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"Pacific Heights"
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"Pacific Heights"
Examines the themes of landlord-tenant relations and legal restrictions as presented in the film "Pacific Heights".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages) |
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2001
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"The film "Pacific Heights" contains a strong criticism of California tenant-landlord laws. The film finds that these laws are too much in favor of the renter, leaving the landlord open to any number of abuses. Those abuses may be greatly exaggerated in the film, given that the tenant is a man with an antisocial agenda who deliberately manipulates the law so he can continue to carry on his own criminal enterprise. However underlying the melodramatic happenings are real issues of what is fair and legal and why the two are not always the same.Of course, the issues are loaded in this film because the landlords are a young couple who are as nice as the tenant is sinister. The tenant is a man named Carter, and he is a phony who lives as a con man of some sort and who sees this rental room as a chance to steal some valuable paneling and fixtures and ..."
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""Pacific Heights"" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Pacific-Heights/10235>
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