Yoav Ginsbourg Film NEA

James is farming, and receives a notification on his Futuristic contact lens that he has received a match on dreamland dating. He sits down and says: ”Alexa, make video call”. Alexa replies ”how would you like to look today?” and James customizes his appearance to the person he aspires to look like. He answers the call to a beautiful woman. James delivers a scripted speech and hides the fact he is truly overwhelmed by the girl he is speaking to. Before they could finish their call, James' father comes into the room, and James turns the off the 'video call'. James did not plan to actually meet Josie, but after his father calls him a quitter and sates that he never finishes anything, he decides to prove him wrong and actually go on the date. On the way to the meet location, James meet a woman on the train and coincidentally sits next to her. Their conversation expands to a dialogue where they eventually talk about their true emotions and problems with themselves. Unfo...

The way Guillermo Del Toro's expressed his vision of Pan's Labyrinth showed the director's ability to demonstrate an extensive and diverse range of aesthetic qualities. The commencement of the film plays a monumental part in the structure of Pan's Labyrinth's narrative. The film opens with an elevating dolly shot, which is framed to show only Ofelia's face as she rests on her on a dirty floor. As the scene acts as the birth of the film, this shot introduces the idea of the story as the camera's elevation represents a rise from the underworld, which acts as the alternate reality in which Ofelia goes through. Moreover, the fact that this shot shows the spectator a dying Ofelia can be interpreted as the rise of the girl rather than her fall: soon in the film, a narrator reveals that Ofelia's true origin is as princess of the underworld, and thus this shot may act as a metaphorical burial (which naturally will be done in the overworked/real world if Ofel...