Lo and Behold! A presentation on Chinatown! The center of the presentation was the theme of Betrayal, as you can see by the embedded window above this text. Since it isn't included in the presentation visual, the question we strived to answer was:
Now--let's get this reflection going!
1. What were the strengths of your presentation--do you think?
I think the strengths of our presentation was that we didn't stick to just the slide's information, and only had key points typed down with visual evidence. We connected well with the visuals themselves with the points we were trying to make, and we also used many different filmic terms connecting with Film Noir and the overall plot of the story. Another plus was that we were the only ones to use music as a reference! Major advantage--and unknowingly! Talk about some crazy luck! Haha!
2. Any Improvements? Any at all? Information Clarification--is it needed?
I think that although we used filmic terms appropriately and and had some good examples, we didn't really talk about Film Noir, our understanding of it, nor did we define the filmic terms. Information Elaboration was definitely needed in the Clarification department.
3. Alright, do you even get what Film Noir and Chinatown was all about?
I get the gist of it. Rather, Film Noir is very interesting and I feel like with every step or scene or shot or description I get closer and closer to having this epiphany to it all. Although, within myself I feel that I may never know the real meaning of Film Noir--maybe just a little piece of the entirety of it all. Chinatown, although I missed some key things(like the importance of Cross dragging Katherine out of frame, for example) I'm pretty sure I get the majority of its social and filmic/Film Noir importance.
Learning about Film Noir--it's a touching thing. I feel like I can plunge myself into the depths of people's hearts, and get this feeling of their darkest nights and brightest days at the same time. Film Noir is all about the dark, evil, side of people. But doesn't that mean you can really appreciate the good in said people? It makes me feel like I can see the world in a different way when you've gone to the deepest parts of the earth. It's all magma, and when it explodes at the core of this planet, it does things like melt away thousands of people inhabiting the town of Pompeii. And now? It's a popular tourist city which welcomes millions of visitors every year, possesses a National park, and was declared a World Heitage Site by UNESCO in 1997. (Thank you Wikipedia!) But really, I digress (just kidding, I just like saying that). It's really all so overwhelming--it makes me feel like I'm in a dark sea beneath the corals, and when I open my eyes to feel the sting of the salt, I'm lose my breathe when I figure out I'm in a lake and watching the glittering of the water molecules and sunlight mending to make a fictitious sky of stars. There's a lot of things I may not understand about Film Noir--like the feelings of the people who wrote such a genre, and created such a genre, or how they could even build of the courage to write some of the things that may have been to painful to even remember---but for now..I guess sitting back and watching the mystery unravel may just be what the doctor ordered...
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