HAIKU

Express your self in simple ways

5 syllables+

7 syllables+

5 syllables=

poetry
 

FILMS

What could have been the “main aim” of that movie?

Amadeus

• Is it safe to say there is always a message in art forms? 
• What did we perceive as important in that film?
• Can it be said that art anyway communicates and therefore there is some responsibility by the creator on what it contains?

Amadeus

• Who is to determine the degree of responsibility on image and sound that are so vague and can signify for people so differently?

Take these images

And these

Also these

Or this

What should they represent and why?

A man?

This man?

Or these men?

The real object becomes simplified in a text. The text is a boundary.

Film

• Can we ever capture the essence of an object or text unless it is convened about?
• Can there be censorship on the basis of what a message should mean about art then?
  Relate to the movie
• Alternative: BBC documentary called “The genius of Mozart.”
   

W. Amadeus M.

• Does his music have the power it had when first presented and composed? What is your experience? 
• One might think a major contribution of the movie is the contrast between the two main characters
• Can you tell me what chief differences could you notice between the two? What other contrasts became evident? 
• What Mr. Forman actually said about the movie?

“… individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama. And also I feel admiration for rebels, because I lived twice in my life in totalitarian society, where most of the people feel like rebelling but don't dare to. And I am a coward, because I didn't dare to rebel there and go to prison for that. That's, I guess, why I admire the rebels and make films about them…”