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Man on fire
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Man on fire
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Man on fire was an action film cast in 2004. Tony Scott directed the movie. The action-thriller is based on a 1980 novel that bears the same name written by A. Quinnell. The main actor is Denzel Washington who portrays the character John Creasy, a sad and former alcoholic. The plot is based on Creasy’s job as a bodyguard to Lupita Ramos aa nine-year-old daughter to Samwel Ramos. Paul Rayburn suggested the job intending to help his friend recover and give him a purpose in life (Bevan).
One day during his daily bodyguard routine, things go wrong when Lupita is kidnapped, and Creasy is fatally wounded. Creasy notices that the police are involved in the kidnap and uses other means to expose the corruption that has become the daily routine of the police federation. Creasy befriends Mariana Garcia, a famous journalist that offers to help him in the investigation. Now Creasy had gotten so close to Lupita that he decides to take matters into his own hands. The investigation becomes soar as there are lots of killings in the way. He even interrogates Lupita’s father, Samwel and when he learns that Samwel is involved Creasy leaves his suicide gun to him and suggests that Samwel atones for his sins. Samwel commits suicide leaving his daughter fatherless. Creasy dies in the rescue process of Lupita (Bevan). The movie was a box success despite contrasting opinions and reviews.
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Some critiques use the phrase that the film starts well but goes all out violently in the second half. The movie has a 39% rating on Rotten tomatoes. Other critiques unsympathetically argue that Creasy should have been displeased with the killings and also taken a moderate approach with the investigation. While Quinnel, the author of the book admits the violent nature of the movie. Quinnell states that if anger is not restrained, the outcomes are often awful. He is pleased with the way Denzel Washington plays the character, Creasy. The movie meets the character perception of Creasy, a depressed alcoholic man.
Nevertheless, other critics are pleased with the mouthwatering shooting of the film. The movie is like eye candy to some. Such phrases are common among critics who are pleased with the use of colour filters. According to them, the colour filters suit every scene. The format of subtitles is also merely dazzling. Instead of the standard method of running them at the bottom, the director decided to let them pop up randomly on the film, which is captivating (Pouransari, Hadi & Saman Ghili).
The title “man on fire” works against it. Viewers expect a fantastic adrenaline-fuelled action film right away, but that takes time until the latter half of the movie. However, there is a long latency period required to build a relationship between Creasy and Lupita. The strong bond is essential to give Creasy a purpose and suit the need for revenge. When Pita is kidnapped, Creasy goes on a revenge rampage. The movie earns its title in the latter half because Creasy is filled with silent fury. His actions demonstrate this. He hunts down anyone and everyone that was involved in the kidnap and the process dismantling the towers of corruption in Mexico city.
Denzel Washington’s performance was powerful for a non-original story. Creasy is introduced to the viewers as a drunkard, hopeless and depressed individual. The director uses these displeasing traits to sympathize the actor to the general audience. When the connection to Lupita is finally formed, one cannot help but feel Creasy’s anger. The first part of the movie was critical to keep the viewer glued to their sits and ponder on what was going to happen next. It is impressive that the director was able to create various twists to the plot, such as the father being a culprit together with the police force. Every director usually tries to pull together scenes that the audience can be able to relate to and get angered and sympathize at the same time. The hero outshoots and outwits the bad guys in Mexico. What is fantastic is that Creasy appears to be homeless, yet he has a regular variation of wardrobe and weaponry. The techniques involved are bloody, he is even shot in the process, and during the late minutes of the film, Creasy races against time to save Lupita. He should have sought medical help instead of being so reckless.
On the other hand, the performances are great with right turns and excellent support from Chris Walker and Jiancarlo Giannini. The only distracting stuff is Tony Scott’s signature muddled pictures. The length of the movie is disturbing, and one may forgive Scott for the scanty plot if it was shorter. Some are genuinely magnificent, while the others are trashy and epileptic. However, the director redeems himself by handling his actors superbly and also by making fair use of the environment to create a good atmosphere for the movie.
As the movie continues in the latter half, many people die, and critics argue that one may indeed think that the film should be over only to be introduced to a whole new chapter. This then begs the question of the law of economy of characters which states that a movie contains no non-essential actors. An actor with an insignificant role should be avoided. The plot of the movie is involved yet disappointing at the same time. All critics have their angle to glamour at this piece of art. Even with the disappointing storyline, the director included great actors to compensate for the limited plot (Janicke, Sophie, and Arthur) The narrative picks up the central concept of action movies that depicts a hero that tries to save someone willingly. As displayed in the story, the hero is unselfish and even gives his life for the young lady. This is the most disappointing part of the story where the viewers expected Creasy to come out alive. The screenplay was outstanding with a few hiccups.
Conclusion
Movies often play significant roles in society. They are often necessary for entertainment. Films may be used to educate society. With such audacious roles, the directors have a significant role to play to ensure the audience is glued to the screen. The director must organize the scene, the plot of the story, atmosphere. The emotions of the movie usually draw an influential audience. Therefore, the directors must perform their roles. Even the choice of actors is very critical. As seen in the movie, Denzel was quite a performer as always. Massive regards to him for delivering such a masterpiece.
Works cited
Bevan, Joseph. “Man on Fire: Tony Scott.” BFI. org. uk 5 (2014).
Janicke, Sophie H., and Arthur A. Raney. “Modeling the antihero narrative enjoyment process.” Psychology of Popular Media Culture 7.4 (2018): 533.
Pouransari, Hadi, and Saman Ghili. “Deep learning for sentiment analysis of movie reviews.” Technical report, Stanford University, Tech. Rep. (2014).
Sahu, Tirath Prasad, and Sanjeev Ahuja. “Sentiment analysis of movie reviews: A study on feature selection & classification algorithms.” 2016 International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communications (MicroCom). IEEE, 2016.
Judiciary and Politics
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Judiciary and Politics
The founders wanted the courts to be protected from politics. In what ways was the judiciary designed to hinder the effect of politics? Are the courts completely immune from politics? Why is it desirable to hinder the effect of politics in the judicial process? Are there times when politics should be part of the judicial process? There are ways in which the judiciary is structured in a way that is meant to hinder the influence of politics. One of the ways includes judicial review. Judicial review can be defined as the power manifested in the supreme court giving them power over constitutionality of the laws. There are numerous political strains through the court and the decisions that are made and approved by the courts. This leads to the problem of ongoing protection in the court systems. It is as a result of these problems that the courts find it necessary to hinder the effect of politics in any judicial process because if politics are integrated into the judicial process then there will be complications when it comes to policymaking for the general public and also resolving issues related to public policies. Therefore, in any instance that the court gets involved with politics there is always an issue when solving the problem and there is a need for a judicial review. The other way of having judiciary designed in the manner that it limits politics is to have a strong judiciary that is capable of having a prominent effect in the affairs of the government. This structure helps maintain individual and government rights. This ensures that the citizens’ liberties are secured and the courts’ decisions prevent the violation of the liberties and the rights of the common people. Limited government constitutes the idea from the constitution that gives the idea of the government being restricted from influence in the courts CITATION Wal161 l 1033 (Waldron).
Life tenure is essential for all federal judges. This is because there is a necessity of the judicial branches to be able to have the protection of the rights of individuals from the majority. This is because a permanent judge can be free from political stress and this enables them to carry out their judicial functions from any influence from the congress and the president. The other reason is that this is vital since it requires one to have many years of experience and practice for an individual judge to comprehend laws and have a full grasp of major content. In the long term aspect, the term limits of the federal judges usually have a considerable damaging effect when it comes to the stability of the doctrine. This for instance where a case can go from sure win to a sure lose over an election. Therefore, the doctrinal instability would seemingly change the jurisprudential evolution of nature and also the litigants’ focus. The court could also be further being politicized by the lower court judges and the policymakers from the doctrine to the composition of the courts. However, as much as there are good points that support the term limits of federal judges there should be a consideration of the potential dangers that can occur such as a significant alteration of the judicial system CITATION Fis19 l 1033 (Fiss).
Ideological changes in the supreme court composition have always led to the courts’ rejection of an existing precedent or creation of a new precedent. This is attributed to the fact that ideological differences and changes have always had an impact on the decisions made by the court since the creation of the supreme court. Judges are biased and the votes taken are usually influenced by their ideological preference. This fact establishes that there are limited case decisions made by the courts. Decision making is crucial by the courts since it creates an environment where the type of decision made is influenced by different ideological preferences. Therefore, there is need to have experience especially old experience to defend their conclusions in the form of precedents. Therefore, judges are allowed to hold their jobs as long as they display good behavior and this essentially means that they have life appointment meaning that they get paid regularly and never can their pay be reduced while serving terms in the office CITATION Gib15 l 1033 (Gibson).
The independence of the Judicial Branch together with the policies and the laws of the local state and national governments are usually unconstitutional as spelt by the constitution. Besides, the independence of the Judicial branch empowers them to make any declaration on whether certain actions by the executive and the legislative branches of government meet the validity criteria or not. article III of the Constitution clearly outlines the power and who possess it and subsequently describes how to check the powers of the government. Additionally, it describes in details the powers of the states CITATION Sci15 l 1033 (Scirica).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Fiss, Owen M. “The right degree of independence.” In Transition to Democracy in Latin America (2019): 55-72.
Gibson, James L., and Michael J. Nelson. “Is the US Supreme Court’s legitimacy grounded in performance satisfaction and ideology?” American Journal of Political Science 59 (2015): 162-174.
Scirica, Anthony J. “Judicial Governance and Judicial Independence.” NYUL Rev. 90 (2015): 779.
Waldron, Jeremy. Political theory. Harvard University Press, 2016.
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