Interesting Camera Movement

I love this camera movement shot above as the two characters are running across this beautiful background of flowers. I believe they're flowers, if not it's still a kind of plant. It starts as a long shot then becomes a close up. If you watch Bollywood films, this is during one of the singing scene and just from someone who watches a lot of Bollywood films,scenes from the singing parts are always the prettiest and most colorful. This is a scene from the film called Chennai Express, feel free to watch this film, last time I check it was on Netflix. I'm not kidding when I said I was a huge Shan Rukn Kha fan, he's the main character in this film too.

Response to The Road Home Focusing on Symbolism

I love how The Road Home, present days were film black and white while the past was in colors. This is totally different because usually movies we see are vice versa with the past in black and white and present in colors. I saw many symbolism in the film but there's one that really stood out to me which is the bowl.

The first few times we see the bowl was when Di kept eyeing it to see if Mr. Luo will pick her bowl. Di and Mr. Luo are the two main characters. They are the parents to the boy we see in the beginning. This film starts with their son going back to the village where he was born because his father, Mr. Luo has passed away. There he reflects back on his parents' love story. Going back to the bowl, girls cooked for the men who was building the school. Mr. Luo is from the city and he is the new school teacher. So every day Di use the same bowl and watches to see if Mr. Luo will pick her bowl because she put all heart into cooking that dish just for him. When he was leaving back to the city, she packed his favorite, mushroom dumplings. While chasing him because he didn't have time to stop by her house to eat them, the bowl broke. She was devastated and left in tears. Just like how the bowl broke, her heart also broke with it. Though the bowl broke she still brought it back home because the bowl was what held her pride and joy, the food she cooked for him with all her heart. She wouldn't even let her mom help her cook. Though her mom didn't like the idea of her cooking and falling in love with this boy from the city. She still took the time to have someone repair the bowl for Di. The man repairing the bowl even told her that to repair it would cost more than buying a new one but Di's mom didn't care. Like she said the bowl was important because the man that used that bowl left and took Di's heart with him. That was the sweetest thing ever because we know how she feels about Di falling in love with Mr. Luo but still, she got the bowl fixed just for her daughter. Below is the picture of the repaired bowl. 

To think about it, Di has such a strong heart to wait for him to come back, not knowing if he will even come back. Many will call her crazy and even dumb for waiting for him but to me, this is true love. True love is crazy yet worth the wait. What about you, are you willing to wait for someone like how Di waited for Mr. Luo?   

Interesting Camera Shot

This is one of my favorite Bollywood movie, Om Shanti Om. It stares my all time favorite male actor, Shah Rukh Kha. Through out this movie it's super colorful and bright. This is a close up shot of the main characters meeting each other for the first time, it was love at first sight. Close up shots are very important when you want to capture the characters' reaction to someone or something. I love this shot because of focus on the character's face and the blurred of the background. It was such a magical scene, just the two of them focus and everything else blurred like nothing else matter, though at this particular scene she was walking on the red carpet to attend her movie premier. It was so romantic!

Response to The 400 Blows on Visual Style

It's been a long time since I last watched a movie in black and white. The 400 Blows was a very interesting movie. I love the introduction of this movie. It was like I was in the car taking a tour of Paris. I also notice many high angle shots. The first one would be when Antoine and his friend ditch school to the Amusement park. There was a high angle shots looking down on Antoine while he was in the gravity ride.

While he was in this ride instead of being boring like the other riders he was turning upside down and moving around. Honestly I would never get inside a ride like this! While watching this scene I wanted to puke. I'm not into rides that turns in circle. Another scene of high angle would be when the class took gym around the city, they were jogging. It was hilarious watching students take turn running into stores and how the teacher had no clue to what was going on.