Movie critic

Since movie making began, many films have centered their plot on the social atmosphere of previous time periods. These movies often revisit tragic events that occurred in human history. One such film is Saving Private Ryan; a World War II story about eight U.S. soldiers on a mission in war torn Europe, to find one man and bring him home safely. Most often, the point of such war movies is to give the audience an idea of how people felt during that time period and what they went through as a consequence of those conflicts. In this film, the director uses point-of-view shots during battle scenes to allow the audience to better understand the depth of the characters’ emotions and thoughts.
No matter how a film is narrated it always provides the range and depth of knowledge the audience possesses. Depth can be defined as “how deeply the plot plunges into a character’s psychological state” (Film Art, p.85). Within the depth of the plot, there are two types of narrations: objec...