i hav to watch 4 movies in english and write reveiws.it has to b pertaining to social and political issues.?

Question

yeah!i need it by tommorrow.pls name some and if u can also tell me the gist of the movie it will b all the helpful.thanx 4 ur efforts.if u help me the one with the xcellent movie choice will b selected as the best answer.pls help me........................
thank you

Answer 1

1. Syriana
Cast:
George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt
Storyline:
Political thriller that unfolds against the intrigue of the global oil industry. From the players brokering back-room deals in Washington to the men toiling in the oil fields of the Persian Gulf

2. A time to kill
Cast:
Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock, Charles S. Dutton, Ashley Judd
Storyline:
In a small southern town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. Based on John Grisham's bestselling first novel.

3. I am sam
Cast:
Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning
Storyline:
A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

4. John Q
Cast:
Gabriela Oltean, Denzel Washington, Kimberly Elise, Ron Annabelle, Daniel E. Smith
Storyline:
A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.

Answer 2

The Manchurian Candidate - 1962 movie is man vs. Communist party; 2004 movie is man vs. a global corporation
1984 or Fahrenheit 451 - loss of personal freedom in a repressive society
Soylent Green - loss of food supply leads to manufactured "food" - what is the food made of?
Koyaanisqatsi - no dialogue, just visuals set to music of man modifying the planet - makes you think, "what are we doing???"
An Inconvenient Truth - documentary about global warming
The Thin Blue Line - documentary about an actual criminal case - police manipulate evidence because they want a suspect in the murder of a fellow officer

I've enjoyed all of these movies - they're some of the best movies period, not just ones about issues. There are probably more - these are just ones I thought of right away.

Answer 3

Witness
Actor:Harrison Ford

John Book(Harrison Ford) is a city cop who has to protect an amish boy at the amish farm after samuel(the boy) witnesses a vicious murder in the toilets of a train station.

The theme is that society takes a dim view on the amish bcus they snt use electricity and there way of life is seen as a waste of time but after the film is over the viewer realises that the amish have a better way of life than the city people.....

Answer 4

Here is a list of a few, you should be able to get reviews on them on the net, just type the title in your search bar. The Damned, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Birth of a Nation Bound for Glory, The Green Berets

Answer 5

American History X
This is about the changing of a family based on the choices of one member. Edward Norton plays a skin head who goes to jail for a racial killing. Once out he changes his ways and tries to live his life right but finds that his brother is following in his footsteps. In the end his brother decides he wants to live his life without racial hatred. His soul is saved but his life is cut short because he was already to far gone into the skinhead lifestyle. A must see movie!!!!

Patton
War movie (obviously) about Sargent George Patton and his commands during World War II. "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -- Patton, in the opening line of the film.

Schindler's List
Excellent recollection of a man and his factory during the holocaust. Schindler owned a factor where he kept Jews on his payroll to keep them from having to go to concentration camps.

Full Metal Jacket
Legendary director Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, A Clockwork Orange) tells the story of young Marine recruits, from boot camp to the battlefields of Vietnam in one of the best war epics of all time!

All of these movies you can look up on the Internet and get a better feel for what they were about. They are all classics as far as cinematography is concerned.

Answer 6

Palermo Connection
political/criminal(mafia)
self examination/of morals and wit
.............Plot summary for
Dimenticare Palermo
http://imdb.com/title/tt0099430/plotsummary
Open the Link and ready summary that will give you the gist.
Main character has his own agenda for solving his need to be released from the bonds of the Mafia/politicians .
They all want something.
The end was a 'TRUE SHOCK' I being an arm side detective couldn't figure it out. I'm still reeling from the ending. If you can rent this DO IT!
He gave up his life to dispel any notion that anyone was going to make a puppet out of him.

Answer 7

Forest Gump actually has a lot of social and political views in it.

Answer 8

Crash is a socially relevant movie. I wasn't a fan of it though...