Annie Kapur
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A Filmmaker's Review: "American Murder: The Family Next Door" (2020)
āAmerican Murder: The Family Next Doorā (2020) is one of the most famous newest documentaries on Netflix. Itās about a man who murders his wife, two baby daughters and unborn son. I think many of us actually remember hearing about this story especially if youāre like me and likes to keep up-to-date with trials if theyāre in the USA and UK. Honestly, I knew what was happening in this story beforehand because, obviously, I had already heard about it. But another reason that I already knew what was happening was because the film itself was so badly made. I didnāt feel like there was any production value to the show and well, it was just a bunch of social media posts and pictures, videos etc. from Facebook. I mean, thereās not a real quality of classic documentary to it and I hope this doesnāt become a new-age documentary theme. I would appreciate it if that didnāt happen and I donāt think it is very appropriate to depict the victim as a mom who puts everything about their kids on social media. I think they were trying not to go there, but obviously they knew it would always be in the minds of the audience. Letās have a look at why it didnāt work.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Criminal
A Filmmaker's Review: "Dahmer" (2002)
āDahmerā (2002) is a film starring Jeremy Renner as the serial killer and cannibal/rapist Jeffrey Dahmer. It happens as two separate timelines. One in which Jeffrey Dahmer is an already profuse serial killer and the other where he is still starting out and understanding that he may actually be a monster. The starting-off timeline happens backwards and therefore, requires you to pay a lot of attention to why there is a damned pandoraās box in the bedroom and why he wonāt let his father open it. However, it also requires you to pay attention to how these flashbacks are placed, because they are never there for no apparent reason. For example: the reason why Dahmer canāt go into the bar when Rodney does is told to us through a flashback. Be that as it may, this film had many pros and cons and weāre going to investigate them in much more detail as we delve deeper and see exactly why this film got very good reviews critically, but seemed to leave audiences a bit spaced out.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Criminal
How a Stranger Brightened My Day (Pt.2)
If you haven't read part one to this series then I suggest heading right here, but if you really don't care how someone brightened my day in a CostCo then stay here because this one isn't about CostCo. This one is about my favourite online community, Vocal Media. As I've said before, Vocal has been a great outlet for me because I don't really talk to anyone nor do I like talking too much. I'm more of a quiet and intense being. Apart from writing on Vocal though, I spend a lot of time reading other people's articles. I read articles from "Horror" (the stories on there are amazing), "Geeks" (well, I write there so it'll only be fair if I read on there too. And the stuff is awesome, especially the reviews), "Proof" (hahaha, I'm a bit of a drinker, yes), "Psyche" (there's a bunch of coping tips there that I like to try and test with my agoraphobia) and obviously "Humans" which is a really touching sector of Vocal where everyone is super genuine about their humanity.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Humans
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Metaphor
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the āfilmmakerās guideā - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
"Why I Adore..." An Introduction
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre going to look at people that I absolutely adore and why I adore them. They can be anyone who is famous for being in film such as: actors and actresses, directors and producers, composers etc. Weāre going to be looking at my childhood heroes, people I have discovered recently and people that I have yet to look entirely into. Weāll take a bit of a look at how I discovered them, what I think of them and why I think this way about them. Hopefully, we can gain a common ground, you can discover some new people or, via the email address in my bio, you can email me with any new people I donāt know about that you think I would like based on what youāve seen. These are supposed to be positive articles and made to brighten your day and mine. So, letās take a wild ride into my childhood, my teen years and what I absolutely adore about the film industry because it is alive and kicking (and if it isnāt, hell I might be out of a jobā¦). Letās go!
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
3 Things That Might Help Your Agoraphobia
If you haven't seen parts one and two, you can click on the numbers here: One Two In part three, we're going to have a look at three things that you could try changing in your life in order to help your agoraphobia. If you know me then you know why I'm doing this: I'm hitting the ten year mark of being diagnosed with agoraphobia and hypochondria. I wanted to share some of the techniques and tiny things I've been doing in my life apart from taking my medication in order to make my life slightly, slightly, slightly better.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Psyche
Nicole Kidman
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre going to be thinking and rethinking about actors that I have personally called āawfulā in the past and seeing why I was wrong, and actors whom I called āgreatā in the past and seeing why I was wrong. Hopefully, this helps you to identify how your opinion can change as a human being and how, through research and observation, you can make a more informed conclusion even if your previous one was the entire opposite. Film and literature is all about changing our opinions and if our opinions remain static throughout our study then we probably havenāt had the full experience of the subject at hand. We need to be open to change in our thought processes and really, thatās what criticism and theory is about. If we start by opening our opinions up to change on particular base level types, then we can slowly build these up to see how we could possibly change our opinions on a grand scale. I will start by rethinking actors and actresses I have either previously thought as not very good at their job or very good at their job and will be arguing the opposite; demonstrating my change of opinion. So, if you see the ārethinkingā¦ā line in my title, you can bet it is a part of this series.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Melodrama
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the āfilmmakerās guideā - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Rami Malek
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre going to be thinking and rethinking about actors that I have personally called āawfulā in the past and seeing why I was wrong, and actors whom I called āgreatā in the past and seeing why I was wrong. Hopefully, this helps you to identify how your opinion can change as a human being and how, through research and observation, you can make a more informed conclusion even if your previous one was the entire opposite. Film and literature is all about changing our opinions and if our opinions remain static throughout our study then we probably havenāt had the full experience of the subject at hand. We need to be open to change in our thought processes and really, thatās what criticism and theory is about. If we start by opening our opinions up to change on particular base level types, then we can slowly build these up to see how we could possibly change our opinions on a grand scale. I will start by rethinking actors and actresses I have either previously thought as not very good at their job or very good at their job and will be arguing the opposite; demonstrating my change of opinion. So, if you see the ārethinkingā¦ā line in my title, you can bet it is a part of this series.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Folk
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the āfilmmakerās guideā - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Quarantined Halloween 2020
I'm a huge Halloween lover. Since I became a teacher, I always dressed up for my students for Halloween. I went to university dressed in Halloween attire and it really had nothing to do with the clichƩ 'death and gore' of it all. It was because it gave me a reason to dress up and where wigs, to make people laugh at my funny costumes and actually have a reason to do so. I mean once, I think I went to university dressed as Lestat from "Interview with the Vampire" and the very next year I went as Kiriyama from "Battle Royale" so you can tell how informed I am about the season.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Horror
3 Things That Aren't Helping Your Agoraphobia
If you haven't read the first article in my series on having agoraphobia then please click here. I am making this series as I approach the ten year mark of having been diagnosed with agoraphobia and so, I hope to share my experiences, help others and possibly give you some hints and tips not as solutions but as things to assist you in managing your condition. As someone who has a decade of experience, I have many, many tried and tested methods. Some of them work, some of them do not. If you would like to look at three coping mechanisms that you can use then the first article with the link is just for you. But, if you've already been through that one, I would like to share three things that are probably in your life that you don't realise are having a huge impact on your state of wellbeing when it comes to agoraphobia and are possibly making it a whole lot worse to deal with. So let's get into this article that investigates:
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Psyche
