Bunny-
This Pixar animated short clip was probably my favorite out of all the clips we watched. I thought it was easy to understand and there was a great significance to the meaning behind it. The narrative of the clip had a great deal of religious symbols and hidden meanings. Although there were no words, the plot was very clear. I could tell that the bunny was very sad and lonely, because of the way she was sitting around and the picture of her and her husband on the wall, who likely deceased. She is in the kitchen baking a cake, being bothered by a pesky moth. While she is waiting for her cake to finish baking, she falls asleep. She is woken up by a light coming from the oven and follows the moth into the light. Here we saw the bunny surrounded by many moths, to me they were the symbol of angels. The oven is a very powerful symbol in this clip. An oven is used to cook food, changing its chemical state, in the bunny’s case, changing her from a bunny to an angel. She seems very frightened of the oven at first, also of death, but she then begins to accept it. I thought that this clip was unlike many of the other Pixar short clips, it had more of a gloomy story but contained a lot of meaning.
Northfort-
I also thought this clip was interesting. Some of the meanings seemed clear but perhaps I would have understood them more if I had seen more of the movie. The clip starts off in a very small church, looking at the congregation from the priest’s point of view. The view then shifts to the congregations view, they don’t only see the priest but the beautiful scenery outside. It seems that the view makes the people feel connected and gives them a sense of freedom, but in actually they probably feel disconnected because they have to leave their town. The next scene is of a cross road with a bunch of mailboxes, symbolizing the different paths people take in life. In the third scene there was a really interesting image of a boy running, layered with buffalo running in the opposite direction. I felt like this showed the boy rebelling and not following the herd. In the last scene we viewed from this movie was of a car driving off with a coffin strapped on top. In my opinion this is not a very sacred way to move the dead. The setting was very gloomy, definitely set the mood.
Paris Texas-
This was the probably longest clip we viewed, and I started to loose interest after the man left the desert. It started off with a man, named Travis, wearing a dirty suit and tie in the middle of the desert. My first thoughts were “why is he there”? He looked like had had just been dropped out in the middle of no where. Travis starts to walk, later finding out that he is following the telephone lines rather than walking along the road. This is interesting because later in the movie his only communication with his wife is through a telephone. The place where she is working is also very interesting, a kind of brothel where she can’t see her customers, but they can see her through a mirror like window, talking through a telephone. There was a really cool scene while Travis and his wife are talking where his reflection overlaps her face, kind of makes a connection even though they are still talking through the phone. Towards the end of the clip, he wants her to see him so he tells her to turn the light off, something you don’t usually do when trying to see someone better.
Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”-
This clip was really disturbing yet quite creative. While I was watching it I kept thinking, “Who in the heck thinks of this stuff”? Well, clearly Pink Floyd does. There were many meanings and symbols shown in this film though. The most understood part of this clip was the kids in school. They all started off as individuals, went on the conveyer belt and ended up faceless, they had no identity. I think that this is completely false, I feel like there is individualism in schools. On the other hand, it may be different in Europe than it is in America. A part of the film that I found to be very gruesome was the scene of the flowers turning into apparent provocative sex symbols. The image of the flowers however was used to symbolize love hate sex acts.
Cabeza De Vaca-
This clip was about a man names Nunez fighting for his freedom. We see him escaping and running as fast as he can. We then see the sorcerer doing a ritual, and then Nunez come back to him. If I remember correctly he said something that was pretty powerful, along the lines of “I have a God, even though I am lost I have more of a world than you”. He clings to what he knows, his faith.
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