My Life as a Dog
1. Subject: Ingemar's life and dealing with his mother having tuberculosis.2. Theme: Life could always be worse.
3. Acting: Ingemar and his girl friend talk. It always sounds lie little kids talking. Ingemar acts like its so "as a matter of fact" about why is dad is not tehre, and instead loading the bananas. It's obvious how curiosu and attracted the uncle is to Berit. He keeps questioning Ingemar about her after she was painted naked. And how he has to go next time. Ingemar is obvious that he is not interested in seeing Sagachest nearly as much as seeing Berit's chest. He has ample opportunity though he never tried anything. Meanwhile, he goes on the roof of a hosue and falls through the window to see Berit'schest. Ingemar sees the two grils fighting over him and starts to bark like a dog with a smile on his face.
4. Dialogue: "I should have told hher everything. While she was still strong enough." er[eated twice.
5. Settings: Most thigns when he goes to the uncle's house are green. The little house that the uncle and Ingemar are in stands out. Teh roof is colorful and the house is brown admist all of the green nature.
6. Lighting: When in the car, the brigher background light from the brighter window is on Ingemar's side versus his brother's side.
7. Sound: Mother crying while Ingemar talks. He's used ot it. The kids are palying the recorder, while the one kid gets up to sharpen his pencil which causes a stir admist all of the music playing. The yomboy notices and starts playing an awful sound that stands out against the other music, showing that she is jealous.
8. Music: Same music sounds everytime Ingemar talks about worse things that could happen. Rather than coincide with the horrible things that he is saying, the music goes along with the innocence of Ingemar and is lighthearted. Music whenever Ingemar is happy and in a new environemnt - when he first goes to the relatives and when he first goes to the place where his uncle works. The same translated "i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts..." plays everytime that ingemar is at the ltitle house with his uncle. It shows how lighthearted things have become, and how happy Ingemar's summer has been.
9. Cinematography: Children walking away while walking along the railroad. Camera does not move, zoom in, nothing. Zoomed out when fire got big. Saw his little shadow/outline againstthe big, bright yellow fire. While the camera pans around teh lunch table when Ingermar first eats with his family for the summer, everyone has the background of hald a window (light) abnd half a wall (dark). It is made sure that when the Berit is being drawn naked, no pricate parts are shown while Ingemar is trying to see. It is not until he falls that her body can actually be clearly seen. After the mother got sent to the hospital, Ingemar played with the books, showing how dusty they were; though the mother loved to read, she wasn't able to read that whole summer. The scene where ingemar is on the beach with his mother and he falls and she laughs constatnyl plays after the stars are seen.
10. Special Effects: Tight rope unicycle guy falling off the rope. Berit'sbody was a bit whited out, but not so much as to take away from teh scene when she was supposed to be drawn naked. It is also made sure that she doesn't show any private parts while Ingemar was trying to see.
11. Editing: Sudden cuts during scenes. For example, afte rthe people onthe radio scores, cuts to man and his roof. Soft cuts whenever Ingemar talks about how he should have told his mother everything while she was still strong. It cuts with a quickfade, instead of just a quick cut.
12. Overall direction: Mr. Arviddson's blanket is red; it stands out against all of the other more earth-toned colors around. All of teh kisd watching the boxing match were blondes. Everyone in the room besides Ingemar's friend with the green hair, Ingemar, and Eddie were blonde. Eddie covered her breats versus where all of the guys were covering during the penalty shot, to all the more show that she wants to be like a guy. As opposed to any other guy's reaction to a girl talking abou her breats, ingemar is playing with floss on his face. Ingemar wears his read shirt, red flad on the "spaceship" they were riding on, red house that his parents have, red blanket of Mr. A, red belt on pretty blonde lady. Ingemar had to keep reading to Mr. A constantly, the book about women's clothing and how right it is on women. in contrast, Ingemar was told to read for his mother. The two scenes are very comparible. One shows funny reading, good times; the other shows sadness, and reading taking over. His mother reads all the time, while Mr. A has to hide the magazine everytime someone else comes in. Just as similarly, when Ingemar's mother dies, Mr. a dies as well. The house that Ingemar stayed in while hismother was in the hospital had dark, blue and depressing colors. The house that Ingemar enjoyed being in was yellow and had a warmer feeling.
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