COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Animal Print
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Plastics, suburbia, and coming of age in the graduate. Hello darkness my old friend, i"ve come to talk with you again this song returns as a liet motif several times in the lm. Ben feels like he is entering into a world that is not his choice, the symbol of water comes with the feeling of being submerged and drowned. All his father is concerned with is disappointing his friends and business associates. Compensation for lack of meaning in life in material comfort and alcohol. Going down to the party: hand held camera that follows him closely, impression of being intensely watched and scrutinized. It conveys the restlessness of ben within this social world. The kinetic movement of the camera makes the audience anxious like ben. Adolescents who have escaped into their own creature comforts. Ben is afraid of future in plastics. Water theme and parallels ben looking out of the window to being trapped in the sh tank.
