Monday, February 15, 2010

Get to the point




Sydney Morning Herald's review of the movie "It's Complicated" begins analysing the movie using positive tone. This text is instantly obvious bias.
Many irrelevant facts are brought into discussion, being basic facts about previous movies the main actors have stared in and also commenting on the age gap between star actor Meryl Steep and the director of the movie. This instantly leads me to believe it is not very well written in terms of the content a usual film review contains.
This review is different from a news story because a news story is usually written to inform the readers about actual fact or a current event. A film review briefly retells the plot of the film adding the authors opinion and other side facts. The author of a film review is writing about fiction, something in a film, whereas a news story is generally based on fact and not fiction.

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