Arts of film - Film analysis : khalil baajour (31430761)
Film : Hiroshima mon amour (genre : drama)
Opening Shot :
The poetic and internal tone as well as the poetic construction of the film is immediatly set from the opening moments. In a mysterious series of closeup we see the bodies of two lovers, covered with ash, embracing in closeup. Immediatly we are not sure what we are seeing but after some dissvolves it becomes clear to be the delicate embrace of two human bodies. "You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing." says the man. The woman replies, "I saw everything, I saw the hopsital...
One of the central themes of the film – the relationship between time and memory – is one that Resnais would explore in many of his subsequent films. In …show more content…
Rarely do word and image correspond; instead we are left uncertain whether we are hearing real conversation, imaginary dialogue, or commentary spoken by the characters. Duras’s dialogue is both lyrical and oblique. Emmanuelle Riva, who was chosen to play the woman in part because of the timbre of her voice, recites many of her lines as if hypnotised or dreaming. It is as if we were listening to a radio tuned in directly to the characters’ inner thoughts and memories. The musical speech of memory spoken by Riva and Japanese actor Eiji Okada sets a dominant tone against which the discordant breaks in time and visual rhythm form a dynamic counterpoint. The two elements are effectively held together resonant musical score....
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Hiroshima mon amour still defies easy analysis. Is it about a love affair? Or is it about the French woman’s buried past? Or is it about two places where tragedy occurred? The fact that the film raises more questions than answers goes someway to explain its enduring resonance. At its heart the film asks the question: Is it better to try to forget tragedy or to remember?
If it was and remains impossible to speak of what happened in Hiroshima it is less difficult to imagine something of the impact of what happened through our own experiences of loss, grief and forgetting. And this, ultimately, is what we take with us when we view Resnais’
Film : Hiroshima mon amour (genre : drama)
Opening Shot :
The poetic and internal tone as well as the poetic construction of the film is immediatly set from the opening moments. In a mysterious series of closeup we see the bodies of two lovers, covered with ash, embracing in closeup. Immediatly we are not sure what we are seeing but after some dissvolves it becomes clear to be the delicate embrace of two human bodies. "You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing." says the man. The woman replies, "I saw everything, I saw the hopsital...
One of the central themes of the film – the relationship between time and memory – is one that Resnais would explore in many of his subsequent films. In …show more content…
Rarely do word and image correspond; instead we are left uncertain whether we are hearing real conversation, imaginary dialogue, or commentary spoken by the characters. Duras’s dialogue is both lyrical and oblique. Emmanuelle Riva, who was chosen to play the woman in part because of the timbre of her voice, recites many of her lines as if hypnotised or dreaming. It is as if we were listening to a radio tuned in directly to the characters’ inner thoughts and memories. The musical speech of memory spoken by Riva and Japanese actor Eiji Okada sets a dominant tone against which the discordant breaks in time and visual rhythm form a dynamic counterpoint. The two elements are effectively held together resonant musical score....
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Hiroshima mon amour still defies easy analysis. Is it about a love affair? Or is it about the French woman’s buried past? Or is it about two places where tragedy occurred? The fact that the film raises more questions than answers goes someway to explain its enduring resonance. At its heart the film asks the question: Is it better to try to forget tragedy or to remember?
If it was and remains impossible to speak of what happened in Hiroshima it is less difficult to imagine something of the impact of what happened through our own experiences of loss, grief and forgetting. And this, ultimately, is what we take with us when we view Resnais’