What did people think of the man holding the seashell to his ear? I thought of the seashell as an amplifier. Since when you put your ear into the seashell you hear everything more clearly and can pick up more I thought that this may be related to the gay black male voices that hadn't been heard by mainstream society. I was also struck by how out of the norm it was to have a seashell like that laying around for use like that so I wanted to think about it in a bit more depth and see what people thought.
Also what role does poetry play in this film? I thought it was difficult to read each scene because there seemed to be so many layers to each part. Not only do you have the way in which it is filmed with light, color, depth, spacing and much more to consider, but also the poems being laid on top of those. To me it was a lot at once, but wondered if anybody had any thoughts of how the poetry changed or added meaning to each scene? Or any one scene in particular? I wish we had gone over the poems and looked at them a bit before we watched the movie so we had a bit more of an idea what the movie was trying to say before we saw them combined.
I think it was one of the first poems that was read, but one of the poems mentioned fields of poppy and specifically red poppy [I think another was mentioned as well] and I was wondering if anyone had any idea why poppy's were chosen? I thought it might have been because poppy's are in cocaine and that's a drug commonly associated with homosexuality? Also I thought it was interesting to have color mentioned in a poem overlaying a black and white film and it just stuck with me.
So lots of questions coming from someone that felt a little overwhelmed by the movie...but oh well, go vote. Obama. Not McCain.
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