Explain how your understanding of your chosen
- 1. ‘Explain how your understanding of your chosen film has been influenced by critical debates.’By Nancy Campopiano
- 2. Pedro Almodovar’s- Critical perspective A story of romanceWanted a film to piece off in different time fractures.Wanted the film to be a straight line so the audience did not notice the breakups.‘Shrinking lover,’ even though he used different elements like this, he did not want the audience to be brought out (confused) from the storylineHe wanted to sense that the film was straightThe script was iron clad (characters were structurally in place.He believed the film was a declaration of sadness, melancholy.
- 3. Pedro Almodovar’s- Critical perspective Silent film has lots of meaningsMimics Benigno’s feelings, first part comic, second filled with tenderness and emotion??Hide the rape scene by the silent film because he believed that Benigno had become his friend, and he didn’t want to see things your friends do...??He wanted to show the strength of cinema to hide realityThe main theme is utopian love...
- 4. D’Lugo, Marvin, Pedro Almodovar; University of Illinois Press: 2006 All characters are inspired by Patricia Highsmith characters‘Benigno’s confusion between talking and a true reciprocity between two people is one of the driving forces in the film’....‘The process of the evolving narrative , a loosely mounted collage of dramatic scenes that fluidly merges moments fro the past with those of the present , produces this shuffling of characters in which the conventional boundaries that define their identities and storied are blurred and weakened’The fluidity of gender mirrors the narrative process through which various stories blend into each other.Flash back are the temporal shufflingsNarratives told through dance Many interludes illustrate the storytelling process identified with Marco and Benigno is not simple and straight forward...as Almodovar intended.