True- First Impression Blog

This was a very interesting movie to watch. I found it amazing that the director was able to do so much in as a little as seven minutes. I do believe this is my film by Tom Tykwer that I have seen, but I will try an answer your questions. I think with short films directors kind of have to get to the point and be efficient with their stories because they do not have the luxury of time to draw out a story. Since I haven’t seen Tykwer’s other works, but if I extrapolate from this work I think his ideas are to look past peoples issues and find out what they are really like. I like his use of the MTV aesthetic. I feel by using this, Tykwer is able to help give the illusion of time passing that goes along with both monologues. I also think that blindness is a major symbol in this short film. I think when the two people fall for each other them become blind to time passing. I feel like that helps explain why they missed out on autumn. To also help this we can see blindness in their everyday tasks tended to be the same.

Rashomon Blog- First Impression

After watching Rashomon for the first time, I would have to say Rashomon would have to be one of the weirder films that I have watched in my life. Overall, Rashomon is very good movie. I don’t think Rashomon gives good answers to is there truth or justice. In the movie the woodcutter told the common man that he didn’t tell the court his true tale of what really happened because he didn’t want to get involved. The common man asked the woodcutter what happened to the dagger that the samurai’s wife had. After a few minutes the common man found out the woodcutter had kept the dagger in his own self-interest. The commoner mocks the woodcutter as “a bandit calling another a bandit.” I think what Rashomon introduces to the world was telling a story, but having the movie characters telling the story in different ways. Since each character gets a chance to tell their side of the story, we can see how the characters view themselves in their perspectives. Rashomon also uses music and camera angles add certain feelings to movie. For example, when the woodcutter is walking through the woods to help build suspense, we can hear the music become for suspenseful. One example of camera angles is during the samurai’s wife story. During her story to help make the viewer sadder for her they used a lot of close up her that had a downward angle to make her seem smaller then her male counterparts.

12 Angry Men first impression

After watching 12 Angry Men for the first time, I’m very impressed with the movie. I was very surprised that almost the whole movie was shot in the same room. The other thing that also really surprised me was how much prejudice towards the defendant and other people of lower class in that one room. It shocked me that the jurors wanted to convict the defendant so quickly and not even talk about it for an hour; and as more people started leaning towards not guilty they wanted to tell the judge that they had a hung juror. If the juror who voted not guilty in the beginning didn’t make that vote, the whole process would have taken a whole five minutes to decide if someone lives or die is kind of shocking. I was very surprised that the eleven other jurors didn’t even want to take a little a bit of time to decide if someone was actually guilty because they had better things to.  I was very happy to see that when that one juror went the prejudice rant about people from lower income areas not mounting too much and having one juror one by one leaving the table an ignoring that man. I really enjoyed watching the film and I agree with Rodger Ebert that the movie “has a kind of stark simplicity” to it.