Meshes of the Afternoon – Viewing Notes

 

  • Use of shadows – dream-like, German Expressionism influence (?)
  • Non-linear narrative – narrative repetition and the break of this
  • Narrative repetition of stopping the vinyl (+ key etc)
  • Use of the sound to drive the narrative forward
  • The woman doesn’t have the flower the second time in the shadow, the mirror woman does
  • The repetition of walking up the steps – they’re both/all the same person
  • Use of slow-motion
  • Topsy turvy camera – dream and reality blurred
  • Reverse and unreversed (?) of going down and up the stairs
  • The theme of nature (ocean, grass, flower = knife)
  • Entrapment
  • Confronts him and herself
  • Suicide?
  • Froid – 3 parts of our mind
  • Biblical reference (sand, soil etc)

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