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Tag: American Movies

Bonnie and Clyde (1967): Summary and Analysis

Posted on June 24, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary:  A violent yet romanticised account of the career of the notorious bank-robbing couple who meet and embark on their spree amidst the poverty of the Great Depression in 1920s USA.  Analysis: When first released in 1967, Bonnie and Clyde was a critical failure and achieved only mediocre box office sales. Even then, however, it…

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Blue Velvet: Summary and Analysis

Posted on June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary: After finding a severed ear in a vacant lot, Jeffrey Beaumont (MacLachlan) becomes drawn into a mystery in the town of Lumberton. Jeffrey and Sandy (Dern), the daughter of the local police detective, begin investigating a woman named Dorothy Vallens (Rossellini), who is somehow connected to the case. Jeffrey soon finds himself hiding in…

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Birth Of A Nation (1915): Summary and Analysis

Posted on June 23, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary: A US Civil War (1861–65) drama, Birth of a Nation centres on two white families, the Camerons from the South and the Stonemans from the North. Before the war, during a visit of the Stonemans to the Camerons, Ben Cameron falls in love with Elsie Stoneman, and Phil Stoneman with Margaret Cameron. The war,…

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Apocalypse Now: Summary and Analysis

Posted on June 19, 2019June 20, 2019 by JL Admin

Summary: Special Forces operative, Captain Willard, is given the task of journeying up the Mekong River during the Vietnam War to find and kill a US army officer, Colonel Kurtz, who has set up his own kingdom deep in the jungle where he is worshipped as a god by the local people. A series of…

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