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HP5 Movie Review

As usual, this is super rushed.


A Movie Worth of Rebellion

I was never a Harry Potter Book reader or even a Harry Potter fan but I was indeed fascinated by how Filipinos and even the world public overwhelmingly responded to the series of books and movies written by J.K. Rowling and produced by Warner Brothers. I could say that I am just following the trend, but who cares? Pop culture is inevitable! Anyway, even though that I never read the first four books in the series, I made sure that I watch the first four. And even though I am not a Harry Potter scholar, I think I know the basic features and characteristics of the plot or the story of the series of books. This, somehow, makes me a credible critic of the fifth movie. This movie review will be for our subject, Humanities 2. For that reason, I will be reviewing the movie in terms of its aesthetic value, musical score, cinematography and special effects. Of course, the movie plot itself will be considered.

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Malèna Movie Review

This is one of the nicest papers I have made for Comm2.

Renato, Malèna and the Fascist Italy

I was at an excited stage when we talked about the movie Malèna after watching it. Our professor cited different tools that a good writer and director use. These are contradictions, parallelisms, redundancies, symbolisms and subtle ideas. Reviewing a movie is like analyzing a painting—not a what-you-see-is-what-you-get case. My first plan in making this review is to view what, why and how the writer made use of the tools but I am quite intrigued with a single one—parallelisms. I am having fun connecting ideas of different realms; it is like an unimaginable intersection of two lines from different planes. In connection with this, I am mystified why the director (Tornatore) and the writers (Tornatore and Vincenzo) placed the plot in Italy during the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. What I mean is there should be a sensible connection between the plot and the setting otherwise it is nothing but useless. And here I am, trying my best to understand Tornatore and Vincenzo.

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