FTT 44235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Serial Killer, Social Realism, Psychopathy
11 Oct 2016
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One of the things ___ noticed about ordinariness is that it"s not ordinary. Thought couldn"t make the speech into songs, but realized our speech has a natural rhythm so could make it into songs. British english has a sort of poetry to it, a shakespearean aspect to it. In social realism, film is a showing to itself. Have to listen to what they"re saying bc what they"re saying tells the story and what they"re feeling. Adds to the conditions of the plot. This type of musical is called opera. So you might say that this is not a musical but this is an opera. Theme itself if operatic (murder, distress, etc. ) So there"s a relation between the show itself and the community portrayed. In one sense the film is about women. Get haunting nature: the prostitutes look haggard, look haunted, look like they"re the ghosts haunting london road.
