Keighley Garside Film A level Blog

What are the main connotations behind the montage of shots which show L'il Dice became L'il Ze? The montage of shots of L'il Ze, is shown to be shooting different people as he grows up, which connotes darkness, death, out of control and unstoppable. The first time we see him kill is because he was sick of waiting for the Tender Trio to finish the robbery so he shoots at the window which makes the Tender Trio escape and then L'il Dice goes in and kills the people in the motel however we don't see a reaction which we would expect we see him laughing and finding it rather funny. Then after the montage we see him selling his soul to the devil with Voodoo magic and receiving a necklace which then brings him to be known as L'il Ze. Voodoo magic has connotations of darkness, evil and power. Most of the montage is the night besides the killing of Goose. Night reflects L'il Ze personality which is symbolised death, darkness of a soul and loss of faith.  ...

Mathieu Amalric performance  The actor who performs as Jean-Dominique Bauby is Mathieu Amalric the actor brings emotion to the character by just laying in one position and only having one eye to communicate. This is a very hard part to play because the actor will have been tensing everything and can only blink when a letter is said that he wants. Jean-Do communicates through his eye and remains static which means he still can communicates with people just not the conventional way. Females performance in the film  Henriette and 'Claude' treat Jean-Do with a level of respect for him living the way he is however they treat him like a normal person who hasn't had a stroke and is static all the time besides moving his eye. Their performance was very realistic and it was clear they formed a bond with Jean-Do because when he said he wanted to die, she got really emotional which just showed how much she cared for him already. 

How does the Mise-en-scene create meaning throughout the film? Throughout the film there are constant communication of frustration and paralysis through mise-en-scene. Another example of this the diving bell which is heavy and also represents the pararlysis and being trapped in his own body. Butterflies have connotations of freedom and creativity which clearly reflects Jean-Do. The butterfly scenes represents his mind as free and uncontrollable however very intelligent. Father's day scene  In the father's day scene where Jean-Do shaving his father shows his fathers vunerablility and weakness this is contrasted in the following scene where his son is wiping his saliva from his cheek this shows Jean-Do in a vulnerable position and shows his body as weak and incapable of doing simple tasks. Putting these two scenes next to each other makes the dramatic change more of an extreme role reversal.  Icebergs I cebergs represents Jean-Do's body being heavy, static and thro...

How does the narrative of the film and its structure reflect the key themeless and messages of the story? The narrative from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly explains his life which is very repetitive. Throughout the film their are flash backs and dream sequences which means it is non chronological order and it is all from his point of view which means, how other people feel is limited for the spectators to see as we only see the very mundane life of a man with locked in syndrome.    The whole narrative is of a man with locked in syndrome who is called  Jean-Dominique Bauby.  He was a editor-in-chief for Elle magazine then one day had a stroke and lapsed into a coma for 20 days which then he woke from finding he is completely paralysed except from his eyes. Then a doctor came had to sew his right eye up due to muscle damage. He then meets two women that are going to help him try and recover. The speech and language therapist  which seems to find a way to help...

Spectatorship  Spectatorship is an important concept in  film  theory. It is an active response from someone when viewing a film, the spectators tend to engage in the film and then begin to form a response whereas an audience member would just say the film was good or bad this would be without forming a response or engaging.  The factors that affect how spectators respond to the films they see, are things like who they see the film with whether that be friends or family or even on their own and where they see the film whether it be in a cinema or at home they will react different because the cinema is not a personal viewing whereas at home is.  Peoples ethnicity, gender,  political and social believes cultural believes  age  Spectators will be affected differently by a film also based on what they have experienced throughout their lives because for example if they watch a film which has a mother die and ...

How does the film mirror the way video games are constructed? The film mirrors the way video games are constructed by the different levels very much like a game also they used lift for different levels also the lifts to different memories of Cobb's with Mal How is a crisis in Masculinity shown in the film? The crisis in Masculinity is shown in the film by the two strong independent women one of which is Cobb's wife Mal and the other who is Cobb's new architect How does the film show grief an loss (echo of post 911)? The film portray the male trauma through the character of Leonardo DiCarpio's which is Dom Cobb which him losing his wife is his trauma which is most likely to change him as a person and the fact that he was blamed for his wife's death would have made this time even harder for him.