Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Distant Voices , Still Lives
After finish reading Distant Voices, Still Lives it left me with some unanswered questions. How did this whole chain of memmories start and how come they spilit it up in two parts? i also am confused on how exactly the movie was made because it is split in two. It made me feel like i was reading somewhat of a soap opera. In some scenes i did get confused on exactly what memmory they was talking about since it jump back and forth very quickly and at some parts i wasnt able to connect the memmories, but in all i like the script. I like how you kind of have to act it out in your head and it lets us choose how we want the actors to look like. It makes me curious on how the movie is going to be and if the imagine that i have in my head for the characters is the same as they protray in the movie. Also i was wondering if the story on the last page, The Long Day closes is a "part 3" of the other stories?
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It's good to use this space to ask questions. Let's see if I can answer some of them for you.
ReplyDelete1) Confusion and chronology. I think much of your response comes from your expectation of a linear narrative. "How did this whole chain of memories start?" seems to indicated this. Instead, in this film chronology is of little or no importance. It beginnings, endings, facile connections between scenes are not as much the point as is the emotional summary, the emotional power of memory as an individual and collective force. That may account for your "confusion" over the "jumping back and forth." You may be looking for connections that aren't there and thus missing the kind of connections this narrative makes.
Another point of confusion may be that the film seems to represent a "group memory" more than a collection of individual ones: that what we have here is a family as an entity, rather than a group of individuals.
2. Why the two part structure? Perhaps this is more clear upon seeing the film, but I think the break highlights the family with/without the father. His presence is so overpowering that once he's gone that stands on its own as a complete different era.
3. Is "The Long Day Closes" a kind of part 3? In a way yes. It is based more on Davies' own experiences and features a child with older siblings. But its not meant as a literal sequel: the actors are different and the relations of children and parents different also.
i was also wondering how come you never saw Davies in the movie, like i know that its his memmory but no one ever speaks about him or is seen in the movie? even when they are grown, its like he was never part of that family
ReplyDeleteI think he consciously leaves himself out of this one and just focuses on the stories of his elder siblings. Its not a strict autobiography, after all, but more a film about memory that uses his own family memories as its material...
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