Movies & Freytag - (02/15)

Pulp Fiction:

Character - Mia

Freytag's Triangle of Character Development
exposition - introduction as kept housewife who plays games, talking on intercom to Vincent
rising - date with Vincent, dancing in the restaurant
climax - overdose on drugs
falling - revival, "Something."
denouement - "I can keep a secret if you can."


The Man with the Moving Camera:

This movie has no dialogue, no intertitles, and no clear plot or narrative. it is cinema at the most basic level: moving images. the only other cinematic ingredient is background music, functioning only to emphasize those images on the screen. The setting is Russia, the story is Russia, and the characters are the Russian people. though the director lingers from several locations, and cuts between seemingly random objects or actions, the film isn’t aimless or meandering. Before the story begins, we begin, as always, at the theatre. then we cut to a woman washing herself, getting dressed, getting ready to start her day, as well as shots of planes and trolleys departing their home bases. following that, we’re transported into a long montage of daily work-life in soviet Russia. So, what is there to be concluded about seemingly ordinary life? What meaning can we extrapolate from a routine that is familar to us all.

The conflict of the movie is shown literally through contrasting images and the director drawing parallels between actions and images. shots of trees and flowers cutting between shots of people demonstrating the conventional conflict of man vs nature.

The climax of the story is at the end where the people of Russia are watching a depiction of their lives on the screen.