Summary: Following a chance encounter in a local restaurant, a lonely woman named Karen (Jørgensen) meets a group of people known as the ‘idiots’, a collective whose aim is to challenge bourgeois social norms and to expose middle-class pretensions and hypocrisies. The group members undergo a procedure known as ‘spassing’ – in which they mimic…
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In The Mood For Love – Summary & Analysis
Summary: In Hong Kong, 1962, Su Li-zhen, Chow Mo-wan and their respective partners rent rooms in adjacent flats. The two gradually become aware that Li-zhen’s husband is having an affair with Mo-wan’s wife and begin to seek solace in each other’s company. They work through their shared pain by roleplaying scenarios, such as imagining how…
His Girl Friday – Summary and Analysis
Summary: Ace reporter Hildy Johnson returns to The Morning Post to notify Walter Burns – the Post’s Managing Editor and Hildy’s ex-husband – that she plans to quit the paper, move to Albany, and marry insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin. Burns exhibits few scruples as he attempts to disrupt this plan. While breaking up Hildy’s engagement…
Hiroshima mon amour – Summary, Analysis
Summary: A Japanese man and a French woman meet and become lovers in Hiroshima in 1959. The woman is in Japan to act in a film aimed at promoting peace. The intensity of this brief love affair allows her to revisit the trauma of her first love at the age of 18 with an occupying…
La Haine / Hatred (Movie) – Summary, Analysis
Summary: Three friends from different ethnic backgrounds experience the prejudices of French society in the 24 hours after a ‘race’ riot. Vinz has found a handgun and seems crazy enough to use it. Hubert, searching for ways to create something positive from his life, is more thoughtful and seems more balanced. Said observes, watching events…
Gone With The Wind (Movie): Summary and Analysis
Summary: The film is a saga of destruction and reconstruction during and after the American Civil War. Against this background of an aristocratic society collapsing then struggling to adjust to harsh new commercial and social realities, the love affair between Rhett and Scarlett flickers, then flames into passion, but then burns out, leaving only ashes….
The Godfather 1 (1972): Story Summary and Analysis
Story Summary: At the height of his power, the Godfather, Don Corleone, grants wishes to people he protects during his daughter’s wedding ceremony. Thus, he sends Tom Hagen to Hollywood to intimidate a studio head so that he gives his godson a movie role. But when Don Corleone is sceptical about participating in the emerging…
Gegen die Wand / Head-On – Summary, Analysis
Summary: Cahit and Sibel, two Germans of Turkish origin, encounter each other in a psychiatric hospital after having made separate suicide attempts. Trying to escape the restrictions of her conservative family home, Sibel spontaneously proposes a marriage of convenience to Cahit, which gives her the (above all sexual) freedom she so desperately desires. But Cahit…
Gavaznha / The Deer – Summary, Analysis
Summary: Bleeding slowly from a bullet wound and carrying a suitcase full of stolen bank money, Ghodrat (Gharibian) searches for his high school best friend, Seyyed (Vossoughi), to give him shelter. When he finally locates Seyyed, instead of the imposing school legend renowned for his toughness and valour, Ghodrat finds a burned-out heroin addict who…
Freaks (1932 Movie): Story Synopsis and Analysis
Synopsis: Circus dwarves Hans and Frieda (Harry and Daisy Earles) are engaged to be married. They work in a tight-knit community of ‘freaks’ that includes a ‘human torso’, a pair of conjoined twins, a ‘half boy’ and assorted other characters. The conniving trapeze artist Cleopatra (Baclanova), a ‘normal’, learns that Hans has an inheritance, and…