Misto’s play ‘The Shoe Horn Sonata’ and Mike Subritzky’s poem ‘Sister’ both challenges the audience’s interpretation of the traumatic experiences of war. Through a range of distinctly visual techniques both composers help create an understanding of the power of time and the human spirit as overcoming adversity of war. As Misto’s The Shoe Horn Sonata develops‚ the distinctly visual stage positioning of Bridie and Sheila changes to demonstrate how the protagonists’ friendship strengthens over time
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The play “Shoe horn sonata” written by Misto creates and manipulates images that challenge the audience’s beliefs and attitudes. This is shown throughout the techniques. Other examples of this are also shown through the movie “Pleasantville” by Garry Ross and the song “across the universe” by the Beatles. The Beatles song “Across the universe”‚ chosen words and lyrics helps identify the emotion that is being portrayed and also may give a visual image from the thoughts that are felt through the
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concerns and experiences within the texts Shoe-Horn Sonata and Changi: ‘Seeing is believing’. The use of techniques in both texts allows the audience to understand the effects of war on the individual and the impact of the experiences encountered. The Shoe-Horn Sonata is a play by John Misto that gives an insight into two lives of two female prisoners of war in World War 2. The play explores terrible events associated with prisoners of war and follows the friendship of the two women Bridie and Sheila.
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Distinctively Visual Image Page 52 “On the other side of our barbed wire fence were twenty or thirty Aussie men – as skinny as us – and wearing slouch hats. Unlike the Japs‚ they had hairy legs. And they were standing in rows – serenading us.” John Misto created a written visual image that comes through in Act 1 Scene 7 (Page 52). This is brought up in the play when Bridie and Sheila are being interviewed by Rick (Host)‚ they were originally talking about the conditions that they were in‚ how they
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in her thoughts and when the war ended they married. Importance of Scene 7 Scene 7 serves to reinforce for the audience the wartime bonds of friendship between the two women‚ a reoccurring theme within the play‚ and their shared caramel provides a powerful image in our minds of the deprivation they endured‚ but also of the tenacity‚ hope and friendship they clung to. Distinctively Visual Elements of the Scene • Caramel is symbolic because it symbolizes hope and survival of the girls. This shows
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The Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto The opening scene‚ with Bridie demonstrating the deep‚ subservient bow‚ the kow-tow‚ demanded of the prisoners by their Japanese guards during tenko‚ takes the audience straight into the action. As the interviewer‚ Rick‚ poses questions‚ music and images from the war period flash on the screen behind Bridie‚ and the audience realises they are watching the filming of a television documentary. The time is now‚ and Bridie is being asked to recall the events of fifty
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The changing family values in contemporary Japan as represented in Tokyo Sonata (2009). Preface: 《Tokyo Sonata》‚ as the name said‚ this film’s structure is familiar with Sonata form. There is an Exposition that includes the four main roles and the internal problem of this family as film’s First Tonal Area and Second Tonal Area; a Development that we can see the First and Second Tonal Area occurs simultaneously and being more and more exciting‚ and it adds some new elements into this part to
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Critically discuss the changing family values in contemporary Japan as represented in Tokyo Sonata (2009). <<Tokyo Sonata>> is a realist film about a Middle Class Family of Japan. This film have not mention about the warmth of a family‚ unlike other Japanese Drama ‚they prefer another way to present the most common situation of Japanese family – dull diary life. Inside of Sasaki’s family‚ they have perform a typical personality of normal Japanese family: a father being concerned
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A Look into Different Interpretations of the First Movement of Moonlight Sonata: The Piece that Portrays an Assortment of Emotions by Lauren Mora Music History 70: Beethoven Section 1G Ludwig Van Beethoven ’s Quasi Una Fantasia‚ later named and more famously known as The Moonlight Sonata‚ is a piano piece that can be portrayed and analyzed in a multitude of ways. The piece was published in 1801‚ during a period of great experimentation in Beethoven ’s music. This can help
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light-grey skin‚ and has two large horns coming out of its nose? After reading that description‚ ideally one’s answer should be a rhinoceros. In most cases‚ we always picture a rhinoceros to have two horns and light-grey skin‚ but often forget about the rhinoceros who have darker colored skin and only one horn. There were once hundreds of rhinoceros species however‚ only five species exist today. The African Black and White rhinos‚ and the Sumatran rhinos have two horns‚ but the Indian and Javan rhinos
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