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=== Screen 2 - the park === | === Screen 2 - the park === | ||
It is a random day during the semester, part of the routine of a person does. | It is a random day during the semester, part of the routine of a person does. Besides going to class, working, shopping at the grocery, a nice day in the summer would be chilling out at the park. So I took the camera with me, I saw some German boys were playing football, chatting, laughing and having fun. It would be very nice to know what they were talking. | ||
In this context, I am a foreigner, an outsider who does not speak the same language and does not belong to their group. The camera position shows the alienation and distance between an in-group and an outsider: a long shot, blurred, peeks (grass in the foreground). The camera movement depicts the exhaustion in getting to understand and waiting for a chance to communicate when the camera lost its focus while tilting down. | |||
In this context, I am a | The audio is taken from a Hong Kong film, Beast Cops (1998), directed by Gordon Chan and Dante Lam. The summery of their conversation is that what matters in life is not about doing things to please the others, it is about doing things to please yourself. The dialogue is simple and it becomes sarcastic when the voice is dubbed to teenagers' conversation but not the adults, as this simple topic can also be discussed among teenagers. Whereas in the film, it is discussed among men who are portrayed masculine and mature. | ||
The audio is taken from a Hong Kong film, Beast Cops (1998), directed by Gordon Chan and Dante Lam. | |||
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