This film is about a guy who lives his life based on his dreams and imagination. He falls in love with a French girl and tries to show her his world of dreams while not being able to accept rejection. A very formative film about a lovestruck guy living a life run by his creative thoughts.
A scene that really stood out to me was the very end. I thought it was a unique shot in the film to end this movie. This film did not exactly have closure, but the scene at the very end made the illusion that it did. This scene takes place right after Stephane falls asleep in Stephanie’s bed after their fight when he was supposed to leave for his flight. These scene is made for the audience to see what Stephane was seeing in his dreams at that moment. It is a long shot consisting of Stephanie’s toy horse on which Stephane and Stephanie, “ride away in the sunset.” These scene was very formative and consisted of a lot of animation. Behind the couple there was the cellophane water and the cotton ball clouds. What makes this scene create closure is that it ties in all the loose ends of the imagination of Stephane thinking that his life is incomplete without Stephanie, but through this dream of them being together and happy for once, it seems as if he has accepted rejection and is content with all the memories he made with Stephanie, which is why their crafting supplies are shown in the last scene with them on the horse. I thought this ending suited the film very well. Overall, this film was great. It is one of a kind. I don't think this film is for everyone, but I really enjoyed it. It had a very unique storyline and the usage of animation gave it a childish feel but this film was executed well enough that the weird qualities this film had seemed, “okay,” to do. Once again, Michel Gondry didn't let me down.
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*I watched this film not knowing what it was about and I encourage others to do so as well.*
This film is about a five-year-old Indian boy who gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. This film was overall a beautifully done film with varying shots that made the film move smoothly with every transitional shot executed perfectly. However, a scene that stood out to me the most was one where Saroo is older and there is kind of a "flashback." It takes place when Saroo is 25 and in Australia, he breaks up with his girlfriend and is walking the streets along the sidewalk made next to the lit up busy traffic. During this scene, the screen splits into two and one side is showing Saroo walking the same, but this time alongside the path of a raiload walking the streets of Calcutta. This scene was a formative way of showing how Saroo is getting closer and closer to what he wants to find, and that this hints to the fact that Saroo might start to recall moments in his past that will help him find where he came from. It was a subtle way of foreshadowing. This was the first similarity we see in Saroo now, and young Saroo. It was a way for the director to show how the drastic change in Saroo as a more Westernized, educated, and sophisticated Aussie, versus the cute, mischievous, uneducated Indian toddler from a poor village. This film might be my new favorite movie. It was absolutely incredible. From the cinematography, to the plot, it was all around a perfect movie. Every detail of the film was shot exquisitely and the music that went with every scene was spot on as well. The child actor, Sunny Pawar, was one of the best child actors I have ever seen, he was remarkable. This is a MUST SEE film. This film was about the strike in 1903 by the workers of a factory during pre-revolution Russia, and their suppression. This film depicts the hardships that ended up leading to the strike with all the poor conditions that the working people such as factory workers, had to deal with. This was one of Eisentstein’s films and was created right before Battleship Potemkin.
A scene that stood out to me the most was the very end of the movie which is what it is most famous for. This scene consists of a montage of cross-cut footage. The clips varied from tight to wide shots of all the violence that was taking place such as the slaughtering of cows, murdering of a child, a child getting stuck in the violence in a stampede, and the fighting between the working class and the officials in general. It was awfully violent and was ultimately the climax of the film. It was filmed in an epic manner with action packed fighting which made the whole film come together for the audience to realize that once humanity comes together to fight for what they want, they can eventually get it. Overall, this film was better than I thought it was going to be. I believe plot-wise it was much better and stronger than Battleship Potemkin, although Battleship Potemkin is much stronger in cinematography and the epic and visual aspects. I am still not a fan of Russian films… |
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