Winters bone
Winters bone homework
In the film, "Winter's bone", the story seems to rely upon a understanding of its social context. In this document I shall be discussing how far the film relies on this concepts. In the film, the society the main cast reside within is blighted by rural poverty, a severe lack of opportunities for possible social improvements such as stable income, poor quality schools providing sub par education and educational benefits and a severe disconnection from the norm found in typical united states areas. Instead, the community seem to believe in familial loyalty and a strong focus upon kin in a patriarchal society and most work and strong tasks, creating strong and resilient women that have the task of raising and educating the children thrust upon them like a heavy weight. However, due to the lack of opportunities, many members of the community soon begin to produce and spread a large income of Meth causing much of the community to be effected by it's usage. All of these issues presented within the story remain ever present throughout the story. However, I believe it's time to discuss why one would need to rely upon an understanding of its social context. However the scene does benefit from its use of cinematography and other production aspects.
For example, in the scene when the protagonist (Ree) is meeting up with the head woman (Merab) as she is trying to find her missing father. One way cinematography helps to emphasize the social hierarchy is when Ree is talking to Merab. When the camera is focused on the protagonist, the camera is in a high angle over the shoulder shot and when it's focused on Merab it is a low angle shot. This helps to show that, when it comes to importance, Merab towers over Ree like a colossal creature guarding the home of it's master. Another way a form of cinematography helps to emphasize the social context is found through the mise un scene. The mise un scene helps to create the idea that these people are rather poor and untidy. This can be seen through the outfits the characters wear and the amount of strung about junk and scraps that dress the local area. This helps to create the idea that the locals follow the grandfather because, despite the fact the women an fend for themselves, they can't look after their own property much less an entire town. The sound helps to represent the social context through many ways. For example, the characters' heavy accents helps to portray a sort of uncivilized nature found within the characters and their society as a whole. Another noise that helps to develop this social context is through the noises of the animals. I feel that the noises of the animals helps to present the idea of this society being rather feral and unjust, as though their society is like a food chain and the world they grew up in is like a savage wilderness in it's own right.
However, the particular scene does not really require an understanding of the film's social context as the dialogue shared between the characters helps create an aura of power around Merab and establish Ree as more of a subservient character. The characters' dialog helps to drive home the social context without making it explicit
In my opinion I felt that this scene was rather boring upon first viewing. I felt that the scene was a reproduction of two other earlier scenes and the dialogue was hard to understand. However upon viewing the scene again, I felt that the scene was rather good. The camerawork helped to emphasize the stories social hierarchy subtly and the dialogue (or from what I could understand) helped to further push the idea of the social superiority and wisdom Merab has over Ree.
The story's social context can be viewed in different ways depending on the spectatorship of the viewer. The different viewing habits can be separated into three different alignments. An example of a kind of viewing is the preferred viewing. A viewer with an outlook such as this would take in all the individual elements within a shot or scene and be a more active when viewing, giving each individual aspect of a scene's composition and characters recognition when understanding the story. For example, the placement of Merab and Ree, as I've previously stated, could be symbolic of their position in the social hierarchy of their patriarchal society.
In the film, "Winter's bone", the story seems to rely upon a understanding of its social context. In this document I shall be discussing how far the film relies on this concepts. In the film, the society the main cast reside within is blighted by rural poverty, a severe lack of opportunities for possible social improvements such as stable income, poor quality schools providing sub par education and educational benefits and a severe disconnection from the norm found in typical united states areas. Instead, the community seem to believe in familial loyalty and a strong focus upon kin in a patriarchal society and most work and strong tasks, creating strong and resilient women that have the task of raising and educating the children thrust upon them like a heavy weight. However, due to the lack of opportunities, many members of the community soon begin to produce and spread a large income of Meth causing much of the community to be effected by it's usage. All of these issues presented within the story remain ever present throughout the story. However, I believe it's time to discuss why one would need to rely upon an understanding of its social context. However the scene does benefit from its use of cinematography and other production aspects.
For example, in the scene when the protagonist (Ree) is meeting up with the head woman (Merab) as she is trying to find her missing father. One way cinematography helps to emphasize the social hierarchy is when Ree is talking to Merab. When the camera is focused on the protagonist, the camera is in a high angle over the shoulder shot and when it's focused on Merab it is a low angle shot. This helps to show that, when it comes to importance, Merab towers over Ree like a colossal creature guarding the home of it's master. Another way a form of cinematography helps to emphasize the social context is found through the mise un scene. The mise un scene helps to create the idea that these people are rather poor and untidy. This can be seen through the outfits the characters wear and the amount of strung about junk and scraps that dress the local area. This helps to create the idea that the locals follow the grandfather because, despite the fact the women an fend for themselves, they can't look after their own property much less an entire town. The sound helps to represent the social context through many ways. For example, the characters' heavy accents helps to portray a sort of uncivilized nature found within the characters and their society as a whole. Another noise that helps to develop this social context is through the noises of the animals. I feel that the noises of the animals helps to present the idea of this society being rather feral and unjust, as though their society is like a food chain and the world they grew up in is like a savage wilderness in it's own right.
However, the particular scene does not really require an understanding of the film's social context as the dialogue shared between the characters helps create an aura of power around Merab and establish Ree as more of a subservient character. The characters' dialog helps to drive home the social context without making it explicit
In my opinion I felt that this scene was rather boring upon first viewing. I felt that the scene was a reproduction of two other earlier scenes and the dialogue was hard to understand. However upon viewing the scene again, I felt that the scene was rather good. The camerawork helped to emphasize the stories social hierarchy subtly and the dialogue (or from what I could understand) helped to further push the idea of the social superiority and wisdom Merab has over Ree.
The story's social context can be viewed in different ways depending on the spectatorship of the viewer. The different viewing habits can be separated into three different alignments. An example of a kind of viewing is the preferred viewing. A viewer with an outlook such as this would take in all the individual elements within a shot or scene and be a more active when viewing, giving each individual aspect of a scene's composition and characters recognition when understanding the story. For example, the placement of Merab and Ree, as I've previously stated, could be symbolic of their position in the social hierarchy of their patriarchal society.
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