Opening statements Flashcards
Trainspotting (1996) directed by Danny Boyle is a gritty depiction of heroin users in scotland reflecting
the post thatcherite social politics of the time and the cool Britannia movement in the U.K
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) directed by guillermo del toro is a dark fantasy film about choice and disobedience surrounding
princess who forgot who she was set against the backdrop of post war francoist spain.
Trainspotting (1996), directed by Danny Boyle follows an anti-hero and unreliable narrator Renton as he navigates the fluctuating politics, and
his gritty drug addiction in Scotland following the UKs euphoria of Blair’s new Labour aka post Thatcherism and the cool Britannia movement.
Shaun of the dead (2004), directed by Edgar Wright follows gen x slacker shaun, riding off the paradigm shift felt after New labor and the exhaustion of gen x entirely, seen through
the homogenous mass conforming to the bland labor presented as zombies, outwardly criticizing the politics within society.
Sarah Polley’s self reflective documentary Stories we Tell explores the nature of how we tell stories
through different levels of documentary filmmaking
Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Jean Luc Goddard is an (1) film in the midst of the French New Wave that takes (2) approaches to the narrative as Goddard wanted to hide the story from the audience through the use of the (3) theater techniques such as (4) which is used to isolate the audience. This allows the audience to wake up out of a state of (5) and become critical observers.
1 - Experimental
2 - Unconventional
3 - brechtian
4 - ‘The V effect’
5 - False conciousness
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), directed by Guillermo Del Toro, is a dark (1) film about choice and (2). In this magic (3) film, we follow our protagonist (4) as she escapes reality and the horrors of (5) in post Francoist Spain by living in a (6).
1 - fantasy
2 - Disobedience
3 - Realism
4 - Ofelia
5 - fascism
6 - fairytale
