Throughout the film, moments of heartbreak are interlaced with quaint solitude and at times, comical encounters. Two of which in particular appear jarring and disrupts the lethargic pace of the the film. They are, perhaps, Truffaut’s way of mirroring life’s mundane rhythms. When Antoine skipped school with his friend, he enters a revolving wheel at an amusement park. The speed of the wheel’s circulative motion accelerates the pace of the film and the viewer’s sense of time. It is a subtle defiance against the literal and figurative gravity of life at school and home — a fleeting, weightless joy, only to return to normalcy when the ride ends. The juxtaposition of motion and stillness points to the contradictory paradoxical nature of one’s experiences, such that one finds a peculiar middle ground: melancholic joy, elated sadness. After Antoine accidentally sets fire to a curtain by lighting a candle for the great Balzac — an idolatry sans substance — the scene is followed by an almost meta-cinematic interlude where the Doinels head to the cinema and, for a stolen moment, are happy. The happiness is tangible but nevertheless…
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Since relationships can shatter easily and have to be approached carefully she made further associations in how to establish relationships. She also alluded to how being trapped between windows is a lot like being autistic. The windows symbolized her feelings of disconnection from people and helped her to cope with isolation.1 Therefore throughout her life and career, door and window symbols have enabled Grandin to make progress and connections. Grandin also describes how using her visualization ability she can observe herself from a distance and can be her own “little scientist in the corner.” She has built up a large library of memories and past experiences after self observation to help guide decision processes when normally her own logical decision making may lead her astray. She has also used a lot of coping skills when it came to making her way through a “man’s world” and designing meat packing facilities. She began by starting her design business on a freelance basis so that she could avoid a lot of the social problems that occur at a regular…
Cabaret takes place in the years 1929 to 1930 Berlin before Hitler’s appointment as chancellor. The play follows Cliff Bradshaw, an aspiring American writer, and Sally Bowles, a performer at the Kit Kat Klub and their friends through the trying times before the Nazis. The story shows the struggles of those torn between what they want, and what is acceptable and how blind some were to the problems staring them right in the face. In the words of the emcee: “Leave your troubles outside! So-life is disappointing? Forget it! In here, life is beautiful-the girls are beautiful-even the orchestra is beautiful! Willkommen im Cabaret!” As the story unfolds, we see how this blindness affects those who…
Many people were in groups, which they spoke to one another about the painting. I was fortunate to be able to ask them what they thought of the painting. They told me the opposite of what I thought was going on. A lady told me that during this time, the association between love and music was a metaphor for a romantic relationship. Many women took music classes because it permitted young people to freely associate with each other without the presence of parents or guardians. It was a way a young woman and a man were able to be as close to each other without any suspicion of them doing anything bad. Another man actually went into details about the painting. He said that on the table, the instrument was called a cittern. It was a very popular instrument during this time period, which would be use for dancing to the music. I asked them, “What do you think Vermeer painted her with that specific facial expression?” Both of them said that maybe she had been caught being too close to him, while he taught her about the music notes in his hands. In her eyes, she is telling the person who has caught them to keep quiet with her eyes. She didn’t want the music teacher to know that they would be caught and it would be the last time they were able to be…
It’s the relationship between Mademoiselle Reisz and Edna. Madame is very talented especially when it comes to playing the piano. Madames talents get over a lot but she doesn’t care. You first meet Reisz in about the middle of the book and from there on Madame and Edna get closer and closer. Edna even tells Reisz her love for Robert before anyone else knew. The main thing that stuck out with Madame is that she is very independant and she doesn’t care about others opinion. To me, Madame Reisz’s independance rubbed off on Edna and that would lead to Edna trying to become more…
This impact is immensely shown in the various roles offered in the theatrical world. For instance, when Jade recites the script written in first person while rehearsing, she associates with the “I” in the content as if it is her. This narrative provides her with a position into which she can insert herself and experience the world as it was encountered by the original character. In taking such a view, she accepts the feelings, opinions, and beliefs presented to her. As a matter of fact, this scene emphasizes the transitional change in the qualities distinctive to her identity as she is presented in a shadow symbolizing by her body altering between both surfaces. In a similar manner, when viewing the film, the audience is presented with a position that provides a fixed view on the action, allowing them to naturally accept the ideas represented in the script. In addition, Jade experiences the frustrations of her identity crisis in the audition she attends as she must identify as a one dimensional role of a waitress with the sole purpose of satisfying the protagonist’s desires rather than a character in her own right. Moreover, when she reads her lines in a normal voice, the director had asked Jade to talk with an accent, forcing her to belittle herself by saying “A very…
At the start of the book, we learn that Ethan and Mattie have been married for ten years and that they are not very happy together, the arrival of Mattie was like a tsunami for Ethan. When they came back from dance, “her light step flying to keep time with his long stride.” The imagery used by Edith Wharton here to describe Mattie’s step could be seen trough Ethan’s eyes therefore revealing how he feels for her, because describing her step as “flying” would and will only be romantic. The author through this image might start to show Ethan’s feeling for Mattie Silver, showing here a start and therefore this foreshadows what will be his feelings as the book advances.…
In Twelfth Night, Stott’s statement seems to be true in parts. The former part of the statement- ‘an experience of pleasurable merry-making’- is something that I, in parts, take an exception to. Although it is obvious that Shakespeare wishes the play to be light-hearted- which is shown, for instance, when Viola quickly brushes over the (apparent) death of her brother, friends, and shipwreck that she has just braved through, in the line: ‘O my poor brother! And perchance may he be [saved]’. Although this dismissal of big news could simply be interpreted as foreshadowing the return of Sebastian (her brother) later in the play, it seems dark if not discovered retrospectively, through the brevity of her musing.…
One day as Montag is walking home from work he encounters a girl named Clarisse, she is a seventeen year old girl who is not at all shy. She begins asking him all kinds of puzzling questions and feels comfortable enough to let him know all her just as wild opinions. She is a free spirit who wants to try new things and experience life to the fullest. “I rarely watch the parlor walls or go to races or fun parks, so I have lots of time for crazy thoughts”. Montag and Clarisse seem to connect as she opens his eyes on certain views and ultimately changes his actions.…
carts. The boy has no choice. The only thing that his father (Jude Law) left him…
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the most renowned play, over 400 years old and still the new season trend. Eat your heart out Vera Wang. Shakespeare has crafted a lasting masterpiece featuring distrusting Prince Hamlet struggling to find a trustful confidant, ironically surrounded by distrustful characters. Hamlet poses thought-provoking philosophical questions, a key one being ‘who can I trust?’…
Although the audience is unable to see his eyes, the longing for connectivity in his eyes is perceivable. In order to shine a light on the tension in this shot, a rule of thirds is used and the points of focus like Harold and Ana are placed on the grid. Additionally, the contrast in the color values on both sides of the pane of glass emphasize the extensive differences in the two beings. Ana Pascal’s carefree, vivid and expressive life is depicted by the casual placement of the miscellaneous coloured utensils in the background while the emptiness in Harold’s life is shown by the absence of colour around the window. Furthermore, the presence of circular outlines in the wares in Ana’s bakery and even the window separating the individuals embody the connectivity and love that is unexplored by Harold. The white wall that separates the two lives presents a hurdle that Harold must cross in order to change the prospective of his life. Harold’s life can only be as thrilling as Ana’s if he has the audacity to break this barrier and allow his monotonous, dull life to be dyed in Ana’s…
The main character Christopher Isherwood is painted as an observer, recording the occurrences around him in the city of Berlin. He says at the beginning of the story, “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.” This is ironic as Isherwood conveys to the audience the details that a camera could not reveal. He shows the atmosphere and beliefs of Pre-Nazi Germany through his descriptive inciting of the senses, “Young men calling their girls. Standing down there in the cold, they whistle up at the lighted windows of warm rooms where the beds are already turned down for the night,” this quote highlights Isherwood’s use of the sense of sound, “the extraordinary smell in this room when the stove is lighted and the window shut… a mixture of incense and stale buns,” it is evident that the previous quote was referring to one's sense of smell and finally “ Here at the writing table, I am confronted by a phalanx of metal objects - a pair of candlesticks shaped like entwined serpents, an ashtray from which emerges the head of a crocodile, a paper knife copied from a Florentine dagger, a brass dolphin holding on the end of its tail a small broken clock.” The use of the literary devices throughout the previous quotes draws the reader to gather together the physical surroundings as components of the overriding metaphor of safes. This metaphor captures the idea of a decline in wealth, security and even hope, the image of a “bankrupt middle class” that Isherwood was trying to portray of the city of Berlin in the nineteen-thirties.…
In ten years, I really doubt anything much will be changed. The only thing that I’m most definitely sure about that will change is technology and my age. In ten years technology will be more advanced. Everything will probably have touch screen, nothing will have buttons anymore. Even the remotes for the television may be touch screen. That’s how advance technology might get. As for my age, I will be ten years older, ten years smarter, ten years more focused and determined to make all my dreams possibly become a reality.…