4/15/2023 0 Comments Blow up movie![]() ![]() Is this setting up some drama? Are we establishing character…but just doing it over an extended period of time? What are we, as viewers, supposed to take away from this? Especially since they come early in the movie when we’re looking for a larger plot to latch onto. While watching these scenes, it can be difficult to grasp what the purpose is. Then the camera slows its speed as the ball would be slowing. Until the ball is just rolling through the grass. Watches it bounce and bounce, moving up and down to keep in frame a ball that isn’t actually there. And the camera follows the arc of the imaginary ball. One of the players “hits” the ball over the fence. A shot “hits the fence” and the mimes there react, again, with immaculate timing.Įven the camera gets into the game. To where it doesn’t feel rushed or late, but perfectly on time, as if a ball was right there. So the one person hits it with a medium power. Like, the two seem to have perfect timing with their “tennis rackets” as you can almost imagine the exact trajectory of the ball based on the force they use. And it’s probably the best miming I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Then a bunch of kids who are mimes show up and start a game of tennis. In this case, we have Thomas in the middle of looking for a dead body, trying to solve a murder mystery. If the ending doesn’t leave us with a question, the next thing we can do is look at what happened and the thematic reasons it may have happened. So when we don’t have an ending that resolves the plot, we need to look if it leaves us with a question. Thomas doesn’t arrive at a crossroads at the end of the movie. It’s not like he has to decide to run away because his life is in danger or stay his ground because that’s where his life is. ![]() It’s not like Thomas has to choose whether or not to turn the woman in for murder or let her go because she was an unwilling pawn. Or even Titanic.īut Blow-Up differs from The Lobster in that it doesn’t bring us to the point of a final decision. Not in the way that something like… Schindler ‘s List has. The Lobster is similar to Blow-Up in that neither have narratively fulfilling endings. Which is a way for the film to ask us, the viewers, what we would do. When it ends, we’re left wondering what the character chose to do. The movie brings us to the point of a character needing to make a choice. I recently wrote about The Lobster and how it’s a conclusion based on philosophy rather than narrative. You make a lot of things transient and elusive. How do you develop such a theme in a movie? Well. Blow-Up deals with the themes of transience and elusiveness. ![]()
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