Review Movie Pursuit of Happyness 2006

1-TITLE : The Pursuit Of Happyness.
2-  GENRE : Biography,Drama.

3    3-PRODUCTION DETAILS :

·PRODUCTION COMPANY : Relativity Media Overbook Entertainment Escape                                                                                   Artists.

·PRODUCER : Will Smith, Devon Franklin, Todd Black, Jason Blumental, James  Lassiter, Steve Tisch.

·  DITRECTOR :Gabriele Muccino.

·  WRITER : Steven Conrad.

·   DURATIONS : 117 minutes.



4- CAST/CHARACTERS : Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe, James Karen, Kurt Fulle
5- PLACE SETTING : United States, San Fransisco.

6   TIME SETTING :

·         Historical.

·         After beginning his career at Deen Witter, Chris Gardner went on to found the investment firm Gardner rich in 1987.

·         In 2006, Chris Gardner sold a minority stake in his brokerage firm in a multi-million dolar deal.

 PLOT :

·         BEGINNING : In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner invests his entire life savings in portable bone density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy quantum leap over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in his life. While he is able to sell most of them, the time lag between the sales and his growing financial demands enrage his already bitter and alienated wife Linda, who works as a hotel maid. The financial instability increasingly erodes their marriage, in spite of them caring for Christopher Jr., their soon-to-be five-year-old son.

·         CONFLICT : While Gardner is trying to sell one of the scanners, he meets Jay Twistle, a manager for Dean Witter Reynolds, and impresses him by solving a Rubik's Cube during a taxi ride. After Jay leaves, Gardner lacks money to pay the fare and chooses to run instead, causing the driver to angrily chase him into a BART station. Gardner boards a train but loses one of his scanners in the process. His new relationship with Jay earns him the chance to become an intern stockbroker. The day before the interview, Gardner grudgingly agrees to paint his apartment so as to postpone being evicted due to his difficulty in paying the rent. While painting, Gardner is greeted by two policemen at his doorstep, who take him to the station, stating he has to pay for the numerous parking tickets he has accumulated. As part of the sanction, Gardner is ordered to spend the night in jail instead, complicating his schedule for the interview the next morning. He manages to arrive at Dean Witter's office on time, albeit still in his shabby clothes. Despite his appearance, he impresses the interviewers and lands an unpaid internship. He would be among 20 interns competing for a paid position as a stockbroker.

·         CLIMAX : Gardner's unpaid internship does not please Linda, who eventually leaves for New York because she might get a job at her sister's boyfriend's new restaurant. After Gardner bluntly says she is incapable of being a single mom, she agrees that Christopher Jr. will remain with his dad. Gardner is further set back when his bank account is garnishedby the IRS for unpaid income taxes, and he and Christopher are evicted. He ends up with less than $21, resulting in them being homeless, and they are forced at one point to stay in a restroom at a BART station. Other days, he and Christopher spend nights at a homeless shelter, in BART, or, if he manages to procure sufficient cash, at a hotel. Later, Gardner finds the bone scanner that he lost in the BART station earlier and, after repairing it, sells it to a physician, thus completing all his sales of his scanners.

·         ENDING : Disadvantaged by his limited work hours, and knowing that maximizing his client contacts and profits is the only way to earn the broker position, Gardner develops a number of ways to make phone sales calls more efficiently, including reaching out to potential high-value customers, defying protocol. One sympathetic prospect who is a top-level pension fund manager even takes Chris and Christopher to a San Francisco 49ers game. Regardless of his challenges, he never reveals his lowly circumstances to his colleagues, even going so far as to lend one of his bosses $5 for cab fare, a sum that he cannot afford. Concluding his internship, Gardner is called into a meeting with his managers. One of them notes he is wearing a new shirt. Gardner explains it is his last day and thought to dress for the occasion. The manager smiles and says he should wear another new one tomorrow, letting him know that he has won the coveted full-time position and giving him back his $5 as he promised. Fighting back tears, Gardner shakes hands with them, then rushes to his son's daycare to embrace Christopher. They walk down the street, joking with each other (and are passed by the real Chris Gardner, in a business suit). The epilogue reveals that Gardner went on to form his own multimillion-dollar brokerage firm.

8)      CINEMATOGRAPHY :  Landscape and cinema.

9)      VALUES :

·         Raising a child on your own is very difficult. 

1. ·         Being poor did not stop him from being what he wanted. 

·         The relationship between father and son. 

·         Life will sometimes be tough. 

·         When things get dark, relax. 

·         We receive what we want after doing everything we can.

10)  AWARDS & ACCOLADES :

·         Capri Awards (Movie Of The Year)

·         Mtv Movie Awards (Best Breakthrough Performance-James Smith)

·         Naacp Image Awards (Outstanding Motion Picture)

·         Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (Best Young Actor-Jaden Smith)

·         Teen Choice Award (Choice:Chemistry-Jaden Smith And Choice:Breakoutmale-Jaden Smith)

   

Review Movie Room 2015

1-Title : Room

      2- Genre : Drama and thriller

      3-   Production details-Year of production : 2015

-Name of production company : Filmnation Entertainment
-Name of  Producer : Ed Guiney  and David gross

-Name of Director : Lenny Abrahamson

-Name of writer : Emma Donoghue

-Time of duration : 118 minutes

4)-      Cast :                            

·         Brie Larson as Joy

·         Jacob Tremblay as Jack

·         Joan Allen as Nancy Newsome

·         William H. Macy as Robert Newsome

·         Sean Bridgers as Old Nick

4.      Place setting : Pinewood Toronto Studio

5.      Time setting : Historical

6.      Plot :

Beginning : 
Joy and her five-year-old son Jack live in a squalid shed they call Room. They share a bed, toilet, bathtub, television, and rudimentary kitchen; the only window is a skylight. They are captives of a man they call Old Nick, Jack's father, who abducted Joy seven years ago, and routinely rapes her while Jack sleeps in the wardrobe. She tries to stay optimistic for her son, but is sometimes overcome with depression and is suffering from malnutrition.
 She allows Jack to believe that only Room and its contents are "real," and that the rest of the world exists only on television.

Conflict : 
Joy wraps Jack in a carpet and has him play dead in the hope that Old Nick will remove him from Room. Falling for the ruse, Old Nick places Jack in the back of his pickup truck and drives through a residential neighborhood. Although stunned by his first exposure to the outside world, Jack jumps from the truck and attracts the attention of a passer-by. The police rescue Joy and she and Jack are taken to a hospital.

Climax : 
Joy learns her parents have divorced and that her mother has a new husband, Leo. She returns with Jack to her childhood home where her mother and Leo reside. Her father cannot accept Jack and leaves. Jack initially struggles to adjust to life in the larger world, speaking only to his mother and expressing a desire to return to Room. Joy struggles with anger and depression, arguing with her mother and reacting angrily during a television interview. She attempts suicide and is admitted to a hospital
.

Ending : 
Jack misses his mother but begins to settle into his new life. He bonds with his new family, meets Leo's dog, Seamus, and makes friends with a boy his age. Believing his long hair will give Joy the strength she needs to recover, Jack has his grandmother cut it for him so he can send it to her. Joy returns home and apologizes, thanking Jack for saving her life again. At Jack's request, they visit Room one last time, escorted by police. Jack is confused; he feels it has shrunk and that it is a different place with the door open. He and Joy say their goodbyes to Room and leave.

7.      Cinematography : that very small space

8.      Value :

·          Be thankful you have safety and security for your family

·          The sacrifices to shield your children

·         Your world and home is where and what you make of it-

·         The resiliency of children through innocent.

·          the unbreakable bond between mother and child

9.      Award and accolades :

·          Canadian Screen Award

·         National Board of Review

·          Best Motion Picture

·          Best Adapted Screenplay

Review Movie Cast Away

    

   1)  Tittle: Cast Away

   2)  Genre: Adventures, Drama

   3) Production details :

·             i)Production company: 20^th century fox, Dreamwork Pictures, Image Movers, Playtone 
      ii)Name of producer: Tom Hanks, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis   
      iii)Director: Robert Zemeckis

            iv)Writer: William Broyles  Jr 
       v)Length of a film: 143 Minute.

        2- Cast: Tom Hanks (Chuck Noland), Helen Hunt(Kelly Frears), Nick Searcy(Stan)

        3-Place Setting: United States, Monuriki, mamanuca islands on Fiji

 4- Time Setting: Historical (1995)

 5-  Plot:

In December 1995, Chuck Noland is a time-obsessed systems engineer who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears, with whom he lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the couple wants to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship. A Christmas gathering with relatives is interrupted when Chuck is summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. While flying through a violent storm, his plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Chuck escapes from the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life raft, but loses the emergency locator transmitter. He clings to the life raft, loses consciousness, and floats all night before washing up on an island. After he awakens, he explores the island and soon discovers that it is uninhabited.

Several FedEx packages from the crashed plane also wash up on the shore, as well as the corpse of one of the pilots, whom he buries. He initially attempts to signal for rescue and makes an escape attempt with the remnants of his life raft, but cannot pass the powerful surf and the coral reefs surrounding the island. He searches for food, water, and shelter, and opens the packages, making use of a number of items. He leaves one package, which has a pair of angel wings printed on it, unopened. During a first attempt to make fire, Chuck receives a deep wound to his hand. In anger and pain, he throws several objects, including a Wilson volleyball from one of the packages. Later, he draws a face in the bloody hand print on the ball, names it Wilson, and begins talking to it. One night, Chuck calculates that in order for the rescue workers to find the site of the plane crash, they will have to search an area twice the size of Texas, making his rescue unlikely.

Four years later, Chuck has adapted to the island's meager living conditions, having become adept at spearing fish and making fires. He also has regular conversations and arguments with Wilson, his only means of socialization. A large section of a portable toilet washes up on the island; Chuck uses it as a sail in the construction of a raft. After spending some time building and stocking the raft and waiting for optimal weather conditions (using an analemma he has created in his cave to monitor the time of year), he launches, using the sail to overcome the powerful surf. After some time on the ocean, a storm nearly tears his raft apart. The following day, as Chuck sleeps, Wilson becomes untethered and floats away from the raft. Chuck is wakened by the spray of a sounding whale, sees Wilson, and swims after him, but Wilson has gone too far to be safely retrieved. Chuck returns to the raft and collapses in tears. Later, a passing cargo ship finds him drifting.

Upon returning to civilization, Chuck learns that he has long been given up for dead; his family and acquaintances have held a funeral, Kelly has moved on and has since married and has a daughter. After reuniting, the pair profess their love for each other but, realizing they could not be together because of her commitment to her new family,they sadly part. Kelly gives Chuck the car they once shared. Some time later, Chuck travels to Canadian, Texas, to return the unopened FedEx package with the angel wings to its sender, a woman named Bettina Peterson. No one is home, so he leaves the package at the door with a note saying that the package saved his life. He departs and stops at a deserted crossroads. A friendly woman passing by in a pickup truck stops to explain where each road leads. As she drives away, Chuck notices angel wings on the back of her truck which match those on the parcel. As Chuck is left standing at the crossroads he looks down each road, then smiles faintly as he looks in the direction of the woman's truck

8)      Award: 6^th Critics Choice Award, 58^th Golden Globe Awards

9)      Cinematography: Photography Aspects, Underwater Shots, Frame

10)  Moral values: Must fight for our life, Don’t give up easily without trying and be strong.

Review Netflix Movie Okja

For academic use : Oral Commentary Movie Okja (2017)

1: Title of Movie: OKJA

2: Genre: Combination of Action ,Adventures ,Science fiction and drama.

3:Production details.
i) Years of production/release: 19 May 2017.
ii) Name of production company:
-Plan B Entertainment.
-Lewis Pictures.
-Kate Street Picture Company.
iii)Name of producer: Bong Joon Ho and Dede Gardner.
iv)Name of director: Bong Joon Ho.
v)Name of writer: Bong Joon Ho and Jon Ronson.
vi)Length of duration of film: 120 Minutes.

4: Cast/ Characters

i)                    Ahn Seo hyun - as Mija, a young farmgirl who takes care of Okja.

ii)                  Tilda Swinton -  as Lucy Mirando, the eccentric powerful CEO of the Mirando
                            Corporation looking to profit from Okja.
                          -Swinton also plays Nancy Mirando, Lucy's twin sister, the cruel
                             former CEO of the Mirando Corporation.

iii)                Paul Dano -     as Jay, the leader of an animal-rights activist group, the Animal
                          Liberation Front (ALF).

5:Place setting:. -2007, New York.
                           -2017,Seoul, Korean

6: Time Setting : Modern and present time.

7:Plot

In 2007, self-styled 'environmentalist' Lucy Mirando becomes CEO of the Mirando Corporation, succeeding her twin sister Nancy. She announces that they have been breeding a special kind of “super pig”. The twenty-six produced specimens are sent to farmers in different locations around the world, and ten years later, one of them will be crowned the winner of a competition to breed the best pig.

In 2017, a young girl named Mija lives in South Korea with her grandfather and their super pig, Okja. They are visited by Mirando spokesperson and zoologist Dr. Johnny Wilcox, who declares Okja the best super pig and announces they will take her to New York City. Mija's grandfather presents her with a gold pig and explains to her that he saved up money to buy the solid gold item to replace Okja when she was taken away. Devastated, Mija runs away to Seoul to find Okja, where she sees her as she is being loaded onto a truck. Mija chases down the truck but it is intercepted by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). In the resulting chaos, Mija and Okja run away but are eventually saved by the ALF, led by Jay. Jay uses another ALF member, K, as a translator to tell Mija that they plan to put a recording device in Okja's ear and let her be re-captured by the Mirando corporation to show how they mistreat their animals. Mija tells them to return her to the mountains but K tells the group that Mija is in agreement with their plan. They abandon her, and Okja is recaptured.

To minimise the PR damage to the company, Lucy pays for Mija to come to New York to be reunited with her pig. Okja is taken to a laboratory where she is forcibly bred with another super pig and flesh is taken from her for a taste test. After the ALF sees the footage, K reveals that he lied to the rest of the group about Mija's support of the plan. Jay attacks K, and expels him from the ALF.

In New York City, Mija is forced to agree to the wishes of the Mirando corporation. Jay slips into her room and tells her that they plan to rescue Okja while on stage. A parade is put on by the Mirando Corporation. Okja, blinded and battered, does not recognize Mija and attacks. Jay tries to hurt Okja, but Mija prevents him, calming Okja down. A video of the mistreatment of Okja is screened by the ALF to the public, who quickly turn on the Mirando Corporation. Mija and the ALF attempt to escape with Okja but fail. Okja is recaptured and the ALF members are arrested, except for Mija and Jay who are rescued by K. Nancy, having returned to control the company, closes the lab, scraps all of Lucy's promotional marketing, and starts full-time operations at their slaughterhouse.

Jay and K take Mija to find Okja at the processing plant and find her being forced up a ramp leading into a slaughterhouse. Mija finds Okja as she is about to be killed and shows the Mirando employee a photograph of herself with a baby Okja. Nancy arrives and Mija offers the golden pig in exchange for Okja's life. Nancy agrees to the deal and has Jay and K arrested. As Mija and Okja are escorted away, a pair of superpigs manages to push their newborn through the fence, and Okja hides it within her mouth to take it away.

Back in the countryside, Mija resumes her life with her grandfather, Okja, and the new piglet.
In a post-credits scene, Jay is released from prison and gets on board a bus with K and the other members of the organization. With their newest member Kim Woo-shik, a former driver for Mirando Corporation, they plan to disrupt a major meeting involving all of the Mirando shareholders.

8: Cinematography: future evolution.
                                 

9:Values

i. Best Friends Come in All Shapes and Sizes

Despite Okja being hundreds of pounds bigger than Mija and of an entirely different species, just like we have seen with other inter-species friendships, best friends come in all shapes and sizes.
ii. Friendship and bonds with animal
Mija refuse to see Okja leave seoul for goes to Super Big Piglet Competion and chased all the way to New York to bring okja back.

10: Awards and accolades

-Nominated as Best television Presentation.
-Bong Joon Ho nominated as Palme d’or at 70^th Cannes Film festival.

FIN 263-Banking Operation

Chapter 1: Banking System

Introduction To The Financial System.
Malaysian Financial Institutions.

• Banking System .
  -under the control and supervision of the BNM( Bank Negara Malaysia)
  -comprising commercial banks,investment banks and Islamic bank is the primary mobilizer of funds and the main source of financing which support economic activities in Malaysia.
  
  The Malaysian banking system divided by two categories.
  i) the monetary institutions.
• - the institution whose principal liabilities are generally accepted as money.
• e.g: BNM the sole currency issuing authority in the country and commercial banks(including islamic  banks) as the only institutions allowed to operate current accounts.
  
  ii)non-monetary institutions.
• -are the institutions that are linked closely to the monetary institution and whose liabilities are generally accepted as near money.

• Non bank Financial Intermediaries.
  - are the institution that are supervised by various government departments and agencies.
  Institution Involved:
  i)the development finance institutions.
  ii) the saving institutions.
  iii) the provident and pension funds.
  iv) the insurance companies and takaful operators,complement the banking institution in mobilizing savings and meeting the financial needs of the economy.(under supervised BNM)
  v) The unit trust.
  vi) The Gredit Guarantee Corporation (CGC)

Financial Markets.