"Bunny"
Throughout the short animated film 'bunny' I was very excited to see how it ended. I have seen a bunch of Pixar animated shorts and they all have great endings so the depressiveness of the majority of the film did not bother me. Seeing the mounting frustration experienced by the bunny was powerful, I think it showed how tired and frustrated she was with life as a whole, being a widowed bunny and all. The climax of the animated short, when the bunny died and then followed the light into heaven was very powerful. It showed that she was ready to move on into the mysterium, and she was doing the very thing she thought she hated, following the light which is what angered her so much about the moth. I was glad she got to reunite with her husband.
"Northfork"
I thought the clips we saw from 'Northfork' were really interesting, mostly because that church view was the greatest thing I have ever seen. As the viewer looked at the beauty of creation, which man can hurt but cannot destroy, the preacher spoke powerfully about angels and how we each must find our own wings, each of these elements made for a powerful scene. The other part we watched when the buffalo were running the opposite direction of the boy was also interesting, not because of what was happening but because I never would have realized that. It made me think of all of the subliminal messages in all the movies I have seen that I have missed, its probably a lot.
"Paris, Texas"
While we watched a lot of scenes from this film, the one that struck me the most was the first scene when Travis was walking in the desert. As he stood there, out of place in his suit, the mountain in the background symbolized how we felt, out of place. He did not belong in the desert, he was wearing a suit for pete sake. The director used nature again when Travis's brother was trying to pick him up, while there was a rock behind both of them, asymmetrical and out of place, the one behind Travis was smooth and gently, while the one behind his brother was jagged and mean. That shows that Travis is much more at home when he is in the wilderness, and that he is a much more gentle person, while his brother is exactly the opposite. Other scenes in the film such as the bridge scene and when Travis reunites with his wife are powerful, however the simplicity of the background in the first scene of the movie, and how much meaning is in such a seemingly unimportant aspect of the film is very interesting to me.
"The Wall"
Pink Floyd is a pretty weird guy. His movie 'The Wall' which follows his fantastic album 'The Wall' and has a ton of meaning to it. While I am not sure I understood all of it, the past that was the most meaningful to me was the scene when the kids went through a series of machines where they lost their individuality. Right off the bat it was more powerful to me because it was with real people and not animation. As the kids went through the educational system they lose their individuality. I think that has a lot of credibility to it and needs to be taken into consideration. I was very surprised though when they went through the meat grinder, I expected them to come out of the machine as soldiers, but for them to come out literally as meat was strange to me. It was overall an interesting clip and I would like to watch it again because I am sure there is a ton I missed.
"Cabeza de Vaca"
This clip was more difficult for me to follow as the nigh pressed on and I got more and more tired however there were aspects of it which I found very interesting. The battle between civilization as nature was present as the native americans were losing their lands to the westwardly expanding whites. That was depicted in the film when the main character talked to the leader of the intruders, as they talked, some 10 feet apart, there was a casm in the ground between them symbolizing the casm the two men have as people. Again, that is not something I typically would have noticed had I been watching the film and not looking for it.
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