Instead of reading a short story in class, we watched a short clip from an old film called the 'Walkabout'. After watching this film we then had to evaluate and extract ideas and themes from the film.
1)Concentrate on the images that occur in the film.
Brick walls: Separating people or blinding them from what they're really seeking in life. Limiting their communication from society
Shots of people (mostly legs): It's impersonal and anonymous, like people growing up in the city lack purpose and personality. They travel in a mass of people completely anonymous to each other rather than individuals.
Buildings: The buildings dominate the city rather than the people. They make the people look small, insignificant and almost lonely.
2)Comment on what points/themes you think the film makers are trying to make:
-When all the girls are breathing in synchronization it demonstrates how robotic and almost perfect they seem to be. This is similar to the city people walking in unison, also robotic.
-The marriage between the mother and father is strained and disconnected; they're in separate rooms of the house, there's no communication between them, it's very silent.
-the city isn't a very comforting place to live; it is demonstrated clearly on the family's face's that it is a very unsatisfying place to live and that there is barely any life in it; it feels gloomy and very dull.
-In some scenes in the film there are reoccurring images of city walls and buildings. Splashed across some of these buildings and walls are rays of light reflecting off them. These rays could almost symbolize that in this dull and gloomy city there is the occasional bright light bringing life into the dark and motionless walls.
-labels on the tree's take away the beauty of nature.
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