FILM 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Events, Leonardo Dicaprio, Slow Motion
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Film form: the overall system of relationships among the parts of a film. During the depression, a tornado takes a girl from her family"s kansas farm to the mythical land of oz. After a series of adventures, she returns home: explicit meaning: the point of the film, the openly asserted meaning (58). The film will give a lot of force to this point and make it fit within its overall context and form. A film may have multiple explicit meanings, in which case we must determine how they relate to one another ex. A girl dreams of leaving home to escape her troubles. Only after she leaves does she realize how much she loves her family and friends. Nothing she finds elsewhere can replace them: implicit meaning: abstract meaning that goes beyond what is explicitly stated in the film (59).
