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Free fall market mechanisms in Citizen Kane and Chinatown.

Minimal gains to the public under free fall market mechanisms in Kane and Chinatown. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) and Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) can both be examined using the Milton Friedman doctrine which asserts that the responsibility of a business is to increase its profits (Friedman, 1970). Friedman believed in free-market capitalism and most of his opinions were based on criticism of Keynesian-style economic models where the government closely monitored economic metrics (CFI, 2021). Free market capitalism encourages minimum to no government interference in economic matters. In his 1970 paper, Friedman argues against corporate social responsibilities because businesses are to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of society. In the two films, we learn that it is difficult for this to happen, we see both Cross (John Houston) and Kane (Orson Wells) crossing moral and legal boundaries to satisfy their needs to gain more. They are consumed by a...
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Fire: A social media manifesto.

 It is very ironic that the most powerful and important tools most often possess destructive capabilities too, just as today’s media has made it easy for misinformation and other problems to spread easily in society. Just like fire, I believe the benefits social media possesses far outweigh its consequences and therefore we should not be afraid of it but embrace it into our daily routines and be intentional about how we use it. We should prevent censorship from private companies and fight for personalized algorithms that enable us to access the specific information we want. We should welcome the evolution of journalism into a more dynamic and accessible digital form. For the first time ever in the history of humanity, storytelling has been simplified and made unimaginably efficient, to suit an individual’s needs and this makes social media an essential service that we must protect and continuously mold to satisfy our desires. One could go surfing in Slovakia and not have to wait to...
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Heart Wrenching Revelations In Rope (Hitchcock).

Hitchcock's Rope film is about two friends who perform a murder to satisfy their belief of possesing superior intellectual capabilities. After having strangled their friend and hiding him in a box, they prepare the same box as the dinner table and have their friends they have invited come over to eat on it, all of them being oblivious of the devilish act. Their objective in inviting friends over is to metaphorically hang the portrait they have painted, they regard their murder an artful act and this dinner is a celebration of that. This paper will be an analysis of a fraction of a scene from 38:28 to 40:28. This scene is important because it summarizes everything that happens in the film and also gives a flash of the characters and their roles and relationships to the deceased David. Rope is primarily made up of long takes and this scene is also one of them, that makes the continuity in this scene only depend on the camera zooming in or out. This becomes particularly useful in scen...
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