theme of oppression
Introduction
The major theme which is common among the three films watched in class; “the ashes and diamonds”, “tales of the tale” and the “little Vera” are oppression. Each of the three movies has the dominant theme being oppression of different forms. Expressed through how Vera discounts her life and the oppressive society in “the little Vera”, the films illustrate much of the abuse same as how the tales of tales which demonstrates the part of paradises and part of hell created by the same oppression. Equally, the film, “Ashes and Diamonds” is also structured around the abuse that people had to undergo between World War 2 and the cold war. All three films describe the theme of oppression in the various forms using the most unique and advantageous cinematic features (Tikka et al., 2015).
The development of the common theme in all three films has been done using some of the most congenial ways. All three films use the element of mise en scene in three different ways. The first film, the “Ashes and diamonds” employs the part of lighting, which is quite dark in some scenes to develop the theme of oppression. Equally, the use of props and blocking element of mise en scene clearly expresses the idea of operation in the film “the tales of tales”. Lastly, on the same use of mise en scene the old and tattered type costumes used in the movie the “little Vera” illustrates the change of the theme (Thompson et al., 2016). The other cinematic feature employed by all the films includes the application of the colour and contrast, which depicts an oppressive society or life in all of the movies. Sound ending in the movie “Tale of Tales” has been used to develop the theme in the way that film produces balances the sound to vary with the storyline.
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Chepinchikj, N., & Thompson, C. (2016). Analyzing cinematic discourse using conversation analysis. Discourse, Context & Media, 14, 40-53.