One Night The Moon Analysis
English assessment task
What is Module A? Module A is the experience through language which requires one to explore how one specific aspect of language in a text can be used to influence a responders view of other people and the world, this module is divided into two electives: distinctive voices and distinctively visual. The film I have been studying to convey module A is one night the moon. One night the moon is an Australian musical/ film directed by Rachel Perkins set in the 1980’s about a small family that lives in the country-side (a father, a mother, and a daughter). One night they sing a lullaby about the moon. Entranced by the moon the little girl leaves her room through the window in order to chase the moon. Throughout the night …show more content…
When Albert arrives at the house Jim speaks, his voice is rough and very arrogant as he tells the White police officer “That’s my daughter out there I’m not having some darky leading the search”. The way Rachel Perkins has shown the cultural differences regarding the land is demonstrated through the juxtaposition of both Jim and Albert’s voices as they sing about their relationship with the land. The director uses two different values of the land one being Jim’s perspective is more literal as he sings “this land is mine, yeah I signed on the dotted line, they won’t take it away, they won’t take it away, they won’t take it away from me.” This indicates that the land for Jim is a possession or something you own, and the use of repetition of ‘they won’t take it away’ illustrates the threat Jim feels about his land and that it can be easily taken away from him. Whereas Albert is more genuine in the film and sings more figuratively and metaphorically “This land is me, Rock, water, animal, tree, they are my song, my being’s here where I belong” as if saying the land is literally who he is as he has a spiritual connection to the land.
The use of folk and indie rock music articulates post-cultural issues from an emotional and personal
What is Module A? Module A is the experience through language which requires one to explore how one specific aspect of language in a text can be used to influence a responders view of other people and the world, this module is divided into two electives: distinctive voices and distinctively visual. The film I have been studying to convey module A is one night the moon. One night the moon is an Australian musical/ film directed by Rachel Perkins set in the 1980’s about a small family that lives in the country-side (a father, a mother, and a daughter). One night they sing a lullaby about the moon. Entranced by the moon the little girl leaves her room through the window in order to chase the moon. Throughout the night …show more content…
When Albert arrives at the house Jim speaks, his voice is rough and very arrogant as he tells the White police officer “That’s my daughter out there I’m not having some darky leading the search”. The way Rachel Perkins has shown the cultural differences regarding the land is demonstrated through the juxtaposition of both Jim and Albert’s voices as they sing about their relationship with the land. The director uses two different values of the land one being Jim’s perspective is more literal as he sings “this land is mine, yeah I signed on the dotted line, they won’t take it away, they won’t take it away, they won’t take it away from me.” This indicates that the land for Jim is a possession or something you own, and the use of repetition of ‘they won’t take it away’ illustrates the threat Jim feels about his land and that it can be easily taken away from him. Whereas Albert is more genuine in the film and sings more figuratively and metaphorically “This land is me, Rock, water, animal, tree, they are my song, my being’s here where I belong” as if saying the land is literally who he is as he has a spiritual connection to the land.
The use of folk and indie rock music articulates post-cultural issues from an emotional and personal