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
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