1. Considering the articles you've read for class today, which
documentary mode or modes does the film borrow from? Please explain specific elements
from the film to support your
observations.
Thing
to remember using experimental documentary expository and poetic mode, the film
uses photographs combined with emotions and feelings. The film also uses a very
unique automate narrative voice to tell the story, and a Non-linear way to
present using cuts and special editing ways to show the documentary, such as the elements of
flashing images and slowly dissolving photographs of
landscapes.
2. Why do you think the
filmmaker chose to automate the voice of the narrator? What does it add or
detract from the film?
3. What were some of the more experimental aspects of the film in terms of
image and storytelling?
The film tells the story between
America and Japan, and the influences on both side when the atom bomb happens
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The use of experimental images seamlessly connects
two worlds into one, drives the audience back and forth, and provides strong
contrast to each side. The flashing images sequences of wings and images, which
symbolizing flying and preparation of the bombing; and the slowly dissolving
mountains transferring into another mountain, brings the audience into a
surreal state of mind, as if someone just woke up from a tremendous event.
1. Considering the articles you've read for class today, which
documentary mode or modes does the film borrow from? Please explain specific elements
from the film to support your
observations.
Thing
to remember using experimental documentary expository and poetic mode, the film
uses photographs combined with emotions and feelings. The film also uses a very
unique automate narrative voice to tell the story, and a Non-linear way to
present using cuts and special editing ways to show the documentary, such as the elements of
flashing images and slowly dissolving photographs of
landscapes.
2. Why do you think the filmmaker chose to automate the voice of the narrator? What does it add or detract from the film?
Personally I think the automate voice of the narrator is very
different than a real human narrator. When people read some thing, they would
somehow add their own feelings and understandings in their voice, however, the
automate voice tells the story in a cold emotionless feeling. Automate voice is
very inhuman, similar to a direct quote and fact from dictionary or Wikipedia,
which make the real historical contents of the film even more serious and
believable. The robotic voice making the historical event “the atom bombing
Japan” seems hyper-realistic, as if its such a truth that nobody can deny.
3. What were some of the more experimental aspects of the film in terms of image and storytelling?
The film tells the story between
America and Japan, and the influences on both side when the atom bomb happens
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The use of experimental images seamlessly connects
two worlds into one, drives the audience back and forth, and provides strong
contrast to each side. The flashing images sequences of wings and images, which
symbolizing flying and preparation of the bombing; and the slowly dissolving
mountains transferring into another mountain, brings the audience into a
surreal state of mind, as if someone just woke up from a tremendous event.
This is a very nice analysis of Things to Remember. I particularly enjoyed reading your understanding of the film's experimental elements as they may translate to surreal environments. And your take on the hyperrealism of some aspects of the film is a great interpretation that is worth exploring further.
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