top of page
Who is the Real Madman?
Greatest Liar

She was 22 while he was 21.

 

They met each other in a literary salon. The boy was a policeman while the girl was still in college. He looked very gentle and traditionally bookish. She was slender and graceful. His sensitive nature entranced her. Her comeliness overwhelmed him. Both of them were astonished that their love for each other exploded like a split atom. They were deeply in love and desired to live happily ever after.

 

...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) is a feature film directed by Miloš Forman. The film is set in 1963. In order to escape the forced labor from prison, McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) pretends to have a mental disorder and is taken to a madhouse. McMurphy constantly challenges behaviors of the strict management after Miss Ratched (Louise Fletcher) presents various obstacles. Finally, McMurphy cannot stand life in the madhouse anymore, so he plans to escape with his friend – the tall Indian Chief (Will Sampson). Through McMurphy’s revolution and defense of human rights, the film shows the repression of the madhouse and the desire for freedom from oppression.

 

...

According to the Agriculture Department in the United States, every American ate an average of 130 ponds sugars during the last whole year. Half of them came from corn syrup and high fructose syrup. The other half came from white sugars, and 95% sugar beets - the main resource of white sugar - are genetically modified. Based on calculating these data, every American ate around 90 pounds of sugar from genetically modified crops last year.

 

...

According to the GuideStar, there are several nonprofit organizations failed to file the 990 Form this year in Edmond, Okla. Dorcas Community Ministries & Resources is one of them.

 

Dorcas Community Ministries & Resources is an educational organization. It is a nonprofit organization, which provides rehabilitation services for the offenders both in and out of prison. Rhonda Mitchell is the director of Dorcas. Her husband Jeffery L Mitchell is the chief executive officer of Dorcas. He founded it in 2008. 

 

...

  Food Operation

                  ---- What are you putting in your body?

A Tough Road for Dorcas

Articles

Here are my articles. They include feature stories, movie analysis, interviews, reportings, memoir, editorial.

Spoiler of Life

I clearly remember the feeling while I heard the winner’s name on that stage. The air around me became thinner, and the world was just as silent as the cemetery. Everything within my eyesight seemed blurred and lost color. Those few minutes felt like years to me. It was like an awfully terrible drama in slow motion; the only thing I wanted to do was to escape from the cinema right away, but I could not since I was an actress in it! Complex feelings twisted in my head made me crash.

 

...

Amélie

The elderly neighbor’s realization of life; the recognition of a frustrated writer; the childhood memory of an old landlord; and the coffee colleague’s belated love – all of these precious gifts are coming from a normal girl named Amélie (Audrey Tautou).

 

Because of Princess Diana’s death, Amélie felt the loneliness and vulnerability of life, so she started to help others. However, never did she imagine, the video store clerk, Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz) would become her most difficult project. So Amélie started to implement a series of plans on him.

 

...

Take Down the Umbrella

The 2014 Hong Kong protests, also known as the Umbrella Revolution, began in September 2014 when activists in Hong Kong protested outside the government headquarters and occupied several major city intersections after the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) announced its decision on proposed electoral reform.
 

...

© 2023 by JACK BANKS PHOTOGRAPHY. Proudly created with Wix.com
 

  • Instagram Clean
  • Google+ Clean
bottom of page