film studies essays etc.

How far does Winter's Bone rely upon an understanding on it social context? Refer in detail to at least one sequence from the film [20]  When reviewing the scenes of Winter's Bone, we see that the film uses contextual reference and verisimilitude to the social issues of Ortiz, Missouri.  In the scene where Ree visits her aunt and uncle - Victoria and Teardrop - we see the living conditions and Teardrop immediately has the power within the household. Within the community, the men run the area and have control over the women in their lives - seeming to be very patriarchal. We see this in other scenes as when she visits her friend, she has to get permission from her boyfriend to even walk through the door.  As Teardrop takes a seat, we already can tell the woman remains domestic in the background of the medium shot and does everything for the husband without questioning it - mostly because the woman could be punished for disobeying the man in a community like this. Tear...

 For our film, we made a thriller that shows how two people were connected, and the film does show the story pretty well. There are both good and bad points to make about the production that I would want to further improve.  For the pros, the camera work was good and we achieved the shots and effects we wanted in the scene - for example, there was a slight tilt during the stabbing scene which hints that something bad was going to happen. Another good point which links to camera work is the framing, where we made sure to have the boy placed on the far side of the hall to single him out completely. The setting we used was appropriate for the story and having the tunnel be a focused setting added horror to the moment.  However, I do think a lot could have been improved. The plot to me wasn't something that could be seen as a thriller - I think more gore and fear factor would have made it better. Some camera angles confused me as we needed a reaction shot but it was filmed ...