Films can tell us a lot about the country in which they were made. Do you agree or not?
When filming a movie, a specific location in a country regarded appropriate to depict the scenery of the story is chosen as the background settings. This may accord with the background setting of the story or may not. For example, the background setting of the story in the film "Harry Potter" is England, which matches with the actual location where it filmed. Also, in the movie "The Martian", the background setting of the story is mars, however due to many realistic reasons, the movie was actually filmed in Mexico. Meanwhile, some people think that movies could tell a lot about the country in which it was filmed since the visual image of the scenery is depicted throughout the movie. However, I strongly disagree with the idea since the set in of the movie may differ from where it was actually filmed. Also, it may exaggerate or neglect important characteristics of the country, conveying inaccurate images of the country.
To begin with, the setting in the film does not always match with the location where it was filmed. If the movie was set in an imaginary place, such as an alien planet or a middle age country, it will be hard to infer about the country by just watching the movie. For example, one of the most famous science fiction movie, "The Avatar" deals with an alien planet with magnificent scenery. However, the movie was actually filmed in China. Plus, most of the visual effects were created through computer graphics. By watching "The Avatar", you will not be able to infer the scenery or the culture of china. Furthermore, some movies are filmed in different countries from their set up. For example, in the movie "Black Panther" released recently, there is a scene where the protagonist, the Black Panther and his friends visit Busan, a city in South Korea. However, the movie was filmed in a movie set in America. In fact, the scenery from the movie is quite different from how it actually is. The movie will not correctly tell you about how America nor South Korea actually looks like.
In addition, movies often exaggerate or miss out the important features of the location where it was filmed in. For example, looking at American gangster action movies it seems like America is a country without law where Gangsters just shoot each other in front of the police office in the middle of the day. Also, looking at some Chinese action movies, we may think that all Chinese people, including normal civilians such as the supermarket owner are capable using fantastic Asian martial arts. Another negative example could be seen in the movie "Hostage". The movie "Hostage" is a horror film filmed in Slovakia, showing Americans who visited Slovakia getting kidnapped and brutally tortured. The movie was a big success, however, many negative reputation was formed about Slovakia, the setting of the movie. However, Slovakia is currently one of the safest country with lowest crime rates in the world. Moreover, according to a research, the tourist industry was affected due to the negative image the movie produced. Movies intentionally make exaggerations and alternations from actual facts in order to entertain the audience. Therefore, movies do not accurately show much about the country it was filmed in.
In conclusion, we cannot assert that movies tell lot about the country it was filmed in. The setting of the location may be different from where it actually filmed, and also it may convey exaggerated or inaccurate images of the country.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'with the lowest'.
Suggestion: with the lowest
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Message: Use simply 'facts'.
Suggestion: facts
...ake exaggerations and alternations from actual facts in order to entertain the audience. The...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, furthermore, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, therefore, while, as for, for example, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 15.1003584229 199% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 43.0788530466 56% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 52.1666666667 161% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2966.0 1977.66487455 150% => OK
No of words: 586.0 407.700716846 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0614334471 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92010537223 4.48103885553 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.776416424 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 212.727598566 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438566552901 0.524837075471 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 938.7 618.680645161 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 19.0 3.08781362007 615% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6003584229 146% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.3517313411 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8666666667 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5333333333 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.45110844103 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88709677419 286% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.140785622764 0.236089414692 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0510441546934 0.076458572812 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064383721977 0.0737576698707 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110333565825 0.150856017488 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0205747997724 0.0645574589148 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 11.7677419355 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 86.8835125448 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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