Sonnet #50
- Episode aired Jun 26, 2013
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S1.16: Sonnet #50: A bit heavy on the emotional front, but still a solid delivery of the sonnet
Sonnet #50 deals with the sadness of separation as the poet rides away from his love – heavy in heart and on a horse that plods along seeming to know that the journey is one of woe and reluctance. Understandably then, this short film in the Sonnet Project series is set in JFK airport and we see a young woman heading out on the shuttle towards her terminal. In some ways it is an obvious device but the film threw me a little bit by virtue of the woman being pregnant. Who were we hearing in the voice-over I wondered – the young, or her unborn child? It is a stretch perhaps but given how many lines reference to the creature carrying the poet, at certain points it seemed like this may well be the case.
If this was in the minds of the makers then it is an idea they leave at just suggestion since the majority of the film plays its fairly straight. As a result we get shots of the woman travelling and a lot of the feeling comes from her posture, her eyes and her face. Although it is a tad obvious, I liked this as a delivery and the actress does it well with convincing sadness throughout. The delivery generally is a bit overwrought though, with the whispered and sad delivery of the text combined with the soft music (Aphex Twin of all things!). This limits it to be a straight delivery of the piece and, while I liked the upfrontness of it to do this, I did sort of wish that it had not pushed the emotion so hard, or that it had done something more interesting vis- à-vis the unborn child.
If this was in the minds of the makers then it is an idea they leave at just suggestion since the majority of the film plays its fairly straight. As a result we get shots of the woman travelling and a lot of the feeling comes from her posture, her eyes and her face. Although it is a tad obvious, I liked this as a delivery and the actress does it well with convincing sadness throughout. The delivery generally is a bit overwrought though, with the whispered and sad delivery of the text combined with the soft music (Aphex Twin of all things!). This limits it to be a straight delivery of the piece and, while I liked the upfrontness of it to do this, I did sort of wish that it had not pushed the emotion so hard, or that it had done something more interesting vis- à-vis the unborn child.
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- Jul 27, 2014
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