nnenne's thots

1) Relate what was discussed in class or the text to the screening. Persepolis (2007) is a movie about Marjane Satrapi depicting her childhood up to her early adulthood in Iran before during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title referring to the ancient Persian Empire, Persepolis. The themes of grief and coming of age were in this movie and in class we discussed the importance of the animation and the choice of narrator being in French and not her native tongue. Although Satrapi presented this film at French film festivals it still was an interesting choice to make.  2)  Find a related article and summarize the content. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/movies/25pers.html in 2007 NY TIMES did a movie analysis 3) Apply the article to the film screened in class. The article talking about the film takes some points from the novel, for example:  The novel begins with Marjane telling about when she was first forced to wear a veil in sc...

1) Relate what was discussed in class or the text to the screening. We recently watched,  Tsotsi  (2006) directed by Gavin Hood, a movie about a South African misguided young man who lives by a code of violence. While he gets into a fall with his gang members he casually shoots a woman, steals her car and her baby in the mist of it all. In class we talked about the cinematic style that was used in the film and different ways to story-telling. During the start of the film the character was dressed in dark clothes and was shadowed by his anger and mischievous ways. But after realizing his trauma and confronting it he soon was not only able to open up physically with his mouth and expressive ways but the camera and cinematography seemed to falter him as well, brightening up moving more to his perspective instead of the audience being passive views, we are not active participants in his lives and decision making.  2)  Find a related article and sum...