🍒 武蔵野ワイルドバンチ ブログ ジョーカー (Joker - ) (4)

Subway window at night symbolizing his deep despair that does not find any way out. the office door. The following are some of them; Taxi Driver.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} A few guys of the mob pull out Arthur in a faint from the broken window or the shattered screen. Let me touch upon the references and homages in this movie, although many articles have already pointed them out. When creating works with a theme of personal, earnest matter, we would be faced with an issue of abstraction, because an image would project the scene that I have experienced, but never capture the deep emotion that I have felt. Just a cartoon. It was so overwhelming. However, 'Joker' has proven that elements of an image can be a motif that has a more profound meaning than language can do, when it is structured carefully and precisely. We can find homages to a few specific movies of the era. We already have loads of articles and information about this movie available. Therefore, it tends to be avoided to allocate a large area to the pure white. The moment the movie started, it had me. Bus window in the daytime Subway window at night Police car running through the riot JOKER Warner Bros. Moreover, the contrast throughout the movie is controlled low so as to induce the atmosphere in early 80s. Some important motifs may appear repeatedly in different forms throughout a composition. At the moment he kicked open the door of the office building, the light outside shines pure white in the screen. The shot of Arthur in a vehicle taken from outside is also repeated three times in the same composition. I have found three important motifs that repeatedly appear in 'Joker'. When he kicks it open, the pure white light emerges. Words of Arthur, from the final script of "Joker" 1. We consider what photographic images can express is just an indefinite impression. When he suffocates her with a pillow to death, the sunlight comes in from the window behind his shoulders. Each of them is repeated three times. He has swallowed another despair and gained freedom. I was completely wrong. The feeling of being left out from his own life. They represent his fate that he could not get away from. Let me say for now that these motifs characterize the evolvements in the internal world of Arthur, the main character. A group of motifs will make the main melody called a theme. JOKER Warner Bros. We can find a few such significant shots in this movie, which can be called motifs in music. And Arthur looking out from the vehicle window indicates that he is left out from his own life and the world. The scenery seen from the windows changes: from the TV screen that he was only looking at blankly to his unavoidable destiny. Finally, he awakens and rises to the stage of the world, to his real life, as Joker, The King of Comedy. From alienation, despair, and to the dazzling dream. The pure white in a frame is so bright that your eyes would be caught with it. But you would be left with no impression because it is just blank there. Accordingly, the brightness of highlight in this movie is also controlled lower than in average movies. But still, I was compelled to write something about it, because I was so deeply surprised and impressed as a photographer. This flash light is related to the next motif, too. Shots that deliver meanings more powerfully than languages In photographs and movies, composition and light are important elements that determine the nature of the scene. The pure white on the screen symbolizes the freedom that he gains at the cost of despair. The halation of this light is also in pure white. As if I were among the mob. When he was fired from the job, he gained freedom at the cost of despair. It completely knocked me down. What symbolized by the three motifs What is making these motifs noteworthy is that they indicate substantial meanings despite that the motifs themselves are not the building blocks of the story. That is what the shots of his looking gloomily out from the window represent. Even I didn't know if I really existed. The movie made me realize that light and compositions can project meanings more explicitly than language can do. And until a little while ago it was like nobody ever saw me. Repeated motif In classical music, the smallest unit of a melody is called a motif. And at the moment the dazzle seen from the window grows to burst, the screen that was isolating him from the world is shattered. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}I am Joker. Until I watched this movie, Joker. Police car window through which he looks at the dazzles in the rioting town where a dazzling dream is about to begin, JOKER Warner Bros. For one good hour, I could not find any words. It was difficult for me to think that they can deliver meanings more powerfully than languages can do.