FILM 3349 Lecture 2: Video Essay Summary
9 Feb 2020
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L olo accomplishes this by glorifying the idea of italy as a poetic and magical place in his dreams, especially when contrasted to his reality in quebec. Jean-claude lauzon perfectly demonstrates the contrast between l olo"s dreams, and l olo"s reality through stylistic choices: an example of this being executed in the film is the clothes hanging scene featuring bianca. Lauzon illustrates the dreariness of reality that l olo perceives by making the dominant colour a dark brown and grey mix: this signifies l olo"s reality being a bleak and boring existence in lower class quebec. In contrast, l olo"s escape from reality involves taking bianca out of quebec and putting her in. L olo"s escape from reality is interpreted as a mental illness, as he is grouped with the rest of his family. L olo"s attempt to escape from his family"s madness inadvertently gets him falsely categorized with mental illness.
