Sonnet #40
- Episode aired Jul 10, 2013
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S1.21: Sonnet #40: The sonnet is nicely delivered but the film seems to have no link to it that is made clear to the viewer
It took me a few reads of this sonnet to get my head around the sheer number of times love or loves is said in this one, and a few more reads to start to understand when they referred to a feeling or to a person. There is a lot of hurt in the writing and it is fairly clear that the writer has been cheated on or left by his partner – a state that causes a lot of pain and even causes the writer to still reach out the hand of friendship no matter what else occurs to them.
The presentation in this short film is perhaps not quite what you'd expect then. A woman sits on a sculpture (the LO/VE piece on 55th street) when she is approached by a messenger who hands her a recording device and beckons to her to talk into it while she sinisterly waits off to the side. It has an element of espionage to it with its covert meeting spot and shady go-between and, while this much was clear, I never really understood how that connected to the words she then spoke into the recorder (those of the sonnet).
The delivery by Crawford is perfectly fine, but it is without context and the frame of the film doesn't really work because it is never clear what it is and it is not made clearer by the sonnet, nor is the sonnet made clearer or more accessible due to the framing. The film does look nice in its soft black and white, while it also has a nice air of mystery to it, but ultimately I have no idea what it was going for and, while a text coach is credited, it is hard to see that the director took much input in terms of drawing meaning out of the text and putting it into his film.
The presentation in this short film is perhaps not quite what you'd expect then. A woman sits on a sculpture (the LO/VE piece on 55th street) when she is approached by a messenger who hands her a recording device and beckons to her to talk into it while she sinisterly waits off to the side. It has an element of espionage to it with its covert meeting spot and shady go-between and, while this much was clear, I never really understood how that connected to the words she then spoke into the recorder (those of the sonnet).
The delivery by Crawford is perfectly fine, but it is without context and the frame of the film doesn't really work because it is never clear what it is and it is not made clearer by the sonnet, nor is the sonnet made clearer or more accessible due to the framing. The film does look nice in its soft black and white, while it also has a nice air of mystery to it, but ultimately I have no idea what it was going for and, while a text coach is credited, it is hard to see that the director took much input in terms of drawing meaning out of the text and putting it into his film.
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- bob the moo
- Aug 2, 2014
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