Looking at movies

I don't think I've ever taken the time to think about why a director chooses certain camera angles and color choices and all the other specific things that you usually don't even think about when watching a movie until we took a look at Blue Velvet Tuesday. I remember noticing certain things like the fact that the woman happened to be watching a scary movie or something with the gun, and the bright color of the flowers against the pristinly white backdrop of the white picket fence, and of course I'm aware that here in America the white picket fence itself is a symbol of suburbia and the American dream. But I don't think I would've ever taken the time to put all of this together and think about the fact that every single thing that the director chooses to do in a movie is specifc and there for a distinct reason. So I feel like after that exercise, I'm going to begin to be able to take those small details that I noticed but never really thought much about and use that to gain an idea of what exactly the director was going for and how they wanted the audience to feel when watching the movie.