Week of Jan. 28th

I was unable to see the film Paris Je T'aime, but I have seen it before in theaters. It was definitely different from what I expected, but it was a very unique way to represent different point of views of one city. There was a complete mixture of editing and filming techniques which made the film both aesthetically pleasing as well as disturbing depending on the parts of the movie. The abrupt change in types of film, like the change to the vampire clip, bothered me a little because it was quite different from the story before and after it. It would be like having a photography or painting exhibit with one piece from each artist placed next to each other in one enclosed room. We compare and contrast the pieces starting with color and size because that sticks out the most. With film, we compare the different film shorts by color and sound because that is what is more apparent with film.
Each film portrays different perspectives of Paris. We see the lives of people who live in Paris, people visiting Paris, and a mythological couple (vampires) in Paris. The combination of these varying stories represents the different types of cultural point of views of love, specifically in Paris.