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[VCE123456789]

Hi everyone

The film is generally made up of a large number of very quick edits, which give the viewer a large number of accocaiations to take in.
What does this mean?
Very quick edits like for eg.....

[alciefrederic]

I guess it's something about life is moving fast, and if we get stuck in our problems, we'll miss out. Or it's something about life's being too frantic and overwhelming.

[VCE123456789]

Are there any examples of quick edits?

[alciefrederic]

Um, there's Nick's photomontage which is generally quite frenetic. The film itself moves quite quickly, all those events occur only within 3 days. I'm not too sure where else.
There's this bit I want to question as well. I don't know why Nick's father says 'it's nice to be popular' in the flashback about religious beliefs.
Also, i don't quite identify with Nick's anger when Joan says his dad was being difficult.

[VCE123456789]

He feels as though his father was 'battling a war' and he also feels 'guily'of not helping his dad. Now that he has been diagnosed with cancer he can empathise with his father as evidenced by the flashbacks. He relived his fathers death and saw the deterioration of a stong willed man who tried to fight the crippling disease until the very end and the impact this had on his family. Joan subtly accuses Nicks father of being 'difficult'although Nick does not quite agree with this.

[VCE123456789]

What can we say about the light in the film?

[alciefrederic]

The film's quite bright - sunlit Adelaide, making it quite positive even though it's dealing with death and stuff.
Lighting is also used to make Julia's grief more poignant.
I know the guy doesn't agree with Joan's accusation, but he seems a bit too aggressive to me. it just doesn't feel right somehow.

[VCE123456789]

Hes just been told that hes got cancer. How would you feel?

[werdna]

What can we say about the light in the film?

Depends which context/scene you are referring to.

In the scene where Julia is standing behind the fence, looking at the train go by, the light (from the window) explicates the difficulty she has to endure - the light in the distance is seemingly unreachable and untouchable.. showing, to an extent, that it will be quite difficult for Julia to defy the odds and reach some sort of optimism in her life. The light also serves to highlight the contours of Julia's pain-inflicted face; so lighting is actually a really important technique in this film.

The 'very quick edits' are called vignettes - we are constantly drawn, as viewers, to see the journeys that all characters are enduring.. as a result of these vignettes, Sarah Watt doesn't allow any character's story to stand out from the crowd.

[VCE123456789]

can u cambridge talk about light in general and relate to specific scenes with effects if you can?
thanks

[werdna]

can u cambridge talk about light in general and relate to specific scenes with effects if you can?
thanks

Well, as human beings, we are always reminded of this 'light at the end of the tunnel' sort of idea.

Watt uses lighting to demonstrate the way characters are feeling, their inner psyches and either their upbeat or tumultuous frame of mind.

Andy's apartment, for instance, is dimly lit... metaphorical of his own attitude to life.

[VCE123456789]

Can u keep going?