(Twilight, 2008)
Yep, another week has come (a little bit late) along with a new feeling, a feeling that everybody has felt and everyone has and wants to talk about:
LOVE
I'm not gonna start explaining what is love, netiher put a definition (usually that's Cris' job hehe). Each one has his own definition of love, each love it's different from another, there a lot, hundreds, thousands, millions of ways to love. It's not the same the love I feel for a friend, for another friend, for my parents, my brother, my cousins, my boyfriend, my exboyfriend, my dog, my teachers, my neighbours, my teddybear...
How is love explained on cinema?
Well, I could write a very long essay if you let me talk, but there will be no space, so I will center on a few examples, which are the most common to see in movies.
"I just love him. He's the love of my life. I can't live without him"
How many times have we watched this cliché? This is the typical "love relationship" in which cinema focus on, specially nowadays, along with friendship. A boy loves a girl. A girl loves a boy. Nothing else matters. You have a lot of movies about this topic from the classic Romeo and Juliet to the latest box-office hit, Twilight. A look, a word, a cuddle, a hug, a kiss... Every little scene can express love, it doesn't matter what it is, even tiding a shoelace (as you will see in the video) But this is not only about "a boy loves a girl"... this about "someone loves someone... or something".
I honestly think that love is something that can't be explained by words, but words can express love.
I've made this video, because this way is easy for me to explain it to you.
This video is focused on couple from a film (those I had on my computer, sorry couldn't find Romeo and Juliet nor Titanic...) and shows some scenes.
The couples is:
Harry and Ginny (from Harry Potter) => Lovers
Here we go then:
At first we can see how Harry looks to the window and sees Ginny, and he smiles, which cleary shows that he is happy to see her and to know that she will be in the same house as him.
In the next scene, we can see them in the living room during Christmas. He's feeling bad because the adults don't belive him, but Ginny comes and just with her presence, Harry forgets about that matter and focuses on her. They look at each other, she offers him some food and jokes about her giving the food to his mouth. He smiles and, without a word, eats, and she smiles as well. After saying "it's good", Ron comes an both lovers spare and he seats in the middle of them. Even though Ron is Harry's friend and Ginny's older brother, we can see that both, Harry and Ginny, are bothered by his presence.
Next scene. Harry is looking through the window and Ginny comes. After making sure Ron is in bed, Ginny crouches down to tie Harry's shoelace, which helps her because, when she gets up again, she's much closer to Harry's face. "Merry Christmas". Just two simple words and no mistletoe. They are about to kiss but something happens...
Next scene, which is the following from the previous, Harry runs out the house and jumps a wall of fire. Ginny follows him and jumps too. She knows it's dangerous, but she can't just leave Harry alone. She's following him but gets lost, and is founded by one of the bad guys. She's scared, she can't even move or defend herself with her wand. Suddenly, Harry comes and saves her. He gave up his mision (he was chasing another bad character) to save her. We can aprreciate at minute 2:18 how he wants to put her behind him, to protect her. That very little gesture (which only takes like two second of the entire film) shows much more love than many other scenes.
Then we can see Ginny ofering her hand to Harry and Harry takes it. She is helping him on a very dificult moment. Harry has to get rid of a dangerous book he has come to love and (maybe you might remember) Ginny had to deal with a similar situation on the second movie (Chamber of secrets) but she was alone. That's why she's the only one who can help Harry in this precise moment.
Next scene, we can see Ginny kissing Harry. She loves him. He loves her. But everything is very complicated, and they both know. That is why that small, private, loving kiss.
And finally, last scene, and also very moving one. Harry is really sad because (SPOLIER ALERT!) Dumbledore has died. Ginny separates from the crowd that is watching and sharing Harry's pain and hugs him; this time, she protects him. He hugs her back and cries, feeling safe in her arms as he knows she loves him no matter if he cries, she's there for him.
What have I learnt from these practices?
Many things.
I've learnt what's an RSS and how to put widgets on my blog, I've learnt how a drawing can express as much as a simple look and more than a simple word, I've learnt how a poem can fill up a person's soul... I've learnt how to edit an HTML, how to insert videos, how to make links... I've learnt how to be a bloguer.
Nora Huarte
35 ways of silent scream
aka: how to express oneself though...
cinema
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