Amelie

Amelie was a foreign film, which was very outstanding. It had its good parts and some different parts. Amelie, like i had mentioned, it was a foreign film which was French. It was a good well-rounded movie. It kept my attention throughout the movie with all the great colors that was in the movie. It was also a love story, but not a typical love story with the good and the bad. It was like how Amelie was feeling bad but helped others out, which made her happy. The program ojective I believe is that you can help anyone at anytime, without anything in return. Meaning Amelie, who was brought up by her father who did not really help her out at all after her mother had passed away. She was treated not the greatest, so she had the fear of loving others and trusting them. So, she had to work with herself and overcome her fears; she did that by helping other people which made her happy and love who she is. She felt like she was accomplishing what she wanted to, which she really felt like she did. An objective point of view was used in the film, in my opinion anyways. As John Ford considered the camera to be "a window and the audience to be outside the window viewing the people and events within." I felt like that this film we were not brought into the movie like some others we have been. It realy did feel like we were the audience waiting what was going to happen or what she was going to do. The subjective point of view I think was when the camera would zoom in and let us know what her emotion is and what is going on. The film connects with both objective and subjective points of view. Meaning that we are looked at the audience and looking into the movie through a window, but the subjective view is that we realize what Amelie is feeling and how she is feeling about things. It more so fits into the category as indirect-subjective point of view, because as the book states it does not provide us with the point of view, but it does bring us close to the action so that we feel intimately involved and how we see what is going on. The film, Amelie, was a great movie that I had ever watched especially in a different language. It kept me watching and grabbing my attention. I really enjoyed it. I can now see how it was nominated for five Academy Awards.

The Sixth Sense and Signs

The Sixth Sense:
The location to the overall effect of the film is that it took place in his home where he was killed and that is where he goes back to allow him to keep thinking he is alive. The main sets is the man's place and the little boy's place because the little boy is where he sees most of the activity that goes on. The costumes for the characters tell us the timeline of when it takesplace. It also helps you define their status in life. For example the guy usually has a suit on and the little boy showed that he had gone to a private school because he wore a uniform type outfit. The lighting of the movie had a more suspenseful outlook, so therefore it is darker and keeps your attention and what is going to happen next. Towards the end of the movie the lighting changes all of a sudden because there is light that reflects through the window. He says goodbye and his life is going to change meaning it's going to get better and he is gonig to have a better life ahead of him and how bright it can be and that everything is going to be okay. There were a lot of dark and muted colors that keeps it darker and edgier.
Signs:
They are located on a farm where they have crops so they are more isolated. Being in an isolated area makes it more suspenseful and nerve wrecking. In order to get the crops they had to find the crop signs and be isolated to be more suspenseful, meaning on a farmstead. Each person has their own character. The little girl always has her own little dresses on. It also gives you a time era when the movie was happening and also how they dress on farms, for example they are not going to wear suits because they are farmers and you don't see farmers typically wearing suits. The lighting is appropriate because it shows the day scenes and the scary scenes. It is night and dark when there is attacking. It is more terrifying because you are scared of the dark and you can't see what's out there so it makes it more scary. The director is trying to tell you that it is more safe during the day and more scary at night. It sets up fear for people and makes the movie more intense. There were no really significant colors. The color of night represented the danger. The little girl always wore light colored dresses and always had the purified water; she was an important part in the movie because she always had the water and acted like the savor. She saved the ones around teh house because of the movie. It is like the good versus the bad and how the light always wins. So therefore, the little girl was the savor with her light colored dresses and the aliens represented the bad because of their darkness.