Context: Later in the film, Boris is drafted to go to war directly before Veronika’s birthday. They are unable to properly say goodbye to one another before Boris leaves (though they both try). Briefly after Veronika is unable to say goodbye, the lives of both Veronika and Boris have completely changed. In Moscow, air raids have plagued the city. Veronika’s home has been destroyed and her parents killed, she has been raped by Boris’s brother, and she settles for a life she is unhappy with all while Boris is at war. This part of the film is dark, depressing, and violent. Scene: Again, to fully address specific element utilized within the film, it is important to analyze a specific scene. In a particular scene within this part, Moscow is suffering from sporadic air raids. Prior to the scene, Veronika is with her parents when the warning sirens go off. She is instructed by her parents to go to the subway to take shelter while they stay behinds and protect the home. As the scene opens, Veronika is leaving the subway when she is passed by numerous fire trucks. She quickly follows them to her home which she finds destroyed. It is inferred that her parent had died in the attack. Camera Work: This is one of the most important scenes within the film.The camera work in this scene is quite delicate and revealing. Again, it is utilized to tell viewers the story and to help guide viewers to certain symbols and emotions. The scene opens with a medium shot in which viewers watch Veronika leave the subways. Instead of the camera zooming into Veronika, Veronika walks closer to the camera creating a medium distance detail shot. This technique conveys that Veronika is freely moving in a multidimensional plane instead of standard right and left. The ... ... middle of paper ... ...muted with shadows. This conveys that society was overall facing hardships due to the war. In contrast to the beginning of the film, there is a clear definition between prewar Russian and war inflicted Russia. When Veronika approaches the apartment, the lighting of the set is extremely dark which hint to viewers the something bad has occurred. As Veronika runs through the ruins of her home in search from her parents, her face becomes dirty. This is extremely symbolic. Veronika’s innocence and happiness have become tainted and stained with death and warfare. The darkness of the set corresponds directly to the message of the film and of Veronika’s emotions. This scene highlights the deterioration of Veronika’s life and of Russian society. Until the third distinct division of the film, shadows, dark lighting and high contrast convey a sense of terror, pain, and hatred.
In describing the setting, the general locale is the prison in the coldest part of Russia- Siberia, geographically but socially depicting the social circumstances in the prison, but draws analogies to the general social, political and economic circumstances of Russia during the Stalinist era (form 1917 revolution up to 1955). The symbolic significance of the novel and the film (genres) reflects experiences, values and attitudes of the Russian society. The genres reflect the origins of the Russian social disorders and massive counts of political misgivings which watered down real communism in Russia. We are constantly reminded of the social and cultural heritage and originality of Russian ethnic groups through those different levels of meanings
...s a gloomy place harboring mystery and misery. The main character, Evgeny, finds himself in the midst of a great flood. He was contemplating his future, his life with a woman named Parasha, when this flood interrupts his life. When it ceases, Evgeny makes his way through St. Petersburg finding vast amounts of destruction. Parasha’s home nowhere to be found, and people beginning to try and put the pieces back together.
Few authors can convey the raw emotion of world changing events in such a moving and simplistic fashion. Anna Ahkmatova is able to capture this through her almost tangible use of imagery. Her words can transport the reader through time, allowing them to feel the same pain and fear she survived in Russia during Stalin’s reign of terror. Ahkmatova’s writing is known for its abrupt changes in point of view, and quickly shifting stanzas. Her unique style and poetic form can be attributed to the emotional turmoil of the world changing events she and her nation suffered through; and her innate love for music, as found in Mussorgsky’s Russian Opera, Boris Godunov.
The danger rises with the attempted assassination of Velez. It’s a good scene in which the audience is first teased by the teens in the car, only to then have the real attack
At the beginning of the Spiegelman’s narrative, Vladek and Art are completely disconnected from each other. They lack the conventional relationship between a father and son. There is no sense of understanding between the two, as if they had been strangers for their whole lives. Even from his childhood, Art experienced a sort of brutality and lack of understanding from his father, displayed in the small cartoon before Maus 1 begins. In this small comic, Art recreates a moment in his childhood when his father yelled at him for crying about his friends leaving him, shouting, “Friends? Your Friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week then you could see what it is, friends...
...ents what happened after the victim told his or her story to the readers. Perhaps that part was more important than the actual circumstance, because of what it did to people. Also, it accounted a relationship between those two generations joined together in discussion of what happened. In this case, it was Vladek and Art's - their relationship was negatively affected by the power of Vladek's past. Vladek was unable to move ahead with his life as a result of the trauma he received. His marriage with Mala was also destroyed because of old habits formed by his past. Confused and complicated emotions formed in Art for the overall sense of the book. This work showed how the past ruined the present and potentially the future as well. The stylistic features included in this comic, along with literary themes, created a peculiar book - dissimilar to other Holocaust works.
Vladek’s life during the Holocaust was gruesome, but regardless of what was happening in his own life Vladek was always thinking about the safety of Anja. Vladek loved Anja dearly, if anything happened to Anja Vladek would not care about his own life, and lose the will to live. When Anja and Vladek were separated in the concentration camp, Vladek found a woman and asked her if she knew if Anja is...
Darkness is one of the main themes in this scene. She said, and brought in cloudy night. immediately. I will be able to do so. Spread thy curtains, love performing night', this.
Veder uses a colour contrast between the background and the people, and the girl and the people, so that the viewer focuses on all the people in the photo, mainly the girl first. Next he uses an echo throughout all their facial expressions and some body expressions to portray how thrilled the family is to be seeing their father after such a long time, strengthening the idea of the importance of family. Then, he uses the rule of three to capture a small gap between the two groups to portray the idea of the distance created by war, on these families. And, finally, he also uses an effect of pathos, through the captured expressions on the family, to successfully conclude in portraying his overall rhetorical
Having human beings being gunned down, exposing this little girl, Schindler is touched and connects with her, being surrounded, himself, amongst all the chaos, touching his soul to a deep meaning, he begins to feel the pain of the Jews. In which Schindler continues to observe the little girl as she passes a Nazi soldier who fires one bullet through a group of lined up men, killing several. The little girl in the red coat enter into an empty building, to which she goes up the stairs and crawls under a bed for cover, covering her ears from the roaring sounds of death coming from outside, to in which, her red coat, becomes discolored, blending herself in as just one of the rest of everyone else.
It captures the emotions left in the hearts of these characters. In the novel, Gurov’s imagery differentiates between young romance and the connections of lasting love. One of the main sceneries of the story takes place in the beautiful resort town of Yalta. According to Chekhov’s novel, Yalta is described as “The water was a warm, tender purple, the moonlight lay on its surface in a golden strip” (2). Yalta is an exciting place for new, colorful, and youth romance to begin. Another part of the novel’s setting are the confined homes of both Anna and Gurov. Where gray haunts their homes in their monotonous days away from each other. Chekhov mentions, “He sat up in bed, covered by the cheap gray quilt, which reminded him of a hospital blanket, and in his vexation he fell to taunting himself” (10). The reoccurrence of the gray description of the homes of Gurov and Anna while they are in despair when away from each other, with the colorful images of Yalta and the emotions of happiness when they are together, show how the separation in setting is important to the emotions of the characters. At the resort with Anna, Gurov’s day are full of passion, excitement and a carefree lifestyle similar to the youth of society. While away from her, Gurov savors the precious instants of her company. “Anna Sergeyevna did not come to him in his dreams, she accompanied him everywhere, like his shadow, following him
Ideas brought up concerning setting also helped me understand some of the author’s craft within the novel. The fact that St. Petersburg is a western city that is trying to mimic parts of Europe (particularly France) shows how it is cut off from the rest of Russia, and filled with the wealthy. This made the book make mo...
Being one of the greatest Russian writers of 20th century, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn had a unique talent that he used to truthfully depict the realities of life of ordinary people living in Soviet era. Unlike many other writers, instead of writing about “bright future of communism”, he chose to write about everyday hardships that common people had to endure in Soviet realm. In “Matryona’s Home”, the story focuses on life of an old peasant woman living in an impoverished collectivized village after World War 2 . In the light of Soviet’s propaganda of creating a new Soviet Nation, the reader can observe that Matryona’s personality and way of life drastically contradicted the desired archetype of New Soviet Man. Like most of the people in her village,
...Russian society and social norms. The greatest reminder of this is found in the fact that Lopahkin, the man who Ranevsky once spoke to condescendingly, is now the family’s last hope for survival. Ironically enough, Lopahkin is often glancing at his watch, a reminder that time is changing, and a message that he, himself, is a testament to.
Thunder roars all around. Black clouds veil a dying sun. Yet, the storm is not falling from above but raging from below. The thunder is the cracking of gunfire and the clouds, smoke rising from the rubble of what once was. With the roar of a lion, planes, looking like angels in the heavens, drop death upon a city. The buildings that were homes are now corpses, stripped of their flesh and left gaping. With the earth erupting in hatred, Wladyslaw Szpilman sits upright and continues to play Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor. The bombs rain unrelentingly. Everyone runs, except for Szpilman, who is still behind the ivory keys, until a bomb falls upon his office and rips a hole through the walls. Now Szpilman picks up his hat and walks away from his passion. Not disturbed by the blood dripping from his forehead, he calmly smiles as he exits the building.