Language And Film Analysis

As I sit here pondering a successful way to begin this essay about language, I can’t help but ask myself “why is language, let alone the use of multiple languages so important anyway”. This questioning of the very thing that allows me to construct my thoughts and express them to you as a reader quickly begins to feel foolish. Language is so important, but so overlooked that it’s not surprising that I’d so quickly question it in this way. There’s not a day that we as humans don’t take advantage of the concept that is language. Language is THE method of human communication. Being that language is so unfathomably significant and essential to the human experience I find it odd that a natural potential that is so accessible to all people is very rarely met to its fullest, at least not …show more content…
Multiple languages means multiple forms of expression. In this day in age where literature competes so closely with other forms of entertainment like film and video games it is almost imperative that literature do all it can to stimulate people fully. I am reminded of the Ted Berrigan letter to Sandy where he describes his experience watching the french film “Last year at Marienbad”. In this letter he recounts his extremely positive experience with the foreign film to his wife. He writes “The movie shows the two of them. It shows the scenes he describes, as he describes them. It shows the vague flickers of memory in her. It shows her husband doing this and that. It shows things that might have happened, things that did happen, things that maybe didn 't happen”. When I think about this synopsis of the film I can 't help but wonder if his experience would have been the same without all the visual avant-garde and innovative methods that the film used to express its ideas to the audience. Bergians was aware that the film was french new wave not just because of the language but because of visual aspects of the