Lunch Date
“A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad,” (The Lunch Date, 1989). This seems to be the plot behind the film The Lunch Date, released in 1989. A short film that uses irony as its main literary device, by playing on suspense, certain camera angles, and costume design. The film was written and directed by Adam Davidson, then was selected for the Cinema16: American short films in 2006.
The Lunch Date begins in a train station, where a woman misses her train and goes into a café to eat and wait until the next train arrives. She collects her food, a chicken salad, then sits at her table, just as she realizes she needs silverware. When she returns, she sees a man eating …show more content…
Where a man sits down to enjoy a bag of cookies he had just bought. As he sits and reads his newspaper an older woman sits down beside him. Incredulously he sees her begin to eat his bag of cookies, he takes one to show ownership of the cookies. The woman glares at him and he eats the rest of the bag as the woman hurries off. But then as he stands, his bag of cookies falls on the ground. The same plot was used once more in the Dutch classic film Boeuf Bourgignon (The Lunch Date, 1989). Although neither filmmaker was aware of the other film at the time of the creation of these …show more content…
Closing in on the woman to show she is a main character and so is the man in the booth. The camera is positioned in just a way to not show the next booth where the woman’s things are. Zooming in on the woman holding a ticket to show that she is getting on a train and zooming in on the ground where the contents of her purse spilled out. Lingering on the homeless man as the woman walks by to show the poverty line back then, the wealthy woman and homeless man. The camera lens is also in black and white, adding to the late 50’s look of the film. And with that age it also brings in the poverty of that time period. It also brings in the segregation of that period, where the homeless man is the African American and the wealthy woman is and older Caucasian woman. And why she is quick to judge the man in the booth because of the ideas of race in that
“A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad,” (The Lunch Date, 1989). This seems to be the plot behind the film The Lunch Date, released in 1989. A short film that uses irony as its main literary device, by playing on suspense, certain camera angles, and costume design. The film was written and directed by Adam Davidson, then was selected for the Cinema16: American short films in 2006.
The Lunch Date begins in a train station, where a woman misses her train and goes into a café to eat and wait until the next train arrives. She collects her food, a chicken salad, then sits at her table, just as she realizes she needs silverware. When she returns, she sees a man eating …show more content…
Where a man sits down to enjoy a bag of cookies he had just bought. As he sits and reads his newspaper an older woman sits down beside him. Incredulously he sees her begin to eat his bag of cookies, he takes one to show ownership of the cookies. The woman glares at him and he eats the rest of the bag as the woman hurries off. But then as he stands, his bag of cookies falls on the ground. The same plot was used once more in the Dutch classic film Boeuf Bourgignon (The Lunch Date, 1989). Although neither filmmaker was aware of the other film at the time of the creation of these …show more content…
Closing in on the woman to show she is a main character and so is the man in the booth. The camera is positioned in just a way to not show the next booth where the woman’s things are. Zooming in on the woman holding a ticket to show that she is getting on a train and zooming in on the ground where the contents of her purse spilled out. Lingering on the homeless man as the woman walks by to show the poverty line back then, the wealthy woman and homeless man. The camera lens is also in black and white, adding to the late 50’s look of the film. And with that age it also brings in the poverty of that time period. It also brings in the segregation of that period, where the homeless man is the African American and the wealthy woman is and older Caucasian woman. And why she is quick to judge the man in the booth because of the ideas of race in that