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MOVIE CRITIQUE

Movie critique writing is an informative review of a movie. Writing a movie critique paper is a kind of art
that requires person’s understanding, commitment, patience, as well as unbiased opinion regarding the
chosen movie or film. The main idea of a decent movie critique paper is to give future readers some
piece of info about the film, so that they can take a decision for themselves whether to see it or not. The
writer is supposed to include in certain movie critique piece of evidence or details regarding what the
film is about, his/ her assessment of the success or failure of this film, based on the data gathered.
Therefore, it is more than a movie synopsis of the film / movie. For the author, a movie critique writing
implies presenting his/her personal opinions, considerations, or points of view about the movie based
on the interest, frustration, pleasure, surprise, disappointment, disgust, or any other types of feelings
and emotions that the movie evokes.

DIFFERENCE OF MOVIE CRITIQUE AND ARTICLE CRITIQUE

MOVIE CRITIQUE writing is an informative review of a movie. Writing a movie critique paper is a kind of
art that requires person's understanding, commitment, patience, as well as unbiased opinion regarding
the chosen movie or film.

ARTICLE CRITIQUE

An article critique, also known as a response paper, is a formal evaluation of a journal article or another
type of literary or scientific content. Your main goal is to show whether or not the author provided
reasonable arguments and facts for their main points and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the
article.

FORMAT OF MOVIE CRITIQUE

1.Summary

One of the essential parts of a movie critique requires a concise summary of the events that took place
in the movie. The task of the film critic is to create an intriguing atmosphere that is supposed to interest
a reader to at least read further or to watch a movie. This first part of the film critique is basically the
retelling of the plot that usually includes exposition, rising and falling action, climax and finally,
resolution. So, the summary would definitely include first two elements while avoiding climax and
resolution in order not to spoil the whole movie.

2. Significance

Furthermore, the second part includes an analysis according to such criteria as genre and theme of the
movie. Surely, historical, sci-fi, comedy or drama will differ in terms of evaluation and interpretation
both for a professional critic or an average viewer. It is possible to nail down a significance of the movie
by determining its genre and judging it against the established criteria of that genre. Admittedly,
creative and innovative movies tend to receive higher rates and feedback from the audience, yet some
of the genre-specific conventions are to be adhered to. So, the significance of the movie is another
element of the movie critique.

3. Story elements
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The third part of the critique includes an actual detailed analysis of numerous film elements, namely
lighting, sound, cinematography, mise-en-scene and narrative. These technical specifications are part of
the story analysis regarding the particular movie that will allow to break it into several parts. Sometimes,
the plot might be intriguing with the well-developed story while the cinematography elements might
have evident flaws. On the other hand, the opposite might be true, since excellent camera perspective
and impressive visual tricks may occur in poor movie scenarios.

Consequently, the impression of a movie will be influenced by these factors.

4. Conclusion

In this final part of the movie review, a critic may add his/her overall impressions and general
evaluation. Most of the time, the concluding part also covers a recommendation regarding a movie.
Eventually, it may be explicitly stated or described throughout the review. It is also relevant to briefly
restate a summary, significance and story elements of the movie in the closing paragraphs. Usually,
different websites include ratings on various films (e.g. IMDb) that consist of both comments and
critiques. Eventually, one can make inferences regarding whether it is worth seeing a movie or not.
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REFLECTION PAPER

Parasite tells the story of poverty and on how and what does a family can do just
to earn a living or to survive, the Kim family who cunningly place themselves in the service
of the Parks, a trusted household who have been unknowingly harboring a stranger in
their basement for years.
We all know that parasites are the ones who depends on its host for survival. But in this
film, it was really different, because they are human parasites. The Kim Family and the
household along with her husband could be easily viewed as parasitic, the two families
rely on the Parks for income, food and shelter, and secretly enter their house carefully
and aggressively competing with each other. Upon watching it, I can say that it was a
really great and genius movie. Mostly the scenes show different symbolism that will truly
catch your attention and at the same time it will surely bring you realizations in life.
First is the light, which for me it symbolizes the difference in the classes. While the poor
family lives in a basement home with a tiny window, the rich family has huge floor to
ceiling windows that let light shine into their home. It also shows that the Kim family has
the lesser opportunities in life rather than the Park family who has the opposite situation
because of the limelight they already have. Second, It isn’t just about “rich vs poor” The
lower class family fought against each other for the entirety of the movie. Stealing jobs,
threatening one another, physically harming or killing each other, all for the leftovers of
the clueless upper-class family. Third is the rain, if we'll just pay attention to that scene in
the car wherein the mother of the rich family said that the rain was good last night
because they got to sleep well because of the cold and gloomy weather while for the
lower class their home was being flooded by sewage water and they can't even do
anything about it so they have no other choice to evacuate. In here, we can already see
that the rain was very different for the two families. Lastly, everyone in that film is a
parasite, it’s easy to see that the lower-class families in the movie are parasites. But the
rich family was also parasitic, because of the fact that they only lived in comfort due to
the labor of their employees and thinking that they can easily live a life and manipulate
everything using money.
For the last scene, it was highlighted that Ki-woo will never, ever going to afford the house
because of what they've done. Even though he and his mom were already free from jail
he can't undo everything, and he can't just easily get a good life after all. For me, I truly
believe in the saying that "Poverty is not a hindrance to success" it’s just that we should
know how to strive harder and know how to use our own talent and knowledge in a right
way, we should not let our status brings us down even more. We should learn how to
fight right in every battle in life because every pain that we will endure throughout the
process will be worth it at the right time.