Review Text
The purpose : To criticize an art work,event
for a public audience.
Such works of art
include movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions,
concerts and ballets.
Generic Structure
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Orientation : places the
work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it with others of its kind or through
analogue with a non-art object or event.
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Interpretive Recount: summaries the plot and/or provides an
account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into being, is optional
but if present, often recursive.
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Evaluation:provides an evaluation of the work and/or
its performance or production, is usually recursive.
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Evaluative Summation:
provides a kind of punch line which sums up the reviewer’s opinion of the art event
as a whole, is optional.
Lexicogrammatical Features
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Focus on Particular
Participant
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Direct expression of
options through use of Attitudinal Epithets in nominal groups, qualitative Attributes and Affective Mental Processes
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Use of elaborating and
extending clause and group complexes to package the information.
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Use of metaphoral language
Example
My Super
Ex-Girlfriend(Comedy, 96 minutes)
Starring Uma Thurman,
Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Rainn Wilson and WandaSykes. Directed by Ivan Reitman.
Superhero
Jenny/G.Girl(Uma Thurman) uses her powers to make an ugly pos-break-up word for her ex-boyfriend, Matt (Luke Wilson). The
film exploits female irrationally and could well be called ”Why a
Woman Shouldn’t Be a Superhero” and deserve a slap in the face for that.
Exercises
Interstellar Movie Review
On the one hand,
I was impressed with Cristhoper Noland’s Interstellar . It was an epic movie with wonderful visuals that attempted to
bring tough astrophysics to a general audience. It was an
opportunity to showcase real interstellar science in the public domain.
However, the Dark Knight Rises director’s space adventure failed to deliver, eventhough I was trying to
see past itsscientific shortfalls.
The
story begin in the future on a dying
Earth. There’s no time for space exploration, life on earth is all about
fighting disease, hunger and cripping climate change. The message is clear: if we stop exploring, we die. In
Interstellar’s future we stopped looking at the stars and we paid the ultimate
price.
Matthew Mc Conaughey’s acting was as to be ecpected;
deep, emotional and well executed, as was Anne Hathaway’s character, Amelia
Brand.In general, the casting and everyone’s acting was good. It was a movie
with all the right elements.
Interstellar missed the opportunity to display
brilliant science fiction and that’s why I’m annoyed. It had potency, but that
potential was squandared,unnecessary.
Answer these questions
1.
What is the message of
Interstellar movie?
2.
What is the main idea of
paragraph 2?
3.
What is the purpose of
the text?
4.
According to the
reviewer, the movie had a potency of an
excellent science fiction, but it was............
5.
Make generic structure of
the text!
