Alison
12-06-2009, 05:05 AM
For anyone who knows about realism/neorealism in film, please.
Ok...so I'm doing a presentation on the film Guiltrip in terms of realism. It's a movie about domestic abuse, the husband is a controlling alpha male character. The wife is non threatening and passive. It was made the same year as the divorce referendum.
I'm doing pretty okay with it so far, but there's a thinng or two i'm stuck on.
Firstly, in the film, the narrative jumps back and forth through flashbacks, I'm wondering how could this tie in with realism.
Secondly, there's a child who appears throughout the film and sees the actions of both charcters. Now, on wikipedia in the article about Italian neorealism it says that children were often used as observational characters. However it is not cited and i cant find it anywhere else. Any ideas on the child character?
Any other elements concerning realism in relaiton to film would also be cool.
Ok...so I'm doing a presentation on the film Guiltrip in terms of realism. It's a movie about domestic abuse, the husband is a controlling alpha male character. The wife is non threatening and passive. It was made the same year as the divorce referendum.
I'm doing pretty okay with it so far, but there's a thinng or two i'm stuck on.
Firstly, in the film, the narrative jumps back and forth through flashbacks, I'm wondering how could this tie in with realism.
Secondly, there's a child who appears throughout the film and sees the actions of both charcters. Now, on wikipedia in the article about Italian neorealism it says that children were often used as observational characters. However it is not cited and i cant find it anywhere else. Any ideas on the child character?
Any other elements concerning realism in relaiton to film would also be cool.