Movie Analysis

Pay attention to what messages do movies deliver

It is a conventional wisdom that every movie has targeted messages to deliver to the audience. As everyone watches movies for various purposes, one of the best ways of analyzing movies is:

1. Understand the macro/overall storyline, theme and/or message.
2. Identify parties involved and their duties.
• i.e. government, mafia, civilians, criminals, robots and etc.
3. Do the parties involved in the movie actually exist in real-life, or is it possible for them to exist?
•  If Yes, then pay attention to their capabilities.
•  If No, how certain are you of your decision?
•  Is it not possible because you know so? 
•  OR - is it not possible because you DO NOT know so?
4.  Parties' interaction and transgression with each other.
5.  How do the parties perform their moral duties?
•  i.e.  who causes violence, mischief, lies and etc. VS. who is truthful, sincere, righteous and etc. 
6.  How speculative the message to reality?
•  Is it actually possible to do so (what is done in the movie) in current condition of the society?
•  If Yes, there might be a relevance with the message and reality.
•  If No, refer to Step-3.b.
•  Is it related to past/present/future incidents?
•  i.e. normally documentary movies do, yet need to be precaution for authenticity of provided evidence(s).
7.  Was the message of the movie direct or indirect?
•  If Direct, do you think every single audience understood it?
•  If Indirect, why was it intended to be indirect?
8.  Pay attention to small details, characters, language and techniques used in the movie.
9.  Evaluate overall theme and message of the movie. 
•  Did you learn anything from it?
•  Would you recommend it to someone else?
•  If Yes, why?
•  If No, why not?

This is only intended for self-assessment.