Philip Agostinelli
Film Analysis
Dr. Permenter
6-26-15
Blog #3
This is a movie that will leave you speechless,
whether you enjoy it or are left in a blank confusion. As I finished the movie
I had a rough idea of the message behind the film, but it intrigued me so
greatly I went out and did more research on the film and that helped me fill in
the holes that were left by confusing format of the film. This confusing format
I feel was necessary in creating the true emotion and excitement of the film,
if it was cut and dry and everything was spelled out for you, it would loose so
much. You are supposed to think about the movie come to your own conclusion,
from your point of view. The confusion creates curiosity. Curiosity is
important in keeping an viewer involved in the film. The first moment that made
me shake my head like "wait a second what just happened?" was when
the movie ran for 18 minutes before the opening credits. And The series of
events during this scene, where Joel's emotions and reactions show clementine
is now gone and you're wondering "what and when did things go wrong?"
This is an instant attention grabber, now you are drawn in and have to know
what's going on. As stated in the review provided in the module David
Edelstein "The laws of time and space are constantly flouted, yet the film
moves along an unbroken thread of memories—a filament that's white-hot with
emotion." Although it isn't your typical film in order of sequence of
event, I agree it is overflowing with emotion and energy. There is
something so fluent about the way he organized the series of events,
it makes you feel like if something like this were real, this would be a spot
on representation, you would feel, see, and have the exact same experience in
real life as the film would depict. That is a very special quality this
film has, most if not all films I have seen have some aspect that makes you
feel like "oh that only happened because it's a movie, that wouldn't
actually happen." There was something
almost mystical the way Kaufman panned their relationship out in reverse. It
made it more poetic and gave you a completely different perspective. Instead of
watching a relationship crumb and getting the typical depressing feeling that relationships
don’t work they waste your time and break your heart. You get a unique beauty
formed watching the ruins of a relationship piece back together. And you
realize the wonderful parts of their relationship and think it was time well
spent, "I can't imagine not having all the old wonderful memories",
and the concept that you shouldn't regret of want to forget the past, but learn
from it and let it build you. We are who we are because of the event that
happen in our lives. That can be taken in a very cynical or very positive way,
but this movie because of the back track in his memories truly emphasizes the
beauty in everything that happens to us, whether we think it is beautiful at
the time or not. The message behind this film is very philosophical. That
even once they know their relationship is going to crumble from right underneath
them and they know they won’t be able to stop it, they still want to go through
that experience. “Why would they do that?” is a common thought when this scene
happens, but it’s not about the relationship lasting or failing, it’s not about
retrying in hopes of a better result. It’s about the experiences the emotions
the memories that you can’t imagine living without. Life isn’t similar to an
obstacle course race. It’s not about the stroll across the finish line, it’s about
everything that you experience before that finish line, the memories, the
obstacles, the highs and lows of life.
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