Friday, December 3, 2010

Vagabond, Agnes Varda (1985)

The scene from the picture above was one of my favorites in this film because it showed the two "outsider" people bonding. One of the main themes that i got out of the film was loneliness, and that no matter if you are married or young or old or have kids or are a homeless person, essentially everybody is a certain degree of loneliness. We talked about this film being a feminist film and i can see how it would be that in a way because of how all the way up to the end of the film the girl is alone. She doesn't need a man to take care of her (although maybe she does, she did die in the end-JK JK!)

Let The Right One In, Tomas Alfredson (2008)

One of my favorite things about this film was the use of the color red up against the blue/grey color scheme of the entire movie. Almost every shot had a striped down color palette and then one little shot of red in the background or on a persons clothing. This deep red color was obviously a correlation to the girl being a vampire and blood which is associated with vampires. It was also interesting how the first scene of the boy looking out the window began and ended the film. My interpretation of that is that the beginning of the movie was actually the end, all the events had already occured and the boy was thinking back on them.