Boonmee And The Reflecting Pool Analysis

Not many people understand the vast difference between video art, and film, but when you actually begin to understand the different genres, it becomes apparent that they just are not the same thing. On a base level, the objectives of both are generally different, initially, video art is more about experimental expressive freedom, and film is more centered on entertainment, though there are some instances when they do overlap, where the film makers decide to push the boundaries, and experiment, or the video artist seeks to entertain his audience as a final outcome.
The problem here being, that there is no real clear distinction, but a slightly different nuance that is observed between the two, in the case of “Boonmee” versus “The Reflecting Pool” you notice some similarities to their visual narrative, where “Boonmee” seems to be a little bit
With the two pieces as reference, they both have fairly coinciding topics, “Boonmee” and “The Reflecting Pool” both focus on the ideas of spiritual rebirth, steeped heavily in Asian culture, through the setting of “Boonmee” and the surrounding visuals in “The Reflecting Pool” where the location almost appears Japanese, also the idea for rebirth comes from Buddhism. The perspective of the pieces are slightly different, “Boonmee” tackles an aspect of death, from a standpoint of the journey, the fears, the human emotions, aided with Asian spiritual beliefs, and it follows his reconciliation with letting go of his life, phrased in this fairly fantastical journey, where some things don’t really make sense. However, “The Reflecting Pool” comments more on the idea of actual rebirth, where it is visually dictated that, the process is of a man who goes to a pool, is changed, and emerges a