Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Blue Velvet/Movie Analysis - Deepti

I must say, I think I'm terrible at movie analysis because I barely got anything out of those first 4 minutes of the movie. I thought and thought but honestly couldn't come up with anything; until other people brought stuff up. I'd thought that the movie would be about a man having a stroke and how his family dealt with the situation. It came as a shoch to me when Mr. P said that it was a romatic story! I found it interesting when people brought out color symbolism and analyzed camera angles because I wouldn't have thought of that stuff at all!
I think analyzing movies is going to be really interesting because up till now, that's something I haven't done at all. I love watching movies but never have I bothered to look at the deeper meaning behind scenes; I just always watched them for entertainment. I'm excited to explore this area of rhetoric =)

1 comment:

Slothrop said...

Hmmm. I'm not sure I ever said it was a "romance" and if I did, I must have been on some hallucinogens. It's about relationships between men and women, for sure, but in as anti-hallmark-valentine day-roses-and-chocolates way as is imaginable. It is much closer to the crawling bug on the ground than it is to the clear blue sky, in terms of romance.