What is the importance of mise-en-scene and/or sound in creating meaning and generating response in the films you have studied?
Mise en scene and sound are important in both City of God and Chungking express as they both create a lot of meaning and purpose. In the City of God the fact that the people living in the favela are trapped, which is a common use of mise en scene, which is shown with caged up chickens. All the chickens are caged up all together, unable to escape, which represents the the locals as being trapped. One chicken that does escape represents Rocket who manages to reject the life of crime and live his own life escaping the favelas. This shows that Rocket had his mind on something else and wanted to get it. This is like in Chungking Express as Faye manages to escape Hong Kong by becoming a air hostess
Monday 12 December 2016
Thursday 8 December 2016
Princesas
The opening scene of Princesas uses a hand held camera when Caye is walking into the hospital. This gives a sense of realism and is similitude as it shows how this is what happens in real life in Spain. This allows the audience to understand reality in Spain as prostitution happens a lot in Spain due to its high unemployment and immigration problem.
Once into the Hospital room Caye is shown as a powerful woman who is in control. She lays down the rules to the men inside the hospital room. This is not carried on throughout the film as she is found to lose her power in the bathroom scene. Here she is forced by a male for sexual reasons, even when she was refusing. This shows here power has been taken and males continue to dominate females. Caye does not want to do this at this point, even tho its here job, she does not want to do it behind Manuel's back. This shows she has feelings for him but gets controlled by a more dominant male. Showing that no matter what males still dominate females. This is the same for most of the females in this film and is the main reason why Caye and Zulema form a friendship as they are able to talk about it and help each other out. This shows the difference between males and females within the films we have watched. As in the other films males are not able to talk about there problems and use violence to sort a lot of their problems out.
Once into the Hospital room Caye is shown as a powerful woman who is in control. She lays down the rules to the men inside the hospital room. This is not carried on throughout the film as she is found to lose her power in the bathroom scene. Here she is forced by a male for sexual reasons, even when she was refusing. This shows here power has been taken and males continue to dominate females. Caye does not want to do this at this point, even tho its here job, she does not want to do it behind Manuel's back. This shows she has feelings for him but gets controlled by a more dominant male. Showing that no matter what males still dominate females. This is the same for most of the females in this film and is the main reason why Caye and Zulema form a friendship as they are able to talk about it and help each other out. This shows the difference between males and females within the films we have watched. As in the other films males are not able to talk about there problems and use violence to sort a lot of their problems out.
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