This film explores the relationships within a well-to-do family in Argentina through a summer they spend in the countryside. Throughout this film the adults are presented as self-involved, morally bereft, and negligent toward the children.
In the initial scene, the mother, Mecha, drunkenly falls while holding glasses and ends up with shards in her chest. This does not prompt her to stop drinking. In fact, she continues to drink and waste away in bed throughout the film. While the adult female figures seem lax, they seem to be more present in their children's lives than the adult male figures.
To get Mecha out of bed, her sister suggests that they go to Bolivia to buy school supplies for their children, claiming that it will be cheaper. She believes that it will be nice to get Mecha out of bed. However, a storm comes preventing this trip.
The oldest daughter, Momi, is constantly swimming in a dirty pool, which could make her sick. Her closest friend is the maid, Isabel, who Mecha is constantly suspicious of and rude to. In fact, in the beginning of the film, Mecha is considering firing Isable. Isabel eventually leaves to live with her sister, leaving Momi behind.
The youngest son, Luciano, constantly seems to be in harms way. At the beginning he is washing his bloody leg in the sink. During a hunting trip, he is in the direct line of the guns his older siblings plan on using to kill a deer. Additionally, he complains of being afraid of a giant rat before he goes to bed. Ultimately, he climbs up a ladder unsupervised so he can see over a fence because he is curious about the rat, which happens to the neighbor's dog. He falls to his death with no family members around to be there with him in his final moments. Although his aftermath is not depicted, the family is depicted to be grieving Luciano's death.
This is not a typical film with a typical plot line, but rather a depiction of a series of events contributing to the continued ruining of an already morally decaying family.
Describes the setting of a scene in a play or a film. It refers to everything placed on the stage or in front of the camera—including people. In other words, mise en scène is a catch-all for everything that contributes to the visual presentation and overall “look” of a production. When translated from French, it means “placing on stage.”
On the other hand, Momi is anything but chic. Her clothes are often mismatched, or the silhouettes do not accentuate her figure. For example, in one scene, she complains that Isabel picked an outfit for her that does not go together because the top is floral and the bottoms have stripes. However, she wears the outfit anyway. Moreover, when she goes to the store with Isabel, she is wearing this light pink button-down that is oversized and pink straight-leg pants. Because the top is too big for her, the pants appear slimmer, creating an unbalanced look. Momi does not concern herself with her appearance, spending most of the film in her periwinkle and white plaid swimsuit. Momi's style reflects her general carefree nature and her lack of preoccupation with superficiality.
This is the art of photography and visual storytelling in a motion picture or television show. Cinematography comprises all on-screen visual elements, including lighting, framing, composition, camera motion, camera angles, film selection, lens choices, depth of field, zoom, focus, color, exposure, and filtration. Cinematography sets and supports the overall look and mood of a film’s visual narrative. Each visual element that appears on screen, a.k.a. the mise-en-scène of a film, can serve and enhance the story—so it is the cinematographer’s responsibility to ensure that every element is cohesive and support the story. Filmmakers often choose to spend the majority of their budget on high-quality cinematography to guarantee that the film will look incredible on the big screen.
Editing is the process of putting a film together–the selection and arrangement of shots and scenes. Editing can condense space and time, emphasize separate elements and bring them together, and organize material in such a way that patterns of meaning become apparent. In addition, editing can determine how a film is perceived: for instance, quick, rapid cuts can create a feeling of tension, while a long take can create a more dramatic effect. The first photoplays generally had no cutting, owing to the fact that they were single-reel films; once filming began, you could not stop until the film ran out. (https://filmglossary.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/term/editing/)
Sound is an integral part in a film. It refers to everything that the audience hears including sound effects, words and music. Sound is used in films for various purposes, including: providing the information to the viewer about the location of the scene, heightening the mood, telling the audience about the characters and advancing the plot. Every person who watches a film realizes that the choice of voices, soundtrack and music present in a film affect the way that the viewer perceives a particular film. As a result, the sound is an important and integral element of the film, one that determines the way that the viewer experiences and understands a film as a visual experience.
Narrative analysis is an examination of the story elements, including narrative structure, character, and plot. A narrative can be considered to be the chain of events in a cause-effect relationship occurring in time and space. In order to analyze the narrative of a film, we need to first make the distinction between the plot of the film and the story of the film. This is sometimes referred to as the discourse and story of a film. Narrative may also be called the story thought story mainly refers to the events that describe the narrative.
Film genres are various forms or identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films. (Genre comes from the French word meaning "kind," "category," or "type"). These provide a convenient way for scriptwriters and film-makers to produce, cast and structure their narratives within a manageable, well-defined framework. Genres also offer the studios an easily 'marketable' product, and give audiences satisfying, expected and predictable choices. Genres refers to recurring, repeating and similar, familiar or instantly-recognizable patterns, styles, themes, syntax, templates, paradigms, motifs, rules or generic conventions.