Shannon Corcoran Blog 1: Various films in class

Blog #1 Various in films in Class
Bunny: I find in the short film "Bunny" to be somewhat a sad short. To me it seems like a depressing film and some question left unanswered. When we first meet the main character who is making some type of cake. When we do meet her, the room is dark and depressing. One thing that does not help the fact is the moth is treated badly. The only thing it want to do go towards the light, but it throw out the house. When it comes back into the house it is squashed and mix into the cake batter then put into the oven. In only a few minute the poor moth takes a very hard toll for being innocent. Another sad thing is it seems like the bunny is all alone with no one around her to share joy so she becomes a bitter bunny.
What makes this short even sadder it appears that the bunny dies. When it goes into the oven and having the oven door shut, it seems the shutting of the door ends the life of the bunny. But when the bunny do go into the oven one does know if the bunny is dreaming or not. Is the bunny dreaming and if so where does the dream began and ends? To me the dream ends when the bunny comes out of the oven and into "heaven". But is it really heaven because the only other creatures one sees are moths and not bunnies? It does seems like the bunny passes away because at the end of the short there is a reflection of two moths on a very old wedding photo and the wings line up with the back of the married bunnies to make it looks like the bunnies have wings. While the bunnies have wings the bunnies start to move and hug each other like they haven't seen the other one in a long time. The sad thing is all the characters are dead and only one character you learn on how it dies but not the other two. You also don't learn exactly when they died.
Northfork: The movie seems to be a very sad film. In the parts one sees I learned the town is about to be flooded. A sad scene and a very beautiful scene is when the pastor is giving one of his last sermons to the town in the background one sees huge mountains against an open church. The mountains and the open church can symbolize that the religion is going back to nature and being connected to nature. Another scene is when one sees three cars at a cross road and they all take different directions. It seems like the town and its people will never lived together again and be whole. You can't talk to an old neighbor because he might be on the other side of the country. One scene is one sees a boy running across a field with bison. The boy seems to be on a mission and needs to get the mission down fast and out of the way. The mission could be helping one, getting one things, or is about to leave and running to catch up to someone. One of the weirdest scenes is seeing a coffin on top a car and in the background are mountains. The mountains and the coffin can refer to everlasting time and a moment in time. The everlasting time is the mountains since they will be there long after you and I are gone. The moment in time is the coffin. Yes the person lived but is no longer with us. They were there for but a moment in time compare to the mountains.
Paris, Texas: In this film the main character seems distance and lost. He is trying to find out who he is and what happen to him. He learns out what happens but learns his wife is missing and goes out to find her. At the beginning of the movie, the main character seems lost and disconnected from the real world. The way he seems disconnected is the background is not smooth and is irregular. The way he "finds" himself is following a road. He seems to follow the roads no matter where they take him. To me it seems like he believe he will get to the place he needs to be by going down a road even though he doesn't know where he is going. The roads also can mean a form of commutation. It is commutation because information will travel down them and get to the place they need to be, eventually. Another form of commutation is phone lines, either very long ones or short line. The phone lines gives information and messages in a matter of seconds or even split seconds. When the main character finds his wife they talk over the phone through a two way mirror and discover who the person on the line is. The mirror is like a barrier, you don't see who is on the other side and you can't touch the person on the other side.
The Wall: To me, this movie is a just a weird film. With the opening song, I get the impression that there was WWII and England is getting attack. What is weird is when some of the machines turn into buildings. What is weird is when they turn into buildings, the buildings seems to resemble 1940s German pictures during the time where the Nazi ruled over Germany. The next thing we watch were when children were being put though a machine and turning into faceless children. The process of this is that the children had no control over what they were taught and learned. The song reminded me of Nazi Germany again. To me it seems even though England was trying to avoid becoming like the Nazi, they were turning into a Nazi state without realizing it. The schools were trying to teach the kids there is only one way and that was their way. If you didn't follow their way then you were punish, like people who lived a couple hundred years ago. The school was like a "church".
In the song "Wish You Were Here" deals with violence and sex. It seems like you can't have one without the other. You have sex but when it is too much or not enough it can lead to violence. It is shown on how some of the sexual images turn violent. But with the sexual images and violence it can tear one apart or have them build a wall around themselves. With building the wall around themselves (the last song we watched) other people try to get in. It seems like they are trying to take control over one's life and become the God of that person's life. The wall separates oneself from others, including god(s).
Cabeze de Vaca: In one of the scenes there is a Spanish group which is under attack. During the attack one can see a priest with multiple arrows sticking in his back as he walks into a light and disappear. This scene can symbolize the enduring faith of one and also death. It is the enduring faith because the priest is still walking tall even though he is about to die. It symbols death because the light "eats" the priest. He is no more like in death, once someone dies they are no more. Or the light means something else?
After the main character, Vaca, is captured and held by a shaman he tries to escape but fails. During the escape scene the shaman draws a circle in the dirt in order to keep Vaca from escaping. In the end Vaca runs around in a circle and comes back where he started. The circle can mean a higher power like the sun, since it is circular. But it can also mean that life is circular and it is hard to break free from a cycle that has no beginning or end. Another thing with the circle is unless everyone is willing to let go you will end up where up started. Same thing if you have no directions on where you are going. People need directions in order to succeed in life.
Chanting is one way of healing oneself and finding rhythm to most things. If done right it can calm people even though they don't understand what is being said. Chanting can get one into a state of mind where it goes through you and into you. It effects the actions of what one is doing and how they are doing it.