1. What are the main ideas presented in the film? State the film your group has chosen and list 3 ideas.
2. What is the director’s take or message regarding these ideas?
Film Studies – Tension and Suspense February 9, 2010
1. How does the director maintain the audience’s level of excitement (Tension) throughout the film?
2. How does the director keep the audience in Suspense (expectation of future events) throughout the film?
Film Studies – Plot February 3, 2010
1. What is the problem (Conflict) presented in the film? From a wider perspective, who or what is the conflict between?
2. Based on your experience, stories you have read or watched, what other possible types of conflict exist?
3. What is the highest point of action or the tensest moment (Climax) in the film?
4. How would you describe the Conclusion of the film? How else could the director have ended the film?
Film Studies – Setting January 29, 2010
1. When does the film take place? Is the choice of historical time significant? Why or why not?
2. Where does the film take place? Is the choice of physical and geographical location significant? Why or why not?
3. How does the setting contribute your understanding of the film?
Film Studies – Characterisation January 25, 2010
What personality traits does the protagonist possess?
List at least 3 traits.
Provide at least one piece of evidence to support each trait.
Having read Scene 5, what do you think the Rose represents now?
Support your ideas with at least one piece of evidence (quote) from the play.
Scene 4 – What are the central ideas in this scene? July 10, 2009
Your responses:
1. The Importance of Water (But what does water symbolise?)
2. The Meaninglessness of Unthinking Efficiency
3. The Importance of Effort and Actual Labour
4. Love/ Other-centredness (the Old Woman’s purpose for drawing water) vs. Cold Efficiency (Excellent point, Denise!)
5. What is our response to the relentless pace of modern life?
6. How do we determine the true value of certain things, e.g. time, water, labour?
Scene 4 – What does the seller represent?
The seller represents:
- Society’s mindless pursuit of efficiency
- The heartless and unsentimental nature of commerce
- A wholly materialistic worldview
- The Typical Singaporean
- Modernisation (as opposed to the Old Woman, who represents tradition and the old ways)
- Deceit (con man, snake oil seller)
- Instant society
- The persuasive allure of modernisation
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