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… film "What’s Eating Gilbert Grape". Ostensibly, journey implies movement but it’s the nature of this movement that lies at the heart of the film. In the film the audience is confronted with Gilbert’s (the main protagonist) personal, psychological journey…

… with the dark side. That is not to say that I bow down to Beelzebuub, or Darth Vader for that matter; but as an adolescent immersed in horror movies and thrash metal music, it became apparent to me that the dark side was infinitely more interesting.…

… people, explore worlds both imagined and real, it can show you the past and send you reeling into the future. A cinematic experience can be all encompassing; it can stimulate your senses through images that the director has created, as long as the…

… mother-daughter relationships between the characters, and at a lower level, relationships between friends, lovers, and even enemies. The mother-daughter relationships are most likely different aspects of Tan’s relationship with her mother, and perhaps…

… away, and brings me into a world, that every girl would like to visit one day. “Dirty Dancing” has a cult following beyond comprehension to the average person. Featuring what were at the time steamy scenes between Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze,…

… starts with the Weis family wedding, giving a sense of happiness and change. The people getting married are Carl, a Jew and Inga, a German. Their friend is discovered at the wedding to be a Nazi and he warns them of a change that is coming that…

… monastery. The movie is told as a flashback from Adso, as an old man, looking back to when he was child. The movie starts off with Brother William of Baskerville and his novice, Adso of Melk, riding to an abbey in north Italy. Once they arrive in their…

… survival would only be for these whom were the fittest. But what does it take to survive? If one were to ponder this, they would come to the conclusion that survival is based nearly on moral support. Looking at the movie “The Deer Hunter”, three…

… Kinsella is an ordinary man from Eastern Iowa who has an extraordinary event happen to him that will change the life for him and his family forever. The movie "Field of Dreams" was released in 1989 and stared Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones,…

… on October 3, 1993. There were approximately 160 men eagerly awaiting the signal to proceed. Matt Eversmann sat waiting in Super Six Seven, a Black Hawk helicopter. This time they were packing more ammo and the commander had come out to see them…