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Reading a film involves understanding the story we see unfold on screen and acknowledging the formal elements that make up film language. ... This means you must not just describe the story, you must analyse the ways in which that story is told—even elements that might contradict what characters say and do.
"The Lighthouse” wants to drive us a little mad. It’s not just a film of sanity, it uses sound design and filmmaking tools to push us there too. It has the feel of watching someone else’s nightmare, and it’s not one that’s going to end well. While it’s ultimately a bit too self-conscious to provoke the existential dread and true terror.
This blog will study some of the frames from the movie To The Lighthouse.
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Transforming one screen into another |
Here, toy has fallen into disrepair same as girl too.
Does this really creates any kind of difference whether one has only comfort of sleeping into beds!?
A fear of dolls does have a proper name, pediophobia, classified under the broader fear of humanoid figures (automatonophobia) and related to pupaphobia, a fear of puppets. Toys have a significant influence on the development of children, far beyond innocent play. children mimic social norms and subtle messages regarding gender roles, and stereotypes can be transmitted by seemingly ubiquitous toys. Such changes can have a remarkable impact on how young girls imagine their career possibilities, potential futures, and the roles that they are expected to take.
Mirrors are familiar objects, but even simple questions about what they make visible to an observer are unexpectedly hard to answer correctly. Even harder is to think or judge what is happening on the glass surface.
What psychological factors lie beneath these surprising difficulties?
It is just like she is watching the skull. This is the point we can think of, Mrs. Ramsay is not we are shown but is not true. Touching her own face symbolises that she is not, what she thinks of herself. She was in drastic dilema.
In reality people must reach at least the near edge of the mirror to start seeing themselves. Light has to bounce off the person, hit the mirror, bounce back with the same angle as that of incidence, and then reach the eye of the observer. One could work out this answer on the basis of knowing that angles of incidence and reflection are the same, but everyday experience should also suffice. We often walk in front of mirrors and in every instance we need to be in front of them to see our own reflection.
Note that this is a situation not unlike everyday life.
As you look towards the mirror will you be able to see yourself?
Maybe not, but what if you move towards the mirror?
How far do you have to walk towards the centre of the room before you will start seeing yourself?
This frame represents patriarchal mindset, it is okey if man doesn't reply to woman. It is not necessary thing to be done, when man in his work. What of woman!? She always does useless works and doesn't affect even if she doesn't do.
Symbolically is shown here that, women are always a step behind than men or placing this in the whole frame, also behind the world's ideology. Needs to do hard work or brainwork but cannot.
This frame we can think in contradict manner. There is not even a single frame throughout the whole film where Mrs. Ramsay loves and nurtures her daughters as smoothly and as politely as James. She keeps on pampering where as she makes her daughters to be presentable and taking care.
This frame symbolises degradation. Another important spark is actually they are in need of going back. It is supposed to follow 'back to the basics'. Being constantly into nature brings freshness yet is not bringing and so this need is being used.
It is good to be surrounded by books. Books are symbol of knowledge, supposed to have liberal thoughts and greater philosophical content. In this phenomenon, Mr. Ramsay fails when knock out the desperation. It shows that he was not considering at least philosophy as greater. He always thinks and talk in a manner that he only is great and have philosophy of life but never try to understand what children and wife are going through. Even his student Tanslesy was also dissatisfied towards him.
This seems like, when he found nobody there to whom he can scold or let his agony burst out so he makes books his victim.
These are the scenes of Summerhouse after the death of Mrs. Ramsay. Actually it wants to portray her absence the way it is presented is problematic.
Does only household works which is missing Mrs. Ramsay to get set off?
Or one can also say that,
Director shows her presence by showing her absence. Look, this is she? Blurred and messy things?
Why there is not something else from which here absence can be seen! We are not supposed to see what we are shown but to see what is hidden.
The sun gives off light and bring about life. The sun is one of the luminaries and a star. He symbolises self. He represents people’s personalities and egos and their spirit. He makes people original. The sun is the identity and the face that the world will see. He encourages creativity. He gives people the power to meet the challenges in their everyday life.
It symbolizes what the people are trying to learn to be. The sun is more about reason than instinct.
Here we can say that, Mrs. Ramsay constantly being monitored and mentally torchured but never reflect.
This very frame is one of the most interesting frames of this film. Why this painting is much important is because this painting is of Mrs.Ramsay and Lily completes this after the death of Mrs. Ramsay.
What should we need to ponder upon is, actually this frame contains two frames, one is whole frame and another one is of painting.
Think yourself:
Which is more lively?
Which seems having life?
Looking in this sequence, as Lily Briscoe is painter of this painting, Mrs. Ramsay was painter of this house and in absence of painter, or let say, having sickness of emptines brings darkness.
One more thing is that at the very end, of which lighthouse James wanted to go, does not look same as he wished to visit in his childhood. It shows importance of being in time and also suggests constant changing quality of time, place and equally of human mind.
What can serve or bring joy to us, can not be same forever.
The lighthouse is out there, it's eye caressing our struggles with cold indifference. We can beat against the tides in pursuit, but will we ever reach it? Does it even matter, and is it even attainable? If we only look to that spot on the horizon we miss the love around us, miss those gasping for our love and friendship, miss the callouses born in dedicated strife rowing us towards the end.
In Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, there are three important references.
(1) Reference to India
(2) Reference to Philosophy
(3) Reference to Shakespeare
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Thank you.
References-
“English and Related Literature.” University of York, www.york.ac.uk/english/writing-at-york/writing-resources/ways-of-reading-film/.
Hutcheon, Linda and Siobhan O’Flynn. A Theory of Adaptation. Oxon: Routledge, 2013. Document. 11 October 2020.
To the Lighthouse. By Hugh Stoddart. Dir. Colin Gregg. Perf. Rosemary Harris, et al. Prod. Alan Shallcross. 1983. CD. 11 October 2020.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. New York, Columbia University Press, 1998.
India in Virginia Woolf's Lighthouse
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