread. Britannica, T. E. (2013, August 30). Horror film. The purpose I writing this review is to discuss about this movie is different compare to the other Horror film. There are a lot of subgenres of horror movie for example unnatural, psychological and Massacre. Train to Busan is under unnatural category which is bodily mutilations/mutations Blood suckers, pests, creatures growing within the body, altering the normal body states. Train to Busan under unnatural category is because of the special make up effect. The effect of postmodernism bring a lot of differences compare with the normal horror film. This is also one of the reason why Train to Busan is a famous film. For me Train to Busan is not only a horror movie. There are some others element added into this horror film it makes the audien...

Memento is directed by Christopher Nolan and release on 5 September 2000. This movie is about a man Leonard finding the murderer who killed his wife. Synopsis  Leonard was finding some clue to find out who is the murderer John.G that raped and killed his wife. He get injured when he fighting with the murderer so he cannot have new memories. He will be forgotten new memories after few minutes. He uses instant film to capture all the clues that he found. He also tattoo the clues on his own body so it will help him to remember. His friends Teddy and Natalie use his short memories to drug trafficking. After Leonard discover, Teddy tell Leonard all the truth. Leonard already killed John.G but after that Leonard cannot remember. His memories always stopped at the moment his wife was died when raped by John.G. Leonard do not want to believe what Teddy said to him because that is the only reason can make Leonard to live.  5 scene I like At the beginning of the m...

Seoul Station is directed by Yeon Sang-ho and release on 18 August 2016.This movie is based on humanity and it is actually happen in our daily life.The darkness of the society and people only think about themselves. Synopsis  A homeless old man was injured and walking around the Seoul Station.At the same time , the main character Hye-sun is argue with his boyfriend Ki-woong because his boy friend is trying to sell her as a prostitute in the internet. After that his boyfriend receive a call from his girl-friend's "father" which actually is his girl friend pimp, Suk-gyu. Suk-gyu is trying to find Hye-sun and Ki-woong bring him to her . The zombie virus was quickly infected to public. Hye-sun is trying hard to escape from those zombies. When Hye-Sun, Ki-woong and Suk gyu meet together with Hye-sun, Ki-woong realized  Suk-gyu is not her father. Suk-gyu beaten Ki-woong to the floor when he trying bring Hye-sun along with him. Ki-woong try to stab Suk-gyu with a knife b...