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发表于 2007-3-19 01:21:37
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回复: 鲜为人知的故事：罗珠达哇在加拿大学电影的内幕报道之六 再次为国争光
Post by williamwoo;593499
再次祝贺搂主取得一个有一个的骄人成绩。
给楼主提个议，可否把94分的和91分的影评张贴上来大家也学习、比较一下。
我的作业还在我的电脑里，但是那个94分的我没有机会复印备份，人家早把作业领走了。
这是俺的：
When Shirley Met Florence
The point of view of the film—
This film tells a hard-to-categorize love story of two 60 something women attached to each other for a lifetime—Shirley, a heterosexual woman and Florence, a homosexual woman. Florence was attracted to Shirley since they met, but Shirley had boyfriends. Sexuality might divide them, but music brought them together. By exposing an alternative lifestyle of these two women, the film might be suggesting that love built on the basis on sharing interest may cross the boundary of sexuality.
How the style of this film contributes to the point of view—
- Being about two women in a lifelong romantic friendship creating and playing their own music either at home or at the gay and lesbian parade, this film shows plenty of intimate images of the two women performing, contributing to the theme of love, including the way they comment each other regarding their first meet and first impression, the affectionate way they look at each other when playing music together or when one party is speaking while the other is not.
- Constantly showing these two women together, either in an interior interview or in an action one, well portraits a loving and caring relationship between the two women.
- Images well edited into the film to emphasize key elements during their speech, including but without limit to, the window scene, the old still photos of the women at a younger age, etc.
Nails
The point of view of the film—
While technology changes and improves, human involvement reduces, there is less “human” element in production.
How the style of this film contributes to the point of view—
- “Primitive” blacksmith scene, slow but natural, and the mill and factory scenes, faster and yet mechanical, provide a sharp contrast that contributes to the theme.
Lonely Boy
The point of view of the film—
By using the title “Lonely Boy” for the documentary of a pop idol in 1960s, the film, which documents Paul Anka’s rise to fame, reveals what people may not see behind the glory of a young man transforming from nobody to a super star—the support and manipulation of the promotion industry and the loss of personal life and freedom while becoming a celebrity.
How the style of this film contributes to the point of view—
Starting with the song “Lonely Boy,” Lonely Boy has a great number of close-up shots of fanatic fans screaming, weeping and crying, visually indicating that what a pop star Paul Anka was. Interviews with Paul Anka’s manager reveal how the promotion industry behind Paul Anka operated. It seems, from these interviews, that this film is more about an elaborately run promotion industry than Paul Anka’s biographical documentary.
The Image Before Us
The point of view of the film—
Although Vancouver is a young city without a long history, it has its own ways to demonstrate its identity through films. This history documentary is in an attempt to demonstrate what kind of place Vancouver is by showcasing its manifold sides—it’s multicultural, it’s the gateway to Asia, it’s paradise, tourists’ destination, a city honored by royal visits, a great place for film-making… The film might be suggesting that the images of the city are manipulated by films.
How the style of this film contributes to the point of view—
This film, interestingly, has the use of the caption of silent films in the early times (such as “Oriental Sundae”, “A Trip to Big Trees if Stanley Park”, etc.), artistically contributing to the authentic feel of the film chronically documenting the historic development of Vancouver. Additionally, with rich stock footage, the film is free to demonstrate it’s working hypothesis through whatever images the filmmaker wants, including the royal visits, the peanut rolling scene on Hastings, the Japanese farmers working in the field. These very graphic images illustrate the many sides of the city as presented by films.
Quebec As Seen By Cartier-Bresson
The point of view of the film—
This original documentary showcases the life of the citizens of Quebec through the still photos.
How the style of this film contributes to the point of view—
Though I do not have much knowledge of Quebec, or any other cities in Canada, I particularly like the style of this documentary, which is basically a showcase of still black and white photos of the past by the famous photographer, and yet the extraordinary sound track makes it authentic and brings life to the film without a motion image. The sound of children singing goes with the landscape, the church, the old and new construction. Church bell rings when the photos show a funeral. Traffic noises rise when street scenes show up. Birds chirp when we see the forest. Chainsaw sounds accompany the construction site photos. Fans’ screaming go along with the photos of Paul Anka. In my view, without the perfect sound effect, the film would not have become a great, dynamic documentary.
Flamenco
The point of view of the film—
The intention of this documentary is to demonstrate a Flamenco dance class with senior students at the National Ballet School of Canada, who are learning a unique dance form from a quite different culture, with the instructors, Susanna and Antonio, coming all the way from Spain to teach the students. What makes it more interesting is that it is a group of Canadian Ballet students who are learning Flamenco stemming from ancient gypsy dance, which is so different from the royal and elegant Ballet. The film, through interviews with Susanna and Antonio, conveys a secret to learning the dance—dance should speak passion and contradiction between earth and sky.
How the style of this film contributes to the point of view—
Being a performance documentary, this film apparently has an extremely dynamic visual effect, showing the passion and ground-breaking rhythm of the art form, with plenty of close up shots of the feet, the arms and the expressive faces of the dance instructors and students. Though Susanna’s age is not told, the face shots indicate she is not young anymore, and yet the face shots reveal her passion, her infinite energy and her intense enthusiasm to teach Flamenco to these Ballet students. The climax is the final sequence, when Susanna dances solo in front of the mirror, contributing to her own words—one can dance Flamenco no matter how old he is.
This Unfamiliar Place
The point of view of the film—
This documentary film reminds me of the Italian masterpiece – Life is Beautiful. It is a daughter’s narrative on how a disaster made her attempt to explore and perceive her father’s untold secrets and memories about the past during World War II. She finds out, after she experiences a different disaster in her life, that her father has been hiding his memories of his traumatic childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland simply to protect the next generation from the pain of the past. Through interaction between two generations, the film seems to be suggesting how the War traumatized the older generation and how the older generation needs to carry on for the good of the younger generation.
How the style of this film contributes to the point of view—
- The suggestive motion images, including the dim, shaky and distorted garden scene, building ruins, catastrophic chaos, fire, as well as the sound of siren, the slow and yet sorrowful music, well demonstrate what a holocaust a disaster can cause and how poignant that part of history was.
- Switching between color and black and white images highlights the reverberation between the present day and the past. In particular, these heavily used black and white images include the images of the father dancing with joy, of construction crashing, the still photos of the father and his father when they were young, and the images of the training running, of the fire, the new apartment buildings in Poland and a young girl, her father, and other locals there.
- The narration in Polish makes the film more authentic, providing a sharp contrast between the Polish father and the Polish American daughter who seems to have lost her identity.
- The final sequence, where the father joyfully dances with his wife on the beach, is particularly meaningful in a way that indicates no matter how the history traumatized humanity and broke our hearts, life has to move on.
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发表于 2007-3-18 12:23:18
，看来楼主的水平对付这个post-secondary的program是绰绰有余。
发表于 2007-3-19 06:18:25
