In the film, the Wild Strawberries was developed to reflect the intensive and fruitful labor for Ingmar Bergman. The story provides past chronological events of the old man faced with a lot of sentiments and personal value for life. The plot of the film is set to emphasize the value of life and the significant changes that accompany different stages of life. These changes cause the seventy-eight-year-old widowed Isak Borg to evaluate his life. His life is played within the film through a sequence of trips where he gets to learn a lot about the meaning and nature of life. This can be termed as a delusion of an old man or day dreams but at the end, he justifies his life and helps him reevaluate himself. This essay will provide an analytical approach towards addressing the structure and nature o
...f the film The Wild Strawberries, and how it relates or contrast to the European Art Cinema Movement.
The development of the film can be viewed in various aspects of the plot to tits origin and development. The structure of the movie can be compared in different ways using the European art cinema. This form of cinema was common back in the early nineteenth century when it was first initiated. Their first projection was made using the cinematograph which later evolved to the use of digital cinema technology. The European art cinema sheds light on interplay structure of films. Most of the movies played during the European art cinema were conducted in film festivals and was based on Standard English speaking. This gave the European cinema art movement a sense of belonging during the 1960s and
1970s. It examines the discourse that surrounded most Europe countries and was an overlapping of political, social and intellectual forces in the film industry. Through analyzing this movement in relation to the movie Wild Strawberries, a lot can be compared and contrasted with the style, plot, and method of rendition.
The Wild Strawberry film is based on a narrative and visual storytelling design that equally expressed the European art cinema movement. The use of narrative and visual storytelling method of filming was famous during the early 1950s to bring the film to realism. The European movement opted for this style (Green 8). The narrative and visual narrative transitivity used in the movie The Wild Strawberry was purposeful in bringing a deeper involvement of the characters and their roles. The European art cinema movement opted for this design of filming to make it more engaging to the actors and make them focus on their tasks.
The European art cinema movement uses an open-ended plot, and this is the same kind of plot that has been used in the film by Ingmar Bergman. Open-ended kind of a plot is that which does not have a specific target or the actor does not convey their role openly to their audience. This form of plot structure is seen used by Bergman in his film the Wild Strawberries. The plot used in the film provides the audience with a lot of suspense and speculation concerning the event happening in the film. In this plot, the audience is made to figure out the role of the actor as they are not clearly pointed out during the performance of the play.
In a European art
cinema movement, most of their films were based on truth, and this requires transparency and legitimacy in the movie production. The actors, as a result, were to appear straight forward and natural without even character costume and makeup. This form of film presentation is also used in the film Wild Strawberries where the actor expresses actual events in their life (Majumdar 738). The main actor, a seventy-eight-year-old man who is the main protagonist, narrates his life events through the trips he sojourns. It can be observed from the narrative of the old man to be based on truth, and even his character is not exaggerated by the use of makeup or costumes. European art cinema movement believed the message was better related to a simple process possible and by avoiding the use of make-up and character customization help preserves the naturalist of the film or story. Same is seen to be applied in the film Wild Strawberries.
The film the wild strawberry depicts the European art cinema movement through its contribution to the jarring effect. Most of the European art cinema movement films used to apply the effects that caused films to pose amidst the action. The cut rule during play was one common strategy adopted by the European art cinemas. This caused disruption of the film and affected the audience concentration while watching the same is seen on the film by Ingmar Bergman. The film used jumps cut during the play causing ellipsis during the play. The audience lost absorption into the story making it less pleasurable. Additionally, the European art cinema was produced in the form of two dimensions and static. Stagy visual also
are part of the European art cinema (Dunne n.p). The film also applies these factors in their design and presentation. The visual film image is produced in two dimensions similar to those films in the European art cinema community.
The choreography of the film Wild Strawberry is developed to portray both the plot and the character relationship. This is also encountered in the film by Ingmar Bergman on how the performance of the old man is synchronized with the characters. Different plot setting is used within the film in the same act the European art cinema adopted for their films. The director of the movie, Ingmar Bergman presents his movie in a narrative form. This is considered by the conversation within the film and how the characters related. Same can be observed in the European art cinema community. Their films were also based on a narrative form that usually expressed the main character narrating through the movie. The European art cinema community produced films that adopted very little melodrama and vaudeville. In the movie the wild strawberry there is less form of melodramas or vaudeville used in the film. These films emphasized on the artificiality of the film nature. They maintain a vivid expression of characters and events. The European art cinemas considered their movie free from melodramas that caused a lot of unsettlement in the novel. This assists in keeping the film and their character realistic.
As observed the two shared a lot of common features and interest that makes them unique and reliable. The European art cinema community films have been gradually replaced with classical films that have adopted a new mode of film development.
Works
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- Green, J. R. "Always Already: Affinities between Art and Film." Afterimage 25.5 (1998): 8-11. ProQuest. Web. 26 Sep. 2016.
- Majumdar, Rochona. "Debating Radical Cinema: A History of the Film Society Movement in India." Modern Asian Studies 46.3 (2012): 731-67. ProQuest. Web. 26 Sep. 2016.
- Dunne, Susan. "BRIEF: Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' at Real Art Ways." McClatchy - Tribune Business NewsNov 26 2009. ProQuest. Web. 26 Sep. 20
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In the film, the Wild Strawberries was developed to reflect the intensive and fruitful labor
for Ingmar Bergman. The story provides past chronological events of the old man faced with a
lot of sentiments and personal value for life. The plot of the film is
set to emphasize the value of
life and the significant changes that accompany different stages of life. These changes cause the
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old widowed Isak Borg to evaluate his life. His life is played within the film
through a sequence of trips w
here he gets to learn a lot about the meaning and nature of life. This
can be termed as a delusion of an old man or day dreams but at the end, he justifies his life and
helps him reevaluate himself.
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provide an analy
tical approach towards addressing
the structure and nature of the film The Wild Strawberries
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and how it relates or contrast to the
European Art Cinema Movement.
The development of the film can be viewed in various aspects of the plot to tits origin and
development. The structure of the movie can be compared in different ways using the European
art cinema. This form of cinema was common back in the early nineteenth
century when it was
first initiated. Their first projection was made using the cinematograph which later evolved to the
use of
digital cinema technology. The European art cinema sheds light on interplay structure of
films. Most of the movies played during
the European art cinema were conducted in film
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