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Research a genre of your own choice and discuss which topics/issue it raises - Superhero Movies

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The genre of film I selected is the rather successful and entertaining superhero genre. In recent times, the superhero genre has reached new heights of success, with Avengers Endgame making 2,790,200,000 dollars at the box office and dethroning 2009's Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time. Considering these feats, I believe it is obvious that many find this genre to be lucrative and entertaining. As to why I enjoy this genre: First of all, I enjoy the fact that good always triumphs over evil, not because of the fact evil is concurred but the way that the defeat of an antagonist is achieved. For example, what around them can they utilise to defeat their foe? What weapon in their arsenal can they utilise in a strategic method to combat their enemies? You see, its the journey of defeating the villain , not the destination, though both are rather satisfying when seen together. It's moments like these that make people (like my father), enjoy these movies. Second of all,

Analysis of a sequence of the film, Under the skin

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I felt that in the scene, the lack of speech from the characters helps to create an unnerving feeling. A similar affect is created due to the lack of music as due to the absence of all sound, something that is rather common place in most forms of cinema and media in general, it leaves the viewer or viewers to theorise what is going on. I felt like some of the visuals found in that same scene also helped to seem unnerving. My main choice to prove this would be the part with the ant. For some reason the woman allows an ant to crawl onto her hand . When the camera soon moves in on the ant, we see it moving and it creates a feeling of disgust, at least to me, due to the fact that bugs are commonly seen as filthy insects, their segmented bodies wriggling, their mandibles moving in and out like pincers on a puny crab combating it's predators and it's twig like legs helping it scurry on to the woman's hand with swiftness and wonder.  During the first scene, I felt that, similarly