Directed by Michael Curtiz, screen written by Julius Epstein, Howard Koch and Philip Epstein; Casablanca is a romance drama movie. The central theme of the film is World War II and its effects on individuals and countries. The story, as would be natural, has its devious convolutions of plot. But mainly it tells of a…
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The Graceful Truth
“’Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” – John Keats These lines from John Keats’ poem ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ are no doubt impactful but the hardest to interpret. The reader is confused on whether the Urn is addressing humankind or the speaker…
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Being a film adaptation, The Great Expectations 1998 is an abridged modernization of Charles Dickens’ novel. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, the screenplay by Mitch Glazer ‘makes us believe’ how the literary word of Dickens is deployed in an appealing cinematic experience. Great Expectations 1998 is about a poor painter boy who falls in love with…
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