September 8th Discussion & Pleasantville

The first part of class today we discussed the short films that we watched during Tuesday's class session.  I did not post after Tuesday's class because I still had some unanswered questions about the films.  After today's in class discussion, I feel as if I have a much better understanding of what the producer of the films are trying to say to us.  For example, in the film with the women being loaded into the truck, we discussed how the camera angle did not move at all.  All the men standing there dressed in suites and business clothes did not move either except for one man how looks back.  The first time I saw this, I did not think anything of it.  Now I realize that he is inviting the audience to take place in this horrible crime alongside him. 

During the second part of class today, we watched a film called Pleasantville.  At first I was not really sure why everything was in black and white and then things started to turn to color.  The part of the film that the light went off for me however was when the woman walks into the diner to look at the man’s paintings.  She begins to cry and the man wipes her face and begins to see color.  The way I perceived it was she was covering herself to avoid judgement from others in the predominately black and white town.  The people in color were independent and not afraid to express themselves.